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What Is The Story Of The Ocean?

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"Report!" commanded Hauyne, steadying herself on the ship's navigation console. A spark jumped from the ceiling while more and more lights began to cut out. Their battered cruiser swayed precariously, side to side, as it hurtled through the cold, starry, upper atmosphere. "A-just a small engine fire! Shields barely stable. Hull is holding," Vermarine shouted her answer from the reactor room toward the back of the ship. The inner framework of the fuselage violently creaked and the metal plating rattled. On the outside, plasma marks littered the armor, and the right thruster had been blown off center. Quickly, Hauyne looked back to the console. She was not a soldier, but that wasn't to say she wasn't familiar, albeit from the lens of a …show more content…

But now it was only herself and the other remaining three of her division on the run from the very same Diamond Authority. "Hate to say it, but our luck's run out," muttered Indicolite, the pilot at the helm, a shorter-haired but more rugged gem accented with a more vibrant shade of ultramarine. Hauyne gave her a dubious look. With a weak shrug, Indicolite could only muster up a chuckle back in reply to her. Vermarine's diminutive figure then appeared from behind them. "I've repaired the control surface hydraulics," she stated. "But the reactor core's leaking, a lot. And the shielding system can't take another hit like at Eridani." "Redirect all shielding to the front," Indicolite ordered. "Once we reach terminal velocity, I'll blast the remaining RCS, engage the flaps, and align the flat side of the ship with our trajectory." "What? You can't be serious!" Vermarine exclaimed. Hauyne also looked towards Indicolite with concern. "The landing gear's shot and the ship is falling apart by the minute," Indicolite said plainly. "But you're intending to crash?" she inquired, still in disbelief. "Well...there's a large body of water below us," Hauyne interjected, directing to a dossier on her display. "If we can decelerate just enough and skirt the water, we can lessen the stress on the shields to be within acceptable parameters."

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