>>5649344"The Ganth- are about as useless as lil rippas when it comes to maintainin a damn ship. That's what I figured out based on data logs. Honestly we could rebuild a bigga ship from scrap and it'd probably be easier. The only saving grace is the ship has protocols that allow it to auto maintain, and since it has been here it has been doin a lot of things like that. It's got all these fancy systems and things I didn't even dream of. Worse- it looks like the ganth- despite their disposition for slavin and makin artificial limbs are not very smart when it comes to construction. They made the ship harder to use! Part of the reason I think we whupped the Auditor so bad- is because they weren't doin what they were supposed to do for fixin the ship and they downgraded it. Then for a few week we had to actually clear out the inside of the damn thing which still had ganth. We didn't lose anyone but it was still a bit frightful. We came here to do additional refits. Jerah wanted to pitch the idea of gettin a work crew to transition to privateerin with the ship as is- but I asked-"
"Begged more like it." Jerah says
"If we could talk to ya first. Maybe you to look over the ship once to see what can be done." Johan says.
"I'd like to talk to Jerah about some other stuff first."
"Yuh." Jerah says motioning to the beach.
"Grab ya board?" Jerah asks. You smirk. It's been a time.
Riding the waves once again. It feels better every time you do it. The surf and spray, sure- the board can surf itself, but that isn't the point. Everyone has been so busy, it's hard to even get the time. Jerah, who has always been a good surfer too, seems to be appraisin ya. As he surfs in he stops a minute.
"Lot on ya mind RuaRua?"
"Ya Jack. A lot."
"It shows. Ya form is off."
"Ya." Ya give a half heated chuckle. Of course it's off. Why wouldn't it be.
"Lad- Ya got even more ahead of ya. Learn from all this. Don't worry about doin the research on my ship, we got enough tech here and what ya made to be outta here in a little. The mokka I brought and the stocks we have more than enough to do it then go out." He says
"Ya but that aint all." You say
"We got signals from a fancy ganth device. Ya sons got done fightan the orks, multiple big fleets are outside the system. One of them is comin in really fast- and should be here in a few days. The other- it's weird."
"How so?"