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Tabor Nansk

On the Run

When Tabor spotted the Security detail at the Flight Deck he was disappointed, but not surprised. It wasn't an unexpected – or unplanned for – development. He had just hoped for a little more time. So be it. Tabor backtracked to a maintenance hatch and crawled in, leaving the door ajar. The route was clear in his mind and he wanted it equally clear to the teams that would be following him. Without his comm badge, his bio signs were going to be nearly impossible to separate from the normal swarm of crewmembers going about their assigned tasks of maintenance. So Tabor was going to have to figuratively drop bread crumbs – an open hatch here, a disrupted conduit there.

 

The first of his devices detonated next to circuit that controlled the lights in hydroponics. [Note: Not to worry Captain about last week's charge. I was never trying - and never would try – to blow up the ship. Just a little sabotage.] The task went quickly as he had actually practiced it a number of times before. A few more open hatches, a few more minor disruptions to low-level systems, and the trail would lead a blind man to the final location: a small maintenance airlock on deck 17. Before entering, Tabor pried an access panel off the corridor wall and disabled the security feed. Don't want to have anyone find him too early. Tabor pulled the largest of the charges from his backpack and placed it about one meter to the right of the outer door. There was no point in trying to blow the door itself, it was too heavily reinforced – for obvious reasons. But the ship's designers had never imagined someone trying to blow a way OUT of the airlock into open space. Hence the comm link port that was used while the ship was in space dock was an overlooked weak point in the hull. He shaped the charge for its maximum effect, set the timer, stepped back and eyed the rack of EVA suits along the right hand bulkhead. He needed to cycle the inner door before the detonation to avoid a devastating decompression that might harm someone out in the corridor. Not that he expected anyone to be there – part of the reason for choosing this particular airlock – but Tabor didn't want to take a chance.

 

The inner door slowly closed, the heavy gearing that ensured safety against zero atmospheres settling it into position. When the timer reached its programmed mark, the charge exploded with a muffled roar as most of the force was sucked out into space, along with anything not securely fastened in the room. That included the entire rack of EVA suits. The debris, mingled with the shredded suits and the room's O2, made a distinct vapor trail that angled straight for the planet. The port side airlock faced directly towards the surface. As the particles entered the upper atmosphere, heat from the ensuing friction set them alight in a pretty twinkle. On the ship, alarms went off in a number of locations, sending damage control teams scurrying to assess and repair. Security would undoubtedly be close behind but they wouldn't find anything. The breadcrumbs ended here.

Edited by Tabor Nansk

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