Our scout ship to Betelgeuse had few weapons, and the local weaponry hopelessly outclassed those she did have.\u00a0 They fired first of course, and they got a few good licks in on our scout ship.\u00a0 Then she used her Peloran gravity generators to bring her effective mass to near zero and lit up her main drives.\u00a0 Betelgeuse had never seen a ship accelerate so fast and their guns simply couldn\u2019t track her. \u00a0It took a brave captain to slow back down and talk after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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