My Friend Wesley Blake, Part 1
07 Jul 2019Sirmac13
This will be a raw account. I will not go about my editing my logs, or cleaning them up. This will be 100% straight from the horse's mouth, and that horse is me. From here on this account is to be considered factual and authentic. Whatever you read is from firsthand knowledge. Some locations and names will be redacted from the record for the sake of interstellar security. Let us begin.
Star Date: 07073035, I believe.
System: Classified
Ship: The Eye of Ra
Status: Docked
Blake is a wild man! I cannot state it any other way. We had left CLASSIFIED and departed on a mission into CLASSIFIED and had major success. A wanted pirate lord Vicente Sampedro had been terrorizing the system and was wanted on charges of theft, destruction of property, evasion, and murder. Needless to say, the authorities in charge of the system did not wish to have him brought in, they just wanted the problem to go away.
"Cmdr," the faction leader started, "we'll pay you 1.08 million credits to find and shoot down Vicente Sampedro in the system of Hosus. And if you complete the task we'll even include some ship data you can use at your discretion."
Being a cautious commander I sat and thought about it a moment. I had come to the meeting on CLASSIFIED expecting a simple data courier mission, simple stuff but chump change compared to other work, and I was looking to increase my favor with the Federation. As I deliberated over the mission details laid out in the contract Wesley Blake, whom I had met in a cantina in Deciat jumped up and grabbed my wrist.
"We'll take it!" He shouted.
The faction leader looked at me bewildered. I looked at Wesley stunned and he dragged me from the chair.
"You can't seriously be thinking of turning this down," Wesley said with a gleam in his eyes. "That bastard has been through several systems running amuck, and I owe him."
His accent was heavy with excitement.
"We'll take it," he repeated to the faction leader and pressed his thumb to the data pad to secure the work.
Sighing, I pressed my thumb down as well since it was my ship and without my approval, no missions were going forward. Giddy, Wesley skipped out of the office and headed back to the ship. Going over the final details of the mission with the faction leader was my final task and soon we left to head into the void.
On board the Eye of Ra I prepped the ship for departure and Wesley contacted me on coms.
"You know," he started, "this is just like the time I took on the Crimson State Group in the war on Lugh. Exhilarating."
"You're a nut, Wesley Blake," I replied. "Is the Taipan ready to fly?"
"Yes, sir. We're ready when you are. Let's go get that bastard."
We left port in CLASSIFIED and headed to Hosus. It wasn't long before Vicente Sampedro's ship, a FDL dropped out of Supercruise while we were scanning the Nav Beacon to locate him.
"Hah! You sonuva Thargoid, there you are!"
Before I could stop him Wesley had taken the Taipan out to fight.
"Eat multi-cannon!"
I swung the ship around adding pulse and frag cannons to the fight. Before long Vicente was turning tail to run. As he fled deeper into the abyss Wesley began to laugh, taunting him as he flew away.
"You Guardian's little whore, come back here," he shouted.
The FDL jumped into supercruise and flew deeper into Hosus. Wesley, still laughing docked the Taipan and we gave chase. Wasn't hard to find the FDL after it fled, and before long he was dead and we had a fresh bounty kill to turn in.
"See boss," Wesley started from the fighter bay coms, "this is what I live for. Kicking ass and taking names."