Takeover of G`rho, Codian Moon ja Annaj
Daren sat in his quarters in almost pitch black darkness and watched the stars while typing something in his diary, few people passed his quarters from time to time, the doors were closed and the hole ship was asleep. Daren had wanted to have a quiet moment alone anywhere else than his small quarters, it wasn’t possible in the brink of such an important mission, that he had been granted after he had succeeded brining the new race Merodians and their planet Xal 3 under the Coalition banner with his negotiation skills. Now he would face even a greater challenge cause the coalition wanted to bring all the remaining free planets on the Spar and Moddell sectors. The remaining one` s were the Codian moon, Annaj and G`rho, which had` t yet been conquered or taken under the Coalition protection. It was important, that they would be taken under the protection for their own sake and so, that the new order couldn’t gain more foot space on those sectors, but that was only Daren` s vision of the situation. Also there had been many space pirate and mercenary attacks towards the planets, which were` t backed up by any greater power. The only reason why Daren was given this task was, that there were no better diplomats on this sector or so they thought cause Daren was able to have the meridians join with his speech. Later on Daren had received a personal message from Ya`mena in, which the alien told Daren, that there had been many fights about joining the Coalition and their people might be more convinced some time. Not soon Daren begged to anyone who could hear cause he had much pressure all ready with the negotiations, not to forget if there was some sort of pirate and mercenary problem near these planets. Many supply freighters had been attacked and some even captured, more and more attacks had began to appear, but these were against almost every ship and even that was` t the most disturbing thing. Some rumours said, that there might be more than fighters coming from an unknown base and some even dared to think of a bigger ship, which could make the planets under great danger. The saddest part in his part at the ship was , that he would have to lead this ship to combat and there would be costs for losing unlike in the academy simulations all tough he passed them nicely. One day the crew members would be joeyd and happy about their victory, but one day they would have to face the coldest fact of all. Their lives was in Daren` s hands alone and they could all die because of him, some might accept the fact and some might hate him for that. If anything like, that would happen he would go with this ship and die not to be patriotic, but die as a crew member and perhaps someone would understand. Daren closed his diary and turned to a small holocron, which he was going to send to his family to tell them what had happened in the last month. Daren put it in his pocket and left the quarters, he walked trough the empty corridors unless you count the few mechanics, that had slept when others had been working at day, but that was what night sift was like. Unfortunately Daren had his sift 24 hours a day, because if something happened it was his responsibility and duty to take care of it while some lucky mechanics could sleep. Besides he hadn’t slept well these last days, because he had enough worries for now in his own personal life and work. He arrived at the place where people sent their loved one` s messages and received packages, you could call it a small post office or something like that. Daren` s message would be taken to Serenno, which was luckily a place where many ship members came and had lived so they had loved one` s too. He gave the package to a man, who put it in a safe place and Daren sighed leaning on the desk. He looked at the place where the holocron was an left the counter towards the ships small cantina where people could relax, because he sure was in need of a drink. Daren arrived at the cantina, which had few people in it and sat down next to the counter, he looked at the bartender who actually was one of his bridge members.
Daren talked with a tired voice "Give something...new..."
The man looked at Daren and took one glass filling it with something. "There you go captain...so...any sing of the negotiators yet?"
Daren shocked his head melancholically "No...thanks to dear Serenno for that it` s going to be one big babble when every single one gets aboard and then we might have to deal with a pirate threat."
The man raised an eye brown "But I think it would be quite risky for a pirate group to threaten the Coalition on their own? No full sensed man would do, that..."
Daren shooked his head" The Coalition doesn’t have enough ship or people to chase few pirates down unless our members make complaint and if we take these planets under us...they’ll say their unsatisfied with the way the Coalition had protected them and call for our aid...or they just put it as a demand in the joining.." Daren drank slightly and shrugged " So we will be getting the dirty work...damn shame..."
The bartender turned away quite shocked looking of the fact, that a battle might await them around the corner and only few realised that. The night went on for few hours and 2 new glasses were filled for Daren, who drank just to kill his time and relax for tomorrow. After sometime a fight broke out in a table and two men beat each other` s obviously drunk as they could be before passing out, the other man hit the other one hard in the jaw with his fist and the other took more serious step. The man pulled out his blaster and shot. A deep silence remained in the bar as few people watched them and the other fell on the ground screaming in pain. Lucky for him they were drunk and the shot had only hit the man in the leg, the other ran away and Daren was shocked of what happened on his ship, but managed to shout out few words.
"Stop that man!" Daren yelled as hard he could and few people tried to stop the man, but he got away by pushing them in the ground.
Daren walked slightly dizzy to the man and kneeled next to him for help, the man pushed Daren away cursing when he tried to look at the wound. Daren got up and looked around at the crew members.
"Is anyone a medic here?" Daren asked quickly, but someone had luckily called the med bar and the man was placed on it, he was taken to the hospital bay of the ship, which was quite small. Daren called the chief of the guards and woke him up.
"We got a loose rabbit sergeant, a deadly drunk rabbit to be exact. We just had slight shooting in the cantina and the shooter got away, he is not really charged for anything, but I want him caught because you don` t know what he might do drunk. Perhaps regret what he had done and blow his damn brains on the walls, that would` t be pretty find from your closet. If you find him proceed with caution and talk him sense, but if he gets violent...." Daren went completely quiet and the people on the med bay looked at him. "Shoot him in the leg, hand or shoulder, but if he does` t quit then keep him there until he tires and is unable to shoot..."
The chief nodded and began waking his men understanding the situation" Yes sir...we will do as you instructed"
Daren went trough many other scenarios` s in his head, but if this guy would go nuts he wouldn’t risk another life to catch him even if it meant torturing him. Daren left towards his quarters shutting down the com link and leaving the guards to find this man, but if there were someone going to die it would be his fault. Daren wandered back to his quarters and sits down on his bed sighing, snaps his neck slightly when he turns his head up to the roof. His look wandered trough the dark room and he remembered how careless he was in the academy, but now he prayed that he was back there tricking Malakem in an hologram space battle and receiving good grades. He thought that this was his dream come true, but it quite turned out to be hard work one way or another, but the only good thing was the satisfying feeling after he had ended something with pride. Now he would have to deal with politicians, pirates and their ships, many problems whirled around, but Daren was too tired to solve them now and changed his clothes finally trying to sleep. He fell asleep only to be awakened by the sound of his com link where the guard chief was almost yelling his name to answer, Daren stumbled to the floor and almost fell on something. He got stumbled cursing to the com link and took in his hand.
“What now? Do you have him caught?” Daren mumbled with an angry tone and the answer came quickly.
“No sir, but we have him cornered in his quarters and he has locked the doors, we need some to the bridge to open them….”
Daren coughs tired and begins changing his clothes after closing the com link. He changes the clothes and walks to the bridge with his eyes almost closing from time to time, he gets to the bridge where he finds few crew members awaken doing some checks and they are surprised to see their captain poorly dressed. They haven` t seen Daren like that before because Daren had always tried to be a strict example for all of them all tough he might slightly skip the rules from time to time, but nothing serious. Daren walks next to one of them and mumbles.
“Get me the door access now…” The crew member nods and begins quickly to act, soon a map of the ship appears on the screen and Daren pulls out his com link to speak with the guards.
“What is the quarters number?” Daren speaks clearly and waits an answer for a while.
“261 C sir…there` s some weird noises coming out there and advise we hurry…”
An answer comes back and before Daren can look at the woman next to her, she is already hitting buttons and the door opens leaving a sound of gas coming out. Daren and the bridge crew watched the events trough monitors, the guards go in looking every direction with their guns pointed, but can` t see the man. Then a sound of something hitting something comes from a nearby closet where the man is found crying alone and with a bottle alcohol. The guards drag the man out who mumbles about shooting and take his gun away cautiously, they drag the man to the cell block and lock him up at least for the night. Daren sighs shutting the view and leaves the bridge, he was shocked by the events and never wanted such thing to happen on his ship. The drinking brought his best friend from the academy in his mind and he was happy, that he had stopped in time because when someone is drunk and gets in a fight they might do something they will regret for the rest of their lives, but that might even happen when your clear. Daren went to his quarters and did` t even change his clothes, he got down on his bed and wondered about how soon the negotiators would arrive at the Dreamer. Tomorrow was day of speech and solving, but then perhaps the day after tomorrow was a day of action depending on their luck. The good luck would be, if the planets would agree joining the Coalition, but the bad luck was that they would have to deal with some pirates. With these thoughts he fell asleep…
Daren sat in his quarters in almost pitch black darkness and watched the stars while typing something in his diary, few people passed his quarters from time to time, the doors were closed and the hole ship was asleep. Daren had wanted to have a quiet moment alone anywhere else than his small quarters, it wasn’t possible in the brink of such an important mission, that he had been granted after he had succeeded brining the new race Merodians and their planet Xal 3 under the Coalition banner with his negotiation skills. Now he would face even a greater challenge cause the coalition wanted to bring all the remaining free planets on the Spar and Moddell sectors. The remaining one` s were the Codian moon, Annaj and G`rho, which had` t yet been conquered or taken under the Coalition protection. It was important, that they would be taken under the protection for their own sake and so, that the new order couldn’t gain more foot space on those sectors, but that was only Daren` s vision of the situation. Also there had been many space pirate and mercenary attacks towards the planets, which were` t backed up by any greater power. The only reason why Daren was given this task was, that there were no better diplomats on this sector or so they thought cause Daren was able to have the meridians join with his speech. Later on Daren had received a personal message from Ya`mena in, which the alien told Daren, that there had been many fights about joining the Coalition and their people might be more convinced some time. Not soon Daren begged to anyone who could hear cause he had much pressure all ready with the negotiations, not to forget if there was some sort of pirate and mercenary problem near these planets. Many supply freighters had been attacked and some even captured, more and more attacks had began to appear, but these were against almost every ship and even that was` t the most disturbing thing. Some rumours said, that there might be more than fighters coming from an unknown base and some even dared to think of a bigger ship, which could make the planets under great danger. The saddest part in his part at the ship was , that he would have to lead this ship to combat and there would be costs for losing unlike in the academy simulations all tough he passed them nicely. One day the crew members would be joeyd and happy about their victory, but one day they would have to face the coldest fact of all. Their lives was in Daren` s hands alone and they could all die because of him, some might accept the fact and some might hate him for that. If anything like, that would happen he would go with this ship and die not to be patriotic, but die as a crew member and perhaps someone would understand. Daren closed his diary and turned to a small holocron, which he was going to send to his family to tell them what had happened in the last month. Daren put it in his pocket and left the quarters, he walked trough the empty corridors unless you count the few mechanics, that had slept when others had been working at day, but that was what night sift was like. Unfortunately Daren had his sift 24 hours a day, because if something happened it was his responsibility and duty to take care of it while some lucky mechanics could sleep. Besides he hadn’t slept well these last days, because he had enough worries for now in his own personal life and work. He arrived at the place where people sent their loved one` s messages and received packages, you could call it a small post office or something like that. Daren` s message would be taken to Serenno, which was luckily a place where many ship members came and had lived so they had loved one` s too. He gave the package to a man, who put it in a safe place and Daren sighed leaning on the desk. He looked at the place where the holocron was an left the counter towards the ships small cantina where people could relax, because he sure was in need of a drink. Daren arrived at the cantina, which had few people in it and sat down next to the counter, he looked at the bartender who actually was one of his bridge members.
Daren talked with a tired voice "Give something...new..."
The man looked at Daren and took one glass filling it with something. "There you go captain...so...any sing of the negotiators yet?"
Daren shocked his head melancholically "No...thanks to dear Serenno for that it` s going to be one big babble when every single one gets aboard and then we might have to deal with a pirate threat."
The man raised an eye brown "But I think it would be quite risky for a pirate group to threaten the Coalition on their own? No full sensed man would do, that..."
Daren shooked his head" The Coalition doesn’t have enough ship or people to chase few pirates down unless our members make complaint and if we take these planets under us...they’ll say their unsatisfied with the way the Coalition had protected them and call for our aid...or they just put it as a demand in the joining.." Daren drank slightly and shrugged " So we will be getting the dirty work...damn shame..."
The bartender turned away quite shocked looking of the fact, that a battle might await them around the corner and only few realised that. The night went on for few hours and 2 new glasses were filled for Daren, who drank just to kill his time and relax for tomorrow. After sometime a fight broke out in a table and two men beat each other` s obviously drunk as they could be before passing out, the other man hit the other one hard in the jaw with his fist and the other took more serious step. The man pulled out his blaster and shot. A deep silence remained in the bar as few people watched them and the other fell on the ground screaming in pain. Lucky for him they were drunk and the shot had only hit the man in the leg, the other ran away and Daren was shocked of what happened on his ship, but managed to shout out few words.
"Stop that man!" Daren yelled as hard he could and few people tried to stop the man, but he got away by pushing them in the ground.
Daren walked slightly dizzy to the man and kneeled next to him for help, the man pushed Daren away cursing when he tried to look at the wound. Daren got up and looked around at the crew members.
"Is anyone a medic here?" Daren asked quickly, but someone had luckily called the med bar and the man was placed on it, he was taken to the hospital bay of the ship, which was quite small. Daren called the chief of the guards and woke him up.
"We got a loose rabbit sergeant, a deadly drunk rabbit to be exact. We just had slight shooting in the cantina and the shooter got away, he is not really charged for anything, but I want him caught because you don` t know what he might do drunk. Perhaps regret what he had done and blow his damn brains on the walls, that would` t be pretty find from your closet. If you find him proceed with caution and talk him sense, but if he gets violent...." Daren went completely quiet and the people on the med bay looked at him. "Shoot him in the leg, hand or shoulder, but if he does` t quit then keep him there until he tires and is unable to shoot..."
The chief nodded and began waking his men understanding the situation" Yes sir...we will do as you instructed"
Daren went trough many other scenarios` s in his head, but if this guy would go nuts he wouldn’t risk another life to catch him even if it meant torturing him. Daren left towards his quarters shutting down the com link and leaving the guards to find this man, but if there were someone going to die it would be his fault. Daren wandered back to his quarters and sits down on his bed sighing, snaps his neck slightly when he turns his head up to the roof. His look wandered trough the dark room and he remembered how careless he was in the academy, but now he prayed that he was back there tricking Malakem in an hologram space battle and receiving good grades. He thought that this was his dream come true, but it quite turned out to be hard work one way or another, but the only good thing was the satisfying feeling after he had ended something with pride. Now he would have to deal with politicians, pirates and their ships, many problems whirled around, but Daren was too tired to solve them now and changed his clothes finally trying to sleep. He fell asleep only to be awakened by the sound of his com link where the guard chief was almost yelling his name to answer, Daren stumbled to the floor and almost fell on something. He got stumbled cursing to the com link and took in his hand.
“What now? Do you have him caught?” Daren mumbled with an angry tone and the answer came quickly.
“No sir, but we have him cornered in his quarters and he has locked the doors, we need some to the bridge to open them….”
Daren coughs tired and begins changing his clothes after closing the com link. He changes the clothes and walks to the bridge with his eyes almost closing from time to time, he gets to the bridge where he finds few crew members awaken doing some checks and they are surprised to see their captain poorly dressed. They haven` t seen Daren like that before because Daren had always tried to be a strict example for all of them all tough he might slightly skip the rules from time to time, but nothing serious. Daren walks next to one of them and mumbles.
“Get me the door access now…” The crew member nods and begins quickly to act, soon a map of the ship appears on the screen and Daren pulls out his com link to speak with the guards.
“What is the quarters number?” Daren speaks clearly and waits an answer for a while.
“261 C sir…there` s some weird noises coming out there and advise we hurry…”
An answer comes back and before Daren can look at the woman next to her, she is already hitting buttons and the door opens leaving a sound of gas coming out. Daren and the bridge crew watched the events trough monitors, the guards go in looking every direction with their guns pointed, but can` t see the man. Then a sound of something hitting something comes from a nearby closet where the man is found crying alone and with a bottle alcohol. The guards drag the man out who mumbles about shooting and take his gun away cautiously, they drag the man to the cell block and lock him up at least for the night. Daren sighs shutting the view and leaves the bridge, he was shocked by the events and never wanted such thing to happen on his ship. The drinking brought his best friend from the academy in his mind and he was happy, that he had stopped in time because when someone is drunk and gets in a fight they might do something they will regret for the rest of their lives, but that might even happen when your clear. Daren went to his quarters and did` t even change his clothes, he got down on his bed and wondered about how soon the negotiators would arrive at the Dreamer. Tomorrow was day of speech and solving, but then perhaps the day after tomorrow was a day of action depending on their luck. The good luck would be, if the planets would agree joining the Coalition, but the bad luck was that they would have to deal with some pirates. With these thoughts he fell asleep…