It's Never Easy
The Deviant hung in low orbit about a large asteroid on which a small military compound had been constructed. A few hours earlier a single transport pod bearing three passengers had left the pirate ship and descended to the surface to rendezvous with the leaders of the compound.
Dressed in her usual leather corset and pink skirt Maryna Glyf stood at the ships helm, staring out of the view screen onto the small silver speck that was the military compound. She sighed heavily and turned to face the few crew present, "Any word from the transport pod?" She spoke to no on in particular.
A green light lit up on one of the panels and a tall silver skinned male creature by the name of Lar spoke as he pressed the adjacent button, "incoming transmission m'lady."
Maryna turned to face the view screen and the image changed from the rocky surface below to the interior of the landed transport pod. In the screens center was a humanoid male with slicked back golden hair and soft blue eyes.
"Hello Reld, how is the weather down there?" Maryna smiled as she saw the familiar face.
"It's freakin' cold." The man grinned and started his report without need for a request, "The Restin have shown the payment and are now demanding to see their goods. I don't like the looks of things Maryna, I only counted three of them and they insisted they are installed here by themselves, but Jax has been doing silent scans of the compound from the pod and detected at least forty other lifeforms in there."
Maryna sighed heavily, "I know, we spotted a Restin stealth fighter trying to keep itself hidden the shadow of the asteroid. We've been watching it for an hour now. I doubt things will go as smoothly as we had been hoping."
"We just can't get an easy job." Reld laughed, "well, what would be the fun in that anyway. So are you sending the goods?"
"Not like we have much choice, you know how transactions work. I expect everyone to be back on board The Deviant within the day and to be away from these foul things."
"As you wish m'lady." Reld winked at her and the view screen faded back to an image of the cool gray rock that the were orbiting.
Maryna turned around to again face the crew that was on deck, "Send out the transport pod with the Diffusion Drive, and I want one of our fighters to keep a closer eye on that stealth ship - if it does anything fancy hit with a Coms Scatter and destroy it."
With that order all but Lyr departed from the main deck and began to go about preparing for the task ahead. Although Maryna never said to they would prepare for a battle with the Restin.
Lyr straightened up and faced Maryna, "Permission to speak m'lady?"
Maryna smiled at him and chuckled as she shook her head side to side, "Lyr, you are only a slave in the eyes of the Syndicate - when we are out here in the middle of the galaxy you are just another crew member like the rest of us. All we have is each other out here, no reason to add layers of segregation."
Smiling momentarily Lyr spoke, his voice deep and almost musical, "I sense that you knew it would come to this. If you did, why did you take the job?"
Maryna looked disconcerted, "The Restin are a blood thirsty group of reptilian scoundrels. Yes I knew coming here would lead to this - but if we can get our hands on the technology they are pretending to offer us this kind of thing will no longer be a worry. I just hope everything works out."
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