The information broker

[Tenacity]

Thorn sighed, standing up to his full height and unholstering his gun. "I'm sorry ladies, but you arent making this easy on me. The longer you stall trying to have your own way, the worse this situation gets. Dekker..."

"Sir?"

"Take the general back to her ship. General, I will meet with you shortly, dont do anything rash."

Dekker stood up and motioned for the woman to proceed back to the docking bay, his rifle at the ready. Thorn turned back to the order agent.

As the door closed behind the General and Dekker, a gunshot echoed through the station. A smile spread across the general's lips, thinking she had made some kind of victory here.

"Well, you two certainly pissed the captain off, he doesnt usually shoot people..." Dekker stammered, before turning back to the general and prodding her in the back with his rifle, "Come on, cap said he'd meet you in the docking bay, lets go."

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Back in the bar, Thorn holstered his smoking pistol. The data disk the two had so fiercly fought over lay shattered in a thousand peices on the table. The agent looked up at him with satisfaction, "I didnt honestly think you'd choose my side." She said.

"I havent chosen anyone's side," barked thorn, turning hurredly to his remaining cremember, "Jace, I need you to get an identical disk, and copy a bunch of lane hacker crap onto it. Cargo routes, whatever, it needs to look convincing. Throw in some schematics on liberty ships, that should do it."

"Yes sir!" Jace launched to work, typing away furiously on his datapad. "should only take a minute or two."

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General Isabelle stood silent, waiting patiently at her ship for Thorn to show up. Within minutes the door heading from the bar opened with a whoosh, the captain and his other crewmember walking through at a swift pace.

"Listen general, I only chose your side because I cant afford to have liberty hunting down my ship. It wont be long before the order tries to hunt me down as well, and I expect you to hold good on your word. Keep them off my back. Here's your disk, I hope whatever data is on that thing was worth this mess."

Thorn shoved the data disk into her hand, "I dont like killing people general, the living are better for business than the dead, but my hand was forced today. Now get off this station."

Thorn turned back towards the bar after the general had boarded her ship once again.

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"Alright lass," Thorn said, as he entered the bar with it's sole, cloaked occupant sitting quietly where she had been since the start of the meeting, "You need to wait here, until rochester's scanners show the all clear. Then I want you off this station, and out of liberty space. Dont let them catch you, or I'm a dead man."

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