Snippet #1371212

With his feet resting on the control panel and the comm channel to that little engineer Thaddeus online, Jacob enjoyed himself while listening to the man cursing through the comm. They didn't always get along, but Jacob sure as hell found Thaddeus failures funny enough to accept the man as a good and trustworthy one. Besides, it was more of a professional friendship between them rather than some annoying close-friendship. Those things always got the in the way of someones judgement when your life was at stake. That's why this pilot didn't want anyone getting too close to him. The captain seemed to trust him and that was good enough.

"Just got some exposed outer wirin' here. Nothin' I can't fix. We're gonna need some new radiation resistant plates out here 'fore the year is done. Not an entire set... as if we could afford it." The voice crackled through the comm. Jacob put down his feet from the control panel and moved over to where the communications were monitored.

"Hey, I heard that." The pilot replied with a fake serious tone before chuckling. Always funny to mess around with people. Come to think of it though, he wouldn't have much to do after Thaddeus is done out there, besides watching as the ship moves on forward by itself.

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Two hours came and went, and Jacob had drifted into sleeping. Yet that changed when he heard a pipping sound from the computer. It was the scanner and it had picked up another ship and a large one from the looks of it. It seemed damaged as the scanners showed signs of life support failures here and there, some of the hull of it had breached and there was metal parts, probably from the ship, floating around it. Jacob wanted to explore this ship further but he had his orders and unless the captain himself changed those orders, they were heading away from this opportunity for some great salvaging.

"Guess some things should remain untouched... for now." He slowly thought as he increased the Dancers speed just a bit.