Love is hard to catch

[Rodnas]

Location: unknown, relayed via Crete Satellite Network
Sender: Trueno Benitez
Recipent: Laura Craft

The screen flips to life, revealing Trueno in a dimly lit place looking relaxiedly looking into the camera, sipping a drink. The background is barely visible but you can hear loud humming of generators and a handful of voices coversating in guttural spanglish.

"Querida Laura- muchas gracias for your message, it lightens up the darkness out here quite a bit. Looking at the date i am afraid i can only wish you a happy new year in retrospect-- may it be a rich and healthy year for you! It seems you had quite the fiesta there, i hope no one got shot or drowned in a rum barrel?
How about your new years resolutions? I heard they are quite popular, si? Let me guess, living a honest hard working life is high up there, senorita Craft?"

He chuckles and raises his glass for a drink

" Ah well, we might as well have to talk about some things, we had so little time on the Hawaii, i really miss that- we should do that kind of stuff again as soon as possible, si?!
For now i guess it is only business though- and speaking of...chiquilla Catalina sends her regards, too- she has been asking wierd questions lately...might be a bit much new stuff with the switching from luxury to the gritty outskirts of humanity....ah well, children...
In any case, we are resupplying at the last Corsair outpost before the edge of man-ruled space and so far everything went as smooth as it gets, neither Outcasts nor Nomads or Bounty Hunters caused any problemas....just all these ion storms...madre mio, sensors are as dead as they get, we are sitting in a damp murky water until these are over!
On the plus side, this gives me time to reminisce about us and the future that might be...hm hm hm....life is bueno after all!"

You can see Trueno laying back in his seat, looking quite content and happy dreaming about Laura. As he wants to continue to speak to the camera the picture brightens up to a blue sheen for a second, then a larege explosion shakes the ship. The split second before the impact you see Truenos eyes go wide in terror, the impact throws him off his chair. Alerts are audible and people start rushing by while the surroundings are continuing to shake under further impacts.

"Jolín! Mierda !! So many! - man all ships you perrros-ANDALE ...ANDALE!!!!

Trueno jumps up from the floor and runs off the cameras view, screaming orders mixed with curses- as the camera falls off the table due to another explosion you can see a dining hall filled with many Corsairs racing about dodging sparkling cables and steaming pipes. Through a big window you can see bright blue shapes passing lobbing balls of energy at the station. There is no defensive fire to be seen or any Corsair ships in space. Somebody blindly rushes in direction of the Camera dragginf g one of the unlucky Corsairs along. A heavy boot crushes on the casing, the transmission ends apruptly.

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