The Heavy Metal Queen

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The Heavy Metal Queen

This is a ship whose name at one point was relatively famous, or infamous depending on point of view, evading House authorities and even hostile pirates throughout the Sirius Sector for years. Many have seen the vessel hovering idly in orbit of some planet or station at one point or another, though none have ever really discovered the true nature of the ship and her crew. The Captain herself is even rumored to have personal relationships with many members of various government and military organizations. Of course they too, are unaware of the nature of her business.

Even today, this ship and her crew are somehow still in business, actively turning a profit through the immoral trade of flesh and drug. Today however, the ship is relatively less known, in part because many believe the ship to have been destroyed and her crew killed, when it was caught in the crossfire between a Coalition Boarding Party and a murderous psychopath known as "Djinn", hellbent on personal revenge. On top of that, The Heavy Metal Queen goes unrecognized because many of the people who associated themselves with her crew are now either dead or in prison, having been beaten at their own game, or at the hands of House authorities.

The last, and perhaps most important thing factoring into the current state of the Heavy Metal Queen, is the loss of the token ship. The once famous Pilgrim Liner known as the Heavy Metal Queen is no more, destroyed and left as a burnt out hulk somewhere in the Omegas, for there is after all, some truth to the rumors regarding her fate. The majority of the original crew were in fact killed, either by the aforementioned "Djinn", or the Coalition boarding party led by a young Lieutenant by the name of Katya Vaschenko. The only crew members who did manage to escape the original ship, were those serving on the bridge.

After their brush with death, having watched both friends and years worth of their hard work, go literally up in smoke, the four surviving crew members of The Queen would lay low on Gran Canaria for months. This time was spent recovering their losses, both emotionally and financially. The time spent on Gran Canaria is what allowed the Heavy Metal Queen to return to business, albeit in a somewhat different state than the one that had garnered so much attention to it before.

The crew had turned enough profit through their new contacts on Gran Canaria that they were able to re-establish themselves and acquire a new ship. Akaisha was originally hesitant to acquire another Pilgrim Liner, though this was the course of action taken ultimately in the end. So they rose again to the skies, breathing new life into their business, with a new, more optimized and "modern" Pilgrim Liner variant than the original, though it too would still bear the same moniker: Heavy Metal Queen. Akaisha and her surviving crew were of course afraid at first, that the name would be too high profile, though this fear was not enough to prevent them from returning to their immoral craft.

They are the same crew, with the same purpose, flying under the same name, and yet...they are altogether different having collectively survived, what Akaisha calls "a brush of bad karma."

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