An unexpected distraction
11 Feb 2021Nathan De Verne
Nathan looked for hollows again as he pulled the Vorchan up from the landing pad. All clear.
Awyra Flirble looked quiet, the buzz of traffic having thinned substantially since the mineral purchase orders had slowed to a trickle then eventually stopped. He didn't mind - his one haul had netting him decent coin, and far more significantly a second rack of the double engineered seeker missiles. He still wasn't sure where he would use them, although switching them for the containment missiles on the Ando and Razorback were the most likely option. He smiled slightly, amused at the constant ribbing TheDarkLord, Markus, Bone, Jaek and the others gave him about such a weapons system on what was, in effect, an armed 'bubble taxi'. Thinking about it, he couldn't remember ever actually deploying hardpoints on either DBX.
He had everything he needed to unlock the double engineered missiles at the tech broker as well. His last mining foray had netted plenty of Osmium and he'd kept back enough for his needs, and indeed for half the Squadron. All good.
He flipped up the Galactic map, and was about to punch in co-ordinates for home when the comms array lit up. He checked the incoming message. Markus.
"Have you checked Galnet? Core Dynamics. You'll want to see it" Markus was to the point. And right.
Nathan read the article, then read it again. This was interesting. He had a mixed relationship with Core Dynamics. He liked the Corvette, indeed he ran three of them, but their other ships never really did it for him. He was far more taken with Gutamaya, and even more so with Delacy. Rochester splitting from the Federation. Jupiter Division, in a permit locked system. The sudden, surprising, provision of that permit through a Federation back channel that he had thought burned during a previous 'project'.
He flipped up the Galactic map again, and punched in a system. HIP 54530.