A Space Captain and a Dream #1
27 Mar 2020Mchambawima
Episode 1: A DECLARATION‘I don’t think I heard you babaa, could you repeat that slowly.’
‘Five billion credit mkubwa, that’s what they say. It’s all over the Galnet.’
‘Five billion! Five billion! As in five…’
‘With nine zeroes after it, yeah…sorry twelve zeroes sir.’
‘Badi my boy you kid, five bil..how much in our coffers?’
‘Hmm…between the bank and the chest you hide under the bed in your quarters…uhh, four hundred mil, maybe less.’
‘Uhh…I do not hide…a uhh…irrelevant. You listen to me Badi my boy. Is my name Mchambawima or not?’
‘It certainly is sir!’
‘Is there a scar on my face the size of The Rift Valley on Terra?’
‘There certainly is one sir!’
‘You are right on both occasions. I’ll tell you what else you are right about Badi! I will get us that fleet carrier when they start going on auction if it means I get a twin scar on the other side of my face. And do you know why I will get us that fleet carrier, Badi? Is it because we need one? Hmm? Is it because the distant star system would suffer the presence of us two no longer if we do not have one? No, I will get us one to prove that we can. I will do it because the strong blood of my ancestors beckons me to go after shiny big things that I cannot afford. Do you understand me, my boy? Now fetch me my Beluga, I have some tourists to ferry.’
‘Yes, sir! Hear, hear!’