Snippet #1375692

Theo couldn’t help but smile. Good old Thaddeus, he caught on to the plan to ask the crew about salvaging the mystery ship so fast, he hadn’t even gotten to mention it yet. His pilot wanted to know if they were gonna cruise pass the wreck or stop on by for a visit and security was advising caution. The rest of the crew remained silent, letting any thoughts they had go untold and waiting for him to issue orders. Well if they didn’t want to speak up, they better not whine.

“I think” said the captain, reaching up to pet the Ezrain Muscle Cat, “It is our duty, as honest spacers, to board this derelict and search for survivors. Of course if the crew has abandoned ship or they’ve already expired, we will of course tow the vessel to our port of call.”

A wicked sparkle gleamed in his eyes. While he wasn’t lying, that wasn’t the reason they were going to approach the wreck. It was a much nicer reason though, to enter into the log, then to record that they came running to the corpse of space to loot her. Besides, the claims court would ask each of the crew why they had gone aboard and with the damage the wreck had, someone might try to claim they were pirates. Better that everyone sing the same song when they reached Sihnon.

“Jacob” continued Theo, “Bring us in close here.”

His fingers worked the controls on the arm of his chair and the view on the screen closed in on an airlock on the derelict’s starboard. It was bigger then any of the airlocks on the Dancer but contained a smaller airlock within it, much like the ones on military transports or big cruiseliners, which allowed those vessel to load a greater number of personal, quicker then the smaller, standard airlock. They could easily attach their matting tube to it.

“Everyone else” finished the captain, “Get suited up and assemble at the port airlock. We have a….rescue mission to pull.”