Again! Those damn Spaceroids had pulled it off again!
Barely resisting the urge to pound on the arm of my command chair, I snapped, "Are any other ships in range to intercept?"
Gloucester had come on duty to replace the midshipman who'd been on the sensors originally, but even his amazing intuition for winnowing signal from noise could only do so much. He looked up from the board, obviously just as irritated as I was as he replied, "No sir, with the way they're running their Deviance Engine they'll break past the blockade before anyone else can catch up."
Damn those bastards! We'd barely gotten so much as a glancing hit on them, and no leads on the hidden spacedock they were using to smuggle their Deviant-crafted drugs and super-materials into Lunaport, or who they were trading them with for Earthly luxuries. They were worse than the damn air-dippers, at least that lot went straight in-and-out, and were only after life support supplies.
I ground my teeth. There wasn't anything more to do... this time.
But there would be other times.
And I'd be waiting, along with every member of the Rocinante's crew.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Barely resisting the urge to pound on the arm of my command chair, I snapped, "Are any other ships in range to intercept?"
Gloucester had come on duty to replace the midshipman who'd been on the sensors originally, but even his amazing intuition for winnowing signal from noise could only do so much. He looked up from the board, obviously just as irritated as I was as he replied, "No sir, with the way they're running their Deviance Engine they'll break past the blockade before anyone else can catch up."
Damn those bastards! We'd barely gotten so much as a glancing hit on them, and no leads on the hidden spacedock they were using to smuggle their Deviant-crafted drugs and super-materials into Lunaport, or who they were trading them with for Earthly luxuries. They were worse than the damn air-dippers, at least that lot went straight in-and-out, and were only after life support supplies.
I ground my teeth. There wasn't anything more to do... this time.
But there would be other times.
And I'd be waiting, along with every member of the Rocinante's crew.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows