Log #4 Stardate 20.01.3304 Slavers and undercover dirty work
20 Jan 2018Erinia Scantyar
As I was reading the news during breakfast I stumbled upon a good oportunity to make money: Princess Aisling Duval started a major operation to root out illegal slavery in Guuguyni system. This was perfect! I registered right away for the op and made my preparations to depart Mueller station after breakfast.I left the station in my imperial Courier - the Mordrema and made my way to the destination. Had to take a small refueling stop in Damnclown´s Funland in Sigma Hydri. Upon arrival in Guuguyni I headed for Shen Terminal where most participants met and the bounties for the slavers could be cashed in. This would fit as temporary base of operations. I let the ship computer do the docking and got ready to gather some intel on the slavers whereabouts.
4 hours later I hadn´t come too far. Information was scarce. All I knew was Eurybi Blue Mafia was their biggest client in the area. I sighed. There was only one way to find my targets: Befriend the mafia to learn their whereabouts. I hate doing this. I´d rather wipe the scum out for their bounties, but what choice does a girl have? I requested my Type 6 to be brought to Shen Terminal by the pilot federation and prepared a false identity: "Mara Dúlain", merchant in debt, forced to do smuggling to pay off.
My ship arrived and I boarded it, leaving the Mordrema in Shen Terminal. I headed for Eurybia. The Mafias main system. Upon arrival I docked at Awyra Flirble (Who the hell named that station like this?!). I checked the station black board first and couldn´t believe my eyes: The Mafia openly offered missions there. Tells a lot about how much influence they have in that area of space. I took on 2 arms smuggling missions and some data deliveries. After finishing them the mafia send me a message that they apreciate my work. I also received an audio file upon docking back at Awyra Flirble.
"Contact Amon Jackson in Moffit City in the Ninabin system. Someone needs to talk to you." the message said. Interesting.
I plotted a course and landed at the city. Jackson contacted me via holovid and told me to deliver 200 landmines to Demolition Unlimited in Eurybia and that a friend would like to meet me there upon delivery. I was curious. I bought the mines in Enayex system from Coleman Relay and brought them to the other settlement. As I delivered the mines to the warehouse someone aproached me from behind.
"You can never have enough land mines." A woman said.
"You wanted those things? Who are you?" I replied.
"Names Liz Ryder. I´m an engineer. Specialized in anything that explodes or is armour." Liz answered.
We talked for a while and agreed on me getting upgrades for my ship in exchange for materials and information. She also knew the whereabouts of one of the Guunguyni slavers transport convoys and gave me the coordinates because "I hate that filthy slaving cunts" she said. I thanked her and departed back to Shen Terminal. Time for some action.
I boarded the Mordrema and headed out to the coordinates. The convoy was there. One Fer-De-Lance, 2 Eagles, 1 Cobra Mk4 and a Type 9 heavy reconfigured as slave transport. The escorts noticed my arrival and immediately engaged. The Eagles went to intercept me while the rest went for an escape route.
I used my beam lasers to melt one of the Eagles. The other ones Lasers hit my shields. Down to 88%. One turn around and some beamy treatment later the other guy was molten debris as well. I hit full thrusters, 4 Pips to engines.
The FDL and Cobra teamed up on me. Now this was more of a challenge. I focused on the Cobra. Better reduce their numbers fast. He got his shields stripped by my beam lasers. The FDL hit me hard. Shields at 25%.
"Dammit!" I went evasive. Meanwhile the Type 9 nearly was far enough away to escape. 5 more minutes and he´d be gone. Time ran out. I made some sharp turns to evade another salvo. The Cobras shields were still down. I locked him and sent a barrage of 6 missles his way. Then I turned to try to get behind that FDL. The Cobras signature disappeared. Seems he got unlucky.
The last guy was really good. He managed to out turn me and his weapons flashed.
"Shields damaged! Hull Integrity compromised! Weapons offline! Frame shift drive offline!" warning lights lit up everywhere.
"Shit!" I gnarled.
I hit 4 pips to engines and disengaged. I felw to the Type 9 (luckily he was unarmed) and hid behind him. The FDL on my tail. Hiding behind the transport wouldn´t save me, but it bought time. Just enough to reboot my ship.
"C´mon! C´mon!" I begged.
"Systems online. Shields online. Weapons online. FSD online. Reboot succsessfull." the computer said.
"Yes!" I immediately went evasive again. Just on time. That Fer-De-Lance was firing again.
I spun around the Type 9 and went slow. I redistributed energy to weapons. The FDL chased after me, but didn´t break. I slipped behind him and opened fire.
His shields went down by my concentrated beam laser fire. He went evasive. I boosted and went behind him again. Missle lock. The barrage hit and damaged his thrusters. Some more beamy treatment let his cockpit pop. The ship went tumbling into deep space. No reaction at all. Not trying to stabilize. I shruged. Seems I hit the pilot.
The Transport was alone now. I took his shields down and destroyed his thrusters and FSD.
I opened communication.
"Slave Transport, surrender and prepair to get boarded by shortly arriving authorities. Resist and I shall reduce you to space dust." I demanded.
"You wouldn´t dare!" the slaver captain replied.
"Just a matter of payment. If you´re too annoying I just loose a bonus." I played cool.
"Fine! I surrender! Damn Merc scum!" The slaver replied and closed the channel. The bluff worked.
I sent a message to local imperial authorities and awaited their arrival. After letting them take over I headed back to Shen Terminal to cash in and repair and refuel the Mordrema.
What a day! But the bounty as good. 1.5 million credits. I think I´ll stick around a little longer.
CMDR Erinia Scantyar
- signing out