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Thimble-Flash: Water Under the Bridge
Title: (untitled)
Fandom/'verse: Random science fiction
Summary: The spaceship Odyssey returns from exploring Saturn to find the world burning...
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aldersprig's Thimbleful Thursday Prompt for 25 September 2014, Water Under the Bridge
Triggers/Warnings: A few expletives
Note: Mostly unedited.
Words: 213
Might come back to this one later. Seems like one that would benefit from setting aside a few weeks and reviewing with fresh eyes. Right now I'm just poking at it without any real change.
"Damn, Ortell Island is just gone. Not the spaceport, the whole island. The Southern Union and Western Confed both hit it with megaton warheads. That's it, nowhere left to land. Bastards hit everyone, cant even hold our noses and land in San Teo"
"Keep looking Lieutenant, old airfields, salt flats, something has—" Dr. Seville, one of the mission's astrophysicists, spoke over him.
"Doesn't matter Captain. They must have fired every anti-satellite weapon they had. Those assholes have started an ablation cascade."
"So there aren't any satellites left, we can land without GPS."
"Not down there. Ablation cascade means all those satellites just became an orbital minefield. We'd be shreaded by the debri. Nothing's passing through low orbit for years, maybe for generations."
"Sir, radio contact. Aw hell, it's a Saint."
The voice of an older woman came through, a younger voice trying to translate while she spoke.
"Nueva Amsterdam Saturno exploration vessel Odyssey, this is Leonora Flores Garza of the a.Sn.T.e lunar base Esperanza."
Miki groaned, "Calling to blame us I suppose."
"...You have observed the madness? Órbita, Earth orbit is not safe. There is still fighting, explosions... Odyssey, we can join the madness and die or work together and just maybe live. Esperanza has room, can you reach us?"
Fandom/'verse: Random science fiction
Summary: The spaceship Odyssey returns from exploring Saturn to find the world burning...
Prompter:
aldersprig's Thimbleful Thursday Prompt for 25 September 2014, Water Under the BridgeTriggers/Warnings: A few expletives
Note: Mostly unedited.
Words: 213
Might come back to this one later. Seems like one that would benefit from setting aside a few weeks and reviewing with fresh eyes. Right now I'm just poking at it without any real change.
"Damn, Ortell Island is just gone. Not the spaceport, the whole island. The Southern Union and Western Confed both hit it with megaton warheads. That's it, nowhere left to land. Bastards hit everyone, cant even hold our noses and land in San Teo"
"Keep looking Lieutenant, old airfields, salt flats, something has—" Dr. Seville, one of the mission's astrophysicists, spoke over him.
"Doesn't matter Captain. They must have fired every anti-satellite weapon they had. Those assholes have started an ablation cascade."
"So there aren't any satellites left, we can land without GPS."
"Not down there. Ablation cascade means all those satellites just became an orbital minefield. We'd be shreaded by the debri. Nothing's passing through low orbit for years, maybe for generations."
"Sir, radio contact. Aw hell, it's a Saint."
The voice of an older woman came through, a younger voice trying to translate while she spoke.
"Nueva Amsterdam Saturno exploration vessel Odyssey, this is Leonora Flores Garza of the a.Sn.T.e lunar base Esperanza."
Miki groaned, "Calling to blame us I suppose."
"...You have observed the madness? Órbita, Earth orbit is not safe. There is still fighting, explosions... Odyssey, we can join the madness and die or work together and just maybe live. Esperanza has room, can you reach us?"