The Fleet - Captain Scott Maxell Schulman

[D'Ghor]

The smuggling vessels usually raided smaller, more defenceless transports for extra profit, the group I was enslaved to were more aggressive than that of normal pirates, they had a thirst for battle and forcing suffering upon others, evil b******s they were, they would prey on targets of opportunity, including other pirate vessels if the occasion presented itself. However, upon raiding a particular shipping transport that had a little more defensive capabilities than predicted, they received heavy damage in a firefight. In their own arrogance they didn't believe the slaves would be problem, and that the ships damages should be the main priority. All but one of the crew that watched the slaves had left the cargo hold to deal with the situation, damage control teams, etc, so the time was as good as any to stage a rebellion; chance had presented itself my opportunity. The lone slave driver was armed, but it didnt bother me, whilst the rest of the slaves continued working I ran towards him to his left, he hadnt noticed until it was too late. I tackled him to the floor, as he fell with such impact he dropped his weapon, I quickly killed him with my bare hands, throttling his neck until he stopped breathing. As I got up, I picked up his weapon. I looked around the cargo hold; the slaves had all stopped working and looked at me with fear and despair. Not the slightest bit of enthusiasm or hope from any of them. I stood on a crate to elevate my position above the slaves, as they looked up to me I realised that now was my time.

I see only fear in your eyes, I can only feel defeat in your presence, I shouted out. You have achieved nothing, you have got nothing, and you are nothing! I continued. As I look around, I only see what you all are in myself. But I am different. I have anger and vengeance to give me strength. Now is the time to let your anger, and your vengeance overwhelm your fear, and rise against our suppressors! The crowd began to show signs of optimism as they crowded round; no more did they want to be slaves. Now is the time to join me in our moment of reckoning, fight against those who hold you back and tie you down, become what you were destined to be. Join me and fight. Join me! The crowd cheered frantically, I had given them a reason to rebel against these pirates. I continued my speech to give them strength to fight with bravery. You are slaves not to these people but to your own choices, you can decide your fate and mark your destiny with a silver lining, choose now and fight against slavery, choose now to be free! The crowd frenzied under my words of wisdom, picking up anything that could be used as a weapon, we broke out of the cargo hold and rampaged through the ship.

The first three crew we saw were engineers fixing damage to a corridor where a conduit blew. I fired my first shot with a headshot to the one standing up. The others stood up and looked over to see a huge pack of wild savages hurling towards them with the motivation of revenge. I got to the second first; with my weapon out of ammo I swung my side arm and took him out with a blow to the head. The third was beat by two slaves to my left with bars as weapons and fists of fury. We rampaged on spreading through out the ship, the crew had little knowledge of what was going on until it was too late, and as such offered little resistance. There was still a firefight going on between the ship we were in, and the shipping transport. The pirate transport was beginning to get the advantage and so we had to hurry our efforts to take the ship.