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no. 7: conversion
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Ògún's materials scientist skittered up to the freighter's bridge, clasping its forward manipulators. "This vein has much higher conductivity than Khepri's readings suggested. Is there room in the power budget for more power to the main cutting beam?"

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Once the Antikythera authorized exploration of the Slumbering Empyrean, Nysa's Wake found itself swarmed with exiting craft.

Many not in the vanguard sat together on the carrier’s icy hull, watching their friends descend atop pale drive plumes.

#exegesis #Spaceshiptember #SST26 day 6: Carrier

The parrots reconfigured. This was the 7,243rd virtual antenna the probes had tried. They listened for 24 hours, and then rearranged once more.

The router which the relay drones had unknowingly navigated through wouldn't reopen for 6 decades.

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6:CARRIER
The Santos-class carrier enters combat with eighty Stiletto drones. The nets strung between the propellant tanks can catch a Stiletto traveling at hundreds of klicks-per.

A Megafilament overseeing the disassembly of a delectable iron rich world

Day 7 - Mining

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Spaceshiptember Days 5/6/7: Drones/Carrier/Conversion

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#SST26 Day 7, Mining

"Do ya think we can just, I dunno, ask them?"
"What, you think they'll let us have some of that stuff if we say please?"
"They've seen our ships flying around to investigate, and we havent been shot down yet. What do ya say?"

Day 7: Mining
"We spend our days in blackness, watching numbers raise and fall, ne're in our favour, as we scour the rock like shrimp along sand for our meal tickets."

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Day 6: Curved
"With our Billhooks we came out of the rush and tore down at them like dead bracken, they fell and burned like furze, as we roared ahead with sabre and gunfire." - Pilot's account of the battle at Jeraph's Rings 2096

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#SST26 Day 3: winged
You work in Saturn long enough, you'll start to hear the howl of her winds differently, at first a voice in the wind, one familiar but not, then a calm whisper from a loved one, not one you know, but you do. It's probably nothing, just ignore it.

Another quick doodle: Conversion

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Day 7: Mining conversion

An old mass hauler converted into a refinery station

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