Her name was Heather Pt.10½ (Supplemental)
10 Jan 2018Gmanharmon
Part 10| 00:03 | 102 (FNS Valiant, Gunship) | Going to [garbled] right now, I'll stay in [garbled] scan. |
| 00:07 | FNS Dauntless (Anaconda) | And 102 [garbled] 226 36 |
| 00:15 | 102 | Five minutes for 102. Twenty thousand light seconds. |
| 00:19 | Dauntless | 225 at 33 102. |
| 00:24 | Dauntless | And what's your [garbled something about the contact]? |
| 00:27 | 102 | 102's got one 214 3 parsecs out, that's all I've got. |
| 00:31 | 102 | He appears to be turning a little bit left giving us a left aspect. I'm in single target track. |
| 00:38 | 102 | 6 minutes 21,000. |
| 00:44 | Dauntless | 113 say your heading. |
| 00:48 | 113 (INV Sickle, Imperial Eagle) | 113s heading 070 |
| 00:54 | 102 | 10 seconds |
| 00:54 | 102 | 102. The bogeys got us on his scope now 8 seconds. |
| 01:03 | 102 | We're at plane, twenty thousand klicks 6 seconds. |
| 01:06 | Dauntless | 103, 113 your vector 100. |
| 01:25 | Dauntless | 103 state. |
| 01:31 | 107 (FNS Tomb, Python) | One DBX has shot at my leader. |
| 01:35 | 102 | [garbled]... this is 102, we've been fire on. |
| 01:46 | Dauntless | And 102. |
| 01:50 | Dauntless | OK copy. |
| 01:51 | unknown | Did you copy that Dauntless? |
| 01:52 | Dauntless | Negative, what did one of them say? |
| 01:54 | 102, 107 | |
| 02:03 | unknown | Dauntless, did you just copy 103? |
| 02:05 | Dauntless | That's negative. |
| 02:05 | unknown | Because they said they've just been fired upon, that's what they transmitted. |
| 02:15 | Dauntless | 103 confirm you've been shot at, over. |
| 02:18 | unknown relay | [garbled]confirm you've been shot at. |
| 02:21 | 102 among interference | Affirmative.[garbled] shot one of them down. |
| 02:26 | unknown relay | Did you shoot one of them down? |
| 02:29 | 102 | It was a clean target. |
| 02:34 | 107 | [garbled]Want me shoot my guy down? |
| 02:35 | 102 | That's affirm, shoot him... shoot him down. |
| 02:45 | Dauntless | 205, 223 vector inbound at this time. |
| 02:49 | 223 (INV Rapier, Imperial Eagle) | 223 inbound |
| 02:53 | 107 | Fox 2 kill from music. Fox 2 kill. |
| 02:56 | 102 | [name] did you get him? |
| 02:58 | 107 | Yes sir, I did kill him.[garbled several seconds] |
| 03:05 | 107 | Fox 2 kill. His Remlok is not deploying. He is falling free. |
| 03:08 | 102 | OK, roger that. |
| 03:11 | Dauntless | 106 Reset CAP 5. 106, 110 reset cap 5. |
| 03:14 | 107 | [garbled]123 DME on the 180. And my state ten two, ten two. |
| 03:27 | 102 | OK I'm nine five. |
| 03:29 | FNS Perseus, Farragut Battlecruiser | 102 107, you are clear to defend yourself. |
| 03:31 | Dauntless | 102 107, you are clear to defend yourself. Pass from the ship. |
| 03:35 | 102 | And this is 102 107, ah two enemy kills. |
| 03:40 | Dauntless | Say again. |
| 03:41 | 102 | Two enemy kills. Two DBXs killed. |
| 03:45 | unknown relay | Two DBXs. You copy Dauntless? |
| 03:48 | Dauntless | Roger.[garbled] |
| 03:52 | 107 | Mine was a Scout, a Scout. |
| 03:59 | Dauntless | 102 107 You copy? That's vector north. |
| 04:41 | Dauntless | 107, Dauntless. |
| 04:44 | 102 | This is 102 go ahead. |
| 04:47 | Dauntless | Were one or two hit? |
| 04:55 | 102 | 102 and 107 are fine. We're both headed out. And there are two... |
| 04:58 | Dauntless | Roger that. And confirm you've got two Diamondback kills. |
| 05:03 | 102 | OK one was a Scout and they're probably both Scouts. And there are two kills. |
| 05:07 | unknown relay | Dauntless you copy? There are two kills. Either Scouts or Explorers. |
My head hurts.
I fired the Anaconda. I didn’t kill the Emperor.
The bullet splashed against the glass canopy, startling the Imperial Eagle doing a flyby, causing it to bank hard port and fly straight into the event horizon of Maia B, disappearing from existence. A Python and Federal Gunship zoomed past, followed by an incoming torpedo warning.
My ears were ringing from firing the revolver in such a cramped space. I was deaf.
My head hurts.
The torpedo struck the Diamondback amidships and exploded, tearing the vessel in half. Heather ran to me and clung to my Remlok, which I had somehow put on. She was wrapped in only a blanket. A second torpedo pierced the canopy and shattered the glass, but didn’t explode, instead passing through the avionics and clean through the hull. My helmet slammed shut as the cabin depressurized.
My head hurts.
I watched in complete silence as the revolver was ripped from my hand by the vacuum of space, and Heather soon followed. Her nude body flailed and spun as she was blown out towards the black hole, finally passing the event horizon. My mag-boots unclamped on their own and I floated out of the spinning cabin into space, where I saw the FNS Dauntless watching over the scene as the Python and Gunship darted to and fro, hardpoints deployed.
A canister of onionhead flew at me, striking me against the hull of the Dauntless and knocking me unconscious.
My head really hurts.