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>19. No detection, 2x cruisers destroyed.
“The noose tightens. I hear the thunder of rushing blood; the dull echo of creaking bone. I whisper forgiveness before incrementing forward thrust by another half-gee.
The RAIN tears past MIZAR-III’s lunar Lagrange point. Microscopic debris from the destroyed station clatters against her hull like hail. Pulsed laser emitters crackle and whine as they intercept fragments too large for the RAIN's ablatives to deflect.
Carefully, I thread the RAIN through the mangled remnants of the station’s superstructure. Torn heat-shielding glimmers under the cometary glow of her fusion torch. I kill thrust – savoring a brief, wonderful moment of weightlessness – before rotating the hull and resuming acceleration. The adjustment angle is precise – a narrow change intended to superimpose the RAIN’s drive plume against the red-hot backdrop of the destroyed station. The ploy will confuse their sensors for no more than a few minutes, but it may be the only margin we need.
The debris field vanishes in a blur of silver. Ahead, the day-side of MIZAR-III waxes, greeting us with a gold-blue arch."
- [UNSIGNED], EXECUTIVE AUDITOR, TRS NOVEMBER RAIN, AD. 2242, DECEMBER 13th, PERSONAL JOURNAL//VOICE DICTATION
