Disclaimer: Joss, Fox, Universal Own em’. (Except for Allan and the kids. they're mine) I’m just playing. No money being made.

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This story takes place nine years after Serenity (BDM) and has the established couples of Simon/Kaylee, Mal/Inara, Zoë/Allan and Jayne/River. Takes place five years post “The Bash”

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A/N: New story arc. Set five years after “The Bash”

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Thanks again to Woonsocket and Chris for the Beta work

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Relics

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Chapter Two

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EES Kansas, October second, 2114:

“How bad is it?”

“Bad,” George Tashima, the ship’s first officer replied gravely, “Engines, reactors one through five and main fuel tanks, two, three and four are completely gone. Ripped right off their mounts.”

Sylvia Marsh, Captain of the Kansas sighed, “Casualties?”

“Very high. Lost over two thousand passengers when the port pasture space depressurized. All the animals in that space as well. Twenty crew from the engineering department and fifteen techs in hydroponics. Nearly five hundred injuries. Most are minor but a few are serious.”

“My god.”

“Gets worse. All the aft cryo capsules malfunctioned. Power surge fried the systems. The emergency revival system kicked in but... there wasn't any atmo in that compartment.”

“How many?”

“Seven hundred ninety.”

“Son of a bitch,” the Captain swore, “we've lost nearly three thousand people out of a total of seventy-five hundred, have no propulsion and half our food is now gone.”

“Sums up the immediate threat, Captain.”

“I'm guessing there’s an addendum coming.”

“Backup fusion reactor can run the systems...”

“But?”

“It draws its deuterium from dedicated tanks in the main hull. Normally we keep the tanks topped off from the mains.”

“I know that part.”

“The line that feeds the backup tanks... well.”

“Gone?”

“Yes, Ma'am.”

“How long do we have?”

“Three months.”

Sylvia Marsh shook her head. Three months. In three months, they would all be dead. Suffocating in the cold and dark. She felt like crying.

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