Brotherhood Bar-Talks

[Laowai]

"BAIJIU"..... he growled at the bartender, slamming himself down in a table in one of the Darker Corners... The barman brought over a small glass of the Kusari spirit. Know for its hospitalising effects on people and its ability to clean almost anything it was exactly what he needed.

For Ben Laowai.. it had been a mixed week. His encounters in Sigma 13 had been a mixed blessing, bagged one easy trader at a trade lane, that part was fine enough, but a near miss, some seriously scratched metalwork on his Titan and a loss of some valuable Nomad weaponry had been the result of his second.
His return home was equally hairy, a near miss with a Bounty Hunter Battlecruiser in Sigma 17 had only been salvaged by the Hunter forgetting to pack his cruise disruptors, and his welcome home to Omicron Gamma had been a squadron of 6 Bounty Hunter fighters... two of whom, fled in flames, the rest lost thier ships, and most likely their lives after he had sold them off to the Local Corsair "Court" he mused....

"you look like it went well" the barman chuckled. "Hmmpph" Laowai growled.. "damn targeting computer in that thing is gonna get me killed" he grunted. But he knew it was more than that, fast approaching 60, he wasnt as fast as he used to be, and those Bounty Hunter pilots, just kept getting better.

He usually sat alone when in this kind of mood, then again, he usually sat alone at the best of times. His mixed heritage had always made him an outsider, even though he had lived on Crete, and flown under the Corsair banner for decades - and in all that time, he had never joined a house.

He Tossed the empty glass around in his hand... "Bring me another" he shouted.

Looking at the chart he had brought with him he marked the trade routes some of the traders seemed to be taking on his last few visits to sigma 13.... "all avoiding the trade lanes" he mused.

Downing his second drink, he stood to leave, folding his chart into his coat the barman called out "Hey, Laowai, there's always tomorrow my friend"

Indeed there was.

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