10/04/2013, 04:39 PM #125 Venturia
Sol Inceneron
Near Planet Werban
Nhiome quickly locked down all the steering engines so the ship would hold its course, autopilot was still down, so he couldn't use it. He went back to the cargo area and using the materials he recently obtained, did some rough welding repairs that would hold for a while, at least the entire ship wouldn't decompress the moment it enter space.
He returned to the cockpit and waited as he finally exited the jammer's range, the fighters were no longer shooting at him, but with his now functioning, after rebooting, cameras, he ascertained that they were still following him. No matter, he had greater worries at the moment, namely the delta fleet and the holes in his ships. The welds could hold for the moment, but if he were to increase beyond his current speed, which was similar to a transport's, his ship would like be torn apart by the engines. He activated his remote and sent a command to his base within Sol Inceneron. Meanwhile the fighters did not seem interested in attacking. But since he was out of the range of the jammers, they could probably communicate again, he did not want to be distracted yet, so he shut down his communications devices within the ship except for his remote.
Soon, another of his ships appeared, this one was calibrated for extra speed and only had one pulse cannon in front and the special projectile gun he placed on all of his ships, the shields of this ship was nonexistent, even a near miss could rupture the hull. This was why he did not use it for raiding, but he found it to be an excellent emergency ship, it was called ShiroiKame. He remotely controlled it, loaded a projectile and fired it straight at his own ship. The tow extended between the two ships and this bullet, using the same principles of the gas bullet, punched through the hull with the tow attached, sealing the hole behind it, clattering into the cargo area. He then shut down the engines on Kuroikame and remotely steered ShiroiKame towards one of the moons of Inopia, then he set it on autopilot.
He now turned on the communications devices. " Now that you have nearly destroyed one of my ships, what do you want? I already told you I'm not interested in joining, besides why would you want a dead man in your group? Never mind that, you can answer later, once we get to my base, I assume you are following me and I cannot outrun you considering what you did to my ship, so you might as well come along. It shouldn't take too long, about 15 min or so." He went limp in the cockpit chair, he was exhausted, having had to endure the gravity of Warben, and fight 2 combats in one day. He hadn't slept in about a day. He knew most people on the planets still chose to follow the 24-earth hour days. But he used a different system of 36-earth hours days, since he was usually in space, "day" and "night" did not really affect him. So he ran a few experiments, giving himself no method of keeping track of time, and just ate and slept when he felt like it, he found out that he had been leading 36-earth hour days, so he decided to use that. According to his clock now, it was about 2645. He stretched his cramped muscles as he watched as Inopia as well as its moons grew larger in the windscreen.
How many times can you die a day~?
How many times have you died a day~?