Selesti Has Gas

[Misha_Gottlich]

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Name: Selesti Mishiga

Origin: Planet Miura, Okinawa

Age: 31

Current Home: Niigata Star City

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Selesti Mishiga: Independent Gas Miner

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The KUJIRA Rises: Pt.1

At the time of Selesti's grand speech aboard the MishiGas she had actually already put the order for the new Kujira. Once the crew had vacated the Garanchou Selesti did one final walk through, both to make sure everything was in top form for the sale and to say goodby to the ship that she had called home for the past three years. The vessel had treated her well and she hoped it would go on to hauling Helium for many more years to come. When she was satisfied that everything was in order, Selesti signed off the comms and wiped her personal business records from the computer system. The Garanchou was the MishiGas no more.

Selesti met the ship dealer on Niigata and finalized the deal on the used gas miner. He thanked her, and the credits were deposited straight into the business account for Mishiga Shipping & Gas. Another surprise she was saving for her dedicated crew. She believed the next step forward would be a powerful message for them and any future staff that would be joining them soon. With the sale complete, she signed the final release and shipping order for the new Kujira and was assured that it would be arriving within the next couple weeks. Perfect timing, she thought, for the crew to return to a nice shiny new ship.

"Thank you. It was a pleasure doing business."

With her ship swap dealings taken care of, Selesti was free to actually enjoy herself and some free time for the first time in a long time. She first took some time to visit her mother on Miura. Mamma Setsugi was very pleased to see her daughter safe and happy. They shared an afternoon reminiscing about old times and regaling each other with stories of their current endeavors. Selesti told her mother of the new ship and her plans for the crew after they returned, and Mishiga told her daughter about the garden she was growing this cycle, and the spiritual support group she had become involved with. Selesti was a tiny bit skeptical of the Peace of the Zone group that her mother was becoming involved with, but they seemed harmless and it gave her mother some much needed social interaction. Selesti didn't want to get wrapped up in any spiritual movement, and her mother didn't push her, but Mishiga did mention something that stuck in her mind. Her mother had mentioned something about the groups belief that all beings were connected or something like that, but Mishiga had somehow related to this idea in a personal way, and explained her feelings on it to her daughter. Selesti had never known her father, Taden Harrs, and Mishiga had only met him a very few times, perhaps just the once, but both women had an overwhelming assertion that he was still alive somewhere in the vastness of the cosmos. Neither one could explain it, but it was as if they could somehow feel the tug of those connections between their bloodline despite the untold multitude of light-years between them. Mishiga told had told her daughter as much as she had known about her father when she was growing up, but her new connections at the PotZ had encouraged her to do some research. She had been unable to locate Taden, or any records of his whereabouts, but she did learn that he had a wife back in Liberty space... and another daughter! Mishiga had been surprised to learn about Misha Gottlich, a Liberty born Bounty Hunter just a few years older than Selesti was. That had been all she could learn, but Mishiga implored Selesti to try and find out more. Perhaps even meet her long lost half-sister if that was even possible. Selesti had always felt a strongly about family, and she agreed to do what she could to learn about her half-sister.

It didn't take long. Selesti had the itch, and that night while she relaxed in the hotel suit she had rented for the visit with her mother, Selesti got on the Neuro-Net and did some searching around in the public records. It was not even difficult to find. Since she had the names she was looking for and the approximate ages of the people in question, it was fairly simple for Selesti to find the information she sought. She learned that she did indeed have a half-sister, Misha Gottlich, who was an independent bounty hunter. Not only that, but she just happened to be not far from GMG headquarters at Niigata! It turned out that Misha was currently operating out of Nobeoka Platform. Selesti decided then that she would spend the rest of her vacation time trying to find and connect with her mysterious half-sister. Hopefully she wouldn't be too hard to locate. Selesti had never been to an actual Bounty Hunter installation before... and she had no idea what was in store for her!

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Stay tuned for the next chapter:
Long Lost and Found!

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