New Start 14 Pay Day

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New Start 14 Pay Day

07:00 Local

Chris walked to James, cabin carrying two large cups of coffee, he manages to knock on the door,

James: awoke with a start trying to figure out what had startled him, when he heard the knock, He got up from the bed and opened the door,

Chris: morning James as he walks in here try some coffee, You didn’t stay up all night did you?

James took the coffee and sipped it, no but I must have been in a sound sleep when you knocked cause I woke up and didn’t know were I was for a few Sezuras, Have a seat Ill get ready, James headed to the head, took a shower, shaved, walked out with a towel on, noted that Chris had left, got dressed, drained the coffee cup and sat down to put on his boots, when Chris came back, carrying a carafe of coffee,

Chris: figured we mite need this, and set the coffee on the desk.

James finished putting on his boots, walked over to the desk and refilled his cup, turned to Chris,
I looked at the files, can you get them all ?

Chris: Ill try,

James: lets go have Breakfast,

They entered the mess hall and set down ,

Henry brought a carafe of coffee and took the old one, what would you like for breakfast?

James: I like a western omelet hash browns and some French toast,

Chris: a cheese omelet, hash browns and a stake, biscuits and gravy

James put a some biscuits and gravy with that,

Henry: Ill be right back with that, and left

Jeff & Mike walked up and sat down helped them self to the coffee,

Tracy walked up to Chris I’ve sent some breakfast over to Eagle One, then sat down pored herself some coffee,

Henry returned and took their orders, and left,

Mike: do you want me to send the gold to the bank ?

James: not yet, do we have the transport available to move the goods off Eagle One?

Mike: if we use the Dolphins and 2 Sparrows yes,

James pulled out his data pad and contacted Jake, Jake can you find buyers for the good on Eagle One

Jake: I will check

James closed the data pad and put it back in the flight bag, finished off his coffee and pored another,

Chris: I will need to replenish our food and supplies to day if possible,

James: if we have to send Sparrow 5 out to day send the list with him and he can bring them back,

Chris, comms buzzed, Chris opened it, yes , ok let them dock, and send some one to show them to the mess hall, out and put his communicator away, our guest that I told you about have arrived a little early,

James: a little early ya 2 Stazuras early.

Henry returned with their meals, and more coffee,

Chris: Henry we have some guest arriving will need some more coffee and see if they want some breakfast.

Henry: yes Sir.

5 mazuras later 6 Men and two Women showed up being escorted by the ships Security Chief,
who reported to Chris, Sir the guest you were expecting,

Chris rose and greeted them and maid introductions, Tony Brock, Anthony Quinn, Amanda Black, Sara Armstrong, then Bob Ulrich, John Addler, Ernst Daly, Alberto Drogo introduced them self’s.

James greeted them and introduced Jeff, Mike and Tracy, Sit have some coffee and breakfast .

Henry was their pouring coffee and taking orders,

After Breakfast they sat and talked Mike and Jeff asked questions on their service record, and about some of the assignments they had,

Chris: I know that you all have had a good career in the military, and are looking for positions, we have a HQ station and a TL that need Security Personnel, that and this Carrier and 26 Fighters 6 TP belong to Hawk’s Security Inc, I don’t know if you have heard of us but we have maid some enemies that have put a bounty on us,
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Tony Brock: Id say you have, and from what I have heard you have cleaned up three sectors doing it. I look at the fighters you have, I have not seen that model before, we saw two elephants and the HQ as we arrived, I noted that you have a CAP up, Have you had some uninvited visitors,

Chris: yes, and only one of the TL belong to us the other belongs to Argon Security, the fighters are James’ design.

Tony Brock: I’ve heard of them too.

James: if you want the positions let Chris know and he will get our Office manager to draw up the contracts, you will need to get 30 more personnel, to fill the Security requirements. I have some business to take care of, I hope to see you later, Mike & Jeff followed James to the docking area and they enter James’ ship.

James: Jake what did you come up with,

Jake: 20,000 computer components for $1,447= $28,940,000 , 25,000 micro chips for $14,346= $358,650,000, 30,000 crystals for $1,729= 51,870.000 2 Falcons for $1,688,000 =$3,376,000 Total After Delivery $442,836,000
And I need 5 Ships for 3 Stazuras,

James: When ?

Jake: before Noon tomorrow.

James: Mike what runs do we have today,

Mike: two Sparrows in HN and going to AP

James that leaves us 4 Sparrows and 3 Dolphins, Jake load up the ships and let me know how many escorts are needed. Mike: have the Sparrows head to Eagle One. Jeff we may have to fly escort, I’m going to the office to talk to Thresica, let me know when were ready to fly.

Mike: ok

Jake: wilco

10:00 Local

Jake: loading complete 2 dolphins local trade and AM escorts H 1&3,11&21, sparrow6 to KE H escorts 8&9, Sparrow 5 to RD escorts H 2&10 1 Dolphin to HN escorts H 11& 14 Sparrow 3 TW escorts H 19&20Sparrow 4 to CBNW escorts H 22&23

James: Mike Notify the pilots to be ready to leave in 30 Mazuras leave the rest on cap and stand by. Jeff let me know when our group is ready I’m going to the office, Jeff & Mike depart the ship, Jake undock and land on the station,

Mike Roger

Jake: roger hatch secure, departing, Docking, Landing, hatch open

James departed and hurried to the office, is Thresica in?

Anjanette: yes.

James knocked and entered, Morning what did Captain Richard have?

Thresica, a bounty payment and a congratulations.

James: how much?

Thresica: 2.5 Mil. And I got a list and a recommendation from the TL captain, that I’m looking in to.

James: good, I’m escorting some ships to Antigone Memorial, Be back for dinner.

Thresica: take care and stay out of trouble.

James: who me, and leaves

James gets back in to his ship and straps in, Jake show me the sector scan, James noted that there were 4 groups moving away from the TL and then three jumped out of sector, Mike status,

Mike: Sparrow 6,5,3 have all ready Jumped Sparrow 4 waiting on escort, Jeff moving to SSP

Jeff : dolphin 1 docking at SSP group moving to next SSP

Samantha: Sparrow 4 departing TL, linking up with escorts Jumping to CBNW.

James: Ill meet up with the dolphin at the SSP then we link up for trip to AM,

Jake undock head to SSP XL Bata.

Jake: roger, hatch secured, undocking, departing station, lane cleared, heading to SSP. approaching ssp

James saw the dolphin departing the station and head for the link point. James followed.

James and the Dolphin waited at the link point till Jeff and the rest showed up, ok lets head to the east gate Melody lead, stay alert

Melody: roger

Melody led the group to the east gate,

James: Jeff & Leann jump to AM check out the gate entrance and give me a call when clear.

Jeff: roger Jump in 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Jump and they vanished.

Jeff: Gate clear.

James: Melody go on thru TL’s follow Ill take rear guard.

Melody: roger and started moving toward the gate.

Jeff: Leann lets move in 20 km and stay alert

Leann: roger and started to move as she approached the 20 km mark she noted a blip on her lg range scanner, Contact bearing,600, 178

Jeff: I got him, James contact nothing, they must be entering the gate stay with me.

Leann: roger as they started to move contacts 3 no 4 same bearing

Jeff: tgt’s 4 you take 1 I’m on 2 and they hit the full thrusters,

Melody: entered AM and say the H1 &11 speeding away from her she hit the boosters to clear the gate as Dolphin 1 came thru followed closely by Dolphin 2 she sent a warning to the Dolphins to hit the boosters and close on her while leading them to the trading station.

James entered AM

Jake: warning 4 contacts identified Pirates H 2&11 Closing contact in 5 Mazuras

James: Intercept course hit the boosters, as he watched the scanners noted that Melody was leading the transport to the trading station

Jake: Intercept course laid in contact in 7 Mazuras,

James: Intercept tgt 3,

Jake roger intercept in 5 Mazuras

Jeff: waited till tgt 2 was in range opened with his main guns while loosing missiles on tgts 1&2 then opened with his turret guns when the pilot in tgt 2 ejected, He switched to tgt4 noted that tgt 1 had ejected and James was headed to engage tgt 3 Leann cap the ships and send them to the equipment dock,

Leann: roger

Jake: tgt entering firing range, engaging shields at 60% tgt firing missile turrets acquiring firing missile destroyed tgt shields at 20% tgt turning,

James: stayed with the tgt he was evading fire when the tgt turned, he had to turn hard to stay with it, then he saw the flash of the pilot ejecting he turned away from the ship as the pilot hit his shields,

Jake: scanning ejecting space weed engaging destroyed, ship capped and headed to equipment dock,

James saw that their were no more tgts and headed to link up with Jeff.

Melody: saw that the ships had been caped and call the transport to continue to the SSP M beta.

Leann: had capped the ships scanned them for contraband ejected it and destroyed it. Then she headed toward the equipment dock and called for sector security to pick up the pilots, noted that sector security had not left their station till the battle was over,

James: Jeff I need you to contact sector police and send them an engagement report, since they cowered in their station till the battle was over.

Jeff: wilco.

James headed toward the first SSP M beta to wait for Melody,

Jeff: Leann Take up a patrolling station, Ill dock with the equipment dock and file the Police report and check on the ships.

Leann: roger

Jeff landed and went to the Police station gave them a copy of the engagement taps and filled out the report, The police thank him and said they send the report forward when the Pilots were Identified. Jeff went to the docking area to check on the ships was met by the repair mechanic who was scanning the ships for damages.

Mechanic: do you want to sell the ships or repair them?

Jeff asked to see his report but the mechanic pulled his data pad back and shut it off. Give me a Mazura I need to contact my boss and went into his ship, James I don’t want to do business here this mechanic is dishonest,

James: how bad are the ships?

Jeff I don’t know I haven’t been able to check them.

James: ok stay there and watch them, Ill call you back shortly.

James: Jake get me Chris

Jake: communication established,

James: Chris I need you to jump to AM I got 4 ships for you to load up.

Chris: roger be there in 20 Mazuras

James: out Jeff Phoenix will be here in 20 Mazuras,

Jeff roger

Jake: how long till the deliveries are done?

Jake: 1 done moving to SSP M alpha approximately 25 min

James watch the long range scanner for unfriendly ships, as the time moved slowly by. Then he saw the Phoenix arrive,

Chris: James are the ships at the equipment center?

James: yes Ill have Jeff send them to you, Jeff send the ships to the carrier,

Jeff roger.

James watched as the ships left the equipment dock headed toward the carrier, when the 4th one docked James saw Jeff headed toward him.

Jake: goods transfer complete.

James: right on time lets get out of here, Chris when your ready head home.

Chris Wilco.

James: Melody lead the dolphins to the west gate,

Melody: roger

James watch the ships line up and head to the west gate, watched the Phoenix Jump out, then he followed the ships to the west gate. He was keeping a close eye on the scanner when he noted 2 falcons appear between them and the west gate,

Jake: two Pirates falcons identified marked as tgt 1&2

James : warn them off but before he could get the command out they were engaging H21 and Jeff was on intercept course with his booster on set intercept course and engage tgts

Jake: set and engaging intercept in 2 M 1 M tgt 1 entering firing range shields at 20 % 10%

James: hold fire switch to tgt 2

Jake: tgt 1 pilot ejecting tgt 2 entering firing range shields at 30% engaging shields at5% pilot ejecting scanning space fuel ejected engaging destroyed ship captured tgt 1 Captured Leann contacted sector police are dispatching cruiser to pick up pilots.

James: Leanne follow the ships thru, send ships to the carrier we’ll follow shortly.

Leanne: roger

Jeff: I have sent engagement reports to sector police.

James: roger, well hold till these pilots are picked up.

Jeff: roger

James watched as sector police picked up the pilots and headed back to their base. ok Jeff lets get out of here.

Jeff: roger and headed to the gate.

James followed him thru as he entered Power circle he noted that the Falcons were headed to the Phoenix, the Dolphins were headed to Eagle One

Jeff: can you check out the ships, Ill be at the office.

Jeff: roger see you in a bit.

James landed at the station and headed to the office, when he arrived Anjanette told him that Thresica needed to see him,

James: thank you and headed to Thresica’s office but she was not there as he turned he heard Anjanette say in the conference room. OK he knocked then entered the conference room, there were 14 people and Thresica

Thresica spotted him first Come in James and meet part of your TL crew,

James went to stand beside Thresica and she introduced them, Harold Smith Capt
Frances Moore OX
Mark Garcia Station Deployment
Patricia Martin Assembly Technician , Structural Engineer
Helen Scott Systems Engineer, Electrical Engineer
Kevin Cook Construction Engineer, Station Builder Controller
Dorothy Brown Construction Engineer, Environmental Engineer
Donna Cooper Maintenance Officer 3rd Class, Supply/storage Manager
Larry Foster Maintenance Officer 2nd Class , Flight engineer
Virginia Hughes Communications Officer
Joyce Powell Navigations Officer
Carl Diaz Engine Maintenance Officer
Kenneth Long Machinist, Ship Repair Specialist.
Andrew Simmons Chief Chef

After James Talked to each of them, I would like to welcome you to our family, I will Introduce you to other member at Dinner 7:00 PM in the Lounge Now if you will excuse us I would like to Speak with the Capt and XO Sherry Took the Crew and was going to show them the station.

James: Harold you can refurbish the ship in any manor that you see fit hire any additional crew members that you will need to get the ship operational, I want you and Frances to meet the Capt Chris Johnson and his XO Tracy Eastman they are Building a advanced Jump drive for Eagle One. Once you have checked out Eagle One send a supplies and equipment list to Thresica and she get them for you, do you have any questions,

Harold: you talked about an advance jump drive, I have not heard of one.

James: yes it’s a new design not on the market it uses no energy cells,

Frances: I just wondering where do you plan on housing the crews?

James: on the ship till next week, then our station will be completed,

Harold: that station under construction is yours?

James: yes I was suppose to check on its status today but I’ve been Busy, and tomorrow I have to go to KE to pick up some ships, maybe you and some of your people can check it out for me,

Harold Id love to, do you have any transporters we can use?

James: Ill assign you one of our Sparrows. James looks at Thresica, have you heard from any of the other ships?

Thresica: yes 1 of our teams was hit in TW by 4 Pirate falcons 1 was destroyed 3 were captured no team damages, another team was engaged in RD by 4 Pirate falcons 4 were captured no team damages, both request that the ships be picked up,

James good send a message to the Phoenix and have them pick them up. I’m going to Eagle One we’ll be back for dinner.

Thresica: ok

James, Howard and Frances leave the office and head to the docking area James show them to his ship,

Howard: I saw a couple of these when we came in,

James: that was our CAP, we have had some uninvited quest show up in the past I don’t want to give them any easy targets.

They enter the ship, James showed Frances the cabin and ask her to strap in, then has Howard take the copilot seat and strap in James strapped into the pilots seat, Jake prepare to undock and land on Eagle 1,

Jake: hatch secure, departing station, station cleared, approaching, Eagle One

Howard: the ship looks like it is in good condition,

James: I have had the hull cleaned and the hull should be painted tomorrow, James noted that the CAP was headed toward him then they dipped their wings as they flew by,

Jake: entering ship, landing, hatch open.

James unbuckled and headed to the hatch, Frances was coming out of the cabin,

Frances: this is a wonderful ship but I don’t recognize the design,

James: Its my design with some improvements.

As they traveled thru the docking area Harold was looking at the ships parked and inspecting the layout.

As they entered the maim corridor they were meet by Sam, Hi James
James: Sam I want you to meet Harold Smith Eagle One’s new Capt and Frances Moore ships XO

Sam: good to meet you and shakes there hands, does this mean I can leave?

James: yes they will be taking over

James: show them the ship, I’m going to check out the ships,

Sam, ok I can do that, follow me

James returned to the docking bay and entered Sparrow 4 that had returned from CBSW Samantha was on bard checking the ships status when James walked in.

Samantha: Hi Boss How can I help you?

James: I have assigned you and Sparrow 4 to Eagle One, The captain Harold Smith will have you take him and some of the crew to inspect the Station tomorrow,

Samantha: ok

James: thank you turned and left entered his ship Jake have the gold in the armory moved to the cargo bay and secure it. James entered the cabin and opened his data pad. Saw that he had a message from KE and opened it, it read James your ships are ready for pick up Salas.

Jake: roger

James looked over the account balances, and closed down the computer and entered the cockpit and strapped in Jake lets go to the station,

Jake roger hatch secured, departing ship, docking granted proceeding to dock, landing dock clamps secured, opening hatch.

James exited the ship and headed to his room to change for dinner. As he entered the apt he saw Mike and Jeff sitting in the living room,

James: we had a good day to day, take a look at our account balances, while I get cleaned up,

Mike: I did and its looking good, will need more ships to keep up with the demand.

Jeff: I will and get his data pad,

James went to his room got out some casual clothes to put on then went to take a shower.

James entered the living room

Jeff: the accounts look good we ha enough to buy the ships and more, do you think we will be able to order more freighters and more escorts ?

James: I’m sure Salas will be willing to build more ships for us.

Jeff: I hope so now we can expand, will be able to provide safe shipping,

James: yes we can handle the pirates it’s the Klack and Xenon that worry me.

Mike: let go were late for dinner.

James and Jeff follow Mike out of the apt and head to the lift.

As they enter the lift James communicator buzzes, he looks at the caller and answers Hi Thresica, on the way to the lounge, ok see you soon, and closes the communicator, James: Thresica is waiting on us.

Mike and Jeff laugh, she kipping track of you hua.

James: I guess, the lift doors open and they exit and walk down the corridor to the lounge and enter, and walk to the private dinning room were the group was waiting.

James walks up to Thresica, Were Here were do you want us to sit?

Thresica: right there, and “points to the sit at the head of the table” the rest of you wherever there is a seat.

Mike takes a seat next to Thresica and Jeff sits to the right of James,

Thresica: pore your self some coffee I have some new crew members for you to meet after dinner and the waiter should be here soon to take your orders.

James Good I hope some more pilots have shown up?

Jimmy: May I take your orders,

James: Chief Salad

Jeff: Argnu Stake Medium and fries a side salad with house dressing

Mike: Argnu stake Medium well Fries and side salad with house dressing

Thresica: Argnu stake medium rare with baked potato with sour cream and extra butter, and salad with house dressing

Jimmy: Ill be right back with more coffee,

Thresica: yes ten pilots did show up to day and I sent them to the Phoenix, two Transport pilots arrived and are staying on station will be here at 9:00pm and some of the station security personnel and some of the station support personnel have arrived.

James: ok, but lets keep it short tonight tomorrow will be a hectic day with the ship pick up and the moving.

Thresica: I just want them to get a look at you and then we can call it a night, will you need the transport pilots for the pick up tomorrow?

James: I don’t know but they can go with us just in case.

Jimmy: replaced the carafe of coffee refilled Thresica’s tea and left.

James: the accounts are looking good I think we need a separate account for the HQ and Ships.

Thresica: I was thinking of that and Ill take care of it.

James: ok

Jimmy returned with the meals and passed them out, do you require any thing else?
Then turned and left.

They ate and when they were done Thresica led them to a table and introduced them,

James greeted then and welcomed them to Hawk’s Security Service, then departed for his apt,
Laid out his clothes and climbed into bed,

[Ramius85]

good stuff keep up the good work