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"Not blowing us up is a good start, but say I wanna do something captured. What if I was to work for you instead? I'm a good pilot, a really good pilot. Anyone else wouldn't still be flying after what we've been through. Some repairs, some less than legal mods and my skills would make this ship a real powerhouse."
>"Hah! Well I mean yeah of course your ship is good, why do you think I'm trying to steal it from you? Though you're not wrong, you showed some skill back before.
She chuckles
>"Buuut I'm not sure why you think you're in a position to bargain. Like c'mon, I'm offering you a great deal here! On top of it being the only option that won't probably get you killed."
"Well, I'm not really sure you've given us enough credit here, and I'm not really sure your deal is all that great. Who do you work for? You say we wont be prisoners for long but-
>"-Ohhhh my god I'm not going to kill you or anything calm down, I- UGH. Once again you're ruining a dramatic speech, but I guess I can explain how stuff works now. If you're on my ship you're either doing work, and eating nice food, or in a cell, and eating crap food. There is a third, hidden role where you're in my bed buuut,"
She sighs.
>"See this is where I was gonna peer over all of you in person and then go 'nahhhh'. It would've made you feel insecure, it would've been funny, I would've enjoyed myself. But now you've gone and ruined it. Anyway, we'll let you keep all your stuff and credits, unless you're like super-rich, and just take the ship. We don't work for anyone, but we always need more people to help out and keep this old thing running. If you do good work you'll be free to go if you choose next time we're at a peaceful settlement. If you choose to stay a prisoner we miiight keep you around for a bit longer, buuut who has time to be vindictive nowadays?"
I don't get the impression she's lying, but given who she is she's probably not a bad actor.
"Okay. Well you act like you've been tailing us for a while, so you saw the scuffle we got into with those alliance ships right?"
>"It's why we're having this lovely chat right now."
"Good, well then you probably noticed our invisible friends."
She smirks, incredulous.
>"Yeahh them. Aaand by 'friends' you mean?"
"Well you know, allies? You fire on us, you're gonna get a lot worse in return."
>"Pfff, I mean hey nice try, good thinking on your feet, but that fight there was just a coincidence."
"You think? We've been travelling with them for a while now."
>"Pah, well lets see. Where were you... about five hours ago?
Err I've kind of lost track time with everything that's been going on, I check the ship's logs.
"Uh, should've just left SR092341-1 around then."
This catches her by surprise.
>"Huh, okay then. Verrry interesting. Okay, well first up; don't say the whole freakin' code of a planet out loud. C'mon, learn the local names of things if you're gonna talk about them."
"What is it's local name?"
>"I don't know! I don't give a rat's ass about some uninhabited rock. See? You could've just made something up and sounded cool, missed opportunity! But anyway, secondly; I don't believe you. Not entirely at least, but now I think I've got something to be even more interesting to offer you... Why do you think I was in this belt to spot you in the first place?"
"Well, it seems to be a pretty popular hideout for pirates."
>"True, true, but not why I was here. I was here for research. Learning what I could about a certain set of tiny, barely observable disturbances and signals. Tracking something so very difficult to observe."
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