Trying to ignore the horrible pain in his chest, Dutch grabbed the manual controls and took the crippled remains of the ship down through the atmosphere. The screaming of the starboard drive pod was all but drowned out by the roar of super-heated air blasting past the hull-or what was left of it. "WARNING GROUND CONT-" There was the sudden, wrenching shock of impact. He must have blacked out for a moment - then the cabin seemed to spin sickeningly. The last thing he remembered was a world shattering CRUNCH! Blackness returned with a vengance. # Upper torso, arms and hand are from Daz studio's Victoria 3. All else was created by me in Hexagon, rigged in Poser, and rendered in Vue. The postwork was done in Photoshop. Thank you for looking! Ed