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<span class="mu-i">With his first unscheduled heart attack unable to dissuade his desire to work off his debts as soon as possible, Enoch, a former pirate an apprentice peon wrecker decided to take an exceptionally dangerous job for his second shift – pulling clean conduit from an uncharted hulk infested with conduit worms. Progress was slow, as the infestation was inexplicably magnitudes worse than expected, and even though Enoch was able to find a schematic of the hull to use as a map, and confirm that there was a desalinator on the ship, which if found would yield a great deal of conduit, things went from bad to worse when Enoch came across still operating drones in the hulk. While designed and deployed to deal with conduit worms, these bespoke constructs also pose a serious danger to wreckers.
However, after some effort, Enoch was eventually able to physically overcome one of the smaller units, then overcome another, larger and more dangerous unit by deducing its name, then ordering it to stand down. More than that, it turned out that the desalinator was more valuable than Enoch could have ever dreamed, as much of the system had been converted into a crude but effective concealing blind, hiding both a third and inordinately powerful power plant and well as the Highest Heaven’s secret cargo – hand-lances. These sidearms are extremely dangerous, and civilian possession of these weapons is forbidden de facto or de jure throughout all of civilized space.
At this moment, Enoch is facing a major decision – what to do with these weapons? Turning them in to his foreman would no doubt earn him his immediate release … but before being captured and eventually joining up with a pirate crew, he was held by papers of indenture to a very unsavory gentleman of quite contrary tastes. Odds are that any immediate release would be into the custody of the Creature, or to his heirs – a prospect that he is understandably leery of. If he was willing to ‘sit’ on this find, and to take out new debts with Boss Barone, a trustee with outside connections, he would be able to arrange a release at a later date that didn’t see him turned over to his former master – though it would also mean accepting a new, criminal one in the Creature’s place. Alternatively, he could become a master in his own right … by turning these weapons against the crew and guards of the Commissioner in an uprising against them. Enoch is no stranger to violence – the pirate crew of the Salacious Scheme only truly accepted him after he killed another one of their captives in a demonstration of loyalty, and he fought off the Peacekeepers shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the crew as Scheme burned and sundered around them – but beyond running gunnery drills with Jibbs, the Quartermaster and Gunnery Officer of the Scheme, leadership is rather foreign to him.
As no one else knows about the weapons, Enoch has the luxury of time – at least for now. At the moment, he is taking an accounting of his prize.</span>
