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| TINY LORE MOTHERFUCKERS!
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| |"Nagasaki, this is Theseus, what's our plan?"
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| "Straight run at the planet, dumping missiles all the way. So, the good news is that there was
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| nothing at the jump point other than 2 reconsats, which we obviously burned. The bad news is
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| that one of those ships is a battlewagon."
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| "Shit."
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| "Exactly. We shoulda expected it, being as this is a pretty big SoM colony, but Intel hoped
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| all of them were committed to the front."
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| "So, one... what, heavy cruiser? Battleship? and a converted merchie? At least that gives us
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| their strategy."
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| "Use the warship as the shield for the merchantmen while trying to flush it's tubes at us, before
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| we get into range and slag it. Think it has a beam engine, or just tubes?"
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| "Dunno. Most don't have lasers, but we're WAY out of effective energy range. Doesn't matter, though,
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| once we get any sort of missile hit on it, it's gone."
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| "Cool, so the merch... one sec."
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| QUERY- NUMBER AND ALLOCATION OF INBOUNDS
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| TARGET ALPHA-1 1.0 GRAVITY-PREDICTED INTERCEPT WITH TASK FORCE IN 5.3 HR
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| TARGET ALPHA-2-17 5.0 GRAVITY- PREDICTED INTERCEPT WITH TASK FORCE IN .47 HR
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| TARGET BRAVO-1 1.3 GRAVITY- PREDICTED VELOCITY MATCH WITH ALPHA 1
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| TARGET BRAVO 2-33 5.0 GRAVITY- PREDICTED INTERCEPT WITH TASK FORCE IN .49 HR
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| ASSUMPTION- ALPHA 2-17 AND BRAVO 2-33 WILL GO BALLISTIC IN ~.08 HR FOR INTERCEPT IN 5.0 HR
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| "JESUS, they're dumping missiles!"
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| "Yeah. Nothing from the planet yet, just those 2 generating a cloud. They're probably trying
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| to empty the merchant, then it'll break off. Thoughts on dodging?"
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| "Waste of time, they'll just re-target the missiles unless we go WAY off course, and that'll cost
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| us more than a day."
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| "Agree. So, we just ride in, slash their cloud up with our PD, and nail them with missiles in
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| a driveby."
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| "Looks best, but I don't like high rvelocity engagements."
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| "Shoulda joined the marines, then."
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| "~snort~ Aanyway, we're slaved to your control, fire whenever you're ready."
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| |Luyten's Star, outbound jump point to Procyon-
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| "Theseus, you ready?"
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| "Yeah, all systems green on our end. Ready for jump."
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| "Roger that. Feels good to take the war to the enemy."
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| "How bad do you think it'll be? Hesperus is a key world."
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| "Shouldn't be that bad, most of their ships are trying to push our core systems."
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| "But they're gonna have something."
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| "Undoubtedly. Jumping now, wait 30 seconds, then follow us through.
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| CYANSPACE TRANSLATION SIGNATURE DETECTED-
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| CYANSPACE TRANSLATION SIGNATURE DETECTED-
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| "And that's both of them. All stations, rig for jump."
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| "Weapons here, fire control disconnected, autoloaders disabled, capacitors drained,
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| ready for jump."
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| "Life support here, manual disconnect sealed and system offline. Cryopods sealed and in manual
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| control, ready for jump."
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| "Engineering here, reactor shutdown enabled, cyanspace core at 90% and awaiting final commit,
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| ready for jump."
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| "Propulsion here, main drive offline, pre-startup checklist complete, ready for jump."
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| "All stations report ready for jump, sir."
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| "Very well. Triggering jump autosequence and main computer shutdown."
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| WARNING!- TEN SECONDS UNTIL JUMP- WARNING!
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| "I hate this part."
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| "Everyo-
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| DISCONTINUITY
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| "Oh go..."
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| "USE THE TRASH CAN!"
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| "All stations, report!"
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| "ALL STATIONS!"
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| "blergh- engineering here"
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| "And?"
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| "Gimme a minute, initiating startup... core discharged, jump complete. Bringing reactor up now."
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| "THANK you. Life support?"
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| "Everything's coming up green here, but Blomberg missed his can."
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| "Hah. Have him get a mop. Weapons?"
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| "Point defenses are enabled, just need engineering to get me more power for them. Everything
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| else is green. Looks like the 'saki and Iwo found something to shoot at, though."
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| "Awesome. How bad?"
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| "Looks like 2 ships and a planetary defense grid. Missiles are away, and they're heading out
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| to match us, but both were in low orbit, so we lucked out there." | |
| "Great. Propulsion?"
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| "Main drive's up, and engineering's fully up now as well."
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| "Very well, give us a 1g course to match with the Iwo Jima and match helm control to keep
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| us in their PD shadow. Weapons, turn over missile control to the Nagasaki once we're in formation."
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| "Aye, sir." "You got it!"
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| |"Theseus, what's your status?"
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| "All systems green, cyanspace drive spooling down, jump shock passed, thankfully. Star tracker
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| confirms we're in CLASSIFIED. Ready to get dropped, Canterbury?"
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| "Let's see, umbilical's sealed, consumables are at maximum, and planetside weather looks good.
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| I don't like our velocity and distance, though, can you give us a better starting vector, Theseus?"
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| "Yeah, we'll give you another 300 g/seconds of thrust insystem, that work, Canterbury?"
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| "Much appreciated."
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| THRUST WARNING!- ALL HANDS STAND BY FOR AXIAL ACCELERATION- THRUST WARNING!
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| "So, how bad's it supposed to be down there?"
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| "Pretty bad. Entire colony wiped. Honestly, if we didn't have to deal with the Crucis invasion,
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| we'd be down there with you."
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| "Yeah, I know, entire TGSF and TGCM's stretched thin. Too many bugs-"
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| "-And not enough ships. How's your vector look now?"
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| "Much better, thanks. Ready to be released whenever you're ready, Theseus."
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| "Roger, Canterbury, transferring drop controls to you. Blow that sucker and go do your job!"
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| "Oh, please!"
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| WARNING!- ALPHA ASSAULT BOAT DETACHMENT- WARNING!
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| "Got a clean seperation on our end, you?"
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| "Everything looks good, Theseus. Damm, already heading out?"
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| "Yeah, gotta get to Crucis, they need our firepower in orbit. We'll be back in a few days,
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| maybe a week."
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| "Understood. Good hunting!"
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| "You too, Canterbury! Make us proud!"
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| CYANSPACE TRANSLATION SIGNATURE DETECTED
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| "And now it's just me. Autonav locked onto colony beacon, weather's good, five minutes till
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| atmosphere, then 10 min to landing from there. Time to wake up the troops."
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| |Silent video. The watermark says "June 15, 2415, REILLY'S RAIDERS IP FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY"
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| Obviously, with you having this, it's a little moot. Hell, pretty much everyone, TGMC or not
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| has seen this film.
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| It starts off pretty tame. Just a guy (Donovan) putting on his helmet cam and checking that it
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| works, surrounded by his squadmates in an armory. Fast-forward through all the cameraderie,
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| the eating and talking. You can't tell what it's about, and it doesn't matter anyway. That's
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| not what you're watching this for.
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| Additional footage inserted, a mixture of archival stuff about the ICC Reilly's Fortune
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| and Refueling Station 084. Blueprints, camera views about where it all went down. Useful,
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| but also not what you're watching this for. Skip forward to 16:24.25.
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| Donovan's with 2 others in an airlock. They're suited up in softsuits, an indistinct unit
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| emblem on the shoulder. The lock's been opened, and Refueling Station 084's clearly visible.
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| No power, but a section lit with flares near windows and with something crudely drawn on
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| the inside. That was the survivor holdout, but that comes later.
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| Fast-forward through the boarding, how they powered up an airlock and walked in. One of the
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| other 2 (Smith? Or is it Conway?) looks at Donovan and says something. Pause as the video
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| clearly shows smashed light tubes, which they saw, and slashes in the wall, which they missed.
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| Fast-forward.
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| 17:07.52. Pause! There! Top left. That's a drone. It sees them and hides. No one in the squad
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| notices it, though it wouldn't have made much difference in the end. They're on the clock now,
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| but they don't even know it. 30 seconds later, and there's a Runner shadowing them, though we
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| don't see it until 17:12.11, when it lunges in and slices Smith and darts off.
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| Smith's limping, and everyone's mouth's moving, but there's no sound. Suddenly, muzzle flashes
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| light the room, and a Sentinel's scurrying off. This is the last clear view we get of any aliens
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| for the next 5 minutes, though you see some spit coming in. The crew were lucky. Their suits | |
| blocked all the neurotoxin, and it wasn't even recognized as a danger until far later. Skip to
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| 17:18.27. Go to slow-motion.
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| Light up ahead. It's the red glare of flares and muzzle-flashes. Donovan rushes forward, aand there.
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| A Crusher. You see it's faceplate come out of NOWHERE, and toss him like a ragdoll forward. Those
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| crushing legs come down to stomp, but he manages to roll and avoid it, as it runs off. Smith
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| and Conway run up and grab him, and our viewpoint's backwards for a while. There's an indistinct
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| picture of a Hunter for a few seconds, but nothing relevant until they get inside the holdout.
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| Red light and screaming people, civilians with small arms. The full transcript's here somewhere,
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| but it doesn't matter for now. They want OFF. The rest, while heroic, isn't relevant. They sealed
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| doors and used the main weapons of the Reilly's Fortune to punch a hole in the station, and
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| evacuated the entire team and survivors through hard vacuum with only breath masks. Most of
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| them made it.
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| You take a deep breath and run it back to the beginning. Everyone's done this before, trying
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| to glean something useful from the few seconds of information on tape. It's probably useless, | |
| but it'll help pass the time until first drop.
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| |The creation of bunny girls.
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| When Dr. BunnyLove43 started tinkering in the realm of god. He had only two things. A stack of old pre-war Playboys and a dream....
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| |"Hurry up and get with the HaCkiNg, man!"
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| "I can't."
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| "Why not?"
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| "I'm running on a remote terminal here, over a wireless connection. The colony mainframe's
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| in a locked subbasement running on backup power."
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| "So? How does that change anything! BACK, get BACK!"
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| Flamethrower SFX
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| "Thanks. It's the colonial safety lockout. We don't have the credentials, and whoever had
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| them's long-dead by now. We're using generic TGMC credentials."
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| "Aren't those goo- JOHNSON, WELD THAT BARRICADE!"
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| "No, not quite. Every time I hit a command, it sets off alarms and gives a one-and a half
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| minute delay before executing ANYTHING. A safety measure so the admins have time to override
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| in ca- GODDAMMIT FUCKING SPITTERS I HATE THIS PLANET SO MUCH".
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| "Kelotane?"
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| "YES PLEASE. I'mma keep standing here and imputting commands. Could you please..."
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| "Make sure we don't die? On it."
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| |"Missiles coming into range, PD beams fire at will."
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| "Firing, but negligible effect, sir. It'll get better as they close."
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| WARNING!-HULL TEMPERATURE INCREASE- WARNING!
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| "You were right, they do have a beam engine on one of them. Looks like the merchant."
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| "Why are they hitting us?"
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| "They know we're the troopship. Helm, coordinate with the Nagasaki to put us in their shadow
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| relative to the Pride of Independence."
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| "Aye, but we're only gonna get partial cover, sir."
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| "That's fine, just wanna minimize the amount of burning we'll take. Guns?"
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| "We've taken out 14 missiles so far, there should only be 20-25 when they reach attack range."
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| "only 25. Great. Our salvo?"
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| "Still at 70%, same goes for us."
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| "15 seconds left. Weapons, hit them with kinetics, Propulsion, 5G lateral burn, random-walk
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| evasion!"
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| "Executing!"
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| WARNING!- KINETIC SHOCK DETECTED- WARNING!
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| "MULTIPLE hits!"
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| "On us, or them?" "Both."
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| "The Hephaesthus's Fire's WRECKED! It's a drifting hulk!" "What about us?"
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| "Uhh... looks like CIC's slagged and open to hard vacuum, with decompression as far aft as
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| the medical area. Also Charlie prep's depressurized, and Delta prep's... gone."
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| "Gone?"
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| "Gone. Looks like it got physically sheared off the side."
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| "Welp. Sucks for the marines. Engineering, you on it?"
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| "Yeah, sent my SE's to start welding doors in place. What're our escorts like?"
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| "Nagasaki took light damage, but the Iwo lost thrust and got hit bad. It's almost as bad as
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| the SoM cruiser... aand they're launching escape pods."
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| "Which one? Or both?" "Both."
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| "Shit. Wake the PO's, we'll send the Alamo out. What about the merchant?"
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| "Got hit, but still has thrust, accelerating away from us towards the jump point. If the CO
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| has any sense, he'll jump out rather than stay and die."
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| "Great. Engineering?"
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| "Doors welded in place and atmos lines sealed off. Final tally is that we lost CIC for at least
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| the next 4 hours, upper medical's held together by inflatable walls, and Delta prep's gone till
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| we reach somewhere that can weld a new one in place. Everything else's re-pressurized."
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| "Oof. The ungas are NOT gonna be happy. I'm glad we use astronav instead of CIC."
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| "Sir, the Alamo's ready for SAR."
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| "Launch it, then get me a line with the Nagasaki's bridge. And start waking up the marines.
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| We have a drop to make."
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