[GPS Tortuga] S1, S2: New Contracts

Posted on Tue Aug 28th, 2018 @ 10:50pm by Captain Harrold Anderson
Edited on on Tue Aug 28th, 2018 @ 10:54pm

821 words; about a 4 minute read

Mission: [USS Shanghai] S1, S2: New Contracts
Location: GPS Tortuga Bridge
Timeline: 06/01/2394, 1500 Hours

Gilan Pirate Ship Tortuga also known as a the GPS Tortuga was on final approach to Crescent controlled space. And not a moment to soon.

They had the USS Juno hot on their trail. Pirate Captain Bessie Garcia was eager to drop off her cargo and hide from the Federation.

"Open a channel." Demanded Bessie, as she looked over to the communications officer. Apol a bolian smuggler, that joined her crew about 6 months ago.

"Channel is opened Captain." Called out Apol in a chipper voice, he was eager. In a few short minutes, he was going to be rich. The Crescent bounty for the capture of Kerja Aanyo was high. It was his idea for the abduction.

He heard the space chatter about the Crescent looking for mercenaries to track down this child and deliver her alive to the CSV Sephira's Wraith in the Omak System as the Crescent called this sector of space.

"This is the Gilan Pride Ship Tortuga, contacting Siltar Le of the CSV Sephira's Wraith, please respond." Asked Dessie, as she waited for confirmation of Siltar's response.

"Do you have the package?" Asked the voice of Siltar Le?

"We do but the Federation is hot on our tail." Said Bessie, wanting to wrap up this transaction as soon as possible.

"Excellent, beam over my package. I want to prepare for the arrival our Federation Guests. Prepare for transport of goods." Said Siltar in a demanding voice.

"Affirmative, standby to receive the package." Said Bessie, as she motioned to her security chief, to grab the child and prepare to beam over over to the Crescent vessel.

"Your payment as promised, we will be in touch if we need your services inthe future." said Siltar, as he beamed over supplies to the cargo bay of the GPS Tortuga. Siltar had a devious smile on his face. Amiela was going to be generous and pleased with Siltar. For capturing Kerja.

"Pleasure doing business with you." Said Bessie. She went on to say. "Transport the package to CSV Sephira's Wraith bridge." Ordered Bessie, as waited for a response. Instead all she got was a disconnected call.

"I guess our business here is done, lets get out of here." Suggested Bessie, as she looked to Omar Filla her Helmsman. "Omar, plot us an escape vector, that Federation starship is to close for comfort."

"Aye Captain." Called out Omar Filla, as he plotted a course. "There is a nebula not to far from here, adjusting our course so we can avoid the sensors of the USS Juno." He was relieved the mission was now over.

"Good let's get the frak out of here." Said Bessie, as the GPS Tortuga left the area in a hurry. She did not want to try to go head to head with a Federation cruiser.

A short time later.

"Approaching the nebula" Said Omar, as he took the GPS Tortuga deep into the nebula. The bright orange glow of the Nebula were bright and blended well with the other colors. Sensors were no good inside the Nebula. Omar kept his course locked to make sure, they could escape.

"Very good, I'll be down in the cargo bay." Bessie said, as she motioned for Apol to follow her. "Let's have a look at our treasure." She said as she walked with Apol to the cargo bay.

Bessie and Apol walked into the cargo bay, they both smiled as they walked over to the crates now sitting in their bay. Bessie opened one.

Apol and Bessie started to scan the devices. "Very nice, we need to get these installed as soon as possible." Said Bessie with a big smile on her face. She walked over to a few more crates. There was several artifact items, that she had planned on selling to the Vulcan science Institute for a profit.

She knew the Vulcan's would not turn her over to the Federation, when she would offer them first hand look at Crescent knickknacks, trinkets and artifacts. Most of the items were not worth much in the GQ but on Vulcan they would be worth a small fortune.

"Agreed, well worth a little federation chase." Apol said, as he went on. "This cloaking device will take a couple of hours to install." He was eager to have a tactical edge over the members of the pirate guild. He wanted to be a rich man.

"Recommend we make the modifications, now so when we are ready to depart we can cloak and immediately." Apol said. The Cloak was going to help them.

"Agreed." She said, as she hoped she made the right call taking on the mission. She kept telling herself that mission was an means to an end. The cloaking device will give them a huge tactical advantage.

Bessie helped Apol take the components to engineering to install the cloaking device. The scene starts to fade.

 

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