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"Attention Stardust crew.
This is your captain speaking.
All available personnel report to the bridge.
For the rest of you, listen up, I'll be broadcasting a big announcement.
Captain Hellfire out."
This is your captain speaking.
All available personnel report to the bridge.
For the rest of you, listen up, I'll be broadcasting a big announcement.
Captain Hellfire out."
Meg paced back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth. If there were carpets on her ship, she'd be wearing a tread into them. Her crew began to trickle in, concern and curiosity on their faces. She waited about ten minutes before she stood before her crew, standing on a storage box because while she's taller than average, she's still hard to see.
"My most loyal crew!" She began and nervous figeting spread through the crowd. Shit, she thought, Too formal. She cleared her throat and tried again. "I've called your asses here for news of our next mission." Some shoulders relaxed. Better. "If we succeed, we're garunteed a huge pay off." She paused, waiting for the news to sink in. That way they would have something to sway them towards taking on their most dangerous mission yet.
"Now before I tell you, I must also warn you that this is the most dangerous job we've ever taken on and you all know the types of jobs we've taken. Keep that in mind." She waited just another beat longer. "We're to retrieve a special part from a ship of legend."
People began to shout guesses. And all of them wrong. Meg allowed herself a mad grin to show just how... crazy this all really was. How much they were really putting on the line for this. "We're going after The Solarflare." Shouts of protest filled the air. Cries of Anger. Apparently, her stressing of the word "huge" wasn't sinking in as quickly as she hoped.
"Silence!" She shouted only once and waited, a hand on her blaster. She wouldn't actually shoot anyone but she can chuck the thing pretty good. When they calmed enough to listen she continued, "Now look. With the money we get, we could buy a large moon... or a small planet. We could finally have our own space to be. A place to call home so this home away from home doesn't seem so cramped. We could buy more ships and maybe become bigger than the Et Salvos Corporation! Now whose with me!?"
And then shit when sideways. Literally sideways as the ship took a blast from a side, tilting the room and everyone in it to the side. Sirens blared. Lights flickered. They were under attack.