Madison sat at her station in the waist of the Roger where she was in command of the turrets and Triplex Tactical system. There were four others under her over all command and like most of the battle crew were bored out of their skulls. Madison an experienced commander of battle troops knew that idle hands often lead to poor performance when the best was needed or could lead to mutiny as it had once already aboard the Roger. To prevent a repeat of that tragic day Madison had her people engaged in a mock battle contest the winner winning a bottle of Kiester's best Whiskey and the right to not serve guard duty next planet fall. Meanwhile Madison had been monitoring space around the Roger for any suspicious activity near the Gas Giant that they'd refueled at three hours ago. She was also monitoring the bridge and engineering watching everything with the help of Dodger the Tac's AI and her friend. "The Captain's appearance of command is suffering again Madi" said Dodger in her headset where only she could hear him. "I know Dodger but until he loses control of the ship I must support him" she answers back. Madison's fingers drift across her command board almost effortlessly as she sends a private text to the Captain's station. (("I found three choice assignments while visiting the TAS (Traveler's Aid Society) 1- The Festival of Flowers on Lender Prime is 5 weeks away and we could stop by Falset 3 where there are vast fields of wild flowers free for the picking and fill our hold with rare beauties which the Lenders would pay handsomely for. Of course we'd need to drop by the Wesner system along the way an pick up a hydro system to keep the cargo alive. 2- Nunu system needs more passenger shuttles to help with the 20 year Migration and the Roger could take 500 a trip at 450 credits a pop and make 6 to 10 trips before Migration's end. That's 225,000 per trip which could come to 1,350,000 or 2,250,000 million credits, of course the Nunu would stink up the Roger but we could drop off at Winslet and have the Roger overhauled which she needs anyway and they'd freshen her up while the crew Vacations for 2 weeks. Number 3 is iffy but might net us a reward of 4 million credits and if we make a prize as high as 60 but the Roger's likely to take a pounding as it's a Pirate hunt and repairs might suck up our profits. Also there's the problem that we could spend a couple of months holding our collective Johnsons and never catch the bastards ))) Madison signs off and throws a few curves at her staff to make the Sim seem more like true battle