Narrow miss as starship crash threatens Leogard orbital stabiliser

By Freelance Reporter GEN VOLER

The quick actions of a power relay operations manager saved an ecological disaster that 'threatened to wipe out what little life is left on Leogard' (Amagad Informer #12,786). The vessel involved, an old Haruuga class-trading vessel (withdrawn from service due several design flaws) dropped from its designated course beacon after suffering onboard system failures. The pilot, who ejected and has not yet reported to have been recovered, moved the ship into an escape vector to avoid striking the huge orbital ore refineries over the planet but only succeeded in allowing the craft to be caught by the planet's primary repulsor-based orbital stabiliser.

The stabiliser, which projects an anchor beam to the orbital refineries to keep them in a geo-synchronous orbit, was being manned at the time by Hims Harf Gon, a newly promoted operations manager.

'I saw this ship dropping on my scopes and ran a quick computer projection of possible impact points. The equipment here is fitted with that stuff in case of an anchor failure and one of the refineries drop. You can imagine my shock when I saw the target was right on my head! I simply switched off the power to one of the lesser refineries, gave the falling ship a quick burst and then re-initialised the beam back on the refinery before the orbit was too degraded'.

The starship was forced out of its fall and crashed less than eight hundred meters from the station's power core. Failure of this core may have resulted in total shutdown - and loss of all the orbital ore refineries.

Hims Harf Gon has been praised by Leogard authorities as a multiple lifesaver.