New Start 29 Power Circle

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New Start 29 Power Circle


James and Jeff walked into the briefing room Mike, Sam, Chris and Randle were seated around the table, James moved to the head and Jeff sat down next to him,

James is any one else coming?

Chris: Derick and Erick will be here shortly,

Randle: Chuck and Tony are on there way,

James: ok, Lets grab some coffee and wait on them, James walked over to the cart that had been left and pored a cup of coffee, then went back to his seat while the others got coffee or drinks,

Chuck walked in with Tony, they headed to the cart grabbed coffee and pastries then sat down,

Erick entered and left the door open, James saw Derick talking on his communicator, then put it away as he entered and closed the door.

James: grab some coffee and have a seat,

Once all were seated, James: I want to thank you all for your support, the mission was a success and we had no causalities, I will look over the ships after breakfast and determine what to do with them, then sat down,

Chris: we had two fighters damaged, they should be repaired within the next stazura.

Mike: all of the captured personnel will be turned over to the authorities in Argon Prime, I will have a full report by noon,

Sam: I don’t think that group of pirates will be bothering any one else for a while, two of it’s main leaders were captured on the carriers,

James: I want the ships resupplied and ready to go to day, if you have any special needs send the request to Thresica, once I check out the Cruisers and the Carriers we’ll take them to KE, and let Salas look at them I plan on increasing the fleet with the cruisers and get another Phoenix carrier, if there is no more business to discuss, lets get breakfast.


Chris: I like the New Phoenix Class and would like to try it out,

James: I’ll consider it.

The group broke up, and the partners headed to the cafeteria,
As they entered James spotted Thresica and Dorothy sitting in the back, he headed that way and said : Good morning ladies mind if we join you,

Thresica; no have a seat

James sat down Jeff, Mike, and Sam took seats, a waitress came over and pored coffee for each and took orders, then left.

James we had a good night,

Thresica: I heard, and a lot of personnel are in good modes this morning,

Mike: they should be they performed excellently.

The waitress returned with a breakfast cart and passed out there orders, refilled there coffee cups and left.

After breakfast James asked Thresica if she would like to tour the ships with him,

Thresica: sure I would like that.

Dorothy: I need to get back to the operation center, and left.

The rest of the group finished breakfast and went to the docking area,

James: let’s start with the cruisers.

As the group entered the first cruiser, a Maintenance technician was checking out the small docking bay,

James: excuse me but could you tell me who is in charge of checking this ship out?

The technician stopped and walked over: yes sir, Linda Wailings our Maintenance Officer is in charge,

James: could you get her for me?

Technician: yes sir, he engaged his communications, Linda visitors for you,
Ok, out. Sir she will be right here. then he returned to checking out the fighter.

James walked thru the bay looking at the craft when Ms Wailings walked up,

Linda: can I help you Mr. Hawk?

James: yes Show me what we have, and tell me if we should keep it,
Linda: I’ll try

James: good lets start with the docking bay

Linda: its small maybe 1 lt fighter, it will not dock our fighters or transports,

James; Ok the engines

Linda: the engines are in good working order and have been maxed out the ships max speed is 91km to slow to be of any use to us our carrier can do twice that. It has a jump drive, and has max rudders.

James: weapons and shields,

Linda: it has 2 125 MJ shields, we identified 4 Alpha High Energy Plasma throwers 4 Bata Particle Accelerator Cannons, and 2 Bata High Energy Plasma Throwers. The ship controls are in good working order, the wiring is old but working,

James: and should we keep it?

Linda: sir I don’t know what you would use it for, and upgrading it would cost plenty I think you would do better getting a new Corvette-class ship.

James: Thank you for your input, I’ll take it under advisement, do you know who is checking out the carriers?

Linda: I think Kirk Silva from HQ has that job,

James: thank you, and he turned back to the others, and asked: your thoughts!

Jeff: she is probably right,

Mike: and she has a point a Corvette-class ship is faster and can have just as good if not better weapons,

Thresica: not my area of expertise , and smiled.

Sam: all good points, let’s look at the carriers, if we sell all of these plus some of the fighters we caped today, we can get two new Corvettes with the credits we get.

James: ok lets go. He turned and headed back to the dock entrance and left the ship. James called Kirk and asked him to meet them on the ramp,

As James approached the carrier he saw Kirk standing and giving orders over his communicator,

James waited till he was thru talking then walked up to him: Kirk thanks for meeting us, and shook his hand.

Kirk: no problem sir, how can I help you,

James: Id like you to show me the ship and give me your honest assessment on the ship.

Kirk: OK, lets go inside the bay is full of fighters most of the are flyable some need work some need rebuilds,

James: we’ll probably sell all of them,

Kirk: I think that’s a prudent move.

Then he added the ship is old and has minimum maintenance done to it over the years,
Its operational but a good battle will leave it defenseless. The shields are weak and the weapons are of substandard grade,

James followed Kirk as he led them thru the ship, he stopped in a storage area and pointed at some chests,

Kirk we found these and 10 more they all have been checked for traps but left secured,

James: Mike can check them out and move them to our vault,

Mike: will do, and he walks over to one and scans it, and reports that there are no booby traps, then he proceeded to crack the locking codes, and opened the chest,

Inside was some gold coins and several gold bars, some guns and armor,

Mike relocked the chest and called for a security drone and antigravity sled to get the chests.

Mike: I’ll get you an inventory.

James: ok

They continued there tour,

Kirk: did you get the message from Maxwell,

James: no< I haven’t checked my messages

Kirk: we found 7 prisoners in the hold.

James: were they all Argons?

Kirk: no two were Boron, and 1 was Teladi,

James: Who is taking care of them?

Kirk: Carrie is from Hq security Tm 2,

James: Sam Check on there status,

Sam: ok and turned and open communications to the security station.

James: thank you Kirk you may return to your duties we’ll be heading back to Hq shortly.

Kirk: yes sir, turns and leaves,

James: Jeff check on these and get them ready to go to KE I’ll call Salas and inform him that we are coming,

Jeff: ok, I’ll get them ready to go.

Thresica: I need to get to the office will I see you later?

James: maybe for dinner.

Thresica: ok, then turned and walked away

James left the carrier and walked to his ship, entered: Jake get Salas for me

Jake: roger,

James went in to the cabin and sat down at his desk,

Jake: I have Salas,

James: on screen, Hi Salas, how are you,

Salas: fine thank you, I was going to call you and let you know that the carrier is ready for pick up,

James: good I don’t have a crew yet but I will be in KE later, I have two Cruisers for you and two Carracks and some fighters, I want you to sale them for me, and I want to know if you have any Corvette-class ships,

Salas: were working on a M7 Class you may be interested in.

James: yes I look at it when we get there,

Salas I’ll meet you, when you arrive.

James: Thank you, and closed the connection. Then called Jeff

Jeff: yes

James: are the ships ready to go?

Jeff: not yet were still unloading goods from the carriers, we’ll need 2 more stazuras

James: ok, Salas will be waiting for us, and he has our carrier ready,

Jeff: do we have a crew?

James I’ll call Tracy and see if we can get some people to fly it back here.

Jeff: I’ll put a fire under the people,

James: I’ll call you back in a few, Its near lunch time I’ll want to fly after lunch,

Jeff: ok

James called Tracy,

Tracy: yes sir,

James: Can you spare me a crew to fly the Phoenix 5.

Tracy, I guess I can since were docked to the HQ.

James: good, I’ll see you in the lounge for lunch and we can make arrangements,

Tracy: OK see you at 12:30

James: fine, and disconnects, then called Chris

Chris: Yes sir,

James: we will be picking up the Phoenix 4 after lunch, meet me in the lounge at 12:30,

Chris: roger,

James: Jake get me Commander Danna,

Jake: roger

Three Mizuras later

Jake: I have Commander Danna on line,

James: put him thru, Hello Ben,

Ben: James, your mission went well, but the commission doesn’t have the funds to pay all of the bounties, But the rewords that were collected is in excess of 85,000,000 cr.


James: Ben that is great news, Ill need it when I pick up my new carrier, which is why I am calling, I need a crew and 80 pilots,

Ben: I have plenty of pilots but a carrier crew, I just managed to get the one for the ship you loaned me, But I’ll see what I can do.

James: any personnel will be appreciated,

Ben: I’ll check, and call you back, then the connection was broken.

James checked the time 11:20, then he left the ship and headed to the HQ,

James walked into the hq greeted Anjanette and went to Thresica’s office, knocked on the door and entered, Thresica was sitting behind the desk working on her computer, and looked up as James entered.

Thresica: Hi James, we just got a transfer of funds from AP, it is huge,

James I know but that is just the rewards the bounties will follow soon as AP gets the funds together. But I need you to get me some crew members for the Phoenix 5, Ben will be sending us the pilots,

Thresica: Phoenix 5! We just finished crewing the Phoenix 3 and what about the ships you captured last knight?

James: I decided to sell them, and Salas has a new Corvette or Frigate class ship he wants me to look at,

Thresica: Ok, you’re the Boss I’ll get right on it.

James: I’ll pick you up at 12:20 for lunch.

Thresica: ok

James: left the office and headed to the pent house elevator. Then up to his suite,
And entered he found Mike and Sam organizing the Vault.

James: how is it going,

Mike: were just about done, we’ll have to get rid of some of these weapons and armor soon,

James: Ok, how much gold do we have now,


Mike: the computer reports 1,876,976,678 credits worth.

James: good, we’re having lunch at 12:30 then were going to KE to dump the ships and pick up our Phoenix 5, and look at a new ship that Salas is working on.


Mike: ok

Sam: cool a new ship did he say what class,

James: He mentioned M-6 and M-7

Sam: a frigate class is cool,

James we’ll see, meet me in the lounge at 12:30, James walked back to the elevator and entered, when James got off of the elevator his communicator chirped, He answered it,

Carrie: Mr Hawk I just wanted to give you an update on the personnel we found the Baron’s were returned to KE, and the 1 Argon was taken to AP, the Teladi and 3 Argons want to talk to Thresica about jobs with us. They were happy, and excited to be away from the Pirates, some said that we would be rewarded,

James: thank you and good job,

Carrie: Thank you sir, and disconnected.

James continued his journey to HQ. as he was entering the office, Thresica met him at the door,

Thresica: Hi, you ready for lunch?

James: Yes, let’s go. James took Thresica’s arm and they headed to the lounge,
James opened the door to the private dining room and found it full of his employees, Mike was talking to a group near the back, Sam and Jeff were sitting at a table talking to Chris and Tracy, James headed that way and pulled a seat out for Thresica, then he sat down next to her,

James: I guess everyone is here, and waved for the waiter,

The Waiter approached, took orders and left,

Tracy: I have my crew ready to go to KE,

Chris: I’m looking forward to checking out the new carrier.

Mike: all of the goods have been removed from the ships and there ready to go,

James: Have you assigned people to fly them to KE?

Mike: yes most of the crew from the Phoenix 3 will fly the 4 that we are turning in and come back on the Phoenix 5, are we taking the Phoenix 1 as escort?

James: Yes and our fighters loaded on the carrier,

Thresica: I have a list of Pilots that Commander Danna is sending, and I have had several applicants respond to the add I sent out, I have scheduled them for interviews starting tomorrow after lunch,

James: Chris can interview them if there are any that he likes we’ll check them out, the Pilots can stay on board the phoenix 5 and start there training,

The Waiter returned with his cart and passed out the orders,

James picked up his stake sandwich and took a bite, it was tender and had just the right amount of spices, then he started on his fries,

When all were finished with there lunch they headed to there assigned ship,

James went to his ship entered and strapped in, Jake: prepare to undock

Jake: roger, hatch secured, docking clamps released, departing station,

James marked a position on the sector map :Jake stand by here, and his ship moved to the position.

Jake: standing by

James watched as the ship’s undocked and moved to a position designated by Randle from the Phoenix 1, after all ships were in position, James: Phoenix 1 were coming in to land,

Randle: Roger

James: Jake land on the Phoenix1, : Jeff follow me in

Jake: roger
Jeff: roger

James headed to the carrier entered the docking bay and landed, the hatch opened, James unstrapped and exited the craft just as Jeff was landing beside him, James waited for Jeff to exit his ship then they both headed to the bridge,

Upon entering Randle reported that all ships were ready to jump, James nodded and took a set in the command center, the ship jumped to KE,

Randle: deploy the fighters, and dock, then he turned to James, and asked: do you have any special orders?

James: No, just keep the sector clear while the ships dock.

Randle: roger

James: I’ll be in the docking bay, he and Jeff left the bridge,

Jeff: He’s a good captain, are you going to move him to the Phoenix 2?

James: if he asks, I will, But I think he’ll want to stay here, Its to boring deploying stations, that’s what Chris tells me.

Jeff: I guess so.

They entered the bay and walked to the docking port to watch the ships dock with the ship yard and waited till the ship docked, then they went down to the landing bay and gathered up there crews that were departing the docked ships, James spotted Chris, Mike and Sam and walked over to them,

James: that was a good jump,

Chris: yes it was,

James spotted several station transports approaching, then saw Salas driving the first one, :Here is our rides, and moved to greet Salas,

James: Salas, thank you for meeting us,

Salas: not a problem, Have your people load up and we will go, As James turned he saw that Chris was already sending people to the transports, he climbed in followed by Jeff, Mike, Sam and then Chris and one other that he didn’t recognize, and the transport started to move,

Salas: the ship is not far hold on, as he accelerated, took several turns and stopped at a check point and told the guard to open the door.

The doors opened, there was the new Phoenix, Painted flat black, and the dock lights made it look Ominous, Salas drove to the docking ramp then up into the ship and came to a stop at the elevators,

Salas: the ship is ready and I have all ready transferred the registration over, will you be touring the ship or do you want to see the one we talked about,

James: Chris you want to check out the ship and get the crew loaded, we will be back shortly,

Chris: ok, and climbed out of the transport,

Salas drove the transport back out of the bay and thru several more were ships of all kinds were being worked on, then pulled up to a door were he was greeted by the guard.

Salas Gave the guard a data pad and the guard looked at it and gave it back to Salas, the guard then went to the control booth and opened the door wide enough for the transporter to enter,

Salas drove thru the door and it closed then the inner door opened, Salas drove thru it and there was a huge ship that looked Boron but one that has never been in the emptiness of space. James took in the size of the ship it was almost as large as a small carrier, Salas drove around it to the docking ramp, then up in to the ship,

Salas: this is a Frigate class ship its faster then Corvette class and has to internal dock for 4 fighters and an external one for a transport, it has four forward gun ports, it has 10 turrets, two on top, two on bottom, two on left side, two on right side and two in the rear plus four torpedo launchers two forward and two rearward facing, it has 4 1 mega joule shields, takes a crew of 20 to 80 plus 4 pilots, it has good acceleration and turning, This one is our prototype, it will start its space trials in 3 Tazuras,

James: I think this is exactly what we were looking for, can we see the rest of the ship,

Salas: sure follow me, Salas took them to the engine room, then the galley, showed them the storage areas and the crew quarters, then took them to the bridge,

Mike: I like it.

Jeff: I think it will meet our requirements.

Sam: It’s a very nice ship,

Salas: it has our new self repairing hull, and a Stealth mode shield that renders it invisible on radar scans.

James: can I buy it and run it thru its trials?

Salas: It is my design and my station built it, I say yes. Ill will sale it to you.

James: when will it be ready for a crew,

Salas: its ready now but provisions will need to be loaded, and the hull needs to be painted, I think that is scheduled for to day, I t can leave the dock tomorrow.

James: I will have a transport drop off provisions and crew in the morning, ok

Salas: that will be fine, How many of these do you require?

James: I think 6 for now,

Salas: I will put in the order, do you want more fighters, and transports?

James: yes, both to support these.

Salas: very well I will see to it, and with that size of order I can save you a lot of credits.

James: Thank you, you are to kind, and hands over his data pad for Salas to transfer the funds,

Salas: I just transferred the funds for this one, four fighters, and a transport, I will sell the ships you dropped off and apply the credits to your order

James: fine lets go back to the dock ok,

Mike: James can Sam and me stay here and check out the controls and upload our AI,

James: looked at Salas who nodded James : fine Ill send the transport with Provisions and crew in the morning well leave your fighters in the dock,

Mike: just leave them at the HQ I think I’ll stay onboard for the trials,

James: ok see you tomorrow.

Salas drove the transport back to the dock, were the Phoenix 5 was and said: Ill see that they get passes for the station, and we have the fighters ready to load, I’ll have to check on the transport,

James: thank you Salas, see you in the morning.

James and Jeff walked up the ramp to the ship then to the bridge, Chris was sitting in the command seat looking at the screens for the ships status.

James: are we ready to depart?

Chris: yes the ship is ready, the Phoenix one is in orbit and his CAP is up,

James: ok lets go

Chris: is Mike and Sam onboard?

James: no they are staying here,

Chris: roger: Undock

Navigator: permission granted, undocking, exiting station, course laid in, engines engaged, leaving departure path,

Security: Phoenix 1 following CAP recalled

Navigation: in jump position,

Chris: Phoenix 1 were ready to jump on your order,

Randle: roger, stand by for count down, 5,4,3,2,1, Jump

Both ships disappeared and reappeared in PC,

Chris: dock with the HQ,

Navigator: Roger course laid in,

James: Jeff can you get a transport to gather supplies for the Frigate, while I set up an account for them, and have Thresica find a crew.

After the shipped docked James headed to the office to find Thresica, as he entered the HQ Office he was greeted by Anjanette,

Anjanette: hello Mr. Hawk

James: is Thresica in

Anjanette: yes she is in her office

James walked up to the office door knocked then entered, : Hi Thresica, I need some crew members fast, We now own a Frigate that Mike is Prepping for trials,

Thresica: I cant make any promises but I’ll try.

James: That’s all I can ask for, then he turned and left her office, went into the small conference room and opened his data pad,

James search the employment boards for crew men, He found 10 that he sent messages to, then found some Medical personnel that he sent messages to, then spotted 4 Pilots that looked interesting and sent messages to them, then his system notified him that he had gotten a response from 5 of 10 first messages he opened the first response, it was from a Edgar Hanson a man that was recently unemployed from a large shipping company on AP, they were cutting back there fleet and were laying off people, James asked the man to release his qualifications to him, he did and James pulled them up, the man was a navigator and was ranked with high marks, he had a family with two Kids he was in his thirties with 10 years experience in navigation,

James called Edgar,

Edgar: Hello

James: May I speak to Edgar Hanson Please,

Edgar: speaking, how can I help you,

James: I need a navigator that can start immediately,

Edgar: That suits me were do you want to meet you at,

James: I will send a transport to pick you up in the morning at 06:30 at the space port,
Pack for a 4 Tazuras trip. If we hire you we can negotiate your salary and I will make arrangements for your family to move to PC, and if you know of any good men looking for positions have them send me there qualifications, and I’ll look at them,

Edgar: one question, what is the name of your Company?

James: I am James Hawk of Hawks Security Service,

Edgar: I have heard of you, I’ll be waiting at the space port, and I do know of some personnel looking for positions I will call them now.

James: Thank you, then disconnected the call. And looked at the next response from Julia Morgan, Maintenance Specialist, 7 Years experience, 26 Years old,

James called Julia

Julia: Hello

James: may I speak to Julia Morgan,

Julia: speaking

James remembering his last call said: This is James Hawk from Hawk security; I need some Maintenance Personnel that can start immediately,

Julia: I can do that I’ve been looking for a job for a Wozura, were do you want to meet you at

James: I will send a transport to pick you up in the morning at 06:30 at the space port,
Pack for a 4 Tazuras trip. If we hire you we can negotiate your salary and I will make arrangements for your belongings to move to PC, and if you know of any good men looking for positions have them send me there qualifications, and I’ll look at them,

Julia: I know of a weapons Specialist looking for work I’ll call him, do you have a number for him to call?

James gave his number to her, see you in the morning, and disconnected. looked at the next response from Andrew King a Maintenance Officer who Just retired from the Navy, with 27 years experience, James called him,

Andrew: Hello

James: may I speak to Andrew King,

Andrew: speaking how can I help you.

James: This is James Hawk from Hawk security; I need some Maintenance Personnel that can start immediately

Andrew: I’m your man, where can I meet you and look over the ship,

James: bring your records, I will send a transport to pick you up I the morning at 06:30 at the space port, Pack for a 4 Tazuras trip.

Andrew: Roger, see you at 06:30,

James: see you in the morning, and disconnected, then he looked at the next message, His communicator buzzed,

James answered it: Hello Hawk security how can I help you,

William: Hello this is William Tomlinson I heard that you needed a weapons specialist, can I send my credentials to you,

James: yes Please, and watched as the file was being sent, William had 10 years Experience, and had been on a M2 and TL class,
James: can you start tomorrow?

William: yes sir, Julia told me that you were in a hurry I’ll be their with Julia, see you in the morning,

James: Thank you see you in the morning, then disconnected, and went back to reading his messages, the Next one was from Susan Smith Navigator with 8 years experience 26 Years old Single, James called her

Susan: Hello,

James: may I speak to Miss Smith

Susan: this is Susan Smith.

James: This is James Hawk from Hawk security; I need a experienced navigator that can start immediately,

Susan: I can do that, where can I meet you at?

James: can you send your credentials?

Susan: yes let me call them up for you.

James watched as the file was being sent, scanned over it.

James: I will send a transport to pick you up I the morning at 06:30 at the space port,
Pack for a 4 Tazuras trip. If we hire you we can negotiate your salary and I will make arrangements for your belongings to move to PC,

Susan: Very well, I’ll see you in the morning,

James: ok, see you in the morning, and disconnected, James looked at the next response he had it was from Sandra Cummings, a communication specialist, with 10 years experience, James called her

Sandra: Yes,

James: May I speck to Sandra Cummings Please,

Sandra: This is She, who is this

James Hi I am James Hawk from Hawk security; I need a experienced communication personnel I was looking at your message and decided to call you and see if you would send your credentials,

Sandra: sure they should be on your screen,

James: yes here they are, He scanned over them they were very impressive,

James: can you start immediately,

Sandra: Yes, where and When

James: I will send a transport to pick you up I the morning at 06:30 at the space port,
Pack for a 4 Tazuras trip. If we hire you we can negotiate your salary and I will make arrangements for your Family to move to PC

Sandra: 4 Tazuras, I can do that, see you in the morning,

James: Thank you, see you in the morning, and disconnected, and scanned the last message, it was from John Briton MD. James called him

?: Hello

James: May I speak to Dr. Briton,

?: who’s calling please:

James: This is James Hawk from Hawk security,

?: One Mizura please,

James waited then heard Doctor Briton here How can I help you

James: Hi I am James Hawk from Hawk security; I need some Medical personnel I was looking at your message and decided to call you and see if you would send your credentials,

John: I did not expect a response this quick, hold on while I transmit them,

James: ok and watched the screen as it linked up and started downloading the credentials,
Dr Briton was a general Physician with Trauma and surgical skills.

James: I’m very impressed with your skills when can you leave AP,

Dr Briton: not for a Mazura, I’m sorry I have a few Patients left to get transferred to other Physicians before I can leave, But I am very Interested in getting away from here.

James: Ok Ill send you some information on the positions I have open and My Office Managers contact information, if you are interested contact her and arrangements can be made for you to tour my operation.

Dr Briton: thank you I look forward to meeting with you,

James: thank you, and disconnected.

James picked up his data pad and walked over to Thresica’s office the door was open and he walked in, : Thresica I’ve arranged to pick up theses people, and set the data pad down so she could look at it,

Thresica: you’ve been busy, I’ve got three more for you, 1 security and 1 Communications and 1 Supply, they will be here in the morning,

James: good, I hope it will be enough to start with, I may have to take a few from our other ships to fill up the Frigate, I plan on getting more so we will need people that can pass on their training.

Thresica: you plan on starting a war or something?

James: yes a war with the pirates, and anyone else that interferes with free trade.

Thresica just looked at James seeing a different part of him.

Thresica: I will keep putting out the requests and Ben is sending more people,

I’ll try to fill the Frigate first, then the carrier, I’ll have the contracts drawn up and send them to your data pad all you have too do is plug in the names,

James: ok, will you be having supper with me?

Thresica: sure meet you in the lounge at 7:30, I’ll have more information for you by then.

James: Ok, I’m going over to talk with Tracy and Randle, James turned and left.


James made his way to where the Phoenix 3 was docked and entered, as the lift doors opened onto the bridge James spotted Tracy sitting in the command seat, he walked up :Tracy I need a few words with you,

Tracy looked up at James : Here or in the conference room?

James thought about it then said: I think the conference room would be better,

Tracy got up and led the way to the conference room and took a seat,

James followed her and closed the door and sat down, :I may need you to transfer some crew members to the Frigate,

Tracy: I still haven’t gotten back my XO and the night crew yet. I can’t afford to lose any more, were working 12 Hr shifts as it is,

James: I know that but you still have a full complement of security personnel I need 1 Tm Ok,

Tracy: yes sir I’ll see to it.

James Thank you, Now I need to talk to Randle, James stood up and left the room went back to the lift and departed the ship, the Phoenix 1 was not dock so James went to his ship and entered, then James had a thought, The Phoenix 2 was docked and had a full crew. James called Chris,

Chris: yes,

James: where are you,

Chris: on the Phoenix 2

James : I’ll be there shortly you and the XO meet me in the conference room.

Chris: ok

James left the ship and headed to the Phoenix 2, entered and went up to the bridge then in to the conference room, Chris and Rodger were sitting,

James closed the door and took a seat, Rodger you can assume command of the Phoenix 2, Chris were working on getting you a crew for the Phoenix 5, But I have to crew our new Frigate we’ll call Condor, Randle I need some of your personnel to help crew the Condor,

Rodger: how many and who?

James: well 1 mechanic, 1 supply, 1 medical, a cook and a waiter I think.

Rodger: when do you need them?

James: I’ll let you know tomorrow when I get back from KE, I may be jumping the gun on this Thresica is pulling in people for us to interview and commander Danna has sent some pilots and other personnel that should be here tomorrow, I’ll take from that group first then Chris get the rest,

Rodger: I check and Have the selections for you,

James: Thank You

Chris: who’s commanding the Condor

James: Mike is for Now, His request.

Chris: Think he will like having a slower ship then his Fighter?

James: I don’t know maybe he just wants to see how it works, none of us have flown a M7 before, and it carries 4 fighters and a transport, and it will be our spear head and Mike likes to be up front. Ill see you tomorrow I’m meeting Thresica for supper, James got up and left made his way to the dock and hopped a transport to the lounge,

James entered the private dinning room and sat down at his favorite table, the waiter on duty brought him coffee and asked if he wanted to order?

James: not yet, thank you the waiter left a menu and walked away

Thresica arrive shortly and sat down, I have been able to get you some more personnel, they will be here in the morning and I have three persons applying for the Xo Positions,

James: good Job, you are wonderful, and never cease to amaze me.

Thresica: thank you, but a little advance notice would be helpful.

James: I’ll try, but in a Mazura we should have 3 more condor’s to man and we will need some one to fill the command spots,

Thresica: I’ll keep looking, are you planning any more stations?

James: no, I think we’ll hold off on that for a while, unless I see a need and one that will be very profitable.

Thresica smiled, I know you James, if you wipe out a pirate presents in a sector you will put a station there to keep it clean.

James smiled: I guess you are right, we’ll see. You hungry?

Thresica: starved lets order.

James waved for the waiter,

Paul approached the table: yes sir,

Thresica: Id like a the house salad and a stake medium cooked with a baked potato, and ice tea to drink,

James: a salad and stake with fries med well, and ranch dressing,

Paul: Thank you I’ll be right back with your orders, turned and left.

James: Jeff is suppose to be here,

Thresica: I’m sure he will show up, He probably got side tracked doing something.

James looked at the entrance, then said: I guess so. And picked up his coffee,

Paul arrived with there salads and passed them out, along with tea for Thresica, then left.

Jeff, Tracy and Chris walked in to the dining room and sat down with James and Thresica,

Jeff; good evening Thresica,

Thresica: Hi, is James keeping you as busy as he is me.

Paul walked up and asked: what can I get you, took there orders and left.

Jeff: not too bad, How’s the personnel hunt going?

Thresica: explained whom she had hired and who were coming to fill the positions,

Jeff, very good, see being under the gun not effecting you that bad.

Chris: can I be there when they arrive and help with the interviews?

Thresica: sure, just be at my office I the morning at 7:30, the applicants should be arriving then.

Chris: ok

Paul arrived with James’ and Thresica’s meal and passed out salads and drinks for the others, then placed a large tray of rolls and butter and Jams on the table then left,

James started on his supper while the others eat there salads,

Paul came back with the meals and passed them out refilled drinks and left.

After the meal was finished James and Jeff left to go to Marissa Sama’s shop,

They entered the shop.

Marissa: Hi James, Jeff How can I help you?

James: I have some new personnel that will need clothing and I need two more flight suits,

Marissa: that’s not a problem, But I won’t have them ready till tomorrow,
James: that’s fine, just send them to my quarters, here is my debit card deduct the charges from it,

Marissa: that’s ok I’ll bill the company’s account tomorrow. I’ve all ready closed the accounts for today and was leaving but I’ll make a note and tend to it in the morning.

James: ok Jeff was there any thing you needed?

Jeff: no,

James: thank you Marissa sorry for holding you up.

Marissa: no problem, your company keeps us in the green and we are doing very well. I’m still considering on opening a shop in Aladna Hill.

James: yes I think it will be a good opportunity for you. Good night. James turned and left the shop,

James I’m going to my suite to get ready for tomorrow, you coming up?

Jeff: not yet I’ll be in the lounge for a while.

James entered the lift and went to the suite level, exited the lift and went into his suite,
Laid out his clothes, then took a shower and went to bed.

[Ramius85]

Rivetting. Looking forward to the next installment.

[collins50]

Thank you Ramius85

will be soon

[Ed Man]

keep up the good work!