More Rocks
23 Oct 2019Zebulon
Mining. Easy way to make a fast buck. That's the theory at any rate, and the rate was looking pretty good. Our venture into the Opal fields hadn't proved to be very successful. We came back with enough gear to cover our costs, fuel the ship and eat for a month, so despite all of the hype we were at least not out of pocket. You can't buy back time though. Gaspard and me were eating noodles when the call came through from Madeline. "Jet Net have got a contract for some painite I thought you'd be interested in. Might be easier than chasing Opals." I looked up from my dish and Gaspard was nodding in the afirmative. "Yeah, is the rate any good?" Madeline laughed "Well it'll go towards paying for that Chieftan you keep going on about getting." We expected the deal to be straighforward enough and not without the occassional pirate interest. This would normaly happen after we had extracted our goods, however there seemed to be an interest in our heading out and someone was out to stop it. Three interdictions avoided and the last one a fight, which is never easy in a Keeleback designated for mining. The Diamondback tried its best but Gaspard was able to wing him and take down his FSD, whacked his guns out and he exploded. His last shout before his pod jetisoned was something about a shed load of trouble for a shed load of data, but it was painite we were after and not data, that's courier work and this was no courier job as far as I could make out. Rocks it was going to be first and then we could get to the bottom of this data mystery.
So off to find the motherlode....