Across the Expanse: Day 3
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Havardy: Fuck.
Lee: What is it Lieu- uh, I mean ma- *sigh*
Havardy: ...just call me Amy.
Lee: Alright… Amy, what’s the problem?
Havardy: Two of the mining drones got their path finders
fried by that solar flare yesterday. They wandered off into the Expanse while I
was sleeping.
Lee: Shouldn’t there have been a warning about that?
Havardy: Remember what I said about old equipment?
Lee: ...does anything work like it’s supposed to?
Havardy: Vera about back doesn’t much trouble working.
Lee: Vera?
Havardy: Small transporter out back. Drives like an Old
Age rover and looks as ugly as a naked
Thulu, but she gets the job done.
Nothing compared to Sheila.
Lee: And that is?
Havardy: Your shuttle. She’s not much better than Vera,
but when Phil let me fly her for that short amount of time… it was bliss.
Lee: ...right, are you going out to get those drones?
Havardy: Yeah yeah, give me a second. Slipping into an
EVA suit takes a while you know.
Lee: Do you want me to report this incident to the
Coalition?
Havardy: Don’t bother, they never respond anyways.
Anyways the suit’s on, doesn’t really compliment my figure but eh, feels nice.
Contact you in an hour.
Havardy: Alright, good news and bad news.
Lee: What’s the bad news?
Havardy: One of the drones fell off a ravine and is
broken into an ass load of pieces, recovery looks pretty much impossible at
this point.
Lee: *Groans* The good news?
Havardy: Another one fell a shorter distance and only
broke in half.
Lee: How is that good news?
Havardy: Positives Lee, positives.
Lee: I’m not seeing anything positive about this
situation.
Havardy: Well for one thing I can salvage the parts and
use them as spares for the other drones.
Lee: Anything else?
Havardy: I don’t need to pay attention to as many drones.
Lee: ...right, that sounds pleasant.
Havardy: See? Now you’re getting it.
Lee: How do you plan on retrieving one the pod?
Havardy: Vera here has a crane on the back, shouldn’t be
too difficult. I’ll have the pieces packed up and back to base in about an hour
and a half.
Lee: Right, well I’m gonna put in a report about what
happened, let me know when you get back.
Havardy: Will do.
Havardy: More good news.
Lee: What is it?
Havardy: The view over the Expanse is magnificent right
now.
Lee: Is it?
Havardy: Yeah, take a look yourself. You should be able
to see Deletros sinking into the horizon.
Lee: ... oh wow. That is pretty. I didn’t expect it
to be so… blue.
Havardy: Gotta learn to savor moments like this, keeps me
from being stir-crazy.
Lee: May I ask why you’ve been here for so long?
Havardy: Pissed off a few people, kicked some ass, you
know, the usual.
Lee: Uh… yeah.
Havardy: ...anyways I’ll contact you when I get back.
Enjoy the view Lee.
Lee: Understood.
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