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Genellan Planetfall by Scott
G. Gier

SECTION ONE

A NEW WORLD
ONE
BATTLE
We're dead, Buccari admitted. A bead of sweat broke loose from the
saturated rim of the copilot's skullcap and floated into her field of vision.
She moved to keep the mercurial droplet from colliding with her lashless
eyes. Humidity controls in her battle suit activated, and she swallowed to
adjust for the pressure change.

"Reloading forward kinetics," she reported, breaking the oppressive
silence. She glanced up. The command pilot of Harrier One stared dumbly
at the holographic tactical display.

"Skipper, you copy?" Buccari demanded, switching to flight deck
intercom and cutting out the rest of the crew.

The pilot's head slowly lifted, his gold visor catching and scattering the
brilliant rays of Rex-Kaliph, the system star.
 "Yeah, Lieutenant, I copy," he mumbled.

Buccari's anxiety clicked up another notch. She pivoted in her
acceleration tethers to look at Hudson hunkering at his station.

"Nash, status on the fleet?" she demanded.

"Nothing new, Sharl," the second officer replied nervously. "But main
engine power's fading, and engineering doesn't answer."

Buccari's scan jerked to her own power screen, confirming the bad
news. "Crap!" she uttered, frantically trying to override.

Hudson gulped. "Already tried emergency override."

"Commander, main engines are shutting down," she shouted.
"Computer's rejecting command overrides. We got nothing but thrusters."

Buccari pushed back from the instruments. Her scan moved to the