trope-a-day
Trope-a-Day: Boarding Pod
Boarding Pod: What, this? (See here for details of – rare – use.)
trope-a-day
Boarding Pod: What, this? (See here for details of – rare – use.)
Marlinspike-class microgravity assault vehicle
So, since I’ve just described the nature of boarding actions, I might as well go ahead and describe the ship used to carry them out when necessary, the Marlinspike-class MAV. And yes, this does mean that it’s horrible diagram time again. …or rather not, because Winchell Chung of
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“There are two types of boarding action: non-contested and contested. “The former is only moderately terrible: which is to say it is usually carried out in the course of routine inspections or interdictions, or after surrenders, and the starship being boarded has obligingly hove to when requested; one has been