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   Micro SF/F by O. Westin (microsff@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 22:34:41 JST Micro SF/F by O. Westin

   Treasure hunters
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   The derelict is enormous, a galaxy-class carrier ship from centuries ago. The captain brings it up on the holoscreen, our ship a tiny dot beside it.

   "There are still people there," the client says. "Descendants of the surviving crew, fallen to barbarism."

   "Why didn't they leave?" the captain asks.
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   #FlashFiction #TootFic

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     Micro SF/F by O. Westin (microsff@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 22:35:58 JST Micro SF/F by O. Westin

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     "That ship carried fighters. Small and nimble, without hyperjump capability. In this system, there are no inhabited planets or stations. With the carrier's engines dead, they couldn't leave."

     "And our target?"

     "In the main hangar, they bury their kings under large mounds built from debris and fighter parts."

     "And?"

     "They bury them with treasure," the client says.
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     Micro SF/F by O. Westin (microsff@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 22:36:47 JST Micro SF/F by O. Westin

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     The captain frowns. "Like, things they have found the ship? Do you know what kind of things? Maybe we could try to avoid the people there and look around for-"

     "No!" The client shakes his head. "That's just stuff. But what's in the mounds, that's treasure!"

     The captain nods. Can't argue with that logic.
     3/3

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     Micro SF/F by O. Westin (microsff@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 22:50:44 JST Micro SF/F by O. Westin

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     (I hope you don't mind me indulging in long form fiction occasionally...)

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     Micro SF/F by O. Westin (microsff@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 23:44:45 JST Micro SF/F by O. Westin

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     • Tango

     @tango The was a word missing - things they found /in/ the ship - which I have added in an edit. Was that it?

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     Tango (tango@redwombat.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 23:44:46 JST Tango

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     @MicroSFF part 3 feels like it’s missing a word?

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     Micro SF/F by O. Westin (microsff@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 05:02:06 JST Micro SF/F by O. Westin

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     • -karlos- 𓄿

     @karlos I know, but I don't want to move instances again.

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     -karlos- 𓄿 (karlos@en.osm.town)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 05:02:07 JST -karlos- 𓄿

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     @MicroSFF I like it.
     (You know, the Fediverse is not limited to 500 characters, not even Mastodon, only your instance settings define the limit)

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     Dinah 🕊🇺🇦 (metagrrrl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 16:36:41 JST Dinah 🕊🇺🇦

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     @MicroSFF Yay! Great!

     (And I've been watching lots of Time Team Sutton Hoo content lately, so this has interesting connotations. 😁)

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     • Dinah 🕊🇺🇦

     @metagrrrl I once spent a while weekend at the site and never had time to go to the visitor's centre.