The Cave | Niverton Base Bar & Lounge

[Crazy Lou]

Two days waiting and no answer yet. In the meantime, they had time to go all the way to Malta and get back again in their freighters. And still no word from the mollys.

"Ya, this thing is taking too long. I wonder how many messages they have to answer." - he observed his glass of whiskey while taking a sip - "With this liquid gold here, they don't need anything else! But I hope they need something, we could always use some extra cash. Well, I will see how the new ship is going..." - Lou finished his whiskey and stood up - "I will be back soon, going to check up on Burt."

Lou went up to the main level, and walked to the docking bays. In the repair and equipment room he found Burt:

"Hey, Burt. How's our little ship going?"

Burt was at the bench, working on some parts to install on the little fighter.

"Hey Lou! The ship arrived yesterday. It was basically only the hull. I already installed the sensors and most of the systems, this here is the energy induction system to the engines, I have to adapt it so we can install one of our engines. It should run at 75% of the core capacity at most, but its more than enough for the shield and the engine, since we will not install any weapons on it."

"Ha! Funny thought, to install a 2.5 million credits engine on a 130 thousand credits ship! When does it get ready?"

"It should be ready for a test flight tonight..."

"Good enough. Thanks, buddy."

Lou passed by the small junker light fighter on his way out of the repair shop. It looked really fragile. And being stripped of most secondary components, as well as having no extra armor installed, would make the ship fast, but very vulnerable. Extra care would be neccessary when flying it.

Lou arrived back at The Cave, and sat back on his usual table, were Ted was still drinking.

"Well, Burt says it will be ready tonite. Too bad those mollys don't answer that message. You can always go there with your freighter, to sell some and bet on the races. But if you want to race, Ted, you will need to find another ship..."