Bruce Johnson 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.
>
>  "Thats 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?"

Mira remembers that, yes the Charlottes do have emergency lowberths in 
them, usually the standard one that can hold up to four people.

>  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..."

Arvitis nods and says, "I don't know exactly how much you'd need for 
that, so I don't know. Maybe."

> > 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?

Two or three hours, not days. 

Eris
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