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- The craft's life support is operable but her communications and navigation systems are destroyed. The crew eventually goes mad and perishes in deep space.
- The craft is too badly damaged to fly, and drifts into an asteroid field where the crew ultimately perish.
- The ship's life support is operable but her communications and navigation systems are destroyed. The crew eventually goes mad and perishes in an uninhabited solar system.
- The severely damaged spacecraft makes it to a nearby base with minutes of life support to spare.
- The captain intrepidly sets the damaged ship on a collision course with the enemy dreadnought. The story of that defiant and heroic last voyage is taken up as a call to arms against the enemy.