==== Planet california minor military mothball yard 14 slot 6=======
it was cold and snowy starts of a storm Captian patterson steped out of the hover car and layed a hand on a old battered hull sighed and brushed it off , it read LNGB 11204-123 LNS Niagara Falls His first command he sighed again "so they want to scrap you huh?,well we cant have that" He entered,most if not all of her sensitive equipment was pulled out or in disrepair,powered down the chill of the snow was everywhere,her core was still "Hot" haveing not yet been emptyed he pressed a few buttons lights came on life support as well.
"look what they did to you,still plenty of fight and they want to melt you down,it should be a crime,think they wil llet me have you again old girl? he wallked onto the bridge and sat in his all to familer chair.remembering his last engagement with her ,the orbit of this very planet a coalition destroyer now classefied "Typhoon-class" he was 25 going on 26 and it felt like he had been a lifer ,combat in deep space was one thing but in nomad-infested deep space,well now that was alltogeather diffrent and as he joked" not covered in any feild manual or tactical training video or simulation" he felt older than 25,more like 45.
he sat back for what seemed like hours but was only 20 minutes when the yard boss had sent a runner "sir im gonna have to ask you to leave now its getting hazzardous out here the car wont beable to make the trip back" jim looked up over to the young corpral "son, do me a favor keep this girl here for me for a minimal of 3 weeks untouched ill take her like she is fix her myself just get her starworthy for me the military grade guns ill even remove" the corpral looked to him "il ldo what i can ,i see why you want to save her,you probly dont remember me but i was your helmsman when you first got her,when you retire sir consider me a part of the crew..im to be discharged in a month anyway medical reasons,was hurt in a training exercise"
jim smiled"consider yourself part of the crew then" he ran his hand across the woodgrain tactical console then walked to enginerring and took a final look before he shut her back down smiled and said as if talking to the ship itself" dont worry darling,sleep easy youl lsee the stars again"
(to be resumed il ledit and add more acordingly expect some other rp requests to follow in aproprate threads and please do not add anything unless you pm me spelling corrections excluded im allways looking to improve
and as you can see yes the ships very sentimental to him its also a hope that i can use it as a freelancer as jim wil lretire soon mathewrs wil lrun the louisbourg)
"15 million,half her original reactivation cost and half of the payment to save her upfront and all there" jim said punching a alphanumeric code into a holodisplay,the yard boss looked up" wont be enough youll need the other half, but i can hold her for you till you can get her youll have to work on her yourself though"
jim leaned agenst a wall as the transiaction finalized "so ill need my own crew sooner than i thought,hmm ok as you saw moneys all there so this is a done deal allmost ,right?" the yard boss lit a cigar "well its half the battle the others the political part...ill do what i can kid but no promises" he said exhailing jim turned to exit and replyed" thats all i lll need im off to get a crew mabye some of my old retired personell? hmm" he said mumbleing the last part of the sentince and re enterd his hovercar
================Deep Freze Bar,California Minor==========
"gimme a wisky and leave the bottle" he stated as he sat down ,an old hangout of his from the 106th he was waiting for 2 men his former tactical officer roy" bullseye" mcgovern and a buddy of his from his mineing days Frank" the fixer" Sanders arguably the best mechanic he knew,he had been waiting for about 10 minutes when two familer shadows apered aproching him both about 6 feet and musculer "been along time jimbo,roy here tells me you need a crew,scpotch on the rocks " jim stood up and shook franks hand he was a buddy from highschool one of his few surviveing ones "yeah you could say that ,hows a gunboat sound think your up to it frankie?"
frank who was about jims age sipped his scotch and smiled "gonna be just like when we ran your familys old rhino good old days count me in" roy sat beside me he himself had a liberty ale,spiked with what i thougt was tequela" so who is she? wheres the ship dident see anything on the pad?" jim smiled and slid a padd to the 22 yearold former gunny sargent" look familer roy?" jim asked as the display shpowed an old beat up gunboat he added" they wanna melt her down" roy slid it back some anger in his eyes "they want to do what to the girl!, scrap her christ shes still got 20years left minimal jim consider me back aboard ,sir" jim smiled takeing back the pad"well bew freelancing no need to call me that anymore,roy we only need 4 more officers xo helm comms and medical let me know if you find any worse case is both of you share xo as you two are most seinor" he smilled and had a few more drinks with them,they swapped storys till closeing and jim headed home,he was well on his way to saveing the old girl
========== Evergreen city planet Denver colorado sector=======
jimmy rarely went home,he was either busy or it was to painful his retirement stil lwell on the way he hadgotten trust of the people he needed to and in the trip found his doctor and Conn officer,he would merge comms and helm 22 year old samantha watson would be the pilot she was a local girl to evergreen and the doctor would be brendon keller recently honorably discharged from his old unit the 106th now he needed an XO and guns for his ship...he parked his car a rather nice one a "battlemaster" XT 3600 SHU super heavy utility hovercar an ageria build military surplus actually he had it armored custom built when he arived at the town graveyard and walked over to whre his family lays buryied,said a prair and layed a set of roses on there grave "i miss you mom,dad " he said as he cried a little and he rarly cried after about a half hour he headed home haveing took weekend liberty to be off base the guard changeing ceromony would be the next thing he had to do,when he handed the Ft Louisbourg over to his XO tomas mathers but that would come ,with time
==================new york system just outside norfolk shipyard========
jim crushed out the ciggerette he was smokeing and sighed his ship had been originally built to wage secret missions not mundane patrols of core space that was the navy and LPIs job but the LPI were either never around or cowering and sense the war began he noticed the navy careing less and less about there own homesystems and engageing the rhinelanders more agresivly ,pirates were hitting military targets daily convoys as well yet they ignoreed it jim was fed up nobody would listen his friends now apprently hated him something had to give and he dident know what or when but something was at the breaking point add to the fact his gunboat was MIA last seen from spysats in omercron delta he had made a decision he would contact an old buddy of his who from intel lwas now a commodore... an Order Commodore whie, he probly woundet join it he would most certinyl contact his old buddy for it apered that chris was his only Friend
================location unknown presumed to be out of known space 3 weeks ago====
the little gunboat rocked hard klaxons and sirens cried out jim woke up and ran to the bridge he had fatiges and a tanktop he normally wore on off time on the fort " report,what in the hell happened" he snapped as he punched up a status display and pated the woodgrain concole at tactical roy then spoke up" uh jimbo... what if i told you i dont know where we are" he replyed hesatantly as he met jims cold stare" find out... frankiie whats our status and sammy are you allright?" he saw hr picking herself up off the deckplateing she nodded ok and resumed her post when the bridge comms chriped" jim,keller weve got wounded whatever the hel lwe hit or passed through filled medbay faster then a fight at the manhattan bar and grill nothing serious some of em have allready been released"
jim sighed and roy then spoke up not directly though" hmm knew that mkine feild in orkney was a bad idea" he looked ansd saw jim glareing"what minefeild in orkney! explantion gunny... NOW" roy punched up a display"i felt like exploreing i docked on this station..reunion saw the mines and took the falls threw em next thing i know were being pulled in a jumphole and navicharts dont know which ways "north" for christ sakes did manage to get us to a base though identified it as montpellier"
jimmy sat down calmer now he was in uncharted space with unknown contacts al laround him bombed out a warzone"raise sheilds ful lscans and keep us quiet all hands battlestations til lfiurther notice,sam lets start mapping" the little gunboat now at full fight darted off came acorss some destroyed ships they halted and ran them sam spoke up" hmm shes a battleship but dosent match the database i can get a name though .. CASSARD second ship further from it a cruiser wreck cant get its name" the falls ran off darting to and fro scanning the system til lthey stopped dead finding a very actve counterpart to the cassard" turn us around now! jim commanded and the ship ran "up" away from it all by this time his friend Chris dangen had arived and had informed him he was "just on the edge" of the sirus sector the massive Osirus class battleship[ Anubis had pulled alone side he had docked and chose to board to "face to face" with an old budddy they had talked for a good few hours when the comms unit around his neck clicked it was roy and he was worried" jimmy two contacts ,three on scopes battleship a cruiser and gunboat no visual but there in system also were in a system called langudoc this mightget bad"
jim sighed stil lin the lunge of the anubis haveing been talking with chris and his extreamly close friend and new love of his life (tho there not dateuing currently) recently exiled admrial Jessica Porter via long range live time subspace a extreamly close friend of his as christopher was he had just finished a glass of whisky when the battleship now identified as the dunkerque wide frquency hailed demanding who they were
(more to come pm comments some events happene dbefore this but wil lbe told through a first person prespective after this postwil lalso remove mentioned shipnames per owners request no metagameing and claiming you knew were i was and who i talk to LN players also note jimme at this time is remaining in uniform he is just on a leave of absence )