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DAY 82 (wed) cont ...
Meanwhile, a subspace message came through from Neelix. It was in essence a shopping list, and rather a
large one. Many people were requesting, if it wasn't too much trouble, if they could find, coffee, tea, soap,
brown rolls, insoles, fresh fruit, work gloves, face cream, hand cream, ice cream. Hundreds of items.
Neelix also warned not to do anything illegal like replicating local currency. Trade goods and things such
as gold and diamonds was another matter.
Kirk assigned Crewman Sandra Paterson to the shopping task and she set to work with the bases trading system
to buy as much as she could that was on the list.
Kirk looked for Burung eggs and found that they traded for 50,000 FS each on the local market. He contacted a
robot called Megatrader500 and cut a deal to buy one for 75k worth of replicated diamonds. Somehow the
robot knew when he saw replicated goods and considered them not worth as much.
Kirk started churning out diamonds from the replicator, a costly thing in terms of energy use, but still the
most viable tradable item he could think of.
Just then though he received Mioen's communicator message and worked out she was with some Vidiians. The details
of that adventure are in the previous report. By the time he'd sorted all that out he'd paid a further 30k FS to
officer 6-ZYT to smooth everything out.
(10k for being involved in explosions on the base and 10k over irregularities in their docking paperwork.)
Mieon protested but Kirk shrugged and replicated more diamonds which he then traded to Megatrader500 for cash.
Once he had the Burung egg in his possession he ran it through the transporter and tried to feed the resulting
data into the replicator. It was too difficult a task though, and he realised that writing replicator programmes
from scratch would take weeks potentially, especially for something as complicated biologically as a Burung
egg.
With a sigh, Kirk adjusted his plan and together with Dell and Mieon he took a wander down to the shipyards.
Here he talked to a being called Shield Trader Guromax in Hanger 43, but eventually he realised that on this
moon base that the smallest shield generators available were larger than the Aeroshuttle itself!
Grumbling he headed back to the AS and trying to salvage something from the trip he checked over the shuttles
warp engine to see what could be improved there. Clever as he and Dell were though, they had done nothing more
than basic warp theory at the Academy and didn't really know what they were looking at.
With nothing better to try he sent a subspace message to Torres to see what she needed and a while later she
sent back a list of mainly tech stuff, but also person toiletries.
They spent the rest of the day trading diamonds for stuff. Kirk took over the trading, with the help of Mioen
and ordered Paterson to spend some time on Piloting theory.
Kirk also purchased exotic alcoholic beverages, cakes, crisps and biscuits.
Mieon purchased some nice jewellery.
They also managed to get their hands on 50 kilograms of refined dilithium.
They left the moonbase that night.
DAY 83 (thu)
At first they had decided to head back to Voyager. They had not managed to get the shields, but the hold was
packed full of goodies.
They had assumed that the planet of Ruma Burung was completely closed off, blockaded by the Babi-Ijo, but this
was not the case. They Babi were not stopping small ships, as Rumbleton found after a few scans, and they could
land on the planet if they wished.
It was 0200 hours ship time when they landed, on a shuttle pad that stood up above the forest canopy. Three local
officials met them, led by Port Master Bwak.
The Burung Mera are bird like people, covered in feathers and beaked, but humanoid in general form. Kirk requested
that before they did anything else they get some rest and Bwak agreed.
At 1000 they awoke and met with the Port Authority again. They had been assigned a 'Handler' called Buto. This
was how it worked on Burung Mera. They are an inquisitive race and greatly interested in alien species. They
fact that they had never met humans or orions before caused a minor sensation on the planet.
Buto led them up to a pleasant tree house for refreshments and an hour later introduced them to a team of
scientists who asked them lots of questions about their race and homeworlds. They took some photos and Kirk
handed them some basic data on the Federation.
A further hour later a camera crew showed up and filmed a piece about the visitors for Bwak City TV. Once the
crew left they handed them some free Burung Mera Data Terminal so they could keep up with the local media
and reply to 'tweeps' send to them from admiring fans.
It was all rather a whirlwind and Kirk was glad when they finally got down to business with Buto.
As they ate lunch and looked over the beautiful forests of Ruma Burung Buto told him that they would give
them the shields they wanted and even fit them for them in exchange for the safe return of 100 of their
eggs.
Kirk was at a total loss as to how to arrange this, but Buto contacted some of his friends in the military
and told him that if they could get to the Babi-Ijo's home planet quickly they could coincide their egg
raid with a counter attack that was being planned by high command.
By 1600 they had fleshed out the whole plan and Kirk decided to give it a go.
As they flew past the moonbase and headed to the Babi-Ijo homeworld they were approached and boarded by a small
picket craft. A Babi-Ijo, a Kazona and two marines of unknown species entered the AS and arranged tourist
visa's for everyone. As usual the price was extortionate and Kirk gave them a handful of diamonds that seemed
to about cover it.
They were give permission to land at the town of Hamport, which was their target, or rather the bank there
was. It was guarded and had a forcefield over it, but Kirk's plan was to do away with the forcefield and
robotic guards with EMP grenades.
At 1800 they had landed and started scanning the town. From their scans they deduced that the forcefield
was powered by shield generators some distance away from the bank. The generators serviced not just the bank
but probably other buildings as well. They estimated that 20 to 50 lifesigns were currently at the location
of the bank. More scans revealed that the shield generator shielded itself and that the forcefield was sent
to the bank via underground cables.
The Babi-Ijo port authority was crossing the landing pad towards the AS. It was time to put the plan into
action.
