8-250: Merchant Freighter Spanial – Cargo Hold

Well yes, it’s possible that firing the Hopper’s main thruster by accident could have been lethal for someone, but she avoided getting near that.

In relation to your question about needing to re-jig your character, my initial reaction is ‘no’, although we can discuss that if you want.  You set Lia up to be very competent in a specific area, and the events of the party on Mundo Zargo showed that she is.  She’s not designed to be a working spacer on a space freighter, but has enough skills to make that broadly possible.  I’ve semi-deliberately been challenging her for a bit of excitement and exposition.  Without revealing to much of the broad plot, my basic intention was to go through this adventure where she’s a bit fish-out-of-water and then put her back in social settings for a bit.

She reels in the tethers and detaches them from Spanial’s hull, noting as she does that the red stress warning markers at each end have been activated from the strain of stopping the Hopper – these two are no longer considered spaceworthy (in the same way car seat belts have to be replaced after a crash).

I’m going to say she can return without incident to the Hold controls, shut the doors and secure everything.

What now?

BTW, she may be tired, it’s just gone RY Break when she finishes in the Hold.