what could he do?
Sorry it has taken so long for me to post lately. I didn't have much time. Right now I am on borrowed time and as that is borrowed my post won't be to long...I hope.
Who; Ray, and the SE's AI
Where; space
When; Just after Ray Fired his missile and broke off.
Ray looked at the computer viciously "What happened?"
"Well, in a Smokey train stat..."
Ray decided to cut the computer off as its mind was apparently wondering "No you git. I mean about the frelling missile! Why the smeg didn't it go of you adile minded..." Ray decided to leave the insult hanging as insulting computers was a waste of time ... usually.
"Oh. that. Well, it didn't go off" said the computer.
"I KNOW IT DIDN'T GO OFF! You over paid, pile of wire and ducktape. I wanted to know why."
"well your guess is as good as mine."
Ray promptly gave the computer a hand signal that the computer would have to look up and went back to trying to figure out a way to move the missile. About than he noticed that several of the missiles thrusters were missing and wondered why. "Computer calculate trajectory of missile" Ray waited but the computer was still looking and as Ray had made the sign up on the spot he figured that the computer would keep looking for quite sometime. "COMPUTER. forget the hand sign just tell me what the missile is going to hit."
"oh...well it looks like since that bluish thing over there shot the missile that the missile will hit something err...the Sahara desert or something like that."
"OK lovely computer you can go back to looking up that hand sign again" Ray grinned and began piloting the SE back to the BD wishing he hadn't gone for all the speed he could get by striping all the weapons off the SE. Than something blew past the SE's canopy rather alarming both Ray and the SE's computer "Computer. That little gray thing that just flew past us. Was that an escape pod?"
"I think so." Ray than spotted the Phinox and something else out their and he turned his comm panel back on to listen in...
<I would put a snip in thair but it would be to long but we will just pretend I sniped in most of that nice long post ...you know the one that just went out? or whenever. but the big boom thing hasn't happened yet>
...Ray looked up suddenly aware that the computer had pointed the SE at the source of the comm traffic and as he had been travailing all along the Phinox was getting quite close...well close isn't the word for it. In space terminology I think the phrase "turn the ship now!" comes to mind along with a couple others but that one was the first to jump to mind. So Ray swerved and shouted at the comm "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" but absolutely no one had heard him except the comm officer on the BD and anyone else who had been listening in. Than quite suddenly something in front of the SE turned quite bright and Ray being an experienced Pilot did the first thing that came to mind. Turned the ship around and punched it. Cause you see Ray knows that if anything suddenly turns into a growing, glowing white ball that means it is exploding and no one should be to close. With the SE accelerating at speeds Jay had considered when building it structural integrity was no problem and none of the bulkhead groaned but Ray was pinned in the back of his seat and gravity was attempting to meld his back to the seat. Ray saw two things fly past him. Both of the things were blue but the second was much larger.
By the time he had slowed down to what is considered normal for the laws of physics, who had wanted to slug Ray in the gut until he slowed the ship down, The second larger blue thing was quite a bit smaller and quite a bit further away. Ray looked around and decided to get out of this deathtrap as soon as he was back abroad the blue dwarf which was where he was currently headed accelerating much slower but still accelerating with his eye on the blue thing about where shuttle bay 9 should be.
OOC: well that took longer than expected. oh well.
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