Episode214p2

Thursday, 13 Jun 2520
Spaceport, Whittier
Kalidasa (Xuan Wu) system
13:05 hrs, local time

Our client, Bess Franklin, is sorry but she cannot pay us for our cargo. She had planned to pay for it using a charitable contribution that had been promised but had failed to come in. The cargo itself is office supplies—furniture and computers and supplies like paper and pens and so forth. Perhaps she could pay us with some of the cargo in trade? As a charity, she hasn’t the cash on hand to pay us outright.

Christian arranges for once container’s worth of supplies and fresh food in lieu of payment. Business concluded, he looks for cargo to take us the rest of the way to Salisbury and finds us 4 2nd class passengers bound for it. They all pay up front and we use that cash to buy the fuel we need to get there. Two of the passengers are engineers, working their way to Beaumonde, just your ordinary wildcatters. The other two passengers are recruiters for corporate temp companies. The Tohoku class cruisers going offline has resulted in transfer of personnel off the ships, leading to an increased need for decommissioning staff.

It takes us two days to get to Salisbury from Whittier.

Back to The Last Flight of the Maddox.

Back to the previous episode: Show Stoppers | Forward to: Trafalgar
Back to Season Two: Hitting Our Stride
Back to EPISODES
Back to Mutineers Homepage