On Saturday, July 17, 2004, at 03:55  PM, Eris Reddoch wrote:

> Ricardo changes course and flies the /Mae Lee/ toward the apparent
> derelict. As the distance decreases, an image begins to develop on the
> large screen at the front of the bridge, and on the screens around the
> ship that are tied to that screen.
>
> Floating against the blackness of space and illuminated by the red 
> light
> of the M4 companion sun you see a small ship in the shape of a
> triangular arrowhead. The ship is slowly tumbling and as it does you 
> see
> all sides. There is no visible external damage, but there is also
> nothing to indicate it is anything but a dead ship. You don't see any
> writing or markings on the ship's surface from the images you are
> getting, if there are any, they are too small to be picked up at this
> distance.

"Thata a Charlie...whatinthehell is it doing out here?" He looks at it 
silently a moment. "Oh crap, I bet it's a misjump." He punches his comm 
"Mira, it's a Charlotte class scout... I don't remember any more, did 
they have lowrides in them?"

He says "Arvitis, is that enough of an energy sig for a low berth? If 
it is, there might be someone alive on that thing, and in that orbit, 
they're not coming back for a long time..."

> The /Mae Lee/ will sweep past this derelict ship at several hundred
> kilometers per second, and the real vectors of the two ships don't 
> match
> either. It will take about forty minutes burning the Heplar drive to
> match vectors with the derelict if you choose to do that.

What's our fuel load? Is this a two hours out of our way thing or two 
days out of our way?

--
"Wherever you go, there you are." - B. Banzai, Ph.D.
Bruce Johnson