Audience participation
bintananth
behind a desk
I'm not sure what the best direction for the next part is so I thought I'd open it up to the audience. Here goes:
Viole has been talked out of attacking Earth but there's still the issue of the heavily armed LRS Hailee within weapons range of Earth's planetary defenses. That will get ugly if anyone opens fire on her. Some options:
[] The Constel returns to Earth with Lindewe after she's refueled. This will take a couple hours.
[] The Arethusa returns to Earth with Lindewe and her stealth shuttle.
[] The Hailee heads to Fomalhaut. It'll take a few minutes to reach minimum safe jump distance and she, like the Constel, will be followed.
[] Kirika boards one of the ships recalled to Earth due to the Hailee's presence for a face-to-face meeting.
[] Kirika sends a shuttle to pick up a human captain for a face-to-face meeting because no human shuttle is small enough to fit in the Hailee's hanger.*
Face-to-face is needed because of light-speed lag** but there are so many ways things can go wrong if someone sets off a Llyrian shuttle's automated security system.
There's also the issue of gravity: Llyrians aren't that adept at moving around in microgravity while humans who've spent a long time in it aren't very mobile right after they return to Earth. The 0.8g the Hailee has would be almost as problematic for them. Especially if they're in an environment suit because they don't trust the breathability of the air.
* Resupply is done using shuttles about the size of a box truck and those barely fit.
** At close range Llyrian FTL video calls overload human FTL comm receivers and routing one through a relay on Mars then back to Earth or the Moon takes all the FTL bandwidth Mars has.
Viole has been talked out of attacking Earth but there's still the issue of the heavily armed LRS Hailee within weapons range of Earth's planetary defenses. That will get ugly if anyone opens fire on her. Some options:
[] The Constel returns to Earth with Lindewe after she's refueled. This will take a couple hours.
[] The Arethusa returns to Earth with Lindewe and her stealth shuttle.
[] The Hailee heads to Fomalhaut. It'll take a few minutes to reach minimum safe jump distance and she, like the Constel, will be followed.
[] Kirika boards one of the ships recalled to Earth due to the Hailee's presence for a face-to-face meeting.
[] Kirika sends a shuttle to pick up a human captain for a face-to-face meeting because no human shuttle is small enough to fit in the Hailee's hanger.*
Face-to-face is needed because of light-speed lag** but there are so many ways things can go wrong if someone sets off a Llyrian shuttle's automated security system.
There's also the issue of gravity: Llyrians aren't that adept at moving around in microgravity while humans who've spent a long time in it aren't very mobile right after they return to Earth. The 0.8g the Hailee has would be almost as problematic for them. Especially if they're in an environment suit because they don't trust the breathability of the air.
* Resupply is done using shuttles about the size of a box truck and those barely fit.
** At close range Llyrian FTL video calls overload human FTL comm receivers and routing one through a relay on Mars then back to Earth or the Moon takes all the FTL bandwidth Mars has.