Evangeline Anastasia McDowell

[Bazza]

Entry#: 047
Date: 04 - 12 - 817 AS @ 08:10 SUT
Title: Sa-weet!

I arrived at Baltimore "yesterday" "evening", finding my prize sitting in dry dock. I moored at the station and after a brief conversation with those in power I had the keys to my very own Shetland.

I flew as fast as my uncoordinated self can manage in zero-g to the dock and made my way down the gangway to the bridge. No sooner had I let myself in that it dawned on me I'd have to find some more crew.

With the girls in tow I set about exploring the massive maze of corridors that made up the ship. One thing I did notice was the climate control was either broken or missing; it was bloody freezing in there.

We wasted a good 2 or 3 hours floating around in there, before I finally gave in and left the Shetland in dry dock and headed back to Rochester Base. Now I'm in the process of recruiting a crew to help me get the Shetland to Vieques for a refit.

I discovered a few neat surprises while rummaging around, first and foremost was a Gateway transponder and IFF codes. Obviously someone forgot to remove them from the ship before it was decommissioned. Adding to that, a lifetime's supply of porn stashed away inthe cabins, the hallways, the cargo bay and the washrooms; some alcohol and half a pack of fags.

So this was a guy's ship. I wonder what other weird and wonderful things I'm going to find...

As it stands I'll be in the Shetland controlling this mob of lechers and pervets, Kana in the Biribiri, Fumika in the Railgun and Misaka controlling Alsatia all by her little self.

I've been running through a few possibilities for new names. So far as I can tell she never received a formal name under Gateway, instead being issued with a serial number and nothing else.

Antaeus' Rising. That will do. She may be only a transport but people will come to know her as something not to be messed with from the power of association alone. Having 3 armed escorts isn't going to do any harm, either.

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