OOC: By Request of Arengin; We can figure out where everyone is once they've hit the ground.
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Disperse - Initial Count: 249/250
As the last of the crew got on board their respective escape pods, all the pods would be jettisoned, only leaving behind the dead and mortally wounded that couldn't be moved in time. The pods' thrusters push them off in various directions, though all on a trajectory to intercept with Snomia 0B80. The boarding crafts of the Reformation Belis would eventually disconnect before it became too late and move away from the Star of Fortune, leaving the descending ship on its own.
For the most part, the RB wouldn't notice the escape pods until they were a good distance from the main ship. The smaller escort ships would open fire on the pods, very few of the first shots connecting. Once the first pod was damaged, the rest of the ships would notice and open fire. Exploding pods would send nearby pods off in various directions, scattering them and making their paths more erratic. As they'd get closer to the atmosphere, they would be out of range of the missiles, though the kinetic shots could still hit if they were aimed correctly. So, for the most part, the surviving pods escaped the fate of being blown up in space. But the pods still had to make their descent before their troubles were over.
Descent - Initial Count: 198/250
The escape pods would begin to feel the turbulence of the atmosphere. Thankfully, from initial scans, the wind patterns weren't too much harsher than Earth pre-bombardment or Scorn 10. But that only meant there was just as much atmosphere to get through in an uncontrolled descent. If the colonists looked out their windows, flames would begin to envelop all the pods. Many of the pods wouldn't even be able to see other pods as they would have been so off track that they're alone.
Pods that were scraped by bullets would finally get to feel its effects as some would overheat and burn up. While the burn up count was low, many parachutes failed to deploy when they were supposed to. Some deployed late, others not at all.
Landing - Initial Count: ERROR/250
Then came the ground. Many of the undeployed-chute pods smashed into the waters of the planet. If the impact of a fully-loaded freight train hitting you full speed wasn't enough to kill someone, the collapse of the pods and eventual sinking and drowning would. The other pods would smash into the ground, scattered about over several thousands of miles of land. Some of the landings wouldn't be pretty, but those that managed would find themselves far and stranded, with maybe only groups of four or less.
