Planetshine's Space Odyssey Book 2

by thekittenarmy

Reconnaisance

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The war has ended, the Na'vi lost, the humans have won. The Na'vi all ran away, to somewhere else, we went back to our home, sad that we lost to the humans, also the Na'vi lost their homes. We watched as the humans excavate the tree, the tree then eventually falling down, hitting the ground with lots of force.

Now that the tree was gone, all we knew was that there was nothing else to do, the humans hated us and we had no idea where the Na'vi were. There was nothing to do, nothing to do with this situation, this was the reality that we didn't hope for, what was this.


1 week later: I looked out the window, there were humans again, this time on a huge gunship thing. I was always on watch, the others usually about at home or outside doing stuff. The gunship was large, very large, about 50m across, maybe more. It looked like a helicopter, but it had 4 huge blades to lift it, and it looked like it was heading to another tree. This time at a different spot.

What could they do? What would they do? I had no idea, there was only one way to find out, and that was to find it out. There was still the Galaxy Scouter in tip-top condition, only a little bit of rust but that wouldn't impact its performance. I was the pilot of that, and I knew how to fly it. The only problem was how the place didn't have much oxygen and all that. The Diver still had plenty of fuel left, and that ISRU and drill still worked, still producing fuel.

I could definitely use that aircraft, but the oxygen, and how it would impact the performance. One good thing was the Pandora had lots of xenon in its atmosphere, which meant that the ion engines could refill, that is if it had an air compressor and a filter.

I boarded it, then turning on the RAPIER engine. The atmosphere was suitable for jet flight, and since the RAPIER engines were turboramjets or whatnot, it could fly at hypersonic speeds without any problem really, and the shock cone intake on the front is very heat resistant. I then started to throttle up the engine, the turbojet firing up first. The turbojet started up, not turning on the afterburner.

When I was in the air after a while of being on the ground, I waited for the RAPIER engine to accelerate me to mach 1, and then I turned on the afterburner. That was just for efficiency's sake, as efficiency was key in this, as I have to get back home. After turning on the afterburner, I waited till mach 2, which took a little bit of time, and then I turned on the ramjet mode. I whizzed past the gunship, also taking a few good pictures of it.

I then started to scout the area for where the humans were going to attack, using the turbojet without afterburner to do that, as I didn't really need the afterburner or ramjet. I found a tree that they might attack, but there could be more they would want to excavate. I turned around, this time using the ramjet to get a close pass with supersonic speeds. The bad thing was that the humans were targeting me, guns and missiles were targeting me.

The thing I had here was I could go fast, and that could make all the difference, or the human's missiles are faster. I whizzed around the gunship at supersonic speeds. That piece of shit was easy to evade, what were the humans even thinking, dumb crap?

I then started to find potential targets, and I found one, in particular, they might strike. It was a tree that looked nice, literally, and it had Na'vi. The tree was a bit better looking than the hometrees, a bit white I could say, and it was in a drop, that's all I can say, at least from the avionics and the photos.

I started to climb up in altitude just so the gunship would have a hard time targeting me, and I could see it. I mean, the gunship must've taken photos of me, right? I was about 10000m above the surface, looking down and taking reconnaissance photos. The gunship was indeed heading that way.

That was great, a better-looking tree was going to be dead. I could just get into a dogfight, but with no weapons and only speed and maneuverability to my advantage, it was hard to win, but I had to try. Plus that the photos of the tree showed that there were Na'vi there.

My heart started to race, I was going to do a dogfight with the gunship. I might be dead if I'm not careful. I turned around and started up the afterburner. The Isp of the engine halves but whatever, I had lots of fuel remaining. The gunship then shot a few missiles at me, homing missiles. I'm dead.

Well, I wasn't exactly dead, that was just a saying, everyone knows. The missiles were large, large as in about the size of my beautiful little galaxy scouter. The thing was just catching up to me, and I passed the gunship lots of time, the humans looking at me and cheering on the missile. How do I know that? Photos.

It seemed like I couldn't evade one, but there was one thing, speed. I did a quick u-turn, and the missiles did a slow one, they weren't that maneuverable. I then started up the ramjets when I got to mach 2, and the missile followed me. I was heading right for the gunship, collision in 5 seconds. I seemed like I was dead, but I was traveling at mach 4 already, and I could turn quite easily at that speed.

I waited for the best time to pitch up, clenching my hooves, concentrating on the screen. I pitched up, and passing the gunship, I pitched down a tiny little bit. The missiles then collided with the gunship, I won the dogfight. I saved a tree, or the Na'vi, or whatever I saved, and got intelligence from the humans.

I headed back home, landing the Galaxy Scouter perfectly. That was over, but maybe not another war.


Author's Note

I didn't forget about the Kerbal stuff, so yeah, also I'm writing this as I go, with no planning, so what I write is what I think off at the time.

Plus the timeline is different because ponies altered it, and its an alt universe.

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