The Buccaneers Bay

[Thexare]

"What a day," Milton said, settling into his usual chair in the bar. And as usual, the same veteran pirate was sitting in the other chair at that table.

"What'd you break this time?"

"A mining ship. It didn't wanna pay me and Mick. I'm pretty sure that ship cost more than two hundred grand, y'know. Before that, I reprogrammed a drone,"

"I'm surprised you even saw one, they're not common around here. Somethin' about war damaging their parts."

"Yeah, there's that, and me reprogramming 'em. Haven't done that in a really long time, so the changes didn't last long before she restored her original programming, but she sent us information on a couple transports," Milton took a drink before continuing, "'course, most of 'em she didn't see until they'd already passed us, and then she got mad and started shootin' at Mick. Grabbed a load of Gold from a train shortly after that, and later ran around the Omicrons." His tone was darker with the last part of that sentence, and he drank the entire remainder of his beer before continuing. "On the way out of Crete, what do we see right in front of us? Hessians. Now, I'm no expert on what criminals hate which, but I know the Hessians are tryin' to kill off the Corsairs, and there we are with full loads of Corsair-gathered Artifacts. And what's the captain's plan? Run right past them!"

"And?"

"I think that's the part that bugs me most - it worked! I mean what the hell!?"

"Yep, that's the captain, alright. You get used to it after a while, trust me."