[The music exampled and specified in the following screenwrite is
the Strategic-Director's selection from hundreds of CD's of existing works
by artists whose orchestral timbre and lyrics fit each on-screen activity,
and is not otherwise representative of project SesQuaTercet and its purposes]
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<00:00 music tentative> <MONITORS ALERT> NAV+SCI+WEAPNAVIcebergs: dead-ahead!
NAV RAD is overloaded: We can't dodge this spread! MI-KEENAVYes, but we'll lose our advantage returning hot: probably melt-down: We can escape in the pods, but then the asteroids hit the city-planet. MI-KEENAVMI-KEEComposition? SCIENCERFirst laser pulse: Carbonaceous. Second pulse: Nickel-iron: nearly pure. Third pulse: Standard nickel-iron with a coating of carbonaceous dust! HELMWow! MI-KEENav: Track all first-to-arrive masses: Find a clear path to a big iron! Weapons: Prepare forward torpedoes, full bevy: Target both big irons! Helm: Steer for the big iron: Take us in close! Engineer: Bring-up the fission booster! NAVTracking compounded selection: Analyses in operation. ENGBringing-up fission booster. WEAPMI-KEEWeapons Officer: You are now commanded to launch forward nuclear torpedoes! WEAPTorpedoes launched, Commander! MI-KEEReady another set of torpedoes, Weapons: Fire when ready! Navigator: Give me that clear path, now! HELMA gamble!? We can't blast our way through! WEAPNukes-away, Commander! MI-KEEReady another set of torpedoes: Fire when ready! And, give me your clear, Weapons! NAVCourse computed, ready and laid-in, Commander! WEAPTorpedoes launched! We're clear, Commander! HELMWow! It's going to be hard to hit scattering plasma-dust. MI-KEENav: Lock-in and initiate a tight bearing for the target big iron mass! Engineer: Ready to jettison propellant manifold!
HELMENGAye: Ready and standing-by for manifold jettison. MI-KEEWeapons: Ready aft torpedoes! Helm: Give me your ready! WEAPAft torpedoes: Ready!
HELMMI-KEEWeapons: Launch aft torpedoes! Helm: Track for the big iron! Engineer: Bring-up fission drive to maximum! Keep your finger on that jettison trigger! ENGINEERFission drive: ramping up.
WEAPAft torpedoes launched.
MI-KEEMaximum thrust, now, Engineer! ALL
<ALL PRESSED down in SEATS, auto-RECLINE> ALLHELMDid we miss target? NAVReady for torpedo impact: 3. 2. 1.
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<--:-- music "boom(s)" synchronous, concurrently> <RAPID FLARES> SCIENCERBig iron velocity is decreasing: 87-percent. 79-percent. 71-percent. 61-percent. <concurrently>44-percent. NAVMI-KEEHelm: Close up distance to big iron! HELMSCIENCERMI-KEEHelm: Keep us tight in front of it! HELMNAVHELM
We appear safe for the moment - but, we do not have safe speed, Captain: We're riding shot-gun for this big iron rock. SCIENCERMI-KEEAhhh! COMMMI-KEEAhhh! ENGCOMMENGNot on my shift! NAVMI-KEECommander Stiles: Take the chair! COMMEngineer: Get Mi-Kee to the bay! First opportunity! ENG |
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