Sunday 20 January 2002

Narrator: Commander Kevyn Andreyasn prepares a dramatic feint.

Kevyn: If they wanted us dead, they'd have kept firing after disabling our ship. This misdirection is going to work out just fine.

Kevyn: Provided your bomb doesn't go off too early or too late, Hob.

Hob: Yeah, I know.

Hob (thinking): First rule of tact'cal 'splosives: someone always complains 'bout the length of the fuse.

Narrator: In orbit, gazing down on the scene. . .

Jun-Gamm: Sir, they've gone from cowering under their mini-tanks to madly dashing for their ship.

Gamm: They can't fly anywhere in it, can they?

Jun-Gamm: Not without me blowing them out of the sky, sir.

Gamm: I want prisoners, not skeet. Find a way to keep them on the ground, and mostly alive.

Jun-Gamm: I could put a low-power lance through any auxiliary power sources they bring on line.

Gamm: They're all wearing powered suits. Couldn't that target the individuals as well as their craft?

Jun-Gamm: Well, yes. It could.

Gamm: Do you need an object lesson that illustrates the key differences between 'mostly alive' and 'mostly dead?'

Jun-Gamm: Object lessons are those things where someone in the class gets used as an example, right?

Jun-Gamm: Oh, by the way sir, it looks like their ship just lost annie containment. Big crater.

SFX: BLAM

Gamm: This would be "mostly alive"

Jun-Gamm: Aaaugh! Sir! I -