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Johannes Volker III is saying he can hear voices telling him to go to Miranda.  Since we have no wish to go back to Miranda and he has no wish to travel further away from Miranda by flying with us, we wish him good luck and move on without him.  We say goodbye to Johannes and Brisbane on Meridian and burn atmo for Muir.  Our ride is rougher than we expected, the thrusters running erratically.  Rina begs Nika to hold off going to pulse to give her time to find the problem and fix it.  After trying for six hours, Rina determines the problem is the fuel lines to the thrusters aren’t uniform and that she can't fix it given the state of her supplies and the nature of the job involved.  The diameters and length of the lines are different, bearing different flow rates, resulting in a choppier performance.  Disengaging the thrusters will cut down our maneuverability and speed rating, but better that than risking serious problems with continued use.  She disconnects the thrusters pending repair of the problem and Nika goes on pulse using just our main engines.  The flight is smoother after that and we sail on for a 10 fuel hour flight to Muir.
 
Johannes Volker III is saying he can hear voices telling him to go to Miranda.  Since we have no wish to go back to Miranda and he has no wish to travel further away from Miranda by flying with us, we wish him good luck and move on without him.  We say goodbye to Johannes and Brisbane on Meridian and burn atmo for Muir.  Our ride is rougher than we expected, the thrusters running erratically.  Rina begs Nika to hold off going to pulse to give her time to find the problem and fix it.  After trying for six hours, Rina determines the problem is the fuel lines to the thrusters aren’t uniform and that she can't fix it given the state of her supplies and the nature of the job involved.  The diameters and length of the lines are different, bearing different flow rates, resulting in a choppier performance.  Disengaging the thrusters will cut down our maneuverability and speed rating, but better that than risking serious problems with continued use.  She disconnects the thrusters pending repair of the problem and Nika goes on pulse using just our main engines.  The flight is smoother after that and we sail on for a 10 fuel hour flight to Muir.
  
Nine hours into it, Nika catches a weird comm signal off our sensors, something scrambled.  She gets Arden and Rina on the bridge to decode it and they determine it’s less a code and more like a fat-fingered distress signal.  We drop out of pulse and track the signal to its source: a Kuiper I Class cargo ship, sans containers.  And sans answer when Christian hails it.   The name on the hull states it is ''The Orcus''. After several attempts to raise a response without result, we dock with the ship and enter to offer aid, as per spacers’ code.  And perhaps pick up some salvage should it be the inhabitants are beyond our help.
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Nine hours into it, Nika catches a weird comm signal off our sensors, something scrambled.  She gets Arden and Rina on the bridge to decode it and they determine it’s less a code and more like a fat-fingered distress signal.  We drop out of pulse and track the signal to its source: a Kuiper I Class cargo ship, sans containers.  And sans answer when Christian hails it. After several attempts to raise a response without result, we dock with the ship and enter to offer aid, as per spacers’ code.  And perhaps pick up some salvage should it be the inhabitants are beyond our help.
  
 
And they are quite spectacularly beyond all help.   
 
And they are quite spectacularly beyond all help.   

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