An old friend's revenge

[Tenseiken]

*warning*
*hull damage detected*
*secondary cooling system damaged*

[color=#009900]The temperature within the drone was rising at an alarming rate as it entered the athmosphere. The primary and tertiary cooling system would not be enough to cool down the chassis for the entire descent.

*initiating secondary system shutdown*
*initiating tertiary system shutdown*
*set timerX=6681*
*if timerX=0 initiate boot sequence*


The drone deactivated all systems that were not necessary to keep the Xaror at minimum functuality. It would not be able to move or operate.
But shutting down the secondary and tertiary systems would decrease the heat buildup massively. Keeping the chassis intact had just become the main objective.

*safe landing area detected*
*course set*
*shutting down*


With everything except for the cooling system shut down and the energy core running at the minimum limit the Xaror quickly turned into a frozen chunk of metal.

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Hours after the drone dove into the deep oceans of the planet below, a slightly bigger wave reached the beaches of the next island.

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<span style="font-family:Lucida Console"><span style="color:#33CC00">*personality core activated*</span>
Science consists of stating the obvious and linking the facts. </span>