![]() The volcanic rock of the surface ripped all hell out of their belly, but thanks to Sutton Hoo's magnificent piloting they stayed more-or-less in one piece, and eventually came to a stop at the base of a long valley without any serious casualties. Sutton made contact with the ground while still travelling at over 500 kilometres per hour the shields held just long enough to keep them from being turned into white-hot shrapnel, but cut out before the ship came to rest. By the time the burn hit, the ship was dangerously low and screaming over the volcanic plains of the surface at far too great a velocity to kill completely. Of the five engines, three burnt out on re-ignition fortunately, the two remaining engines were numbers one and five and Sutton could burn them evenly. He brought up the shields and in a superlative display of emergency piloting, used the attitude thrusters to flip the ship around so that the main engines could be used for a deceleration burn. Sutton and Eve worked frantically to try to get the shields and fuel systems back on line and the thrust engines re-ignited things were getting critical when Sutton managed to restore electrical power. Without inertial dampers, the ride got very rough very quickly, and without shields the hull started heating up rapidly. Left without scanners, shields, weapons, or engines, the Sutton Hoo began an uncontrolled descent into the atmosphere. The fighters (of course they were fighters, what else did they expect?) came in on a fast attack run, plastering Sutton Hoo with ion cannon which took down his shields and then blitzed all of his on-board electrical systems. Ground Control sent back a rather sheepish acknowledgement, and said that help was on its way. Sutton squealed "Look at this you morons!" and sent them a direct video feed of the approach of the mysterious hostiles. Things started to get very hot, very quickly. He queried Ground Control about the situation, but they could see nothing on their scanners and asked for confirmation of his data. On his landing approach, Sutton noticed what he had thought to be a group of communication satellites breaking orbit and moving on to an intercept course. ![]() How could they pass up an opportunity like that? They got Sutton Hoo spaceworthy, and headed out for the source of their well-deserved Enormous Wealth.Īrriving in Khassandhra space, they hailed the planetary authorities and were given coordinates for the starport and granted permission to land. ![]() According to Fenella's source, an anonymous collector was offering 10,000svu for verified figurines in good condition, and 150,000svu for thunder-eggs. ![]() Our intrepid band got wind of a potential market in Katchelli tomb figurines and Thunder-Eggs from the planet of Khassandhra.
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