Welcome to Gaia! ::

Arianeira nodded, wiping her mouth on her sleeve and standing up shakily. She wondered whether the memory would give her nightmares and vaguely decided that it probably would.

She didn't hear, focusing her energy on reaching the ship as fast as possible. She pressed her hand to the door and it opened instantly as she slipped inside.

Arianeira sealed the doors and activated her shields obediently, leaping for her chair and instantly activating the forcefield which held her in her seat. She felt instantly more comfortable surrounded by the familiar and her reaction to the incident faded to a distant horror as she forced it into the deep recesses of her mind.

Arianeira steered her smaller craft through the gap easily, momentum propelling it forwards as she adjusted the alignment and reset the main thrusters to adjust to the position. She lost sight of Stratford as she flew through the air, making minor changes to the craft to avoid the pockets of gravitational force that a craft this size was particularly vulnerable to.

Arianeira's fingers skirted across one of the touch screens, bringing up the map and leaving it there. It took her less than a second to adjust to the scene and identify the blob that was the Hyperon before turning her steering wheel left, enjoying the tilt of her ship as the motion of the ailerons took effect, sweeping around towards his position.

((Hey! I love touchscreens. Besides, we can't all have computer chips embedded in our brains! rolleyes ))

Arianeira was enjoying herself, ducking under what appeared to be a satellite of some description, avoiding several meteorites and aiming a stray stream of laserfire at another ship fast approaching their former location. She doubted it had any effect, but ducked her smaller ship underneath it, speeding away. Hers was faster, she noted gleefully.

Arianeira considered, watching the small dots on the screen, and the auto analysis of the hostile ships which appeared on the monitor to her right. She glanced over their speeds and fire power before replying, switching the scrambler on as he had used her real name. "I'm game if you are." She said, grinning at the screen despite the fact he couldn't see her, "I have the speed and maneuverability advantages against this lot and am harder to hit. My shields are intact and my guns are all operational. Besides, if it gets bad, I can hide behind you or we can flee into hyperspace. What about you? How's Hyperon?"