GNN

[Kane]

A Large Train Transport burst through the Jumpgate to Tau 29. Normally, there would be nothing strange about that. However, there wasn't a lot 'normal' with this ship. First of all, it was a Republican ship. Secondly, it had a bit more armor that one would expect. Those were the only visible things, and easily explained away. It was the stuff under the hull that would have raised eyebrows.

First of all, the ship didn't have a lot of cargo space. The cargo containers in front and in back were fake, actually part of the hull. They also wern't hauling cargo. They were weapons bays, hidden from scanners by lineing the inside with Niobium. The center cargo containers were, in reality, little transports themselfs, designed to detach and land at a certain area. This was a Rhinland Navy Q-ship, designed to open up on unsuspecting pirates. So far, they had worked. No word got back to the Pirates about these Q-ships because no one survived to tell about them. The ship had an arsinal to rival that of any Gunb And the transports in the center... those were best of all.

They were trasporting a special cargo. Live cargo. Live, armed cargo. Live, armed, trained cargo. This cargo was the kind that made problems go away.

The Rhinland Q-ship, although very good, had high maitenance costs. The ship reached Freeport 6, when it's port engine sputtered, then spewed thick blck smoke.
"Freeport 6? This is Rupublican Black 82. We've suffered an engine failure here. Requesting permission to dock and make repairs."
"Roger that. Your cleared for docking point 3. If you want, we can send out a few ships to tow you in."
"No, I think..."
Then the other engine sputtered, and died.
"Uh... scratch that. Yes, we'de like a tow in, please."

One of the Zoners that was towing the ship noticed something. The lower middle cargo containers were gone.
"Black 82, what happened to your cargo pods?"
"Oh those? We dropped those off a Planet Harris. A bunch of Fertilisers for the terriforming operation."
"Oh."

Actually, only half of that was ture. They were dropped off at Planet Harris. But they didn't contain Fertilisers. Those containers, and the ones still on the ship, held Rhinlands best ground forces; The infamous 28th, the Black Leigon.

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