Sunbucks Cafe

[hack]

Hull O'Brian looked into his cup, and started to speak, almost in a whisper....

"I've been in a storm, almost this bad too..."

Hull stopped talking, and continued to look into this glass...

"These Ion storms stir up a lot of things, some man made,....... some not"

"Back in 799, I was 15 and was along for the ride in a friend of the families Rhino, was going
to hauls some Boron to Leeds."

All Hull heard was some snickering....

"Must have had to much Tequila tonight.." Came a retort...

"We got caught in this Massive Ion storm just past Planet L.A. No warning, it was just on top of us
in seconds. It shut down Main power, we had no steerage, knocked us completely out of the trade lane.
We couldn't tell where we were drifting, that little Rhino was like a Kite on the Ion storms winds....."

"We drifted for days, all the while the storm raged on. Nearest we could figure, we had passed out of the California system and were half way between the California system and Magellan. We tried to conserve power/ food / water, as we figured we would have a long trip back to civilization"

" All of the sudden, a LPI patriot can be seen out of the front viewscreens. He doesn't seem to be affected by the Ion storm. He gets a tractor beam on us and slowly starts dragging us along. We tried to raise him on the voice radio, but all we got was static. Figured the ion storm was interfering with it."

" He dragged us along for what seemed like hours, when a station loomed out of the darkness. Didnt look all that well maintained, but any port in a storm... We were pulled inside of a docking port and set down inside the station. We had no idea what was going to happen, so we stayed where we were. Suddenly, from the area of our Docking port, came a rapping.. Bang! Bang! Bang!."

""Wait here" we were told, whilst the Captain went and saw who it was. He opened the comms and spoke "Who is out there?""

"Sargent Price from the LPI, open the door, its safe, you are in the docking bay of the 207th Precinct."

"Awesome" I thought, we were on a LPI station. We were saved!"

"The captain Opened the door, and there was a LPI officer in full flight suit, with his Flight Helmet still on."

"Your welcome aboard for a bit. You can make repairs and be able to get on your way. Looks like the storm will be abating here shortly."

"Thanks Officer, we will do that. By the way, where is this station located? Our Nav was all messed up due to the storm..."

Hull takes another drink, looks into the bottom of his glass, and starts to speak again. No one is talking now, but all are listening to his tale...

"Your on Chula Vista Station, halfway between the San Diego Border station and the Bretonian station in the Magellan system."

"Don't you mean the Freeport station in the Magellan system?" I asked

Sergent Price just tilted his Helmet down as if to look at me and said "Sure kid"

"I will have to ask you to confine yourselves to the cargo bay. Looks like you can be on your way in an hour or two." intoned the officer.

"Thanks, we will, give us and hour and we will be ready to go"

Hull Finished his drink, turned to the bartender and said 'Bar keep, I need another one before I go on with this tale"...

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Formerly known as LPI Police Chief Hull O'Brien.
Creator of Sgt. V. Price, 207th Precinct out of Chula Vista Station