RidOv Chpt-6

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==Ridiculously Overboard!! (A Captain Roberts Tale!!)Chapter 6 - Missing Girl==
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"This was a...
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...joint Naval coordination center!!" Seron barked, seeing the data from the core that had not been destroyed by the self-altering virus program that had, no doubt, been introduced by the girl's compatriots.
"What??"
"This. Was a Joint Services Naval Coordination Center for the Outworlds Alliance and their Taurian allies...during the Periphery uprising." The Watch Officer enunciated slowly, just in case Star Captain Devin was hard of hearing or dense. "It contained deployment data in the files...at least, it did contain the deployment data and cache locations for Taurian and Outworlds units...not just the OWS Pulsar-we Know what happened to that ship. NO..." Seron sighted in frustration. "Ships that were not on the inventory or registry-ships, or supplies, that were not accounted for after the Periphery Uprising...and more to the point, Star Captain? otherwise unregistered shipyards. The only problem being, we got here late and they threw in a heuristic data-worm to eat the databases!!!"
"It can be recovered, right?"
Seron made a strangled noise, "YES, it can be recovered-but not before 'Miss Amanda Roberts' and whatever monsters are running her? have gotten to something we can not afford to allow to get loose. There are weapons of mass destruction in the fragments I managed to stop the worm from eating."
"Why are you so upset, it sounds like you did your job correctly-"
"Because I have to go to the Loremaster. Whom I must convince to go to the Khans to bring a task force out this way. To find those ships and assets ahead of a pirate that has gotten past you!"
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((Wake Up Amanda, we're almost there!!))
She jerked awake. Ahead of her, loomed an asteroid. A quick look at her mapping showed she'd reached the deep outer system, not quite the Oort cloud, and the gas giant looming to her left allowed little doubt-the form of the ring system didn't really get visible until thousands of Kilometers away, but this was part of that system. The Asteroid was two or three kilometers across, and glinted with methane snow in the reflected light of the gas giant.
Information scrolled across the vision of her second eye, and she tapped into the shuttle's transmitter, setting a specific frequency modulation, while scrolling through to tap into the frequency-hop of the security system.
She was rewarded with a response, and a tight-beam guidance beacon.
The Mark VII skimmed along the asteroid, until it came to what was sheltered by the object's massive bulk.
Free-fall frames, six of them, and in one of them...
"Outworlds Ship Effervescent." she breathed.
The ancient Bonaventure class ship floated in the fueling dock, shielded from the worst of solar winds, and micrometeorites by the bulk of the asteroid that served as the yard station's anchor.
The small craft bay was closed, but there were power-feeds from the station itself.
She slowed her approach, seeking the station's small craft dock.
"There."
"I see it." she angled her approach, and sent the recognition signal.
The dock's outer lock opened, and lighting came on.
"You've got a ship, Miss Roberts, but you're going to need a crew."
"Yeah, I will...let's go take a look at my ship first."
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