Constantine looks at his sensors, they showed the hauler he had just interdicted.
He looks over at his side panel, his cargo scanner shows that the hauler is carrying liquor, narcotics and some rare artworks.
"Jackpot, sell the artwork and I can stay wasted for weeks on the rest. This piracy thing is fun. Well if my dad is going to put my brother in charge of the station I am going to have to find my own way to make money, no way I am working for him. Stealing my brothers ship and using it for piracy seems very fitting"
He notices the name on the scanner, "He calls himself The <snip>, hmm we shall see who is the bigger <snip> is. Ask the last ship, oh wait you can't I destroyed the escape pods, no witnesses"
With that he opened his hard points and got on the comm.
"Surrender your cargo"
A heavy sigh comes over the comm then, "You do not want to do this, I am tight with the crimson pirates and in fact this shipment is going to them. So just tuck it back in, move along and I won't mention this to them."
"Sure they all say that."
"No actually the only people who say that are tight with them, because they are known to space people that..."
"GIVE ME THE CARGO OR DIE!"
"Listen you little piece of crap, I didn't pick the name the <snip> you don't want to mess with me"
"You worthless poor person I take what I want I am a pirate! It doesn't matter either way, either you give me the cargo and I shoot your escape pod or I blow up your ship, shoot your escape pod and sift through the wreckage."
"You are the one that has been killing all the traders!"
"guilty as charged, if you give me your cargo and don't make me sift go through the wreckage I will send a message to your family so they will know what happened to you."
"Mighty nice of you, but I don't have a family because of people like you. Here take my cargo at least that way they can track you down and blow your escape pod into little pieces. Normally they don't do that, kill people in escape pods, but someone that kills someone they like that's a different story. hey why don't you just let me go I work with pirates I know how to keep my mouth shut."
Constantine see the cargo on his scanner and deploys his scoop, he starts positioning his ship to pick up the cargo.
"I will think about, just sit right there while I pick up this cargo."
"I see Harry talked you into selling your shields to pay for some laser resistant composites, and you used the space for more cargo. "
"Yea so?"
"He always tries to do that to people he thinks are idiots. He makes alot of profit on those composites but not everyone can afford them."
"Let me pick up this cargo and we shall see who is the idiot."
"Well you have turned your ship sideways to me, and you have not noticed that I have backed up a little.
Son, some of those people you killed were friends of mine so I hope you understand why I say this."
"what?"
The voice that comes over comm is cracking anger and says "RAMMING SPEED!!!"
Constantine looks to his right to see the flare from the haulers booster kick in, he just now notices that it had really huge thrusters.
Before he can react the hauler slams into the side of his orca, they both explode into tiny pieces.
Constantine is now in his escape pod, the ships systems encased him in it as the ship was coming to pieces.
"Damn it, I am going to get hauled back to port in disgrace, oh well nothing to do but wait."
A few minutes pass then intercom goes off, he hit the button and starts ranting,
"I hope you are happy you destroyed both our ships. You really are a <snip>. You better hope I don't find you on the station we both get dragged to, I am going to make you pay."
The <snip> voice comes over the intercom calm, with a tone that is mockingly friendly but in reality a threat.
"Yea Harry he always does that, now when I way buying my ship from him he tried to talk me out of the luxury escape pod, he was like only luxury ships buy those, and I told him I have my reasons"
Something starts nagging at Constantine, he cant put his finger on it. This isn't right, the <snip> is in another escape pod separated by space and yet he has the feeling of danger.
Then it comes to him, escape pods only have a beacon, they do not have any way to broadcast, its to keep panicked survivors from harassing rescue ships. They only have a touch system so someone in a space suit can talk to the pod by touching the outside of it.
"How are you speaking to me?" Constantine says trying to mask the fear in his voice.
Ignoring him, the continues,"Yep I use the extra space in my pod to carry a striped down spacesuit and a laser cutter."
Constantine hears a tap and looks at the port hole to see the <snip> smiling face encased in a space suit helmet, then it was replaced with a laser cutter.
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Your system has a bug, it tries to censor the word <snip>, that word is acceptable in prime time tv and I am not using it to insult anyone so I feel no reason not to use it in my writing.
He looks over at his side panel, his cargo scanner shows that the hauler is carrying liquor, narcotics and some rare artworks.
"Jackpot, sell the artwork and I can stay wasted for weeks on the rest. This piracy thing is fun. Well if my dad is going to put my brother in charge of the station I am going to have to find my own way to make money, no way I am working for him. Stealing my brothers ship and using it for piracy seems very fitting"
He notices the name on the scanner, "He calls himself The <snip>, hmm we shall see who is the bigger <snip> is. Ask the last ship, oh wait you can't I destroyed the escape pods, no witnesses"
With that he opened his hard points and got on the comm.
"Surrender your cargo"
A heavy sigh comes over the comm then, "You do not want to do this, I am tight with the crimson pirates and in fact this shipment is going to them. So just tuck it back in, move along and I won't mention this to them."
"Sure they all say that."
"No actually the only people who say that are tight with them, because they are known to space people that..."
"GIVE ME THE CARGO OR DIE!"
"Listen you little piece of crap, I didn't pick the name the <snip> you don't want to mess with me"
"You worthless poor person I take what I want I am a pirate! It doesn't matter either way, either you give me the cargo and I shoot your escape pod or I blow up your ship, shoot your escape pod and sift through the wreckage."
"You are the one that has been killing all the traders!"
"guilty as charged, if you give me your cargo and don't make me sift go through the wreckage I will send a message to your family so they will know what happened to you."
"Mighty nice of you, but I don't have a family because of people like you. Here take my cargo at least that way they can track you down and blow your escape pod into little pieces. Normally they don't do that, kill people in escape pods, but someone that kills someone they like that's a different story. hey why don't you just let me go I work with pirates I know how to keep my mouth shut."
Constantine see the cargo on his scanner and deploys his scoop, he starts positioning his ship to pick up the cargo.
"I will think about, just sit right there while I pick up this cargo."
"I see Harry talked you into selling your shields to pay for some laser resistant composites, and you used the space for more cargo. "
"Yea so?"
"He always tries to do that to people he thinks are idiots. He makes alot of profit on those composites but not everyone can afford them."
"Let me pick up this cargo and we shall see who is the idiot."
"Well you have turned your ship sideways to me, and you have not noticed that I have backed up a little.
Son, some of those people you killed were friends of mine so I hope you understand why I say this."
"what?"
The voice that comes over comm is cracking anger and says "RAMMING SPEED!!!"
Constantine looks to his right to see the flare from the haulers booster kick in, he just now notices that it had really huge thrusters.
Before he can react the hauler slams into the side of his orca, they both explode into tiny pieces.
Constantine is now in his escape pod, the ships systems encased him in it as the ship was coming to pieces.
"Damn it, I am going to get hauled back to port in disgrace, oh well nothing to do but wait."
A few minutes pass then intercom goes off, he hit the button and starts ranting,
"I hope you are happy you destroyed both our ships. You really are a <snip>. You better hope I don't find you on the station we both get dragged to, I am going to make you pay."
The <snip> voice comes over the intercom calm, with a tone that is mockingly friendly but in reality a threat.
"Yea Harry he always does that, now when I way buying my ship from him he tried to talk me out of the luxury escape pod, he was like only luxury ships buy those, and I told him I have my reasons"
Something starts nagging at Constantine, he cant put his finger on it. This isn't right, the <snip> is in another escape pod separated by space and yet he has the feeling of danger.
Then it comes to him, escape pods only have a beacon, they do not have any way to broadcast, its to keep panicked survivors from harassing rescue ships. They only have a touch system so someone in a space suit can talk to the pod by touching the outside of it.
"How are you speaking to me?" Constantine says trying to mask the fear in his voice.
Ignoring him, the continues,"Yep I use the extra space in my pod to carry a striped down spacesuit and a laser cutter."
Constantine hears a tap and looks at the port hole to see the <snip> smiling face encased in a space suit helmet, then it was replaced with a laser cutter.
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Your system has a bug, it tries to censor the word <snip>, that word is acceptable in prime time tv and I am not using it to insult anyone so I feel no reason not to use it in my writing.
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