Twilight Of Peace

[Nightfall]

OOC: good start, Gezza /OOC

A group of Zoners passing by in the vicinity of the battlefield...

"This is Zoners-Brown 5 to Zoners-Brown Leader, are you seeing what I see on my sensors?"
"We certainly are! Looks like a great battle happened here!"
"I'll go closer and scan the debris?" asked Brown 5, the escort scout. Not waiting for confirmation, his Hawk light fighter's thrusters burst and in a matter of minutes he reaches the debris field.
"Those noob pilots.... At least be carefull out there!" said Brown Leader, the pilot of a Dromedary Freighter full of fertilizers intended to go to Freeport 9 "Hurry up, the Junkers are already there, hardly anything left if you're looking for souvenirs!"
Big chunks of what once were great ships drifted free in the space. A few Junker CSVs were already cleaning the field.
"I found something, it just hit me!" Brown 5 sounded so excited.
"Quit playing there and resume formation! I just want to get rid of these fertilizers and have a drink in the bar. Remember we are on a schedule and need to be back at Atka in time with the order of alien organisms!" Brown Leader was annoyed "Come back and tell me what is it anyway!"
"It's an AW marked escape pod, looks like it survived some big-time pounding! Think the guy inside is still alive? There's nothing comin' out of it!"
"This is Zoners-Brown 1, pilots, cut the chatter and hit the cruise! I have something waiting at Freeport and I don't wanna be late too much!"
With that said, the six sets of cruise engines started their screaming song while Brown 5 was entering back in formation and they reached full speed.

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov
The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor