ECSNorway Wrote:Hmmm. Six of Swords should show a spaceship, either firing six beam weapons or escorted by six fighters, flying into what is clearly massively overwhelming opposition, kind of like nBSG Pegasus' death-ride...
One of the events on the SS Ciara's history (And something I planned to eventually write a story for) was the ship getting ambushed by Boskone luring them away from a convoy with a false distress call, then ambushing. The end result being a bunch of ruined boskone ships and the SS Ciara battered with engines disabled and the radio mast shot off. The battle itself wasn't even part of the plot.... just the aftermath.
Both Luna and Artemis were used to go get help, with Raymond Garret navigating Luna to a nearby settlement using nothing more than a PDA with charts on it and a calculator. Artemis was found abandoned and out of fuel a week later.
Meanwhile, Ciara's engineers were able to get some power back at a cost of wading knee-deep in wave-contaminated diesel fuel and engine coolant. Enough power anyway to build a crude spark gap transmitter out of a welding torch and hope *someone* noticed the odd pattern of interference sort of like three short bursts, three long bursts, then three short bursts again.
(And I need to use these folks for more things. As much as they're ordinary fen, they still get mentioned too little)
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