The first thing to break on this damn ship happened last night the double sink in my got damn kitchen clogged.
Which led me to my most hated activity EVER. Plumbing a star ship.
I hate it.. for I have plumbed some of the worst systems I can think. (why dont you just flush the waste out into space jim?) oh screw you pal.
That might be how rhienland gets its green colored hulls but most of us dont waste a thing. In my case. however it wasn't a Dublin weevle in the pipe or some osrt of assassination probe. Apperantly that sink cant take any food down it.
So ive been making alot of rice with meals lately. Result? the clog is in the bulkhead.. i got to use the pressurizer to clear it.. Nothin. Then I had to get the snake out of the.. wait.. NO SNAKE? Just an aerosol PLUNGER?
THIS IS BLASPHEMY... THIS IS MADNESS.
So there I sat on the floor just staring at the sink as tinny watches me..
The lil bastard actually checked me for a pulse.
The biggest issue is a device thats thousands of years old wasent stocked as a matter of simple tools and because I lost my tools when the Salvager split in two i realised i didnt stock anything on this boat.
Thats.. when I felt an itch... A terrible terrible itch. The junker itch.. the.. If I had moved this room into that room blah blah.. or rearranged the bulkheads on decks 5 and 4 and.. this mental process continued until I had literally made this prestine... beautiful ship into something more salvager or slave liner in nature.
On paper.. (dont panic nothings been done.) The ship looked real cozy.. And I figure ill have a professional look at it. A kind of junker cruiser something that can go out into the deep fields and bring back stuff without killing half the crew of radiation.
The Estiums hull is thinner then the liner and a little thicker then a salvage frigate, its the quality of hull and how all the bulkheads are wrapped together on this thing that makes it more of a Ship then something with a purpose.
I kinda like that because it makes her feel like a home then a work tool. Its also factors heavily in the recuperating and holistic environment... I mean those smelters where weeping with joy with the fact my bar served food too. Cause its a fully functional cafeteria not just a bench and bar to look like a bar.
But if a junker got his hands on the blueprints of this thing hed be trying to add outlets and power couplings and ever utility hookup possible to EVERY ROOM cause we (some junkers) don't trust exstention cords like its a damn religious taboo.
What does make them jelious however is the machine workshop... i got the smallest high capacity fordge tied into the reactor... Oh you shoulda saw the Zoner crew that put it in.. they were convinced i was going to blow up the ship by doing it. But the fusion drive on this thing is massive.. her single engine wastes heat. So i use it to melt down form shape refurnish a buncha stuff.
In this case however.. Im not fabricating plates or internal patches.. A snake is a woven tool of vary fine and precise threading... that makes a spring on a .. line that basically you shove in a drain to clear it. and i already tried making one from memory.. failed horribly. I was rather distraught to think id have to go to a home improvement store in house space in my dinky shuttle.
Thats when the bridge called.
We had entered sigma 13. Stopped the ship at yanagi. The place ... really lacks the personal touched rochester has... rochester has alot of art ont he wall.. metal art stuff junkers over the years put up to make it look homey.
Not here.. Yanagi suffered a lot of damage from attacks and what not and the guys here unless you know em are a business attitude. Even being a congressman sways vary little.
No snake.. no filament threader.. nothing.. its like the place has turned into a gas station.
Ge back aboard the Estium and see this HUGE line of people needing medical help. Nothing in my department but rattled nerves.. and a few cardimine withdraws that.. honestly I have to take with me to omicron 81.
Treatment of everyone took two days.
Apparently Dr. Slaughter has a father in law here. Though hes a group family person like I am.. hes definitely higher on the wife balance then I am.. hes got like 8 of em. To my One famous one with all her uhh.. activity.
We departed the Sigmas and saw something unusual in omicron beta.. debris from a rouge destroyer. No hulk or hull but it looked like one of her engine pods blew out everything from the compulsory flow to the exhaust. Estium took the radiation well.. the outcasts didnt stop me until I arrived in the cloud in Alpha.
Then we saw it...
This huge.. Sarissa battleship... and.. son..
It was covered i mean downright.. covered like it was in the middle of a school of fish.. with Nomads..
I was so distracted i was literally ignoring hails.
It was one of "their" ships... Leonard launched from it in a Sabre. Another unusual thing Ive never known the boy to trust anything under 150 feet long.
He asked me to follow him... I stayed quiet the whole time as i was dreading.. and dreading and worrying.
"They infected my god damn brother those sunsa bitches i KNEW this cult crap was bad news and NOW IM NEXT." I kept thinking.
The bridge crew was silent too... I could feel how nervous they where..
I dont even think i spent any time watching the scenery.. We popped into omicron-81 expecting some other spectacle when we happened upon an observation post welcoming us tot he system in italian.
"Gratsi!" I replied.
Approaching a planet that had Massive radiation in orbit ... and a planetoid safely in orbit outside of the field.
whats interesting about the planetary radiation as my astronomer said was it seems to be from ions created by the systems sun interacting with a weird field emanating from the planet. prolonged exposure to the cruiser wouldn't be an issue however this type of radiation penetrates polarized plating.
The irony was a slave liner could probably live in it longer.
The planetoid was our stop however its landing bays and skyhook were vary new exstremely modern and fit Estium like a glove.
Thats when leonard came aboard..
Airlock bio scans were clear.. cept he had a lot of liquid cardamine in his system or rather his implants had it.
Still my annoying mooching brother. We had abit of a tense argument about that "temple". He invited me aboard it and i laughed in his face. "When hell freezes!" I think the word was.
he said that kind of reations was the problem in this system... most of the inhabitants are hard working engineers and farmers and working class folks who didnt like the "spirits" flying around Alpha.. so they come here.. but since the cult has so much money and charity.. being associated witht he spirits puts them off.
Im not surprised the normal junker is scared to death of wild and nomads. Ive met morphs... never anything impressive.. well on one occasion ive met a large puppydog that LOOKED like a nomad cruiser but that's for another log.
basicly i leveled with Leo.. "Son, ill help who needs it here but if the cult wants to sponsor it.. get me in touch with who handles the money.."
Apperantly this is Liam.
Talked to him.. something you dont see often outside the SCRA.. a Russian. Liam admitted he was of the communist faction but didn't say more then that i said i was from the imperial capitalist fascists in training and we made a few junker jokes.
We sobered up and got to business. Turns out there's a second project in this.. one i.. got volunteered for one LEO managed to get me into without asking a damn thing.
Apparently there is a breed of cardamine grass that's making Maltese sick... Im not a botanist but i am familiar with the micro biology of cardamine.
I promised Liam id look into it. So now.. Im going to have to con a botanist into coming up here.
So far 81 cases of hypertension (I hate stress related sickness) 99 cases of work related injury gone untreated (I hate stubborn workers) 2 cases of flu, 1 case of pneumonia.
and..ALL of them are vitamin and iron deficient. This is the first batch i admitted the flue cases and 4 of the stress cases.
The cult is acquiring medicine and or giving me the cash to get it myself.
So.. thats all thats fit to print.
P.s. The pneumonia case has a pipe snake. the universe still loves me.
