Raptor One – Chapter 57
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I find myself looking at the hangar bay where my ship is docked, i give a look at my sensor and finds out there’s a port administrator here, further search give me his location, so i head his way.
He’s a busy Avali, that means he has packmates that help on the job, i approach one. “Privet, it’s here i can find cargo run missions, correct?” I ask the assistant, the assistant got somewhat nervous and froze in place, but my voice made him return and respond back.
“Sorry, not used to seeing fully armed people, yes, it’s here, we keep a run down of all the cargo that needs shipping, you don’t seen to be on the list of transport captains.” he says to me, i shake my head. “Niet, just starting out fresh again, here’s the data of our ship speed and cargo capacity, see if you got something for us.” i say and Sigma send him some data.
“I see, okay, there’s some cargo runs you’ll can do, but under this circumstances it’s down to two, material delivery and food delivery.” he say and i nod. “does the two work together?” i ask and he nods, I'll take it. “Then I'm in.” i say and the assistant starts working on his tricorder.
Some time later i get a call from Sigma as i talk with the assistant. “We got a lot of workers outside the ship, scans say they are from the station work force.”
“let the guys work, open the hangar bay door and signal the cargo bay location.” i say to sigma before looking at the assistant. “which one is being loaded?” i ask the assistant and he replies. “The material cargo, when you get to the station on the gas giant, you’ll have to head into a frozen planet where you’ll find another station where you’ll get the food crates.” he says.
I nod back and ask for the coordinates to be loaded into my system, he do so and i receive it, so i give the last question. ”Not worried that you’ll lose the cargo to pirates?” i ak the assistant.
“If boss ins’t then why should i?” he say to me, looks like his opinion on his pack leader is very high, normally their opinion varies, not that my situation is different from his.”
I give my last words of thanks and head out to the ship, the ship is swarming with workers as they pull up crates upon crates inside the cargo bay, some crates are so big that civilian modular mechs are used, forgot their names but the thing looks like the lifter from alien vs predator, that one used to lift missiles into the drop ships.
The work is a no brainer but a small problem comes that the workers don’t know how to solve, so they come to me.
“Uh, sir, we still got a lot of crates to load, but the space is already full, can you help us?” on of the braver ones ask me and i nod. “Da, I'll help, the problem is simple to solve.” i say and head inside the ship.
Entering the cargo hold i look at the place, half full. “This is not considered full to me, not with the amount of engine power my ship have.” i say to the workers as they look at me. “Look here.” i pull on the latch of the cargo hold wall and a triangle bar drops down, i latch it to a crate. “See this? This is the other half of the cargo bay you did not fill, happy?” i ask the workers as they start finding the same type of latch all over the cargo hold, so they nod to me and i head out again into the ship bridge.
As i climb up the small stairs into the middle deck i receive a call from Zu as i finish getting into the middle deck.
“Ey, Zu, love, what’s up?” i say as i enter the bridge and walk down into the captain chair as i look at the four control stations inside the bridge.
“Hello Omega, i heard there’s activity on the ship?” Zu ask me,
“Da, there is activity, workers are loading the ship with materials for transport into a station on a gas giant, after that we’ll head into a frozen planet, I'm sitting on my captain chair right now to process further the cargo run details.” i say to Zu.
“That’s great! I can’t help but get jittery, i can’t wait to count the crates and head into space again, beached no longer!” Zu say in a festive mood, i can’t help but laugh, some of my ways got into her.
“Haha, calm down, we will depart tomorrow after the last check up of the cargo, and you’ll do it for me right love?” i ask her.
“Damn sure I'll do it!” the say with finality, a hint saying that this is not anger, i can’t help but laugh.
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“I’ll be going ghost then, i have to get us some good knowledge of the place well be going and how we will get there.” i say with a chuckle.
“Okay, stay in one piece while at it, love you, oh, before i disconnect I'll tell you, watch out for revenge teams, there’s a chance a bomb can be planted inside by someone that passed under the radar.” she say and i nod before saying. “Rodzher, I'll be careful.” and like that we disconnect.
I start up the computer from it’s standby mode and start waving my arms around, data flying and flowing around as i get data, put data, and remove data, i decide to check the system too while at it as i don’t have anything to do, it does show that was a good thing to do, the system is completely out of order, so i start calibrating it back.
A simple formal search gives out the problem to me, the new system is giving incompatibility problems with the integration network of the mainframe, i need to correct this before the ship can fly at all, and then i need to head to the engine block to calibrate the shorter than light engines and Solar sails.
My first try at getting the system to work almost make it worse, but i don’t have the custom to close the things i make so the undo button is available to me, of which i click to return all modifications back into default again before trying again.
The second try made the entire system crash down on my head, almost literally as the holographic fall down on me before disappearing.
“This is going to take a while at this rate.” i sigh out.
“The new engines are very hard to integrate, i did not even see this problem before you.” Sigma say, her tone makes me imagine her giving a nod at me.
I try to get the system running again and succeed, so i go directly to work as I'm using a external backup starter so i can access the system to repair it, the integration itself had to be halted for the system repair, but it’s now working again and with crash backup so further damage won’t be done to the system.
I return to the system integration, this time i learn with all my errors and get the system to work properly, the integration is partially done, i got the Solar sails up and running with a hundred percent integration, now the only missing is the Shorter than light engines.
A full integration show complete and absolute mess as the system breaks into motes of light again, but i made a second backup so i won’t lose my hard work, and after some seconds the system restart back on the backup.
Heh, if a full integration won’t work... Then i just need to make it work as it’s own system but with connection to the main one, with this in mind i start working right away, the idea looks plausible, but i don’t see progress until I'm done, as soon as the partial STL system boots up, i see how bad i saw this system.
The partial integration was a success, after the boot up, the engine showed me it’s full capacity, i just need to calibrate both engines now.
My mind goes into combat mode as i think of ships that are faster than mine, this is a normal thing on the neutral sector, there’s always someone faster and or better, homing missiles for engines, and other ship based weapons are common on the neutral sector, worse part is that ships comes in packs of two, so i think that it would be best to override the safety systems of the Solar sails, STL drive and directional thrusters.
Solar sail will allow fast speed cruising in combat, the directional thrusters will allow fast speed evasion, and the STL drive will allow immediate retreat as long as i have a clear way and a proper STL stopper.
I say my thoughts to Sigma and she give me a frown.
“You sure about that, repairs are going to be expensive, worse part is the collision risk as you’ll need to do high speed evasion after retreat if your drive stop you right in front of asteroids or something, but my analysis show less maintenance, but more worn components.” Sigma responds to me, but gives no yes or no. “Fine, better be sorry than cry inside iron bars of a slaver later.” Sigma give her ok.
I start immediately, the first one i try to override is the Solar sails, i had to try two times before managing to override it’s security and integrate the new parts into the normal system along with the mainframe.
Next i try the maneuvering thrusters, Those things are hard locked to oblivion, i had to try six times, each try hitting a different barrier that kicks me out of the configuration, but the seventh try it got out of ways to kick me out so i managed to reintegrate the maneuvering thrusters.
Now for the hard part, the STL drive safety override.
Two tries, one kick and one hard lock, i had to solve the hard lock to get inside again, it tried to keep me out but with some intelligence i got it working again, try four to six met with the same errors before locking me out again, here i go unlocking it again....
I lost the count of how many tries and lock downs i got before i managed to get the safety off and make a new stopper with Sigma.
I take out my helmet and sigh while rubbing my brows.
“Hard ins't it?” Sigma ask me.
“Da...” i say with low mood, my eyes overexerted from lines and more lines of code passing at fast motion, i just keep my eyes closed and relax on the captain chair, waiting for my eyes to refocus on it’s own before diving in more lines of codes on the engine block.
I find myself waking up again some unknown time later by the shaking of a female worker.
“Privet, how can i help you.” I say as i lift my head from my left and and firm the grip on my helmet on my right.
“Sorry for waking you up, but the job is done, we did not find you so i was sent to wake you up, just to say goodbye.” the female worker say, her smile very strange to me.
I try to put my helmet but my hands don’t register the order, i look at her and her wide grin.
“What do you want?” i ask her and her grin widen. “You’ll sell for a lot along with the ship.” she say to me.
I grunt in annoyance. “Remnants of the patter cell i presume human woman.” i say not moving my body to simulate like I'm still paralyzed.
“Well now, i don’t want you fleeing like some idiots let the others super soldiers.” she say while looking back and getting a hand on a syringe, i just look before deciding to use my own.
She don’t even have time to react as i get up and and inject her with my own toxin with paralysis on the middle of her breasts, right on the heart, she try to fight back but fail as i sit back on my captain chair, so she try to get a control in one of her pockets, i just watch as she fail and fall face first on the floor of my ship, growling like a cornered beast, i can do so much to her right now, but I'll just give her to the security after getting this control out of her.
I sigh and put my helmet again before getting up and taking the control, searching it’s wave length i find some bombs on the ship, so i deactivate the bombs and put the control away before getting her to the security...