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- What is left of the craft and crew is recovered by enemy forces, who are considering holding the captain and crew as political prisoners...
- The crew successfully ejects and is recovered by enemy forces, who are considering brainwashing the crew for use as double agents...
- The ship is damaged but operable, and the crew manage to ride it to a nearby emergency landing area.
- The captain intrepidly sets the damaged spacecraft on a collision course with the enemy flagship. The story of that defiant and heroic last voyage is taken up as a call to arms against the enemy.
- The ship takes one last hit to the fuel cells, and explodes into a brilliant ball of unstable energy and molten heavy metal. The crew never stood a chance of survival.