Just Salvage Business

[Ryummel]

He knew perfectly that the making one's living by getting the first most profitable contract wasn't easy stuff, especially if he was alone. This time there wasn't any buddy watching his back (or making sure they got the money if it required them two surviving), no company to do the paperwork for him... Nothing. This implied having Steve roaming around many seedy stations across Sirius. Beumont, Trafalgar, Yanagi, Freeports and Barrier Gate were the places where he always hoped to find anything as profitable as working for a mercenary company. Nostalgia? Maybe, but what's done is done, simple.

This time he decided to try luck in Rheinland, not to get back to the Blood Diamonds business but for finding certain ship parts to weld to his Sabre. The ship was shot and beaten enough to look like its little brother, the Switchblade, not to mention the odds of mixing Sirian technology with Gallic one. The Council was known for being poorly equipped and thus, being slaughtered by their enemies in every battle. But it was never expected that those 'jewels?' would suddenly cuase more troubles than Zoner guns. This was a real problem, and Steve knew he'd be dead meat as soon as he tried to fly past the warzones in Hudson and Bering or through the Sigma 13 nebula. However, Kreuzberg depot was his last spark of hope to prove himself that leaving his previous mercenary company wasn't a bad move at all.

As soon as he jumped off the cockpit of his Sabre, a never-ceasing 'beep' drew the attention of the four or five people present in the docking bay at that moment. 'Hardware issues with prototypes' used to be Steve's excuse when he was whined at about this matter. Since he spared a few credits in order to silence the traffic control crew, he made his way to the lower sections of the base, where he hoped to find a Junker or somebody else who just salvaged parts for a 'Series Z' ship. The wallet wasn't as deep as before, but still acceptable.

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