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The bridge is occupied by Driver, the navigator's assistant (as she's off shift), and Lenora.

Hanging ahead of them in space is... A giant blob of fungus? With bits and pieces of structures and other creatures, especially Cantankeri, stick to it.

It's fairly gruesome. They could probably go around at the same distance they're at now.

"I want to blow it up, but it's not attacking us or anything now. I've never seen something quite like this before. Maybe we should just go around."

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"If it gets aggressive while we're between it and the tunnel wall we could be in a very bad position," Thorn notes. "I'm inclined to stand off and blast it to pieces before proceeding."

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"Precisely the sort of order I like to hear... We are going through ammo relatively quickly, something to note, captain. Depending on how tough this is, I'd estimate we have six more engagements' worth of munitions stored."

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"Noted. Proceed." She grins. "See, I can do official."

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"Aye aye, captain!"

 

 

When they start shooting at the mass of fungus, it shivers violently, groans, and starts spitting out globules of toxic-looking spores in all directions, wobbling slowly towards the engine.

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"Slow reverse, hold it steady, be ready to dodge!"

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Lenora keeps the fire up steadily. The mass is beginning to break up on the leading edge, a bit.

The globs of pus are approaching, one straight on, and coming densely enough that dodging too far will just result in hitting two more.

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"Reverse right, keep firing!" Maybe they can deke sideways a bit.

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The Paranoid Driver loudly complains that the engine isn't designed to do that, and then does it anyway!

As damage accumulates, the gobbets of foulness start coming even faster. The Driver can't avoid them all, each hit shudders faintly through the engine. But something inside the mass is burbling, like pressure building...

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"Keep up the fire and keep well clear!"

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The fire is forced to take breaks as the Paranoid Driver maneuvers the engine in increasingly careen-like ways to avoid most of the projectiles.

And then- It explodes. Thankfully, it's rather unspectacular as explosions go.

"Continue bombardment, Captain?"

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"Hold, let's let it settle a bit."

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Everyone watches and waits fairly tensely.

The fungus does not do anything else.

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"Set a course around the remains, if you would."

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