New ghost
28 Mar 2022Novak
The doctor walks into room 203 Of the independent medical carrier. He notices his patient is finally awake after being in a medically induced coma for 2 weeks. “Oh good, you’re finally awake!”“My ship was heavily damaged in the battle in the Kuwembaa system,” I replied. “You guys with the Federal Navy?”
The doctor frowned, His eyes narrowing unconsciously despite trying to hide his reaction. “I’m afraid this is an Independent carrier,” He responds hesitantly. “We arrived in the system about 3 weeks ago.”
“Why am I not surprised?” I mutter under my breath, “If the Navy asks if I’m here can you tell them that I died please, they tried to ‘deal with me’ once now, I don’t want to give them the opportunity to try again.” I responded to him, noticing the frown. The doctor relaxes, “Of course, Miss, I understand. What is your name?” he asks, indicating that it’s a request for a new name to use on the medical records. I thought for a moment, “Novak Drogo,” I finally replied. “Meaning ‘new ghost’”.
“Novak! NOVAK!” I shake my head as I snap out of my daydream to the sound of my chief of security Cailyn Forbes, yelling at me on the other side of the door to my quarters. I hit the button to open the door. “What is it?” I ask sternly, frustrated from the memories of that fateful day that changed everything.
“I’ve just received work that…'' her voice trailing off as she notices that I am standing there with the top half of my flight suit tied around my waist. “Well, don’t just stand there like an incapacitated Sidewinder, what is it?”
“Right, sorry,” Cailyn replied sheepishly. “She’s arrived back at the mansion.”
“Excellent, get the helm to plot a route to Maury Dock, but for fucks sake make sure it’s NOT a direct route, we don't need a repeat of what happened before” I replied remembering the incident where we were followed while hauling 700 tons of Resonating Separators by a group of pirates.
Cailyn nodded and headed away, closing the door behind her. I chuckled as I thought about her reaction to my current attire, and looked down at the datapad on the table frowning upon seeing the concerning information that is displayed on it. I inserted my encryption key card and entered in a passcode, causing the Intel displayed to disappear from the display, I then removed the now double encrypted data card from its slot. I put a loose combat shirt on and headed out of my quarters to find Cailyn to return the encryption key to her for safe keeping, last thing I want is to have all the pieces to unlock the drive on one person and then they get captured and tortured.