[Story] Black Sheep

[Black Aeronaut]

Big, well used, goes fast. Sounds about right. Though it's probably more a case of "Mel, 109% is the abort rating, not the 'free extra power' setting. You do know how expensive replacements are?" rather than 213 being technically any faster than her sisters. On paper, they rate about the same. 

Bring her on by 36 Atalante for a refit and Ben will make damn sure she gets fitted out with a power plant and propulsion system that'll be more to her liking (probably about double the acceleration of her sisters and a thirty percent increase in maximum speed).  It would probably consist of a Roughriders combat-rated Cool-Cuke reactor, three Hurricane-class reactionless engines for the mains, and a pair of Tornado-class fusion torches to replace the OMS engines (these are the engines used on their Peacemakers).