Chandler "One Gun" McMahon

PART I

by

Stuart Law

Fade into reporter Barbie Dahl at colony SSL AX.

"Good evening everyone", she opens, "I'm Barbie Dahl from Crystal Ball Productions". I spent an evening with a courageous Starcaptian that happened to be in the wrong place at the right time. OK! Roll it.

(switch to the monitor next to B.D.)

"This week19 of year 199, marks a date that will go down in the History Books as a date to be remembered by all. Today a Space Battle occurred in the Capellan SpSq 349, SpSq of Dogleg . The attacking fleet of a combined RIP/IND force met a multi-Aff force consisting of ISP, SMS, USA, & SSL. Though some sources claim the SSL wasn't involved in it. I give you a report of that Starcaptian. I would like you to meet the Starcaptian of the SSL SHISHALDEN, Lt. Chandler McMahon. Lt. McMahon, Please tell us in your words what happened that day, in the orbit of Dogleg.

via Televids:

"Why sure Miss Dahl", says a man of no more then thirty years old with a dark complexion. This man you see is a good 2 meters tall with a lean and musclar body. He is devilishly handsome with a obvious 2 day old stubble on his face. " I had just finished outfitting my ship to do some exploring for the Boss and just left orbit of Dogleg", he contuines " I had planned to be gone from family & friend for almost a year". We had just swapped all Jump Engines out,and started to log the coordinates for our final destination into the Nav. system. I was then informed by my Radar officer that " A large fleet of ships are closing in fast sir, And they don't look friendly. I then brought up my screen and counted 14 ships, most of them RIP. "Ah! crap", I's says,"I think we better get the hell outa here before we end up space dust". "Sir", coming from enginering, "Sorry, but we don't have enough power to get out of here". "Alright then, let's see if we can help out the other ship's". I continue, "Maybe even try and draw the fire from the other ship's". "OK boy's", I ordered,"give us a target and aim all guns at'em". "Sir!" replies the gunners mate, "We only have One Photon Gun left, we off-loaded the rest of them we decided to go to the sys-"That's enough of that gunner", I cut in. "All right then", I started "Hell! one gun is enough for me, by one".