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🕑 Added 2015-11-20 22:57:01 +0000 UTC

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Nyrath

Ah, well, I was confused. In "A Relic of the Empire", gyros were not mentioned. But they were in "Grendel". In "A Relic of the Empire", the pirate ship is hovering and torches the base of the stage trees. In "Grendel" Luis rams the bad guy's ship, it lands, but the bad guy didn't notice that only two of the three landing legs deployed. As they return to the ship both he and Luis hear the gyro whining in overload. When the bearing seize, the gyro causes the ship to do cartwheels across the landscape.

Nyrath

Ummmmm, are you sure you are not conflating "A Relic of Empire" with "Grendel?"

John

I like how you put Megacorporations under Pirates. :-) As for the "recovering from a topple" section, I'm reminded of the fate of the Jinxian pirate ship that was damaged by "green" stage tree logs used for a fire. It was in Niven's story "A Relic of Empire". It was a sad fate for the ship as its gyros tried to keep it upright...