(G249 11/09/2015 via Roll20 - JF(GM), AP, MI) 39

(G249 11/09/2015 via Roll20 - JF(GM), AP, MI) 39

DAY 109 (tue) ...

Today was also the first day of the MATSE roll out. Ensign Kirk replicated one set for each member of the crew.

It wasn't long before they got to try them out either, because at 1400 the sensors showed that something was following
their warp trail.

On closer investigation is gave the impression of being two ships joined together by airlocks.

Out of nowhere Adam had the desire to take a 24 hour down time to change around his skill settings, but this was denied by Kirk
who said, 'Wait until this ship has stopped chasing us.'

Once the unknown ship had approached to within torpedo range Kirk hailed them and recieved the reply.
'Leave warp and prepare to be boarded!'
'Under what authurity?'
'A letter of mark of the Kazon Hobii. If you don't comply we will fire on you!'

Kirk ordered Paterson to drop out of warp, but also ordered everyone to get ready for combat.

It was piracy, as Kirk had realised, pure and simple and a large squad of Kazon fighters beamed on board and began to ransack
the ship. The crew of the Caco 'repelled boarders' though and a fire fight ensued.

The pirates were disorganised, which was lucky for Kirk and his crew, who killed several of them quite quickly. Dell was badly
injured, as was Paterson later on. Once the Kazon has sustained so many casualties that it was futile to carry on the beamed back
to their own ship, leaving only the dead behind.

As Kirk helped heal the injured in his own crew he opened a channel to the Kazon vessel and said,
'Let's discuss the conditions of your surrender.'
'Never!' was the reply and the pirate ship prepared for, and then went into warp.

Adam and Kirk attempted to hack the enemy ship's computers but they had nothing like the amount of time required before they
departed.

Some of the internal structure of the Caco had been damaged by phaser fire and grenades in the boarding and Adam set about
repairing it.

Kirk and the rest of the crew looted the pirate corpses and voided them out into space.

DAY 110 (wed)

The Cacophony continues on its way to Huroc at its max speed of Warp 4. (1.668 LY Travelled from Banea)

At 1900 the Caco arrived at the deep space ship yard (called localy 'Vanguard Station') they had been heading for. During
this time Adam worked on his own project.

They hooked up to an external docking ring and established contact with the ship yard.

Ensign Kirk, still injured from the fire fight went and got healed at a local clinic. He then made contact with
Grottog the Blaxion over the shipyard e-net but it fast became apparant that Kirk didn't have enough credits to
pay for the engines he wanted.

He decided to retrace their steps to a nearby red gaint, by far the brightest object in the sky from both Banea
and Vanguard, where the Dilithium scanner was giving readings off the charts.

DAY 111 (thu)

At 1000 they Cacophany arrives at Redbird's Star, where Kirk hoped to find some dilithium.