Night Updooted, and with time to spare! (in my timezone)
I'm really excited to wrap this prologue up!
So am I! Then we get to move on and use our first waitlister!
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*reads IC*
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Varky is super pragmatist it seems. Not the empathic type. And called Sadish, Radish.
At least Boris is now open to interrogation stuffs, meaning we're going to stall for cutscene talks
(and seriously my arms are too busy. Or paws. I only have two arms on my tech harness and this is my priority to be fixed soon. Alongside probably getting a better hospitality robot or drone for boarders, because I still have no idea on the situation in the hangar and Mickaw's second)
More lights went red on Kesari's console, in addition to the steadily pulsing ones that told her the Nosoi had a target lock. The Nosoi was attempting open a bore to a point in space very close to the Reunion, and coincidentally directly between the Reunion and the inbound shuttles. The Reunion had interdiction, but it was basically a large version of Aubrey's personal design. It wasn't milspec, and while it was slowing the Nosoi's bore, it wasn't stopping it.
CALLED IT. RAMMING SPEED. PANIC TIME.
It's gonna latch onto us like a LEECH and then we'll either be boarded or...we'll be boarded because I don't expect being gassed by lethal diseases due to the nature of our ship being protected by a labyrinth of redundancies, and that this will only happen if they get in our living quarters which is actually a literal dome of life--all connected with each other, but buried within. Only weakness is through the hangar.
Charged saline from Cass paired with moment of realization hit Scarlet with a sudden jolt. Ka didn't know where the panther was anymore. Ka needed the panther alive. Thus, Ka couldn't blow anything up until he could verify that there wasn't a panther inside.
The panther, as long as it was alive, was safety for whoever was around it. The panther, as long as it was hidden, was safety for everyone.
This described a feeling I had that I couldn't configure the right way, possibly also because of my responsibilities currently [eg Don't panic, don't get ship blown up, don't get anyone else blown up].
Yay insight!
Edit
3 : Oh goodness the Sled is commandeered by someone who I don't want to frighten or panic. My heartstrings are pulled verily by this one. x_x And silly wording aside, I'm at least glad this is happening because no matter what happens, they're in a hardened drop pod trying to get back home. Totally better than that other shuttle.
Draig: anyway I can spread interdiction or otherwise from being scanned to other ships? Don't want that deathwasp targeting anything and stuff.Also I believe you had a lot of fun with Boris' tinkerings?
But important stuff first: Did I make that cat pilot cry? D: