>In true movie fashion, though, we can see in our
>minds eye how the 21 'dies' moments before it can off Kouzu and then
>seconds later her own system fail, leaving Seraph Blue unable to
>recover but Kouzu able to manage the crash well enough to a) survive
>and b) be close enough to check on and help Guld.Pretty close, yeah. SERAPH BLUE didn't suffer a systems failure; its telemetry flatlined back at base because the antenna array got cooked, but the ship was live and online all the way down. It crashed anyway, but that was because the aerodynamics were screwed, not because of a loss of power (which is how Kozue was able to make sure she'd be near Guld's landing site before she stopped wrestling with it and let it come down). There wasn't really a way of coming right out and explaining that part after the fact that I could see, not without making it about as obvious as, well, this paragraph. :)
I considered constructing the whole sequence, but it would have been a lot like recycling the crash scene from Star-Crossed, and in the end I decided it would give the ending a little more kick to switch over to Cally just after the fireworks started and give a nod to the "Ridley finds Yeager walking out of the desert" scene from The Right Stuff instead.
Glad you liked the music. If there's one thing I've got a lot of in my library, it's dogfight/chase scene music. (In fact, I have iTunes playlists called "Music for Car Chases" and "Music for Asteroid Racing". :)
--G.
"Hey, Cally, you got any Beemans? ... Well, loan me some, willya, I'll pay you back later."
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