Since the name of the ship, I take it, was Icarus, I’m assuming that the ship was intended to follow something similar to the real-life Project Icarus, intercepting a still far-off but still threatening asteroid on a brachistochrone trajectory. They’d probably have a secondary fuel source launched prior located at it, and they could swap out their cargo for a fuel store, which would get them home sooner (and probably with a more consistent 1-g acceleration).

Crap. I meant Hohmann, not brachistochrone. A brachistochrone trajectory is what they would take on the way back. FAIL.

I LOVE it… great sequel!!!!! Great techno-speak… and great keeping with the initial "what the hell is happening’ feel of my initial opening….
That’s what i love about this place… sequeling without fear is just the best way to create some fantastic fiction..

Your techno speak is so good, that you are probably an astronaut in space right now.

Nice action. Somehow managed to feel cramped, getting across not just the danger but the small space in which it is occurring for your protagonists.

because there was a lot going on in this piece, THX!
And I am bamboozled by the babble! :)

Thanks for the comment on my piece, by the way.

I really, really like this piece. It’s very serious, unapologetic hard science fiction and I love it. I do question the possibility of constructing a 600-meter long ship, though. Torsional stress could easily build up to steel-ripping levels, and any course corrections would have to be very slow to avoid that. Otherwise, good hardcore hard sci-fi. Bravo.

May sequel when mental capacity allows.