The Miracle Work

[TheSauron]

A steady, muffled roar of Tripoli's reactor accompanied Sunny and Flora as they crossed the narow, tortuous corridors hollowed out through the stone. Every now and then they passed by Cretan crewmen, each and every one of them giving the guests a surprised look. Flora was taking the lead, apparently having already memorised the way to her ship. As Tripoli wasn't an extraordinarily large station, it didn't take them too long to reach their target.

The hangar wasn't large. It was most likely just some spare space left after the main corridors were finished, hollowed out for a small hangar. The airlock was barely enough for the Anaconda to fit in. The ship in question was positioned right in front of the door Flora and Sunny used to enter. It's nose was exactly on the height of the entrance. The fighter was hanging in the air, kept in place by docking clamps expanded from each wall, most likely due to the ship's own antigravity gear being gone.

As soon as Flora and Sunny went around the hangar, walking on a balcony attached to the wall opposite of the airlock, it became apparent that antigravity gear wasn't the only thing missing. The ship was stripped of pretty much every hull panel it once had, its bare insides now clearly visible from the outside. Wires, cables, tanks, scanner's housing inside of the ship's nose, fuel pipes leading to manouvering thrusters and the engine mount. Once they got downstairs, to the floor of the hangar, Sunny could see the ship from the left side. The first thing of note was a large, glaring gap in the middle of the ship, previously occupied by its powercore. The core itself was lying on the other side of the ship, a battered pile of parts, unusable for anything else than smelting. Upon further inspection, it became obvious that the ship's engine, located on the back of the nose, was gone, along with the left fin.

Once they were more or less near the middle of the ship Flora stopped. She looked at it and sighed.

- There it is.

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One MD Admiral