BadForm
Bad attitude in any Form
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- Feb 26, 2001
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Space is deep and long...
I sighed and put down the electronic stylus of my personal journal. I was doing it again, writing double-entendres because of sexual frustration. Space was deep and long... but most of all, lonely.
I was captain of the Federation Ship Malacorp, a moderate sized escort ship. I had three crew: a gunner, a navigator and a co-pilot. Had at least one of them been a woman, then maybe some arrangement could have been made. Unfortunately, the Federation didn't think about crew morale when setting up long-distance flights. Now we were a year out from Homeport, having shipped supplies to a robotic mining operation, and had another year or more left on our tour.
Suddenly the computer spoke up.
Captain Parii, I am receiving a distress call.
Beside me, the co-pilot sat up.
"Put it on screen," I commanded.
The holoscreen opened with a crackly picture of a man begging for attention.
"Pirate" was the only word I could make out.
"Ok, stations crew, we have a pirate. Lock in and set course, arm weapons and be ready."
The location was only half a parsec away, in a dead part of space off the major trade lanes. We arrived in time to see a private craft disintegrate under fire from a single-person combat vessel.
"Lock on target," I commanded, "this one's going down for murder. Now pull him up on screen, we might as well give him a chance to surrender."
My co-pilot snorted at the ridiculous rules we had to live by. Nobody who had just been seen committing piracy and murder by a federation ship was going to surrender - they would be killed anyway. But it was the rule.
The cockpit of the pirate craft flicked onto the holoscreen. Together, my copilot and I gasped. The pirate was a woman, and a beautiful one at that.
OOC: Whoever wants to play the woman needs to know the combat vessel cannot (she knows it and we know it) outfight or outrun the Malacorp.
I sighed and put down the electronic stylus of my personal journal. I was doing it again, writing double-entendres because of sexual frustration. Space was deep and long... but most of all, lonely.
I was captain of the Federation Ship Malacorp, a moderate sized escort ship. I had three crew: a gunner, a navigator and a co-pilot. Had at least one of them been a woman, then maybe some arrangement could have been made. Unfortunately, the Federation didn't think about crew morale when setting up long-distance flights. Now we were a year out from Homeport, having shipped supplies to a robotic mining operation, and had another year or more left on our tour.
Suddenly the computer spoke up.
Captain Parii, I am receiving a distress call.
Beside me, the co-pilot sat up.
"Put it on screen," I commanded.
The holoscreen opened with a crackly picture of a man begging for attention.
"Pirate" was the only word I could make out.
"Ok, stations crew, we have a pirate. Lock in and set course, arm weapons and be ready."
The location was only half a parsec away, in a dead part of space off the major trade lanes. We arrived in time to see a private craft disintegrate under fire from a single-person combat vessel.
"Lock on target," I commanded, "this one's going down for murder. Now pull him up on screen, we might as well give him a chance to surrender."
My co-pilot snorted at the ridiculous rules we had to live by. Nobody who had just been seen committing piracy and murder by a federation ship was going to surrender - they would be killed anyway. But it was the rule.
The cockpit of the pirate craft flicked onto the holoscreen. Together, my copilot and I gasped. The pirate was a woman, and a beautiful one at that.
OOC: Whoever wants to play the woman needs to know the combat vessel cannot (she knows it and we know it) outfight or outrun the Malacorp.