The Search starts
11 Feb 2016Jim Beaumont
So what to do about Pastolis. He offered me the best chance to get to the inner sanctum of the Com WP, but then first we needed to find him, then get him some employ within the party before any great scheme I may have could come to fruition. I headed back home after finishing with the Miner Protection call to arms, doing a little trading on the way.I arrived back at my outpost where I have myself some small but comfortable digs, to a shower and then took a wander around the amenities, grabbing a coffee and cake as I walked going nowhere in particular but just looking if I could spot Pastolis. I popped into the Commodities Office, asking if anyone had seen a man of his description in the last week. They remembered him, and his asking for work but hadn’t seen him for a few days.
I then went down to the Maintenance Engineers, and found the Chief Eng who lent me young Thomo and asked him the same questions. He hadn’t seen him at all, but did mention about a daily ‘bus’ ride across to the main station outpost every day and suggested I try over there. Apparently there is more opportunity for work over there, and he generally hires his staff from the Employment Office the Com Wp have set up. And with the way things are at the minute, tensions over moving into another system, then he may have found something to his liking and the WP’s usefulness.
The main outpost was abuzz with frantic movement on and off the pads, I had to queue to land which doesn’t happen often. The docking bays were full of ships, most with a Com WP badge a blazed across them. Officials in their uniforms were hovering around, security around these vessels very tight. Finding Pastolis here is going to be difficult, if he is here at all. Once I knew where, I went straight to the Employment Office. A nice young lady behind the desk remembered seeing Pastolis only yesterday, but he declined her offers of work saying that it ‘wasn’t my field’. It was a logistics job in the Commodities Office, right up his street in my opinion. She believes he headed to the Party Offices on the top floor. I can’t really just head up there and start asking questions, so I decided to take a look at what tasks were on offer on one of the boards. There was some cargo’s to go about 60 Ly away, and I knew I could always bring back some food supplies on the return to save coming back empty, and that is what I did.
Meanwhile Merc’s little band of expanders have started to make big waves in that little system they went across to. They have been drumming up support from the small population, rising quickly to give strong opposition to the ruling fac, and almost getting to the point of looking to overthrow them. Merc is expecting a CW in the next 3-5 days, that’s how quick it has happened. So I have put the Almeida in for a good service, get it ready for the battle that is to come.
And Pastolis? … Well we will keep on looking. Hopefully he hasn’t gone a long way away.