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"Just aft and starboard of the bridge," she says. "Your boyfriends play rough. I can tell we're in jumpspace from the vibrations in the deck plates. What's our course?"Eloise comes in from the refresher, drying her hair. 'What the frag have you lot been doing?!' I tend to her wounds. 'Is there a sick bay and med supplies on this tug,' I ask her.
"The Saffron system, you ever been there?""Just aft and starboard of the bridge," she says. "Your boyfriends play rough. I can tell we're in jumpspace from the vibrations in the deck plates. What's our course?"
"Nearly every month for the past three years. If that's the program you used, you'd better let me on the bridge to make a correction.""The Saffron system, you ever been there?"
"What kind of correction? We'll be left days from a settled world or something?""Nearly every month for the past three years. If that's the program you used, you'd better let me on the bridge to make a correction."
"It's an old program we got for cheap. It doesn't take into account recent changes so manual corrections are required every time we jump there.""What kind of correction? Will be left days from a settled world or something?"
"Just aft and starboard of the bridge," she says. "Your boyfriends play rough. I can tell we're in jumpspace from the vibrations in the deck plates. What's our course?"
"Like I said, aft and starboard of the bridge."‘Even if true we can’t trust her, especially now that we’ve put a bullet in her,’ I say. ‘So let me get you fixed up, where’s the med bay?’
"Hey, you want to plough right into the orbiting casino," she shrugs, "what the hell, you're probably going to kill me anyway.""Yeah let's roll the dice and see what happens. I'm pretty sure we're already sentenced to death in this system so it's just a question of when we'd die." Trip opines nonchalantly.
"Cool. What do you want to do with the last six days of your life? I'd like to get my leg patched and then see what there is to eat, then probably see what drugs I can take to put myself to sleep.""Works for me" Trip says coldly trying to gauge the prisoners reaction as a check against her honesty.
"My name is Bai Ziyi, first officer and navigator of the Vera Caspary, and your friends are going to make us collide with the orbital casino at Saffron unless we manually alter the course of this vessel."I take the prisoner to the med bay. ‘Y’all keep your distance,’ I say. ‘Nils come guard outside the door in case she tries something.’
I leave the door to the med bay dilated so Nils can see us. Once we’re (relatively) alone I ask her, ‘So what’s your name?’
She gives you some complicated equations to enter into the navcom if you want to avoid colliding with an orbital station that is not taken into account in the antiquated program the ship has been running. "Are you a navigator?"‘Look Bai, I promise I won’t let anyone hurt you again, as long as you cooperate, we’ll even return your ship to you. There’s no percentage in us killing you or keeping this tug. But I need to be able to trust you. Explain to me the maths behind the navigation drift and I’ll confirm them with the controls and make the adjustment.’
She gives you some complicated equations to enter into the navcom if you want to avoid colliding with an orbital station that is not taken into account in the antiquated program the ship has been running. "Are you a navigator?"
After a few minutes the computer responds that you'll enter the Saffron system a safe 100 diameters out and proceed on course to a satellite orbiting the planet at an altitude of 600 kilometers.‘I’m a bit of everything honey,’ I say. ‘You rest here and eat.’ I take the equations to the control room.
‘Anyone of you pilots too? Wanna look at these with me and see what you think?’ I run the equations into the Mother computer as ask it to calculate their results on our arrival location.
"You could say that--if you consider starports and lowtowns to be seeing the sector. You shoot many strangers?"Nils decides to stay in the Med Bay since he lacks any kind of knowledge of starships. He decides to talk to Bai
"So, have you seen much of the sector?"
OOC is anyone else there to watch the prisoner of Eloise, Trip and Vol all leave?
After Volodimir leaves he turns to and says:"You could say that--if you consider starports and lowtowns to be seeing the sector. You shoot many strangers?"
"It'll end in a big splat all over Saavedra's Folly if you don't use those course corrections."After Volodimir leaves he turns to and says:
"Regarding the shooting of strangers, well I've shot more people then I would like. All of us have. Our journey up to this point has been pretty messed up"
Nils eyes her a bit trying to read her expression, but deep down he believes her."It'll end in a big splat all over Saavedra's Folly if you don't use those course corrections."
You get no impression that she's lying, but she seems resigned to the fact that one of you will kill her.Nils eyes her a bit trying to read her expression, but deep down he believes her.
"We'll see what the others say"
The guilt from previous killings begins to mount in Nils, he can't bring himself to look at her directly.You get no impression that she's lying, but she seems resigned to the fact that one of you will kill her.
Volodomir nodds.
"Yeah, I was thinking the same thing... and well, I think the answer to Eloise's question is actually Nils."
"Give me some credits and turn me loose at the casino if it's all the same to you."Nils backs up to the door while looking at Bai and shouts out of the medbay
"What's the decision on those coordinate adjustments?"
He then addresses Bai.
"Do you want us to leave you somewhere in particular or just let you go at the next starport?"