Fire Fight



    The Ork stealth fighters just keep on coming from the hull of the mothership. You're instantly surrounded and the shields start diminishing around you, leaving you completely defenceless. Electro-static shockwaves ripple through the cockpit burning out all power and readout displays. Jed, your Rio, screams as she smashes her head into the navigation system. Switching over to auxillary power, control is regained and after firing a wing propulsar you manage to pull an evasive maneouver and, while rotating, swing round behind two fighters. Two quick (completely guided) missile shots and you might live through this one after all! One nitrous cell left. Nearly breaking the throttle stick. Nitrous fire lights up the darkness as the G4 slams into high gear rapidly jumping through space out of range of the now-pursuing enemy!

Alas you are still out-numbered; two more fighters close in, eight o'clock. There was nothing to do; turning at this speed would rip the structural integrity of the hull apart, killing you and the unconscious Jed instantly. The lightweight carbon fiber ship continues to accelerate, but the Space Ork's won't give up. They must have miniature folding engines you deduce.

"Beep beep beep beep beep." Your proximity alarm rings out announcing you are within 100 m of a gravitational force. You should feel lucky to be alive but because of a careless nitrous fired without checking your star maps, now you're heading for an unknown planet in an unfriendly system. The loud beeping awakens Jed who quickly pipes up, "What's going on?"

Slamming on the air brakes to avoid the planet's gravitational pull, you bark at Jed.

"Lieutenant, send a priority 1 transmission to command giving them our system readouts and present coordinates."

"Yes sir...," Jed's fmiliar scream suddenly filled the stale air of the cockpit.

"Evasive maneouvers...We're being fired on." Coming straight up behind you, you can see a C5AA missile accelerating into your rearview display. There is nowhere to run: to the left is the unknown planet Arkadies and to the right your console shows the remainder of the Orkish fleet.

"Shields up, this is gonna hurt." The missile hammers into your right rear, sending the G4 into a flat spin.


"Fire in engine three. I'm shuttin' her down." You struggle to regain control yet again, but it's a waste of effort as you and Jed hurtle towards the planet's surface, leaving your civilized lives behind you.


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