"This turbulence is a bit more than I expected," Prime complained. "It's not the turbulence that worries me," Beta replied. "There's far more electrical activity than I expected. The chance of an adverse effect on the collapsar drive is small but not zero." As if on cue an alarm chimed. The science officer grimaced. "I revise my estimate to: 'the collapsar drive will definitely be affected by the electrical activity'." "I've got this," Alpha said. She punched buttons on the control panel. "Is the drive going to continue to operate?" Prime shouted over the alarm and the increasing noise of the storm. "Hopefully," Beta replied. "But unknown. Alpha is an excellent collapsar guide. A safe landing and our lives our in her hands." "A good job that I don't cave to pressure," Alpha murmured. "We definitely don't have good enough control of the collapsar elements to attempt ascent; therefore, we're going to have to land." She responded to a second alarm with manipulation of the controls and grimaced. "Hopefully, that will be in one piece!" Molly's art notes: A little retro sci fi for a change! Set up and rendered in Poser 12.0.500 using the Superfly Cycles 2 rendering engine and then tweaked a bit in Photoshop (mainly to add a subtle vignette). The background is Coflek-Gnorg's space sphere and the ship is Cybertenko's discplane with a few material tweaks (I didn't like the glass in the dome). The storm is one of Flink's wonderful sky domes. The characters are all DAZ generation 3 dollies: V3 improved by Blackhearted's GND 2 morphs and textures, SP improved by Blackhearted's Irina 2 morphs and textures and Aiko 3 improved with some stuff from DAZ. All of the character textures were optimized for Superfly with Snarlygribbly's EZSkin 3 (which doesn't work in Poser 12 so I had to boot Poser 11 to use EZSkin; I so hope someone will update that script!). The uniforms come from an unknown source and are called male comic overlays. There's a lot in the Poser library from more than 15 years ago that my husband got from I don't know where.