#11 by Carnifex

Cravic watched as the navy Armoured Transport Huron approached slowly, manuvering over the wreck of his Liberator and drawing him into the loading bay. The bay began to pressurise and slowly Cravic began to hear th growl of the engines charging for cruise rise with the air pressure. He opened his cockpit covering and it gave a distinct hiss as the to environments became one, getting out of his seat he jumped down onto the deck and viewed his ship propperly for the first time. The whole fighter was leaning rather noticably to one side as it sat on the deck, much of it's structural frame having failed. The power plant had shut itself down to prevent an overload when the damage had mounted from the Outcast surprise attack. The final straw had been a cruise disruptor that had impacted right into the fusilage and pierced the weakened hull plates, the subsequent EMP destroying the control electronics. The entire left wing was also missing.
"It's a miracle that you still had atmosphere Sir," commented an engineer who had just entered the bay.
"I've been through worse." Cravic felt the deck plating begin to vibrate as the engines accelerated the transport into cruise. "Where are we headed lieutenant?"
"Back to the Sequoia Sir, everyone is pulling back so that we at least have the cover of the battleship. Where are you going Sir?!" called the engineer but Cravic was already at the exit to the loading bay.