Re: **Actionette** \"Fight or flee\"

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--- In JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com, "Onion" <theonion770@h...>
wrote:
>
> Who: Efof Yuwan'Kar
> Where: Earth Sector
> When: After the Earth blew up
>
> Efof heard the words of shock and grief from all the other pilots
as
> the Earth was turned to rubble. He dodged a piece of Brazil and
> almost ploughed into Lincolnshire.
>
> The call came through for all the fighters to return back to
> the `Dwarf.
>
> The Hymenopteran fleet now slowly started to turn around. For a
few
> minutes they had been thrown into disarray by the loss of their
> leader, but as they all shared the same thoughts, they started
> organising themselves pretty quickly again.
> They finished off the last of the civilian ships, and turned their
> attention to the Blue Dwarf.
>
> "Time to leave I guess." Said Efof as he landed.
>
> The Hymenoptera ship surrounded them and started closing off all
> escape routes. Luckily the Dwarf could Wormhole-jump to the
closest
> system to escape.
>
> <snip>
> "Department heads and senior staff in the drive room in fifteen
for
> debriefing." Phil said over the coms system. "In the meantime,
> here's an announcement from the Space Corps that they just
released."
> <end snip>
>
> The announcement was from Admiral Hayes, who had escaped on a
troop-
> transport before the destruction of Earth.
> "This message is for all the surviving humans… we have lost our
> home… we have escaped for now, but as we run, the Hymenoptera are
> still a major threat. They have come this far, and there is
nothing
> stopping them from tracking us all down and destroying every last
> one of the human race. My suggestion is that we disband. All of us
> split up on separate ships, set off in different directions and
> hide. They can't find us all, the human race will survive in one
way
> or another."
>
> --------------------
> Who: All senior staff
> Where: Senior staff meeting
> When: 15mins later
>
> All the senior staff gathered together. Seymour, who would
normally
> be locked out of these meetings had got there first and refused to
> move from his chair. Phil wasn't too bothered at this moment,
> because he knew that Seymour had a lot more command experience
than
> he had, having this captainship thrown upon him rather suddenly.
>
> "So you've lost you're home-planet. Its not such a big deal is
it?"
> said Efof, and was astounded by the many death glares he got in
the
> room.
>
> "Our home planet has been destroyed! How would you like it?!" said
> Seymour.
> "I coped just fine!" Said Efof happily.
>
> Phil ignored them both and moved on. "Admiral Hayes is wrong, if
we
> split up we're just in more danger. The Hymenoptera fleet is still
> right where we left it, if we don't do something about them now
> they'll hunt down every last colony, ship and person!"
> "But we tried that, they destroyed all our ships!" said
> Johnny. "Even if we pull every ship from every colony we have
> together… which isn't much… then we still wont have anything near
> the amount needed to fight them."
> "The Hymenoptera are still at Earth, all collected in once place.
> This is the best chance we have to get them all at once. I say we
> jump back in and attack them."
>
> This was when the NSD (Nameless Scientist Dude) stood up.
>
> "Okay here's the plan!" Said NSD. "We use the wormhole drive
against
> them. If we can get them all through a wormhole, we could send
them
> to the other side of the galaxy, or somewhere even more nasty."
>
> "But we can't just get them to fly into it!" Said Seymour.
> "How about we bake a large cake… and put it in the mouth of the
> wormhole…"
> "Shut up Efof."
> "We use gravitons!" Said NSD. There were blank looks around the
> room. "Its simple. We jump into the system, dial a new wormhole in
> the middle of their fleet and get a Blue Midget to fire a graviton
> beam at the wormhole. The beam will give the wormhole a
> gravitational field 10 times stronger than Earth's – pulling all
the
> Hymenoptera ships into it."
>
> "Good plan." Said Johnny. "But what about the Blue Dwarf. We'll be
> pulled into it too!"
> "We need another shuttle, to fire an anti-graviton beam at the
Blue
> Dwarf and any other Blue Dwarf shuttles. This will have the
reverse
> effect and push us away from the wormhole."
>
> Phil stood up. "That's the best plan so far, but only 2 questions.
> Where do we send them too, and who's volunteering to fly the two
> shuttles?"
>
> <tag to anyone>
>