8: Spawn Ship
We came to the large blue ship that had destroyed Vela's mother ship, landing on the starboard bow. We came into a room with a lift and rode it to an elevated walkway. Several metres below us was the deck and a deep pool of water. I jumped off and landed in the pool. Vela heard my splash and was soon falling to join me. This pool wound into the reactor, but Vela had to turn back because the water was too hot and radioactive. I continued on coming out of a reservoir into the main controls. There were two engineers and I killed them both. I ripped out one of their eyes to access the controls, than disabled the cooling pumps and raised the control rods, knowing that the reactor would drive itself into meltdown and ultimately explode, destroying the ship. With a meltdown initiated, I jumped back into the pool and thanks to the gravity suit, I could run through the water. I used the ball because it was faster and soon came to the pool we had dropped in. Vela was waiting by the door. That door led into a long corridor with six branches. Off to our left was an elevated door that dropped us off to the room nearest the starboard landing pad. We called our ships and escaped a safe distance to watch the explosion. The Spawn Ship was shaking violently and within two minutes, it exploded in a flash of blue that faded into orange. The mushroom cloud could be seen from Rith Essa.
"That was spectacular."
"Those mother fuckers just lost their means of reproducing."
We set our ships down to Rith Essa to discuss our future plans.