Three days after the flight test, the fighter remains clamped beneath the hangar gantry. Its port coolant line still vents metallic vapor when boarding charges hammer the transport.
Operations Chief
Impact on the outer hatch. That is not a drill. Security officer, move the civilians toward the emergency corridor.
Red alarms flood the hangar. Through smoke and flashing work lights, armored Crimson Fleet raiders cut into the outer hatch while hostile vessels lock onto the colony transport.
Security Officer
Everyone away from the breach. Keep low and follow the marked passage. Do not stop for equipment.
The operations chief runs for the emergency access corridor, leaving the fighter behind. The security officer shepherds the remaining civilians onward; the red-haired girl is already absent.
Beyond the damaged flight-deck passage, escape pods report failed launch controls one after another. The transport has begun descending toward the rimworld, and distant intercoms warn that boarding crews are taking prisoners for forced sale.
Operations Chief
Raptor, the pods are failing remotely. Find one with manual release, or we all reach the surface the hard way.
✓ Quest Accepted
Reach a viable escape route
“I bolt for the nearest escape pod bay prepaaing to fight boarders is needed and help others escape I look out a window and see a couple of our fighter getting shot down the ship violently shakes”
SUCCESS (Fair Agility, rolled +0)
Krieosk bolts through the emergency passage toward the nearest escape pod bay, rucksack secured and revolver drawn low. The deck bucks beneath his boots as alarms overlap.
Through a narrow viewport, two colony fighters break away from the transport and are struck by pursuing fire. One tumbles burning into the clouded rimworld atmosphere.
A violent impact throws Krieosk against the passage wall. His shoulder slams the metal, suit warnings flare, and pain briefly constricts his breathing, but he keeps moving.
Operations Chief
Pod bay three is ahead. The manual releases are mechanical, not networked. Get the civilians inside and pull the handles.
Krieosk reaches the pod bay as smoke rolls through the doorway. Several settlers stumble inside, while distant weapons fire and armored footsteps echo from the flight-deck passage.
Security Officer
Move, move. He is covering the corridor. Strap in and keep your hands clear of the controls.
Krieosk ushers the last settlers aboard, then reaches the manual release. The pod clamps disengage with a brutal jolt, sealing the bay behind them as the transport shudders toward descent.
Land safely on the rimworld
Quest Complete
Reach a viable escape route