<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=104145.msg5191084#msg5191084">Quote from: Tagan on 11-09-2011, 06:01:34</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/>As she begins to modify the controls, she says calmly to Tarsus.  "Sir, I relieve you.  We need someone to do a spacewalk NOW. And this armor doesn't come with a helmet.  Get your best men out there, and if you are the best man you have, go yourself.  If you fail, you'll only die a few moments before the rest of us."<br/><br/>Still perfectly calm seeming, not watching to see what Tarsus does, her hands fly through the steps of the control modification.  Finally, she steps back, handing a screwdriver to Chex.  "Just tighten that up for me... I'll check the flow of the stellar wind."<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The controls easily clicked into place, thanks to the craftsmen who designed the ship having forseen the need to do something like this.  A quick sweep of the ship's sensors confirmed a gravity whirlpool building due to warp intrusion.  It was already decaying, and would provide the neccessary rapid blast of photonic energy to drive the ship out of harm's way.  All that needed to happen was for the sails to get in place, and<em>Kobras Aquairre</em>would be free.<br/><br/>"My place is here, on the bridge, in command."  Lord Tarsus said with strength, opening a channel to the rear crew quarters.  "This is your executive officer speaking.  Immediately perform emergency protocol C on the solar sails.  We're going on secondary power.  And hurry up.  Our lives depend on it."  Tarsus left the channel open, as the ratings murmured their obedience, and opened the airlock.  "Hey, it's Sarah!"  One of the ratings said, with evident suprise.  "Errr... no, I mean the other Sarah, like the one from-"  The line abruptly cut off, and came back through a sea of static with "DIE HERETIC SCUM!!"  Before suddenly reverting to an odd normalacy after several seconds of static.  "We're perfectly fine here.  The setting of the solar sails will proceed as scheduled."<br/><br/>(Make a scrutiny roll to determine how suspicious the ratings odd loss of communication really is.  It's self evidently suspicious, of course)