Carth's magical adventure, ROUND TWO, MOTHERFUCKERS!

[Anastasia]

The control systems are straightforward enough, nothing of note.

It's a near warp shuttle, armor reinforced with four Tx1 Fusion arrays. That'll leave a mark in something.

The fleet name is the Slicing Gale. *Blink*

Now that name you know. One of the higher up mercenary groups, and allied with a few countries, giving them quite a bit of pull and power they'd have otherwise. In return, they do some wet ops for them and even serve as a backup military force when needed.

They also cost a boatload to use.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat glances back at the docking bay. "Tir, we're only gonna get one shot at this," he says. "How close is the docking bay to the engines?"

[Anastasia]

"Not too far," he says, checking this monitor. "Thinking about a going away present?"

[Carthrat]

"That's the plan," replies Carthrat, glancing at the docking bay.

"Rachel! Get yourself strapped in. There's gonna be a bit of a ride."

[Anastasia]

Rachal does so.

"Ready, Carthrat?" Tir asks, getting his stuff together.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat pauses.

"As ready as I ever am,"she confesses. "Let's take off with a 21-gun salute!"

Carthrat configures the Fusion Arrays to fire a swathe of energy across the docking bay, leaving behind a mess, a gaping hole in the wall, and hopefully cause a few crew members to get sucked out into the black void.

[Anastasia]

Slowly, the shuttle bay opens and the craft begins to move out. As it does so, Carthrat fires off the arrays, indeed doing quite a bit of damage as you escape out into space.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat glances through his viewscreens to assess the damage done to the docking bay. Just how hard did those Fusion Array's hit again?

[Anastasia]

The back wall of the shuttle bay is nearly totalled, the main chunk of it shredded into space dust.  The other three shuttles were hit as well, each taking considerable damage. Further, by the way shuttle 1 is emitting brilliant blue sparks, it's leaking plasma from it's engine.

That means a really nasty boom is coming up, since that means the engine will breach.

[Carthrat]

"Hey. Tir. Get us out of here," says Carthrat, glancing over his controls. "I'm dumping all nonessential systems into the engines!"

[Anastasia]

"Right," he says back quickly. "We're gettting pursuit already?"

Tir asks this as he maneouvers the shuttle away from the ships, ready to hit it up to near warp speed.

[Carthrat]

"No, but in case it escaped your notice, these ships have some pretty damn big guns all by themselves," replies Carthrat, dryly.

"Let's see what the navcomp says about nearby systems.."

[Anastasia]

Tir chuckles, gunning the shuttle to speed! Moments later, you've left them behind, this shuttle bookin'.

The nearest system is the Halycanos Cluster, a pair of stars close enough to each other to share a solar system. 7 of the 8 planets in said system support life, the largest being equivalent to 13th century Earth. All are protected and left alone due to a treaty, as they were fought over a few hundred years ago. It would be about a day and a half away.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat blinks. "We're way out here?" he groans, glancing over the screen and checking how much fuel the ship is packing.

[Anastasia]

Now that you've made some distance, Tir puts the ship on auto for a moment, heading over to where you are. "Halycanos? We're not even in the semi civilised boondocks now," he grumps. "Where the hell were they taking us, anyway?"

The ship uses a tiny cold fusion array, which will power the main systems pretty much forever barring malfunction. Actual fuel to move is energy crystal, enough for about four months of near warp speed.