It's a f***ing Pirate Port!
22 Jan 2018Vienne Demina
Code Breaker, 'keep!Actually, make that a half-dozen Code Breakers!
So, there I was, just taken on board a few more suits on a run to a system nearby. Put them up in first class cabins, the works. Not a bad little fee, either. I'm happily in the cockpit during take-off when one of them saunters in to chat when I glance down at the free hard-print journal I picked up in the starport and see this guy's mugshot staring back at me. He's only bloody wanted in 14 major star systems!
I didn't let on... kept my cool but quietly I was thinking feverishly! What should I do?! I'm flying a brick! I don't even have heat sinks! And to cap it all, I've never flown a smuggling gig. Not even once! Seriously thinking about whether I could rig a way of jettisoning my whole cabin I started checking my T6 Flyer's Manual for silent running. [It is the chapter right after combat and about as short].
So, heaving a big sigh, sweat pooling in my weird toe-sock flight-sock boot thingies, I jumped, seeing visions of security ships, scanners and lasers before my very eyes.
Scooping past the K-class star, I pulled-up the in-system charts to plot my course to the destination station... and slowly it dawned on me... the system is only a Code-Breakin', freakin' Anarchy system! Never been so bloody happy to fly into a pirate port in my life!
Never again! Never again, I tell you!
6 more Code Breakers, 'keep! And keep 'em coming!