Editing Firefly Prime: Cat Salazar (section)

===Hollow Victory===
Location: Planet Greenleaf, 5m above the Nghệ Tây River delta

Alliance Transport ''LSG 714'' "Drag Queen", 

"Ta Çon control, where the hell is our fighter cover!?" Cat growls into the comm as her transport skirts the yellow-silted floodwaters at breakneck speed, kicking up a speedboat-like wake from its drag vortex alone. A stand of trees jutting into a bend in the river explodes seemingly right next to the cockpit window, under fire from the Separatist corvette trailing behind. "Interceptors enroute, LSG 714," the flight controller promises, for the third time. "''fèi wù''·," she mutters as she banks sharply to skirt another jag in the treeline, keeping up the highwire balancing act between using the canopy for cover and doing the corvette's work for it. A quick glance down at her nav display shows that she's almost done - in a few seconds the swampy delta will give way to open bay and there'd be no cover left.

Just as her instruments promised, the surrounding trees give way - replaced briefly by an entirely different navigational hazard. Cat doesn't even have the time to finish thinking 'Fishing boats? Even in the middle of war?' before an explosion bucks the Drag Queen forward, lifting its aft and almost nosing it into the bay; but a quick glance at the system panel shows everything green - and the constant whine of the sensor lock warning has disappeared.

"''Pēng''·· one, Drag Queen. You're welcome," declares the interceptor pilot smugly over the comm as her ship zooms past, then breaks off to seek prey elsewhere.

Cat breathes a sigh of relief and then slews her own ship around to take a look at the aftermath, wondering if the bay is shallow enough that some of the corvette will still be sticking out. But her elation quickly dies to numbness as she sees only debris where the flock of fishing boats had been...

:·useless
:··splash