Particle Fleet Fanon: Fleet Zero's Triumph

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Prologue: Descent
{EXCERPT 451: PLEASANT MADNESS)
{PARTICIPANTS: CMD. LUPUS FE'RAAL, VULPE VUUL'PE, ZOURA THIRTY-TWENTYFIVE, CHIEF DAGR TICON, DIRECTOR OGUN}
Lupus: Sir, I do believe we're ready for action...

Vulpe: Chief Ticon... We've trained forever for this.

Ticon: We can't let you do this. The last thing we want is your fleet and your crew to be stripped of all rights for entering redacted space. We're lucky GalCorp let us by skins of our hands.

Ogun: Please, Zoura. Tell him about the dangers.

Zoura: With all due respect, commander... If we fail in redacted space, we won't get to "restart" like in the simulations. We could per-

Lupus: *Smashes Lupus over the head with forearm*

Zoura: *Falls to floor*

Vulpe: Zoura!

Zoura: *Nose bleeding with a black eye* I-I'm al...right. Heh... *cough* *gasp* Just a... light... tap... *collapses*

Vulpe: I'll bring him to the medical bay... They should be able to patch him up...

Lupus: *staring at hands* What have I done? My best friend... he's near death because of me... Just... please... allow me to leave...

Ticon: Excused... Discussion over...

{END_LOG}

Chapter 1: Innovation