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“We executed our attack as soon as the NOVEMBER RAIN entered comm range. There was no delay this time. Within minutes of reactor startup, MERRYGATE injected a cocktail of pre-written intrusion programs to subvert the primitive subroutines responsible for navigation and thrust control. The four haulers spun as one, swinging their needle-nose prows to point back towards their frigid home-port.
Bursts of fuzzy static sounded over wide-band comms – perhaps an impromptu distress call by a panicked crewmember? MERRYGATE heard it to. I remember seeing her tilt her head ever so slightly in amusement. A moment later, fragile lines of white vapor began streaming from the haulers.
Curious, I used the RAIN's optic array to look closer.
To silence any crew-turned-passengers, she had forced every single water-lock and external hatch to open simultaneously, flash-sublimating the water inside the habitation modulates into opaque ice-plumes. Depressurization was a brutal solution, but an undeniable efficient one.
As I watched the now crew-less haulers light their main drives in succession, I hoped that this same principle would apply to the next stage of our plan. All four ships were set on intercept trajectories with the capital-weight vessels we detected a few days ago. Extrapolating the collision would be easy. But MERRYGATE assured me that intercepting it would be significantly harder. In the time that it would take for them to realize the gravity of the situation and commit to shooting down their own vessels, it would hopefully be too late.”
- [UNSIGNED], EXECUTIVE AUDITOR, TRS NOVEMBER RAIN, AD. 2242, MAR 14, PERSONAL JOURNAL
>Roll 1d20, best of 3 for success of attack. I was hoping to avoid rolls mostly for this quest, but this will be an exception.
