The Line

[Nine]

The lone bomber made its way slowly out of Illinois. Slowly and roughly.

"Come on, try not to shake us apart before we even leave Illinois..." Hunter yelled to his pilot over the whine of the engines

"I'm trying, I've never flown anything so crude before!" Jen forced out while fighting the controls

"Haha we are all going to die" John was obviously amused.

Eventually Jen got the ship under control and they were well on the way. Knowing the patrol routes helped greatly in avoiding police patrols and they would arrive in the Coronado system to begin searching shortly, however problems arose in the California system.

They were cruising behind Mojave cautiously avoiding scanner range of any near by satellites or stations, when the ship suddenly rocked as its cruise engines lost power. Weapons fire erupted from all around as Navy fighters closed in.

"What the Hell, why are they here?" Hunter counted 3 fighters on scanners "Get us out of here"

"I'm trying, but there is no way we can shake them, call them tell them who we are!"

"We can't, that would blow our cover... dammit.. power up the weapons"

"You sure? those are friendlies out there" John questioned nervously

"Try to just disable them, but we can't do anything to destroy our cover" Hunter ordered

"Wait! look there are more ships coming! " Jen yelled back to Hunter

The Navy fighters broke off and engaged what was apparently a Rogue pirating party, 4 fighters.

"Get us out of here, NOW!" Hunter ordered.

The Bomber slipped away and managed to engage its cruise engines without being noticed. The fate of the Navy patrol unknown.

They made it to the Coronado with no further problems, and encounters and unknown ship near the jumphole. It was simply a freelancer however, he could prove useful.



They followed him to the station known as Barrier Gate station. A den of filth and crime, the perfect place to start investigating this area.

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<span style="color:#FF6666">Division 9... &quot;Just as every cop is a criminal...&quot;</span>

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