That docked cruisers are held in place with massive clamps on strategic support sections of the ship, and are disengaged with incendiary explosives? (The Burning Life p. 75)
The return of ASCII art isn't a bad thing. You young whippersnappers don't know how good you have it! Back in the BBS days, downloading a 80k JPEG was a luxury -- EVERYTHING was ASCII graphics and maybe, MAYBE, ANSI color schemes.* Casiella grumbles and shakes his cane from the comfort of his rocking chair.