I had to hit the ALT-D to destroy the ship and reload the saved game prior to leaving Rygannon after getting the gun.
It (ship) never slowed down to a point where I could fly back to civilization! Even if it did, the engines and manuver jets were trashed, it would have simply kept on drifting further away. After an hour, the starfield from the extrnal view didnt seem to be any slower than it was when I looked right after bouncing off that Paradigim! It was going so fast it only took about 20 seconds for the navigation to tell me I was way byond resonable distance from Palen (well over a mil or two clicks). Like I stated in the previous post, all systems were trashed except for 2 guns and severely damaged manuver jets, I could only yaw extremely slow to the right. Shields were gone, generators were gone, engines were gone, tail turret totally ripped off the ship, both missle launchers gone, 0 armor on back and starbord side with only 1 percent armor on the front and port side. I think I hit the Paradigim at about 2/3 full AB speed cause it happend just after I hit the AB to jump out of Palen. I guess I didnt climb high enough to clear the path of the Paradigim. So eventually after an hour of drifting I just restarted from Rygannon.
RFBurns
[Edited by RFBurns on 03-15-2001 at 17:09]