Solar Strike AKA Solar Attack Page #2

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and ascend into the high reaches

of the upper atmosphere

- to fulfill its experimental mission.

- Good for you, Lucas.

According to Doctor Foster,

the focus of this mission

will be to measure methane levels

in the thermosphere.

The Galileo will be visiting areas

Dr. Foster's team believes to have high

concentrations of these deadly gasses,

- in order to prove once and for all...

- That he is a self-absorbed lunatic!

Carrier 1 has reached launch altitude.

MAV, I have you at 38,000 feet

and I'm initiating the drop countdown

in t-minus 10.

Carrier one, beginning roll out,

the sky is yours, Galileo.

Roger that.

Separation successful.

Firing booster rockets.

And we have MAV ignition!

Atta boy, Joe.

All onboard systems are well

within the operating parameters.

Damn!

This is one hell of a ride, Lucas!

This is where he always screwed up

in the flight simulator.

Oh, man! What's that red light?

It's in the rear-view,

coming up fast behind me.

It's a cop.

I musta broke the speed limit.

Galileo is out of visual range.

Switching to tracking display.

Tracking telemetry operational.

Climbing to 80 miles altitude.

OK. He's very close to

the first methane checkpoint.

He should be reaching it in...

- six point three seconds.

- Exactly.

Joe, how're you doing there?

Just fine, I'm about the switch all

the sensors and monitoring equipment.

Uh, Larry, we have

an alarm in Sector III.

Maybe a malfunction.

Give me a reset and full diagnostic?

Joe, do you read me?

We're showing an alarm in Sector III.

Give me your status.

We've lost telemetry.

Try rerouting it through circuit 4

Joe?

Joe! Where'd he go?

I don't know.

Get him back, Jim.

This is Galileo. Come in, ground control.

A power outage?

How the hell could that be possible?

It's got to be an instrument malfunction.

On every instrument? No way.

Get me radio communications now.

This is Galileo. Come in ground control.

Telemetry's back up.

We're getting a signal.

Joe, can you hear me?!

Come in, Galileo

What the hell happened, Lucas?

I had a full system shut-down.

We lost you here. You just...

vanished from the tracking screens.

What's going on?

I don't know. Everything just shut down.

All of the instrumentation, life-support,

booster rockets, everything.

That's not possible.

What was it, Lucas?

Tell me you've got this under control.

We're working on it, Joe, as soon as I...

Joe! Joe?!

Joe!

Galileo to base.

Galileo to base. Do you copy?

JOE!!

We have full signal loss: No telemetry.

Larry, check the emergency

transponder frequency.

No go!

Satellite tracking indicates

multiple targets on Galileo flight path.

We have confirmation that Lucas Foster's

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