After we arrived to Trafalgar in New London and delivered engine components to the Junkers I've decided to take me new bomber for a spin. Thought about getting some action and some money from the traders that like to run. This way I could stop them more easily. First I went to Dublin to pay a visit to friendly miners out there in Gold fields. But of course BAF officer from his usual patrol shows up and recognize my ship signature.
Yeah that didn't took much, so I got rid of the guy and left him drift trough space in his pod. I rarely kill people, actually not so rarely but I kill them only if they cross me for money. I see no other reason to take someone else life than saving yers, and for some shiny.
Later on I decided to go to Liberty, visit my friend on Barrier Gate station in Conorado system and of course pirate someone around there. I decided to lay low and just to check out California when patrols in New York system direction. I went near the lane and waited. Finally a trader showed up on my scanners. I cut the lane and he dropped out in front of me.
I didn't want to chat too much, so I asked guy for 2 million credits. He was loaded with gold.
Well I settled for a price, If ye need to rob the man there is no need to be impolite. He sent 1.3 Million credits on my account and I left him be. I decided to treat my self with couple of bottles on Barrier station.I will return to my crew first thing in the morning. It was a good day for piracy. Apache out
Been couple of days since last entry in my log, nothing much happened. Mostly a lot of drinking and smuggling slave and cardamine between Buffalo base in New York, and planet Malta in Omicron Alpha. Ah me Black Urizen, sure is beauty, nothing can harm us in that beast of a ship.
Seems that we will have to start operation in Dublin for some time. It has become too dangerous, and I don't want to put my ship and crew in risk. It's swarming with mercenaries protecting miners and with Bretonian forces. I have no idea where Mollys are, I only see them at Arranmore when I come to buy more rum. They patrols are around there as usual but I have no idea where are their pirates and forces that fight Bretonian invaders. I hope that will change, too many damn want to be vigilantes are out there.
I took off from Black Urizen with my bomber to explore good spots for pirating in Rheiland, need to change me location for some time. First I went to Conorado, to pick up me old partner, as he likes to call him self The Mohican.
As we entered the Rheiland territory I decided we should blow up couple of patrol ships, just to ensure we have couple of pilots we can trade as hostages if anything goes wrong.
We decided to take the Bering-Hamburg-New Berlin-Frankfurt-Munich route, to patrol around and see potential spots and targets. And along the way robbed one Independent trader and one Bowex trader as well. Not bad for patrol flight.
We discovered a shipyard in Hamburg, so I guess it's heavy guarded. There are probably police and millitary patrols around so we should be careful when passing trough that lane.
We jumped in New Berlin after that, not much there we can't avoid, we should keep out of lanes as much as possible, many military patrols lurk around there, we were detected three times, but we managed to escape without a problem.
Frankfurt wasn't much of a problem either, it has a great spot for piracy, trade lane that leads to Munich jump gate isn't much protected. So it won't be a problem to stop the traders and miners there. Especially ones that bring gold ore from Dublin.
Munich had one police station, not much of a problem we should just avoid it. It is on route to Bundschuh base in sector 5B so caution is advised.
Seems Rheiland is open for many pirate opportunities and I intend to use them all. This will be a good work and pretty rich one if ye ask me. I am getting low on fuel..and rum, as it seems me bottle is empty.I should land on the Eltmann Outpost to resupply so I can return to me crew.
Well, after me and me partner Mohican came back from Rheiland, we made a stop at Montezuma base in Cortez. I had sent transmission to me crew on Black Urizen to meet me there. Soon after couple of drinks and some rest we took off. The plan was to get couple of our partners to show the Dublin how easy is to rob them even with their mercenary crowd flying around.
On my surprise we just came in the wrong hour, I guess it was sleeping time in Bretonia, cause non of the miners or the mercenaries where there. I decided to land me ship on Arranmore for the time being, untill others decided to stay some more in space in case anybody shows up. Golden opportunities in golden system.
Just as I was about to take a good old fashioned rum induced sleep at me captain's chair. Annoying good damn beep woke me bloody up !
Yeah it was Breen who woke me up, and he woke me for a damn good reason. He told me , that me partners shot one if his lads and that they sometimes threat people who bring them their supplies. I was pissed off right then, it was bloody 5AM in the morning I tell ye. Anyway I opened comm channels to me partners and sent them a message.
They better bloody understand what am I saying to them. We should keep our allies close, not attack them aye. I expect they will never repeat this mistake, they don't want to see meself going mad on them. It's the respect I am talking about.
Finally I managed to get some sleep. * Sound of opening bottle* And it's new day, new adventure and new couple of bottles fer me. * You can hear captain drinking for about 10 seconds, then smashing the bottle against the wall* Ahh...this tasted purdy good.
So I made a little trip today, to give something to Colin Breen as me token of gratitude for the respect he showed me. As I promised I made a little delivery when I was on me way to Arranmore.
When I delivered food I went to lurk around BMM fields as usual to find any of those rich bastards mining around, and I did. The guy had around 1000 units of gold ore, and I wanted to be fair to the lad, as he was not with those Bretonians, he was some king of independent miner or something. He even had an escort, which made me day much more interesting. In the end...after I asked for 400 units of his cargo he refused. Try to guess how that ended. Seems my greed has no end.
I got a message on system scale, some poor bastard had to ask me a question, and believe me he didn't want to know the answer. But I told him anyway.
It was just an ordinary day on Black Urizen. Crew members were drunk, captain even more. They just sold all their gold they managed to get in all their pirate adventures. And they got rich. And I mean really filthy rich. It was day they were so careless, that they didn't think ahead. They enjoyed their money, they got their ship full of booze, womans and drugs. They enjoyed the whole day.
As they were in Rheiland which was very dangerous and unexplored territory by them, they didn't care too much what will happen, as they were too busy enjoying in their greed satisfied for the first time in their life.
Suddenly a Rheiland Battleship showed up, opening comms to the Black Urizen.
Rheiland BS : Stop you engines, prepare to be scanned and boarder for security reasons.
Captain Apache : How about ye stop yer engines and eject all the goods ye have on that ship captain ?
Rheiland BS : These are not negotiations, your vessel will be destroyed, prepare to lower your shields and surrendering to Rheilands Military.
Captain Apache : Ye just made me laugh, ye think ye will stop me, I'll rather destroy this ship and kill me self along with it, then letting somebody catch me. Son, ye'll always remember this as the day ye met Captain Apache !
Captain Apache shouted to his crew to go to the pods and leave everything behind, he was a bloodthirsty maniac, and he decided to march alone on the Battleship. Crew wanted to stay aboard but captain shouted one more time. Run, you fools, you can't win this one. Run and don't ever come back searching for me.
Crew knew captain never tells them something if he doesn't mean it with his life, they stood there, saluted him and run fast as they can, filling their pockets will all the credits they could grab.
Captain Apache was calmed, he held bottle of rum in one hand, and navigated the ship with other. His healthy eye was spread opened, filled with anger and wraith he was about to unleash. Last words that came out of his mouth were.... "Fools, we were poor blind fools, and me enjoyed every second of it."
He opened the comms to the BS shouting to their captain : Well done me boy, YE WILL JOIN ME IN THE PAGES OF HISTORY !
He fired all he could on that ship, taking half of it's shield, making them fear before they blew up his ship. Crew from the pods could only stare in the scene were Captain Apache, the last free pirate and a madman, gave his life to save them. As they drifted far..waiting to be rescued.
It has been 13 days since Black Urizen was destroyed, the crew accepted the fact that captain died to save their lives. They drifted in pods for couple of hours before some Junker found them. And he took them to Barrier Gate, where they often spent their days. They were drinking every night in the name of captain and his bravery. They couldn't believe after all they went trough with him that he was dead. Mr.Waits told the rest of the crew, they should collect all their credits and build a new pirate transport, which would wear a proud name of Black Urizen once again. They all agreed, they should spent the last credit the revive the legend, who knows where the life would take them once more. They had enough friends in this galaxy to survive, and they will. They will pirate once again in the name of their beloved captain and a friend.
Mr.Waits: Lads, I know captain said we shouldn't look back, we shouldn't search for him, but what if....
Sonya: What if what Henry, ye think Jack would survive that attack ? Ye think he could still be alive ?
Mr.Waits: Ye know how I met captain for the first time if me life Sonya, do ye ?
Sonya: No I never heard the story, he was a cheap story teller , he would make a legend out of anything.
Mr.Waits start laughing and then all of sudden he gets serious.
Mr.Waits: All of ye, gather around I will tell ya a story I never told anyone before. A true story of the captain.
Ye know yer beloved captain was born on Leeds right ? He came from a poor family, not much to hope for in life, so he decided to join the Bretonian Armed Forces. Crew stared in disbelief while Henry Waits told them the real story about captain Apache
Mr.Waits : Aye, I will tell ya a true story how he become a pirate, and how he lost his eye...in the Bretonia-Kusari war. He was just a solder, who got his bomber when he was 21 back then. A young fool some may say, but I never knew him as one. Back in 801AS, when the Tau war was raging, Bretonian Queen send her forces to go destroy Kusari fleet in Taus. Captain was among those forces, struggling to become someone, to become a name. He was fighting in that battle, he was hitting Kusarian fleet hard, and evade every of their shoot swiftly with his ship. But Bretonian forces were loosing the battle, and one of the Kusarian Battleships was marching trough his friends, trough his man and his soldiers. He fired his SNAC to lower the shields of that ship, he then steered his ship to held steady to the bridge of the battleship. He had to keep his course , he got hit several times before he ejected and the bomber flew straight into bridge and killet their admiral. Without the command center, ship was a drift, and rest of the fleet finished the job. They picked up Jacks pod and returned him to BAF base for medical treatment.
Sonya: What ? I knew he had some business with BAF, but I never knew he was in that war, that he was a officer in the Armed Forces.
Mr.Waits: Aye, he of course become a legend among his friends, but queen...she didn't care, he got no decoration, no medals, no shiny title next to his name. He was pissed. He lied in that hospital for 2 months, he was forgotten, a nobody.
Sonya: So why didn't he made artificial eye, why didn't he stayed in Bretonia with his war pension.
Mr.Waits : Aye ye see, when captain seen the war doesn't make sense, they you loose friends, kill people for someone else..and in the end you are nobody he was mad. He didn't want the pension, he didn't want nothing from Bretonia. So he begin to drink. Thats where I come in his life. I was still young one could say, I was smuggling my whole life. I got my border world transport from me uncle, I would stop on Leeds to get supplies there, when one day I met him in the bar. He was a guy with patched eye looking for a fight, drunk as hell. I told him I will pay him good Bretonial ale if he calmes down, but of course captain as ye know it attacked me. We destroyed half of that bar fighting *laughs*, ah the good old Jack. The bartender called the cops of course, I didn't want no trouble, neither did he. So I agreed to pay for the damage, and Jack decided to work for me to pay me off. Thats how our friendships begin.
Sonya: Seems their is more then it meets the eye, I am in for rebuilding this ship.
The whole crew agreed they should rebuild it and explore, and plunder in the name of captain, but Mr.Waits stopped them and said: Aye we will rebuild it, aye we will name it the Black Urizen, and I am going to find Captain Apache, until I see his bloody corpse, I won't believe he is dead.
Crew: Aye
Sonya: Then let's do this, Waits find a seller, I will find necessary supplies for this search here on Barrier.
The crew scattered from the bar, everyone had to do a task. Ahead of them was a long way, and a painful search, for someone who is considered dead. People would say they were fools, but there is more than it meets the eye about Captain Apache.
I don't like to keep these logs aye, but when it's necessary someone needs to keep a kind of log to find out what happened to people. So It has been 15 days since the destruction of Black Urizen. I and the rest of the crew decided it is time to stop drinking, and we should search for the captain. I don't believe he is dead until I see he ugly face rotten somewhere underground or in cold depth of space. We gathered our credits we got from the time we served with captain, it will be enough to buy new Pirate Transport along with all the needed equipment . Sonya and other are preparing needed supplies for a search in Rheiland. I contacted Mr.Breen of Molly people to grant me access to their facilities so we can get ship from there.
He had no problems with us he offered us anything we need, seems he and Apache had respect for each other. Sometimes is not bad to have friends in dangerous galaxy like this one. I pick up a starflier, cheapest one I found on Barrier, and I went to Londonderry on Garvagh Mining Complex to get a new ship. I asked workers to paint on it's side hulls Black Urizen, so may I see that beauty fly once again among these star systems. I sent transmission to rest of the crew to come with the next transport for Arranmore with supplies and that our ship is ready. Soon we will begin our search, I'll tell Becket to upload his neutral net disc once again, so Sirius sector map can be uploaded on ships main data computers. We will need to work out a plan to search for captain. I asked Mollys to put the ship in Arranmore docking bay, and I went there to enjoy in Molly music and alcohol. I am waiting for the rest of the crew to come. I feel old Jack is still alive somewhere, he is not so easy to kill.
Finally the rest of the crew arrived here on Arranmore, and made the ship look like it was before. It looks exactly the same, there is only one thing missing..our captain and his bottles around. Becket uploaded the maps to main computer, and after a few drink we came on board. There was no more time to lose, we had everything we need to start searching for captain. I asked Mr.Look to make a detailed plan, where the destruction occurred and possible ways to get out of there, or possible ways of someone finding the pod if captain used one.
The plan was to start looking at 4F, where the attack happened, possible getaways were 3F-Sigma 13, and 3C-Hamburg , there is an Junker depot in 4c, where we were once picking something up for Junkers . They know to wonder across those fields, so maybe they saved captain. We won't know until we check it out. We will departure soon, and start looking all over New Berlin system. If you are alive captain..we will find you. Waits out.
We departed from Arranmore around 5AM today, our ship was nicely equipped and ready for any kind of danger that lies ahead of us. We installed the same turrets, we took a same armor captain once got from some junker, same shields. Except it was all new and shiny. We decided to mostly use jump holes, in order to avoid any encounters with house polices as Black Urizen was famous ship already, we couldn't lie any more that we are just ordinary freelancers like we always did [color=#000000]*Mr.Waits stops and laughs a little* It was a neat trick from captain to install that IFF transponder, so I did the same thing now, you can always trick trader scanners with it.
From Dublin we took a Leeds then Cambridge jump hole, and continued our way trough omega 3 and 7, it was not so easy to avoid patrols but we managed ourselves pretty well. We had to destroy 2 little ships along the way but that didn't slow us down. Stuttgart was little bit tricky, rheiland military don't welcome people like us easy, so we took longer way across the system, far away from planets and stations and Look masked our signal with Dustys help of making us look like some lost wreck if anybody spots us. So Finally around 9AM we managed to get to New Berlin system. We fired up our engines and hurried to sector 4F where the captain had his last battle.
We saw a wreck, at least what's left of it and we managed to find a escape pod there.
We took it aboard, and gathered around to open it, but it was empty. There were signs that it has been used, the signal has not been turned on, but the little red light blinked, so it could be found only visual, and not on scanners. I had one place in mind who might saved him...the junkers. We made our way to Kreuzberg Depot quickly as we can.
Mr.Waits and the rest of the crew aboard Black Urizen went to Kreuzberg Depot to see if maybe Junkers found the old captain. They landed at went to search around station. There was no trace of captain there. There could be only one place he could visit if he was here. So they went to the bar.
[color=#000000]*Henry waits came to the bartender and asked*
Mr.Waits: Hello there pal, did you see a man with patch on his eye with a long beard, looking like a pirate and probably ordering large amount of rum.
Bartender: You mean Apache ?
Mr.Waits: Aye, that exactly who I mean, where is he , what happened ?
Bartender: Well he was getting drunker and drunker, so he started to talk about him attacking a Rheiland battleship with his transport and how he has no idea where is his crew. Seems Unioner patrol saved him and brought him here. then some guy called him a liar.
Mr.Waits: *laughs loudly* Lad you wouldn't believe, but we are his crew, and that's exactly what happened.
Bartender: Well..after a guy called him a liar you captain got crazy, he took a bottle and smashed it on the guys head. Our station guard took him and put him in cell for sobering.
Mr.Waits: Well what happened after the release ?
Bartender : Well he was wondering around station , said he was looking for transportation out of here.
Mr.Waits: So where the hell is he ?
Bartender : I think he is in our apartment, he took couple of hookers and a crate of rum.
Sonya: What ? That bastard, in what room is he.
Bartender: I think 303, not sure, but you can't intrude *Sonya already started marching all angry grabbing her pistol*
Room 303
*Sonya unlocks the door,comes in, and catches Apache drunk as hell lying on the floor, she punches him with the tip of her boot in ribs *
Sonya: You bastard, we were searching for you all around and all you did was getting drunk for 15 days and enjoying yourself with hookers ? Is that everything you could do, you idiot !!!
Captain Apache : *raises an eyebrow* Umm, well honey..I couldn't find a ride home *he smiles at her* *Rest of the crew comes into room*
Sonya: You filthy bastard where are those whores, I am going to kill them all ?
Mr.Waits: Aye Jack, glad to see you alive. *Captain Apache stands up, grabbing his hat and puts it on his head*
Captain Apache: Darling, they were poor amusement I didn't payed them a cent*he laughes*
Captain Apache: Aye Henry, well how did ye come here old friend? *Sonya slaps him then jumps on him and hugs him*
Mr.Waits: You wouldn't believe captain, we took all of our money, and rebuild the Black Urizen thanks to Collin Breen
Captain Apache: Well that old bastard, seems he has been good to us, we will repay him. Crew !
Crew: Aye ?
Captain Apache: Let's fill our cargo with rum and head to another adventure, It got so boring here. There are almost no damn transport passing around, only couple of corsair smugglers.
Crew: Aye, captain.
The crew went to commodities dealer and ordered 3130 crates of rum, it should be sufficient for some time they thought. Captain Apache went to docking bay and admired the beauty of his ship once again, he put his hands on the cold metal and pets it like it was his favorite thing in the world. He went to the bridge, to his captain chair, and waited for rest of the crew to come, so they could make a departure.
Aboard the Black Urizen
Captain Apache : Aye it's good to be home again.
Sonya: Don't ever, and I mean ever do that thing again to me !
Captain Apache: Sorry darling..*he takes a sip* I can't promise you, but aye I don't fancy me self in those kind of situations.
Mr.Waits: So Jack what happened after all, how did you manage to escape ?
Captain Apache: Ye see, after those bastards tried to take us, I order you to go away and take everything that is worth. I flew the ship until I got close enough to scare them, and I dropped 15 cargo pods empty to drift around. So they were of course..try to find me.
Mr.Waits: Well how didn't they find you ?
Captain Apache: Well I turned off the life support and everything else on one of them, and took 2 tanks of oxygen with me. It was enough for six hours, seems it was enough to live *he laughs like a mad man*
Mr.Waits: You are one crazy bastard Jack you know..
Captain Apache: Crazy ? Henry me friend..crazy has not to do with it *he turns to the rest of the crew* what are ye all looking at ye space dogs, go to yer station ,do something useful!
Crew: Aye captain
Sonya: So what now Jack, what is your plan ?
Captain Apache: Darling..let's go rob the **** out of this galaxy, Mr.Waits ! Takes us to cruise speed, tell me if ye see something on scanner.
Mr.Waits: Aye captain
Captain Apache: Sonya, let's...go visit me quarters..and..open another bottle
Sonya: *giggles* Yes sir !
So the Captain Apache was back on his ship again, reunited with his crew, seems he wasn't so easy to kill. They again need to satisfy their greedy hunger for money. So the adventure starts again...
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