Across the Expanse: Day 12

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NOTE: There is not start transmission opener because the two are now next to each other.

Day 12

Lee: You sure know what you're doing?

Havardy: Yeah, I mean it's not like the pirate is gonna need his ship anymore anyways.

Lee: I wasn't asking about the ethics of stealing a dead man's ship, I'm asking if you even know how to hijack the damn thing.

Havardy: These are pirates, it's not like they're gonna have some super strong c- huh.

Lee: What?

Havardy: What do you know, this stuff is pretty complicated.

Lee: *Groans*

Havardy: Don't start bitching just yet, I took a class in coding back at the academy so I just need some time to crack this.

Lee: We don't have time, that's why we came out here when the sun is just rising to do this. I'm freezing here.

Havardy: God do all enlisted whine this much?

Lee: When they've been shot and just spent the night with a bloodied corpse? Yes, yes they do.

Havardy: Well shush and let me get to work on this. Should be as easy and reconfiguring a few pathways and opening up a…

Lee: … a what?

Havardy: I can’t remember what it’s called.

Lee: Goddammit.

Havardy: Will you quit it? And turns out this things just appears to be complicated, just a piecemeal OS put together by what looks like some rookie programmer. There is a ton of wasted data here.

Lee: What does that mean?

Havardy: It means that this ship’s security is all for show, like a Skillian that shakes its spines at you.

Lee: And?

Havardy: We can overwrite this pretty easily with another OS. Sheila's black box should still be intact right?

Lee: Yeah, I don’t think the crash was enough to damage it.

Havardy: Well then, let's get to it.

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Havardy: Alright, running the overwrite right now and… perfect, we’re in business.

Lee: Good, because if we stay here any longer we’re gonna have more problems to deal with.

Havardy: Then let’s get going shall we?

Lee: ...are you smiling?

Havardy: Hey come on, it's been awhile since I’ve flown something that isn’t a flying turtle… no offense to Sheila of course.

Lee: *sigh* Let’s just get out of here.

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Lee: We need a plan.

Havardy: Why? We could just hole up here until a fighter wing arrives right?

Lee: That’s only a possibility.

Havardy: ...why?

Lee: Because when I tried to send that message from the Tower it was hit by an EMP, there’s a chance that it cut out the systems before anything could get through.

Havardy: You have got to be kidding me. Why didn’t you tell me sooner?

Lee: Pinned on a ship and shot remember?

Havardy: You literally had all of last night to tell me.

Lee: Can we please just stay focused here?

Havardy: *sigh* fine, but you’re still an idiot.

Lee: Thanks.

Havardy: So what are our options?

Lee: Two, we head for the Tower or we head for the Mine. The tower is probably the one that is least guarded.

Havardy: But it’s the furthest away, which leaves us open to get attacked.

Lee: That and the EMP took down the Tower’s shields, so most of the electronics in it are probably fried from Deletros’ flares.

Havardy: Alright then, so the Mine, what can we do from there?

Lee: The Corsair doesn’t have a distress beacon right?

Havardy: No, well a short ranged one but nothing that is capable of shooting a signal across systems like the one in the Tower.

Lee: The pirates arrived in a freighter. A ship that size probably has one we could use or coms we could use to get in contact with the Coalition.

Havardy: Right, but how would we even go about hijacking a freighter?

Lee: That… is gonna take some time to go over.

Havardy: Well we got nothing better to do, lay it on me.

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