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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 4877686" data-attributes="member: 4936">"Couldn't have said it better myself," Mel mutters as she reaches over to flick a series of switches that then glow ominously red. "Cnosos, two things. One, *safeties are off, so get your butt strapped into something in five seconds or less. Two, I need you to put everything we've got into the engines. Life support too. If this doesn't work, we're probably dead anyway, and if it does we'll be through it before we can suffocate.""Gaetanna, if you don't want to be a crimson stain on the wall, get into a chair and strap every last point of the harness. That goes for anyone who hasn't got the point yet too. Strap in. I'm not kidding."She takes a deep breath then and closes her eyes, one hand resting loosely on the control yoke, the other on the throttle slider. Seconds tick past as she waits for people to get ready. The ship shudders as it starts to slide into the gravitational effect, and shear off away from the beacon path.Mel opens her eyes and slammed the throttle forward.Several things happened at once. A titanic roar thundered through the Gold Greed's spaceframe, seeming to shake the very soul of the occupants. As this happened, everyone and everything aboard the ship suddenly weighed several times as much as usual, but that weight was pulling them not to the floor...but to the back wall. And finally, the ship shot forward like a proverbial flying rodent escaping from a mythological plane of punishment, swerving back onto the beacon path and diving straight into the heart of the maelstrom!(The dreaded Pilot roll gets 31!! That's a 19, ladies and gentlemen!)<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2189924/" target="_blank">Roll Lookup</a>* Engine safeties are automatic software controls embedded into every ship's fly-by-wire operating system. They interact with throttle adjustments, softening accelerations to levels safe for humanoid occupants, and for the physical structure of the spacecraft. Most engines of even human design are capable of accelerations that far exceed those safe levels, at least for periods of time. Flying with safeties off is considered foolhardy, even for experienced pilots, since anyone can make a misjudgement, or accidentally apply more force than needed in the heat of the moment. However, with the safeties off, a spacecraft can achieve performance it would normally not be permitted by the software...though there's no guarantee it will survive it.</blockquote>

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