Mining, Combat and other considerations
07 May 2021Korzhakov
"Korz!" Bailey calls down the passageway to me. I stop and she catches up. Sir, as requested the new redemption office has been set up onboard while we made the stop in Balante to get he ship serviced. "Thank you Captain" I reply. I head forward in the ship until I arrive at my quarters. The door opens and Jean is standing there in the kitchen making us both a drink. "How did you know I was onboard?" I ask " I only arrived 5 minutes ago". Jean just smiles and tells me she just knows. But I secretly suspect that Randy, my crew chief always tells her when I land on the carrier. I walk to our bedroom to get out of my flight gear. it's been a long day out in the black doing some mining. We have moved the carrier to my little secret mining spot for void opals. This is the system that made me a billionaire in just three days. So I am stocking up on void opals so that I can sell them and the low temp diamonds at the right time. I am keeping my options open. After our refit at the shipyard after our time in Thargoid territory. I have been thinking about heading out to Colonia and trying our luck out there. I know that we would have to rotate out a lot of the crew if we were to make that move as it would take them away from home for a long time. And since we have the carrier operating as a well oiled machine. We would have to take on that crew and get them up to speed in the bubble before we do that.
I have been spending my last couple of days out mining and then today, right after I began my mining expedition, some idiot in a small ship comes up and tries to take some of my haul. I know this person was an idiot because they were in a very small ship, a Hauler I think it was, and I was mining in my Federal Corvette "Hadley's Hope" well once he decided to engage I gave him no quarter and quickly took him out of the gene pool with my size 4 laser. I went about the rest of my day mining and came back with a nice haul of minerals. But that little taste of combat had me wanting more.
I get back to the carrier and put the vette away and let them store the cargo. I grab a late lunch with Jean and then saddle up in my Krait MkII and jump over to Diaguandri for some bounty hunting. My home system has been in civil unrest for a good while and I want to do my part to help that. So I get to work cleaning up the wanted criminals in the system. Fight after fight, they just can't stay against the triple fragment cannons. Some ships are destroyed in the opening volley. I keep going, from ship to ship, bounty to bounty, until one of my cannons reads as empty after the last fight. I head over to Ray Gateway and get the ship rearmed and refueled. I cash in my bounties and then head back to the Archangel.
I put the Krait up and head out into the main passageway when Bailey calls out to me..