Timing is everything
16 Jul 2015Latimer
So I started my flight back to Known Space, taking my time and honking. I monitored the Fuel Rat's chat, and over the course for 15 minutes, 3 different rescue requests came in. I accelerated my run, and four more came in. Now I was jumping like mad, eager to help out on at least one in. Finally back in Civilized Space and......well, you know as well as I do what happened. Immediately, the calls dried up, though to their credit, the Rats On Call got all seven rescues. I really like these guys.
Latest report, the Rats succeeded in a brutally difficult rescue, involving 3600 light years, millions of credits in data, a ship with 5% in just about everything and a broken fuel scoop. But you can read that on their Reddit.