The Sweet.and.Graceful completed it's jump from Dresden, into Omega-15, Casper eyed the scanners, now alive with activity.
"Crap, take evasive actions!" Casper yelled, as a cruiser patrol swept up to his left,
The Sweet.and.Graceful was taking hits, and Casper noticed one of the turrets get knocked off by a stray Hornviper shot,
"Jimmy, take us to cruise and dump the countermeasures!" Casper ordered
"Surething boss" Jimmy replied, hitting cruise,
Casper activated the bats and bots and prayed, the Sweet.and.Graceful narrowly avoiding destruction.
They were out of Shield Batteries, and low on Nanobots, the ship itself was heavily damaged, but they were okay, and headed directly for Bornholm Depot.
Casper signed the manifest for the last of the cargo, nodding to the Zoners to begin loading into the Sweet.and.Gracious.
He had paid measly pocket change for it here, sure was a dangerous journey through the Omegas, and he had nearly died once already...
He just had to get this through Bretonia safely, and back to Cassini, that would narrow his list down to one last bunch of components.
Casper decided to pay out of his pocket with some of his trader-tax money to have the Sweet.and.Graceful repaired fully, whilst he rented a room here, planetside.
Casper leaned over the starmap, Jimmy at his side.
"So, Any ideas?" Casper asked,
"Yeah, I think we can slip through Bretonia" Jimmy replied, pointing down,
His finger drew a route on the map,
"First we slip in the backdoor of Dublin, then up through the core of Bretonia, into the Independant worlds, and round the back of Liberty, we should be able to get through most of it peacefully enough" Jimmy explained,
"Perfect, Jimmy, prep the Sweet.and.Graceful" Casper ordered, patting him on the back,
"So you think it'll work?" Jimmy asked,
"We do this for a living don't we?" Casper smiled, "Now run along and get ready, we leave within the hour..."
Casper strolled into the cargo depot, pulling the list from his pocket, the trip had gone well, few patrols about in Bretonia to avoid, and nothing between him and Terre Haute, he was good at this business, very good.
He smiled to himself as he crossed out two more items, almost there.
Jimmy began shouting to get the cargo unloaded, handing Casper the manifest.
Casper signed off the delivery and threw the manifest in with the crates...
The Hogoshan wanted to arrange a meeting on board the Golden Dragon, problem being, this was in Kusari, and Casper didn't feel comfortable visiting there.
"Jimmy, get in contact with a man named Kenji Jinkusu in New Tokyo, tell give him this message for his boy..."
Casper waited for Busu patiently, tapping his fingers on the edge of his chair, a BHG Bomber sat by, watching with distaste, annyoed he couldn't match Casper's firepower enough to kill him.
Casper smiled as Busu exited the tradelane and parked up at Ames,
Casper readied the prisoners and opened Comms,
He opened the trade window and prepped the cargo, satisfied, he signed for it,
Both Busu and Casper happy, Casper said farewell and engaged cruise,