Brings to mind a story (set in Mass Effect, but that's neither here nor there) where the thrusters go out on a grav tank while it's a couple hundred meters up. The crew solves the problem by swiveling the turret and firing the fusion gun, using the recoil as a braking thruster. Just in case you were wondering what those really, really high-level skill checks were for...
-JTD
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