>or sabotauge, though clearly the ODST's have no reason to think
>that way.

Well, it's a possibility, but even then, it's still main power failure. It's a bit like saying death was caused by heart failure. It almost always is, in some form or another. :)

>Only thing that isnt clear here is if we are talking about 'Abrams'
>type
>layout or TMP type layout. Not that it really matters except when one
>keeps trying to insist its one over the other...

If Invincible had been an ST2009 Constitution-class, they'd have known something was amiss long before they saw the strange markings. The Enterprise in the new movie is frickin' huge - bigger than the Enterprise-E from the last three TNG movies. Crew of a thousand or more, around half a mile long. The saucer section alone would be visibly and obviously much larger than anything the Starfleet of UF-2380 has in its TO&E.

>> "Mm. But the seat's internal tractors must still have been
>>working," Grissom said. "Otherwise, the captain would've gone straight
>>into the main viewer on impact. This seat doesn't have physical
>>restraints."
>
>Damn nice touch that explains why people DONT go flying all over the
>the bridge when they get slammed around

Thank you, though I must admit I got the idea from the description of that yellow airspeeder in the Star Wars Episode II visual encyclopedia. (Or maybe it was Incredible Cross-Sections. I forget.)

>> LESE MAJESTE
>
>Lese Majeste? Who'd Repli Gryph dis???

Unclear; that may be a reference to the fact that, as a Knight of the Salusian Crown, any untoward conduct of which the real G is suspected is automatically an insult to said Crown.

>>he would endeavor not to ride in an M29 Grizzly again
>
>The Grizzly AFV is from Halo? which if not?

No, Mass Effect. The model before the Mako. They turn up now and then as static background items (several places on the ice planet, for instance, you find burning M29s by the side of the road).

>>was the distinctive
>>blocky shape of an Ares Corporation Landmaster hostile environment
>>vehicle.
>
>the one from the Movie version of Damnation Alley, right?

Correct.

>> Sorenzu had seen the way Starfleet Marines operated. It wasn't
>>so different from the way the RSMC did things, come to that.
>
>A perfect, all but seemless transition into the sort of monochromed
>"this is what happened" sort of reconstrutive shot CSI is now soo well
>know for

Thanks, that's pretty much what I was aiming for there. :)

>>I'm reasonably certain it was a Telgorn DX-9 military
>>transport
>
>Did you just pull this out of your increadible creativity,
>or is it an image reference I'm just not parsing?

Stormtrooper transport from the old TIE Fighter game.

>Now that its all in the can, Who was it that Grissom was reporting
>too?

I always figured it was Maia, or at least a voice mailbox Maia had access to.

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