Evangeline Anastasia McDowell

[Bazza]

Entry#: 048
Date: 06 - 12 - 817 AS @ 17:26 SUT
Title: Antaeus has her crew.

I had a few words with various people, checked out the bulletin boards and posted some information to them.

As a result I now have a crew of eight "fine", "young", "gentlemen", working for me.

Name: Raphael Bokman
Age: 32
Skills and Experience: Pilot's license; spacedock worker/teamster.
Notes: A bit rough around the edges, missing some teeth, but he seems like a decent bloke. Worked for Ageira as a teamster at Detroit Munitions before almost getting arrested for selling guns under the table.

Name: Nolan Galinski
Age: 27
Skills and Experience: Capable combat pilot; spacedock worker/teamster; ties to Lane Hackers
Notes: Another ex-Ageira employee, escaped capture along with Raphael and became a grunt for the Hackers. Hackers were a bit above his "abilities", so he became a Junker instead. Another nice lad, but he's about as sharp as a sack of wet mice.

Name: Darius Floth
Age: 19
Skills and Experience: Teamster
Notes: A born-and-bred Junker much like myself, this will be the kids first real job outside his fathers' scrapping and petty thuggery business. He's a real sweetheart and I think he's got a bit of puppy-love for me already.

Name: Jeffery Soricelli
Age: Prehistoric
Skills and Experience: Navigator, Pilot's license,
Notes: Looks, talks and smells like an old fart. But he's been just about everywhere worth going and a few places not. Blind in one eye. Took 3 hours to tell me how it happened.

Name: Kendrick Perque
Age: 48
Skills and Experience: Transport Captain, labourer, team leader
Notes: Another of Libety's exiled, he was booted out of his post by some shady dealing inside DSE, and hunted by the Police for crimes he never committed. He floated around various pirate outposts before eventually ending up at Rochester. Kendrick will be the ships' captain answering only to myself. He has a wife and child on Manhattan who he sends every credit he makes to.

Name: Carey Dentremont
Age: Supposedly 18
Skills and Experience: Pilot's license.
Notes: The kid's license says 18 and male. Not so sure on either. I thought he was a girl until I saw the card. He's quite a cute one; I worry about what the guys are gonna do to him on those long stints in space.... Actually, he should be worried about what *I* will do to him. I have some some lingerie and skirts that should fit somewhere....

Name: Elwood Slotnick
Age: 30
Skills and Experience: Teamster, Thuggery
Notes: A big, fat, scary, angry looking man. Definitely not one to accidentally bump into in a dark alley way. At least, he wants other people to think that. He's actually quite polite and well-mannered. Maybe it's because I'm a woman.

Name: Cliff Shrode
Age: 47
Skills and Experience: Computer Hacking, Data Management, Troubleshooting, other nerd things.
Notes: Another Ex-Hacker, but this one's actually smart. If it's electronic and broken, he can fix it. If it's electronic, he can break it.

All in all a lovely assortment of blokes to run the show.

We departed Rochester shortly after I had collected my new crew and headed for Baltimore. I took control of my Shetland, and with the boys getting acquainted with their new habitat begun the journey to Vieques Shipyards. Cabins and a pecking order were quickly established while everyone got to know each other.

I must admit it was quite a sight to behold, my empire, in its' entirety, flying in convoy through space. It made me realise just how far I've come from that little CSV I once thought the greatest thing in the universe. In just 5 years I now control a fleet of ships many rat-racers would only dream of.

Whoever said crime didn't pay obviously wasn't very good at it.

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