The Heart Of Matter: Odyssey One - Plot & Excerpts
“Collision imminent!” The yell was calm, at least as calm as one could expect, and Johan was proud of his crew in that moment. They had done all he had asked of them, all he could have asked, and he only wished that he had done as well for them as they had for him. It was easy to see the mistakes made in retrospect, perhaps especially since this one had been so glaring and so short a time past. He should have engaged the fighters farther out, but had expected them to engage like his own small craft might, and didn’t believe them to be a credible threat to his ship. He’d been wrong. And now he was going to die for it. The pity was that he wouldn’t die alone. Johan watched as the fighters wheeled in on terminal approach, and issued one last order. “Launch the life pods!” His ship shuddered under him, the smaller explosions the forerunners of what was to come, and he knew that some of his people were getting away. Not all, that would have been impossible in the time they had, but some.
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