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The screaming of the engines drowned out the screams of the passengers as they thrust into hard reverse to slow their unplanned descent.  "Unplanned descent" is what the spaceline called it, but to everyone on board, it was a crash.  The six passengers had been required to fully strap in as soon as Oceania 8 had a view of their destination, and only one had ignored the computer's instructions.  The 20-something girl in A-2 thought there would be just enough time to retrieve her Halcion IV Interactive, but there wasn't.  A-2 continued to get smashed around the cabin even after she became just a body.