Ancient Wonders

[DarkOddity]

I hope this is ok to post here, but I thought it woudl be OK as it's something that the original RP posted in this thread inspired.


Word of unusual Outcast activity around the Hispania wreckage has traveled throughout the border worlds to the ears of a great many. Commander Dark was docking his new Yacht with freeport 9 to get some supplies and refuel his vessel, as he was walking across the loading ramp into Freeport 9 he saw a group of bounty hunters heading towards their moore point where Dark had seen a small bounty hunter destroyer moored when he was approching the station. The bounty hunters were talking and laughing amongst themselves.

Bounty Hunter 1: "Psh.. What could possibly interest them in that artifact?"
Bounty Hunter 2: "Holding onto their cursed past?"
Bounty Hunter 3: "Haha, it's too bad the Hispania didn't get sucked into the gravitational forces of a sun!"
Bounty Hunter 2: "Then we'd be outa work! Haha!"
Bounty Hunter 1: "We could always have alitle fun..."

That's all commander Dark could hear as the bounty hunters turned downt he hall that lead to their ship. Dark went into the bar to have a drink while his crew prepared to the ship, and it perked his interest since the bounty hunters where talking about the Hispania, so he walked up to the barkeep to ask a few questions.

Dark: Hey there, I'll take a pale ale.
Barkeep: One pale ale comin' up!
Dark: So I heard some guys talking about the Hispania on the way to their ships.. know anything?
*Dark throws the credit chip for his drink onto the bar*
Barkeep: Rumor has it from some of the Zoner fregither pilots that the Outcasts are spending alot of time around the Hispania, noone knows what for.. yet.
Dark: Really? I wonder what they are trying to do with it...
Barkeep: They could just be showing their youth their roots.. they tend to do that from now and again.. for drugattics they do have quite the sense of their past.
Dark: Haha, it is kinda odd... I guess that's what happens when your "Happily doped up" 24/7
Barkeep: Haha!
Dark: Thanks for the info.
*Dark tosses another credit chip on the counter with significantly more value*
Barkeep: Anytime *chuckles*

Dark headed back to his ship with a slight buzz from his drink. Spotted a smalll stand in the aisle of the station where he purchased a bottle of synthetic marijuana, oh what he would give to be back home on Crete and dip into his families secret biodome of real marijuana hidden under his families estate. Finally getting back to his Yacht he gathered his crew together and told them they needed to hurry up and finish the loading as they were heading for Omicron Alpha.

Corsair Crewman #1: But Sir it's a Yacht, what do you expect to accomplish with it? If one of their capital ships locates us we are toast..
Dark: Trust me on this one, get the ship ready, and make sure we have a full compliment of missiles and chaingun rounds.
Corsair Crewman #: Yes Sir!

Roughly an hour later after the ship was done with preparations the Yacht departed and set its course for the Omicron Alpha jumphole. A small patrol of bounty hunters was passing by the yacht and commed it, not bothering to scan it.. Dark had his comms officer take the communique and told them it was a luxury liner heading to Alpha for sight seeing, the hunters warned that they should enter first.. Dark obliged the bounty hunters, not eager to destroy any outcasts on this outing.. After jumping through the bounty hunters and outcasts were going at it to the point where the Outcasts ignored the liner, which set it's course for the wreckage of the Hispania.

Upon arriving at the debris field of the Hispania a small fleet of bounty hutners was spotted.. one Destroyer and about 15 fighters combating a patrol of Outcasts tasked to defend and oversee the Hispania with the Outcasts renewed interest in the ship. The outcasts were being dropped like flies. Dark commed the bounty hunter destroyer and said he would "hold" the outcasts for them, preventing them from tractoring their escape pods for their bounties and tractored them himself and quickly turned the missile turrets ont he fighters and the chaingunner crews to fire on the destroyer annihilating the small fleet with the surprise attack, just before they managed to turn their weapons on the remains of the Hispania. The remaining outcast fighters fled in the direction of Malta not knowing what to do. Dark took what peaceful time he had and went onto the ship to see what was going on, if anything. Entering through the section damaged by the sabotage that originally trapped their people on the border worlds of Sirius he was wandering the ship, he headed to the bridge which was un-remarkebly empty.. stripped hundreds of years ago, same as the engineering section of the ship. Dark walked down the halls of the CryoTubes and one specificly cought his eye, it was open, and contained almost no dust from the debris, which meant it was opened recently.. He read the plaque that bore the name of the passenger on it revealing the name "Alexander Pryde". Thinking to himself "Could the outcast ace Kristina Pryde be planning something with this sleeper ship?" interupted mid-tought by his comms officer aboard is yacht "Sir, we have an Outcast Huegenot approaching, it's at 9 Kilometers now, we need to get out of here!" Dark thought then responded, "Roger, I'll be right out." Initiating his small jetpack and thinking to himself as he flew to his yacht and boarded, "I wonder if my families name is on one of those cryotubes.." upon boarding his Yacht Dark ordered a course set for Malta and a passenger pod prepared for the outcasts brought aboard. Dark went to the bar area where the outcast passengers were allowed to stay for the brief trip.

"Greetings Outcasts," Dark said, "I am Commander Dark Oddity of the Corsairs." as he said this the 19 outcasts in the bar started whispering to eachother." luckily Dark had their firearms removed from their person or he would likely be dead, full of blaster fire. "As you all probrably know the Bounty Hunters set out to destroy the Hispania due to your renewed interest in the ship, I over heard their plans on the freeport 9 landing bay and brought my Yacht out here to see if it was true." Dark told them, "I am returning you to your home, this one time I see you as my allies, we defended the Hispania together, our past. For this you will be returned home." the Outcasts whispered amongst eachother alitle more and Dark interupted, "Follow my CO, Chris, to the cargo bay, we have a large "Luxury" escape pod courtesy of the makers of this ship prepared for you, we will drop you off infront of Malta where whatever vessels there can pick you up." with that Dark left and headed for the bridge to finalise the plans and prepare a course to exit the system.

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