Remnants and Fallout

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Down in Engineering, Doctor XiaoBei was sweating, staring at the strained reactor guages.

"We were never supposed to go into full combat like that," he muttered. Sipping his tea and punching console buttons, trying to figure out a plan.

The Resurgency was a cosmetic design, which meant that while they had modern weaponry, their power core had been based on the old designs. 800 year old reactors were never designed to run the latest weaponry that Sirius had to offer.

"Counter clockwise!" XiaoBei yelled through the safety glass that faced the main reactor chamber where Guinea pig number four was trying to push the reactor rods, by hand, into the coolant. Of course the previous three crewmen that had attempted to stop the Resurgency from going thermonuclear were now on the deck of the reactor core, literally cooked from the inside out. But no one had time to really think on that.

"Look, you muppet, if you don't do this right, I am going to have to send in another one of these guys to do it again after you..." Xiaobei pointed threateningly at another engineering crewman. The kid literally burst into tears, begging for his life.

XiaoBei ignored it, it was either send in wave after wave of red clad engineering ensigns, or face the very real prospect that they would all be blown sky high.

"Admiral Broch... your highness, your one way ticket to hell is still all expenses paid, you know, first class all the way, nothing but the best for you..." He tossed the TAC down on the console. "COUNTER BLOODY CLOCKWISE... I don't care if your eyeballs are melting!"

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