[seagreen]

Did not expect docs to be this exciting...

    On July 3, 1940, as part of Operation Catapult, Royal Air Force pilots bombed the ships of the French Navy stationed off Mers-el-Kébir to prevent them falling into the hands of the Third Reich.
    This is Austral’s approach to error handling: scuttle the ship without delay.

[KRAKRISMOTT]

The British would probably be happy to do that even without the Third Reich. There are still British people today pissed about the French surrendering too quickly.

[jonathankoren]

Given how controversial the British attack was on their allies even after the French assured them that ships would not be captured, I guess this passage is, as the kids say, "shots fired". :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Mers-el-Kébir

[radioknight]

The creator of Austral writes good fiction https://borretti.me/fiction/