Sat 27th Sep 2025 05:35

Funding our Fleet

by Lucid Thursday

We fly to Miracle, a week passes.
As soon as we arrive we receive a transmission with a set of coordinates. We look it up and it's a tavern at the edge of a town named Soto De Hielo. The transmission was sent at about the same time we left Miracle last time, interesting.
 
Soto De Hielo is a 15,000 to 20,000 people, and has it's own spaceport. Lucid is wearing a flying sword in a sheath on her waist. It's a little obnoxiously large on her build. But I think it looks cool.
 
We enter a typical cyber punk tavern. We order drinks, and begin sipping our drinks by the time we are approached by whomever approached. Lucid has downed most of her energy drink in that time. Peter gets a pulpy nanobrew that is 50% Hops by volume. Benat orders a regional favourite micro brew like a ?Mao? The local tradition is a beer so hoppy you can chew it, and a plate of worm cheese as a tapas.
 
A cloaked person approaches, cloaked in grey. they have a shaved head and an androgynous build. They sit between Lucid and Peter. The Barkeep brings them the local favorite. They fiddle with something in their cloak, before a "different presence" comes forward.
 
there is an industrial building on sienta that needs to be guarded while it builds a ship for one of their clients. needs 12 mercenaries. This presence can also create some "credible reccomendations" 500,000 credits to help fund and furnish a mercenary team. there will be more payment on the back end.
 
"I am part f an Anti-Piracy group that has been operating for 500 years. I only have a handful of ships and a handful of crew." the client getting a ship produced is a planetary system navy. This person pulls out a credit stick and hands it to Lucid. 500,000 guild standard payments. 3 million for success, doubled in return for escort duty. We only have to escort over one system.
 
They send Lucid a link to mercenary recruitment website.
 
Who is possibly attacking. moderate risk of light pirate attack. The previous set of mercenaries may be collaborating with the pirates.
 
Previous mercenaries was a group of 12 in millitarized vaac suits with mostly normal guns.
 
We need to guard the facility for 5 days in 10 days time.
 
Strongly prefer a ground presence of at least 4 at all times, rest of us can be in Harry.
 
We are instructed to return to this exact bar to receive payment. Then the person reaches into their head to to turn the switch off.
 
After which this person does not recognize us properly anymore. They refer to the person who spoke to us as Boss.
 
Boss is an agent wafer in the back of their head.
 
We decide to recruit all 12 of our new fleet members. It costs 460320 to hire and equip everyone.