Credit Slips and Smog Clouds

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As Draya and Michaels left the cabin, Ashes allowed herself a moment to colapse on her bed and collect her thoughts. She could tell already this was going to be a very interesting adventure. She forcefully picked herself back up before she got too comfortable laying down and headed towards the door, they couldn't be too far from the Leeds Jump Hole now. The crew would have to be alert and ready for anything, they couldn't afford any more of these distractions.

Ashes strode back into the bridge with that look on her face which meant that she wasn't in the mood for games. The crew silently shifted their stares back to their monitors and continued working. The ability to command fear is what kept Ashes alive in this sort of enviroment, she was just a small girl in the world of men afterall.

She took a seat in her captains chair at the centre of the bridge and took a glance at the main screen in front of her.

"Fifteen klicks out from the Jump Hole, Captain." The navigations officer narrated.

"Yes, I can read basic." Ashes responded as she brought the side of her hand up to her lips.

Despite her ability to read basic, most of her controls were written in the Kusari language in all of her ships any way. She always found the traditional kanji more elegant than english characters. It also made it hard for people to steal her ships.

So far the scanners were clear, if there was anything waiting for them on this end of the Jump Hole, their scanners would have been able to pick them up by now, unless they were using the Walker Nebula to hide their signatures. Although at this point the only thing they were able to do was stay their course.

"Start a scan on the Jump Hole now to check it's stability, I don't want to be hanging around in one place for too long." Ashes ordered as they closed in.

"Uh Captain, we have a problem." Francis suddenly spoke up.

"What is it?" Ashes straightened up.

"Someone just accessed their neural net through the ships system and sent out a hail on an encrypted line." Francis explained.

"From inside the ship? Please tell me you scrambled it." Ashes said hopefully.

"Quickly as I could Captain, but I don't know how much got out." Francis responded.

"Francis, patch me through to the crews cabins." Ashes instructed, and Francis obediantly switched the channel.

"Draya, I hope you've got your pants on. I need you back on the deck aye-sap, things are about to get messy." Ashes said through the comm channel.

As if on cue, the edge of the ship's scanners began to light up. Ashes hoped Draya got the message.

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[5:50:49 PM] JakeSG (William Darkmoor) says: I like you, Ashes. You're more cynical than God.