What happened in the editing cut between the stand down order and the funeral? Josh and Mutant Enemy et al own the sand box, they just let us play here. Back despite the lack of popular demand its for my pleasure Enjoy (or not)

Interludes III

Harken was not a happy captain. Gorram hun dan Reavers shot the Dortmunder full of holes with their damnable lances. Wasn't bad enough he emptied his entire magazine of missiles into them, Sent no telling how many straight back to whatever diyu they came from. Then one of them rams his ship like a kamikazi from earth-that-was, death wish, he supposed.

Gorram bosun probably be expecting a medal for just doing his job and landing his ship in (almost) one piece, pigu chief engineer too. While they were at it, may as well get that hundan operative to order a barrel full of medals. Every man-jack in the fleet is gonna want a medal for just surviving.

And that Firefly crew, have them cut off, outnumbered with superior fire power, those 2 high priority fugitives too, and orders my men to stand down, just let 'em go.

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The day after the BDB, the remains of Serenity's crew was in one of the Alliance cruiser's med-bay rooms laughing with the recovering captain and doctor. One of the attendants even cleaned up River's cuts and gave her an injection of antibiotic after checking for broken bones. Her exploit was well known by the Alliance survivors who suffered serious losses to the reavers (although they managed to miss the Miranda broadcast being somewhat distracted).

The CMO told them that Wash and Mr. Universe would be cremated or embalmed, whichever they preferred and stored until burial arrangements could be made, also, once one of their ships was made space worthy they would be flown to whatever final resting place they wished. She also told them that Parlaiment had declared them BDHs for their part in luring the reavers into their clever ambush, naturally they would see to the repair or replacement of their ship. Now how str