Always unlucky ...

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Adamo was excited. Holding a small duffel bag of credit cards in his right arm, he walked out of the Freeport docking bay, followed by 2 armed Zoner guards, armed with large rifles, for his protection. The Zoner laws meant his own Corsairs had to relinquish their arms. Even Freeports were a dangerous place to be when you had that much money.

He was looking for the bartender, Cordova, who was rumoured to have once been a Corsair himself. Wasn't too difficult to find the barkeep, who was predictably, at the bar. Adamo sat on a barstool, ordered a whiskey, and started talking.

After hearing out Adamo's story, and taking a pensieve moment, Cordova got up. "I think I've got just the ship for you amigo, follow me." Telling another bartender to take his shift, he led Adamo and his entourage out of the bar, and through one of the station's many corridors. When they got to the fourth corridor, Cordova pointed out of a window. Adamo saw a strange flat white ship in the distance, close to the Freeport. "That there's a Battlestar, one of the first of it's kind the Zoners built." Adamo was interested, "Is she for sale?" "Aye, it is, her last Captain, a damn fool, took her into Omicron Iota, and the ship took quite a beating from all the blueskins, barely made it out. Since then she's been in Livadia Shipyard, taking on major repairs, but turns out the idiot couldn't pay the repair bill, so the shipyard boys impounded the ship. She's had a lot of hull plating taken off, probably only got an armour rating of 6 right now, though you could probably get that patched up to a 7 at Tripoli if ya wanted to. Anyway, since the previous Captain couldn't pay for her, she's yours if you've got the money."

"What's the ship's name?"
"The Neutrality."
Adamo smirked. "Sounds like just what I need. I'll take her."
Cordova went to make the necessary calls, leaving Adamo to look at the Battlestar.
The 'Neutrality'... his battleship. He couldn't wait to get on board.

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