Saturday June 23, 2018
Book 18: Mandatory Failure — Part III

Transcript

 

NARRATOR: The U.P.A. warship Graveplough is experiencing technical difficulties.

Unnamed U.P.A. (inside ship): Sir, the S.T.S. missiles have armed themselves.

GRAVEPLOUGH CAPTAIN: I didn't give the order to launch.

Unnamed U.P.A. (inside ship): I didn't launch them. They're still in their tubes, but somehow they're armed.

GRAVEPLOUGH CAPTAIN: Disarm them, you idiot!

Unnamed U.P.A. (inside ship): I can't, sir. They're armed armed. Like, if we mess with them they'll explode.

Unnamed U.P.A. (inside ship): I think they think they've been fired at the enemy.

GRAVEPLOUGH CAPTAIN: ABANDON SHIP! ALL PAWS TO THE LONGBOAT!

NARRATOR: People move quickly when a ship's armory has technical difficulties of this nature...

GRAVEPLOUGH CAPTAIN: Go go go!

Unnamed U.P.A. 1 (inside ship): Decks five and six are clear.

Unnamed U.P.A. 2 (inside ship): C.I.C. is clear.

Unnamed U.P.A. 3 (inside ship): Armory and Engineering are clear.

NARRATOR: In just two hundred and twenty seconds Graveplough's longboat is launched with all hands safely aboard.

Unnamed U.P.A. (inside longboat): We can run diagnostics remotely. We'll figure this out when we reach Claw Six.

NARRATOR: Nope. That is not what will happen when the longboat reaches Claw Six,

NARRATOR: These particular technical difficulties are contagious...