Needed a break
21 Jan 2020RetiredNavyIT1
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What a week it has been. Helping new commanders. Operation HOT-MIST/MESS. Being shot at. Clearing pirates. Transferring ships. To much time in cockpit. Fleet Repair/Refit.
I've been helping out with the instruction of new, and a few veteran, commanders with cockpit settings and trying to make things a little easier/better with getting around. I even learned a new trick or two. Anyone that thinks their "ELITE" and knows all is fooling themselves. There is always...always....something new that you can learn. And the Fleet-wide Repair/Refit is one example of that. It has not caused me any real headaches but I guess there where/are still a few issues and the monkey wrenches are working on sorting them out. Again, not an issue for what I've been doing. But, systems and control procedures have been updated/changed/new so if they affect me, I'll find out.
Operation HOT-MIST/MESS - If you haven't figured it out by now, I'm a sub-contractor with Hutton Orbital Truckers Co-operative and a LARGE operation was recently started and this is what/why we are doing what we are doing.
MODS - Mug Ownership Deficiency Syndrome - is a terrible affliction. For the lack of a mug, millions of people in the galaxy are suffering embarrassing symptoms from space madness to itchy flight suit syndrome and RSI in their trigger fingers. From the lurgy to manflu, from gout to "feeling a bit off today", all these are made better by having a Hutton Mug. Last year, The Dastardly Don Antonaci - Camorra bad guy and all round evildoer kidnapped some Hutton Truckers and live on stream with Will Flanagan, Hutton operatives were able to rescue them, assaulting his base. I was not a part of Hutton at the time but Hutton won, and had found that Dastardly Don, in his laboratory, had devised a transmissible version of MODS that has been released and everyone's at risk. Hutton has developed a method of inoculating the galaxy against the symptoms of MODS and surprise surprise, it involves bringing 1t of special water soluble Hutton Mugs to a station, lobbing them in the water recycling system and frameshift energies of incoming ships do some quantum wibbly bunkum. So. the operation is taking ONE Hutton Mug to each and every station in the galaxy. All 54000+ of them. And it started on the 16th.
And I was there, at the start of it all, in HTS SHERMAN, my Type-10, helping keep Dastardly Don's operatives off of Cmdr Flanagan's Hutton Conda.
It was a hard battle but we were able to get him loaded and into the Sol system to start the deliveries. And Dastardly Don's people have been doing all that they can to stop us from doing our mission since then. The Hutton Mug is a Rare Item and everyone wants/needs one. We are doing our best (and can use all the help we can get) in completing this mission.
As you can tell, Operation HOT-MESS is hard on crews and equipment. I've been using HTS KINGHORN to make MUG deliveries once the 1st one was delivered in Sol.
So, I've taken the last couple of days off to recharge myself and see to HTS KINGHORN and try to make her ship shape again. I'm sorry to say that she doesn't look any better. But, her innards and weapon systems are back up to where they should be. And if any more of Dastardly Don Antonaci's operatives continue to try stopping me from OPERATION HOT-MESS....well, let's just say there will be one less ship taking up the space lanes and joining the others that I've already had placed in the junk pile.
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