If I might offer some advice?  Tagan was under the impression that Sarah's pilot skill could help her to reduce speed faster than the pirate, assuming that she is the better pilot... which is probably a good assumption.<br/><br/>Her stated action was to "burn retros" but she also made a piloting check counting number of successes.  As it clearly states under the rules for burning retros, you can do so as WELL as perform any other maneuver at the same time... So Sarah could have burned Retros, dropping from a speed of 13 to 7, the decelerated by one more per success to (7 extra successes) zero speed in a single maneuver.<br/><br/>If the pirate, going at 21, dropped to a speed of 10, (compared to Sarah's 0), the trick would have worked, and he would have flown right by her, (he'd be 2 spaces in front, and moving 10 spaces faster...) unless, of course, the pirate tried some extra slowing down himself, in which case, he would also need a check... although to be right behind The Alexander, he'd need 3 extra successes... one extra success or less and he'd still go right by her.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=104036.msg4683026#msg4683026">Quote from: TheGlyphstone on 23-05-2011, 17:48:38</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Burn Retros isn't dependent on the number of successes rolled, it's just a Pilot+Maneuver check at +0, or automatic at higher speeds. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but here's the quoted passage from TGT's Rules thread:<br/><br/>You were moving at Cruising Speed of 13. That automatically reduces you to Combat speed of 7, no check necessary. He did likewise, moving from his previous speed of 21 to his Cruising speed of 10. He did actually slow down faster than you here, because the difference between his current and Cruise speeds was larger than your Cruise speed and Combat speed.<br/><br/>I suppose you could instead apply that otherwise wasted Piloting roll on an Adjust Speed order, letting you drop your speed to anywhere between 6 and 0 with those successes, but you would have done so before he also reduced speeds, and you weren't aware of his own cruising speed till now.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>