RidOv Chpt-8

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==Ridiculously Overboard!! (A Captain Roberts Tale!!)Chapter 8 - Missing Girl==
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Finding pressure suits in her size...
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...took longer than picking the lock of the airlock from the open bay, into the rest of the yard-station. On an impulse, she took the liftway to the CIC, and activated her way into the base's computers, reviewing records centuries old and out of date.
The ship in the dock was, indeed, the former THS Effervescent, a Bonaventure class patrol corvette supplied through Taurian sources and altered at a Taurian shipyard with stolen technology. Which was tested, then traded to the Outworlds through some complex deal prior to the Periphery Uprising. The group in question being a faction of the OA's struggling military leadership intent on...well, it doesn't really matter.
They were dead on the planet, instead of here, when their base was hit by an SLDF taskforce.
The ship had sat here, waiting for a crew, for centuries.
Waiting for Amanda Roberts. "I will be the greatest pirate anyone has ever seen." she sighed.
"Are you sure that's what you want?"
"can we undock it without help?" she asked.
"I think so, there aren't any faults showing in the docking clamps. You can restart the fusion reactor from here, though."
"Do so. is she fully armed and loaded?"
"Inventories look complete, Amanda."
"Good."
((Where do you want to go?))
"Away from here, somewhere I can find people willing to serve under the greatest pirate who will ever live." she asserted, "People who want to be free."
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