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Author's infos Gender: Male Age: 53 Location: Las Vegas, Nv |
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| Introduction: Our first capture | ||
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It had taken a week to get everything I wanted including quality meal packs. I also got and modified prospector hard suits for each of the crew. I had picked the people for the pilot, scan and engineering. The ex fleet crewmen were the exception, they were trained in loading and using the missiles. I had interviewed each and they were competent and easy to get along with. Captain Jennings was the one to start briefing me and Peter, Lorenz’s spouse and the one I had chosen as my executive officer. There were twenty five systems in the Saint League and most were a good target for us. I had picked Grindal as our first system. Trying to catch a ship on their jump in was difficult unless you knew where they were from. Captain Jennings had told us that the independent systems had claimed neutrality but they suspected several of providing new technology and supplies. I grinned at Sonia, our third pilot as I sat in the captain’s chair, “okay Sonia.” She grinned as she turned and used the thrusters to move us away from the station. She rotated the ship above the plane of the asteroid belt before starting to accelerate. It was a couple of hours before we were above the belt and heading towards the heliopause. I stood and turned towards the bridge hatch, “ship is yours.” We were running three shifts with the six crewmen from fleet doing the daily shipboard chores in equal shifts. Almost three weeks later we jumped and the universe twisted around us until we emerged a week short of Grindal’s heliopause. I nodded back to Peter and he left with Lorenz as I gestured to the scan tech, “passive only.” I changed course and reached onto the pilot console to flip the switch that shut the SFT off. I accelerated up to thirty percent which was as fast as we could go and stay off the system scans. It was thirty minutes before the scan tech sat back, “nothing within two weeks of us.” I nodded, “we have another week before we will be in position.” We were in position for another week after we arrived before I woke to the general quarters alarm. I rolled out of bed and dressed quickly before walking to the bridge. We were accelerating at max speed after a large cargo transport. I sat and brought up all the section holographs, “weapons.” Samantha glanced at me, “we have him Alex.” I nodded, “I want a warning shot detonated ten thousand kilometer in front of them.” She nodded and a moment later a kinetic missile flashed out and a few minutes later it exploded. I opened the comm after reading their SFT, “Greek’s Folly come to a full stop or you will be destroyed.” The cargo ship began slowing, “We are a neutral system ship.” I opened the comm, “you are in a hostile system. I will be destroying your ship in ten seconds.” The ship was suddenly coming to a stop, “We surrender!” I nodded to Sonia as I stood, “the port airlock.” I started for the hatch,“Tell Greek’s Folly to abandon ship using their life boats.” Unlike a life globe that could last a few days, a life boat was a small ship capable of a few weeks in space with a ships crew. When I got to the airlock the exfleet crew, Peter, Andy and Edgar where putting the hard suits on. I striped quickly and joined them and once we were dressed I opened the intercom, “they abandoned ship yet Sonia?” “Two life boats were jettisoned.” I moved to the airlock as the inner was closed. I opened it and moved through holding the plasma pistol. After everyone was in the other ship’s airlock I opened the inner and stepped into the ship, “engineering party check for traps and get the reactors and engines online. Andy, Edgar with me, the rest of you clear the ship.” I headed forward to the bridge, checking everything as I went. I cursed when the console didn’t respond and opened the comm to the corvette, “Sonia, do you still have the lifeboats on scan?” “Yes.” I leaned back in the pilot seat, “use the emergency comm freq. Tell them you are going to put a missile in each boat unless they tell us in the next thirty second what they did to the ship.” “Standby.” I moved out of the seat and crawled under the console and stared at the improvised bomb. I pulled the power connectors and then removed the bomb before plugging the power connectors back into the boards, “check under the consoles for bombs.” We found three on the bridge before Sonia called back, “they left bombs scattered through the ship.” I used the intercom, “Check under all the consoles that don’t have power.” I looked at the one I had pulled out to see the timer, “we only have a few minutes before they detonate. Make sure someone checks the fuel tanks and the reactors.” I went to check under the captain’s chair and sighed when it was clear. It was a minute before everyone called back and we started the ship moving. I let Andy take the controls as I headed towards the airlock, “prize crew the ship is yours, everyone else back to the corvette.” I was the last aboard and closed the airlock hatches on both ships before starting to strip out of the hard suit, “Move us away Sonia and fall back to follow.” When I walked onto the bridge Tana glanced at me, “we have a dozen destroyers heading this way.” I nodded as I sat and opened the comm, “Greek’s Folly, jump when you are ready.” I nodded to Sonia as she started the jump engine. I looked at Lorenz in the chair holograph and she nodded, “everything in the green.” I checked Sonia’s course before watching as the cargo ship in front of us jumped. It was a minute before we jumped and a life time later we appeared just outside Rodney’s heliopause. I relaxed, “turn on our SFT Sonia.” I looked at Tana, “go active and find the Greek’s Folly.” She nodded and grinned, “there was a large gravity disturbance in front of us.” I nodded but waited until she smiled as she look at me, “scans are clear, Greek’s Folly is maybe an hour ahead.” I smiled as I stood, “close up the gap Sonia and relay to Peter to switch to the new ship name. Tell everyone they did a great job.” I went to wash and eat before coming back to relieve Sonia. Peter, Andy and Edgar were standing watch on the cargo ship. I looked at Samantha when she sat at the scan console to relieve Tana, “how are your people?” She grinned, “ready to celebrate.” She was looking at the scan and frowned, “we have another ship out here.” I looked at her, “Gypsy’s Curse?” That was the name we had changed Greeks Folly to. Samantha changed the scan setting, “she is right in front of us. The other ship is approaching from in front of her.” I frowned, “do you have an ID or SFT signature?” She straightened, “damn!” I waited and she looked at me, “it’s a destroyer running with a Saint SFT.” I hit the general quarters alarm, “get to weapons control.” She left at a run and moments later Tana ran in with Sonia. I glanced at a holograph display of the weapon fire control as everyone started reporting in, “can we fire on them Samantha?” She looked at me, “are you crazy? This bucket is just a corvette.” I smiled, “that isn’t what I asked. They might not see us behind the cargo ship.” I could see her thinking before she nodded, “if we hit her by surprise with everything.” I looked at Lorenz, “I need a micro jump.” She nodded, “the engine is still warm.” I started it as I began to plot a jump with Tana reading off range and vectors. I looked at Samantha’s holograph, “fire everything on a zero zero baring to our course at my command.” She nodded and a second later nodded to me again. The plot count took another few seconds and then everything twisted before we were back in normal space, “Fire!” Six kinetic missile flashed away and then a second set of six more. I brought the ship to full power as I swerved in a spiral, “get them on scan Tana! Lorenz watch the fluctuations in the reactors.” Tana yelled, “its exploding!” I continued the corkscrew maneuver, “life globes?” She quieted, “I don’t have anything.” I finally turned and slowed, “status?” Lorenz grinned at me, “engineering is good.” Samantha nodded, “Fire control is green.” David in damage control held up a thumb and I relax, “secure from general quarters.” Sonia cleared her throat, “System Fleet control is demanding to speak to you.” When the cargo ship caught up we docked and anchored the corvette to an airlock. I went aboard and headed to the captain’s cabin. I found a few items I kept like a matching pair of engraved plasma pistols and a large fancy sonic energy knife. I went to the cargo master’s office and accessed the ship’s cargo manifest before making a system comm call. With the cargo ship and corvette attached together we had more room. After a crew meeting we drew fuel and fresh water from the cargo ship before shutting the reactors down on the corvette. The cargo ship had more than enough of both and we used it the rest of the way in as Lorenz started a detailed check of the corvette. Just before we reached the asteroid belt station the corvette separated. We docked in the same disused barge slip and the cargo ship slipped into the one next to us. I slipped out of the pilot seat after shutting down and grinned at Peter moving out of the captain’s chair, “have everyone meet me in the lounge on the fourth tear near your quarters.” He nodded as I headed towards the airlock and then around to the airlock into the cargo ship. I met Lorenz, Sonia and Tana and told them where to meet. I waited and ten minutes later Captain Jennings arrived with an admiral and two men in suits. I led them in and to the cargo master’s office before letting one of the men sit and start looking through the manifest. He looked up, “it hasn’t been tampered with.” The other man nodded and looked at the admiral, “we will buy the cargo.” I looked Captain Jennings, “what about the ship?” The admiral smiled, “ship and cargo together Mr Steel.” I nodded and leaned against the door frame, “and is the fleet going to pay us the colony credits for the destroyer we destroyed too?” The admiral grinned, “yes.” Thirty minutes later I was walking into the lounge where my people were waiting. I grinned and started handing out credit vouchers before waving everyone to a seat, “we learned a lot on our first mission. What we need to talk about is what we did wrong...” |
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