Crashing was not fun.
"Okay Buddy, prep the escape pod would you?" he asked calmly even as the control panel sparked at him madly, the whole thing perhaps five seconds away from bursting into actual flames at any given point, "I'm sure we'll be fine but hey - you never know, right?"
His astromech beeped at him frantically and Max rolled his eyes. That the cybernetic one still had that as an option said a lot about how people in the Galaxy reacted on a day to day basis and he was glad of it - having one eye roll while the other just stared blankly ahead would have been weird as all hell. But the point was that he was crashing.
Still.
"Buddy just trust me on this and rig up the escape pod. Oh and you better make sure you fit your charging station in there too! I'm not having you try any of that 'going down with the ship' kind of nonsense!"
His ship was screaming at him that being hit in the rear engines by a waiting ambush of pirates was bad for it's health. Well, it actually said something about impending catastrophic engine failure but that was whatever. They weren't following him down as closely as they could be but that was mainly because the amount of smoke his engines were giving off reduced even sensor visibility.
The Force screamed at him and he shoved himself from the console and into motion as quickly as he could.
Grabbing his little astromech, he bodily threw the screaming droid into the escape pod. He went to go after the droid when the warning came true and the engine exploded, tearing the rear half of the ship apart almost instantly. Grabbing the side of the escape pod door with his right hand, he hauled himself in even as the ship span rapidly out of control. As soon as his feet were inside, Buddy slammed the door closed and launched the escape pod but it was too late for a clean getaway, the spinning ship clipped the side of the escape pod and suddenly Max was slamming into every surface that the escape pod actually had.
At one point his cybernetic eye was slammed out of the socket and he was half blind again as the pod tumbled through the air, it's own engines bursting into life. Before Max or Buddy could do anything more than be shaken around, the escape pod slammed into something solid and Max was suddenly not conscious anymore, unable to tell that the escape pod had crashed against the side of a crashed Clone Wars era ship.
Buddy, damaged but operable, managed to flip the distress beacon.
Max just bled on the floor.
@Phantom