Is that two point six?
Sun 18 Nov 2001 by mskala Tags used: fiction, nov01FLIGHT DECK VOICE RECORDING INIT 18NOV2001 (6), DESCENT INSERTION WPT 332-F
DS: Flight one we've got you clear for final descent
CP: Roger we are
DS: Message from Admiral Zarg
DS: Flight one you have the honor to be the first ship of our fleet to land upon the verdant oceans of this fertile world
DS: May the light of ten thousand stars shine upon our conquest
CP: Roger that Deepstar it shall be sweet to taste the soil of the planet
2O: For the glory of the prophet Kor!
1O: Yeah whatever Rix [2nd off]
CP: Natives never gonna know what hit 'em
1O: Jorb [captain] you better look at this
1O: Spectrometer kinda funny
2O: That is an oxygen reading
CP: Confirm how much oxygen
2O: Looks like thirty thirty one pergross
1O: Shit I thought it was two point six
2O: Maybe the spectro's bad
CP: Thought they checked this before thawing us
CP: Deepstar we got a question what is the atmospheric composition supposed to be down there specifically oxygen pergross is that two point six
DS: Flight one don't worry about the weather
DS: Just do your job guys
CP: Frigging idiots
CP: I wouldn't have asked if it wasn't important
CP: What does thirty pergross do for our heat shield
2O: Shield's only designed for two point six
1O: Jorb I don't like this we're already into the ionosphere and we don't know what's out there
CP: OK give me an abort
1O: We have a control failure
1O: The thrusters are sticky
CP: Well keep trying
2O: Try the retros
CP: Deepstar flight one we're going down
DS: Roger flight one descent looking fine keep your eye on that road ha
CP: Deepstar no we are
1O: Temperature it's five sixty out there
DS: Flight one you are what
DS [second controller]: We get signal
DS: Flight one you got a telemetry failure
DS: Crazy temperature reading
[automated warning: "bzorch bzorch pressure"]
1O: Got a hole down there
CP: [expletive] get me that cooler
1O: We're at eight sixty four sixty five
DS: Flight one what's going on
2O: For the glory of the prophet Kor!
CP: Come on cool your jets baby
1O: We're at nine twenty
1O: Deepstar we're burning up you better abort the whole show
CP: You better cut it right at the top the whole thing
[bzorch bzorch pressure]
CP: Come on baby
2O: We've got loss of signal that is much too early
CP: We're not gonna make it
1O: God look at that flare
CP: Shield just toasting right off
2O: We could never breathe that stuff anyway
[bzorch bzorch pressure]
2O: For the glory of the holy prophet Kor!
[disintegrator shot]
1O: Shit he
1O: He shot
CP: Somebody get me a bucket
[bzorch bzorch pressure]
UK: [unidentifiable]
[bzorch bzorch pressure]
[two disintegrator shots]
[bzorch bzorch pressure]
END RECORDING
[Spacecraft destroyed by chemical reaction in planet's upper atmosphere, after misplaced duodecimal point in initial planetary survey caused factor-of-twelve underestimate of atmospheric oxygen. Entire colonization fleet followed. Approximately 300,000 crew and 4.2 billion deepsleeping colonists killed; all 94,626 ships destroyed over the course of 16 hours, peak rate of approximately 10000 per hour. Highest death toll on record.]
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