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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leif" data-source="post: 5306180" data-attributes="member: 48762">Opening Gambit - Approach to CentryThe Zax Hakjohn Quiq  continues on its course, two Vargr ships converging towards her.  If all three ships continue on present headings, they will all three meet at a point approximately 750 km ahead.  Meanwhile, the Vargr vessel to aft is still coming this way, too.  Spider, manning the ventrally-located turret of the Zax, hears a musical tone in his headset,  and the icons of the two Vargr vessels to fore are now highlighted on his screen in green rather than red.  A sultry, feminine, yet unmistakeably computer-like voice whispers in Spider's ear, "Targets now in range.  Please select a target to acquire?"  The screen indicates that the range to the Vargr ships is now 500 km, still a long shot for Spider to make, but at least it's within the capabilities of the equipment.  (That surely works both ways, though...)  (Glancing aft, Spider can barely make out the first Vargr vessel still coming, but still losing the race.)[OOC Note:  The Turret itself is a projection on the hull of the ship.  However, Spider is not himself in that little projection.  Rather, Spider is lazing about on a comfy acceleration couch just inside the hull from the turret, with his mug of cocoa and his toasty toe socks.  He does not have to rely on his imperfect bodily eyes to fulfill the gunner's job, he just watches the panorama unfold on the HUD display of the helmet integrated into the acceleration couch.]</blockquote>

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