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[Yngen]

"Son of a Nomad!" bellowed the portly Zoner.

"no one is that good!"

"Time to pay up my friend," was the bemused reply.

"Its not my choice you picked such a simple game. Really, I can't believe you Sirians haven't died from boredom with these trifles. What was this called again?"

"Darts," replied the Zoner.

"And I don't care what galaxy you flew in from, there's something unnatural about 10 straight bulls-eyes. Maybe I should have you checked for a micro targetting system..."

"This is getting Tiresome...., and insulting, give me my credits...now,"


Coming from the video display: "...it was rumored that the Battlestar Kerberos..."

as the Zoner continued his posturing and blustering, the winner of the darts game trained his attention on the screen.

"Did she just say Battlestar?" he thought.

"Shut your hole Sirian. Hey bartender, turn that up please."

"...was destroyed by Nomads, along with it's sister command ship, the Hyperion. however we're hearing reports that the Battlestar kerberos is indeed flying through the Omegas, possibly near or around Omega-49...."

As the news reporter continued on about some rogue pilot, the Dart winner's mind wandered and almost didn't notice his Zoner friend pulling the blade from his calf.

The winner's leg shot out from under the bar stool, looped the Zoners ankle and half a second later the Zoner was on his back with the knife to his left ear.

"I tell you what Sirian, why don't you reach into your billfold and give me my credits while I shave this miasim of pubic hair from your middle ear?"

"Orion, I have another one for ya." a bounty hunter shouted over the din of the bar.

The winner looked up. "yea, give me a centon."

"A what?" replied the Bounty Hunter.

"A....a second."

"Now, Sirian, cough it up."

On his way down to the launch bay, David "Orion" Helion asked his Bounty Hunter agent,

"ever heard of the Kerberos?"

"its just a legend, the borderworlds are full of them. Ghost ships and such. I don't really pay attention to it."

"I see," replied Orion.

The two pilots stepped out onto the landing bay.

"Well, here's the mission disk. You sure this will work with the systems on that bird of yours?" asked the bounty hunter.

"I had an old friend of mine refit it for Sirian systems, did my nav computer too."

"Ahh, and what do you call that thing?"

"Its a Colonial Viper."

"She's pretty."

"that she is."

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