{Readiness} -- Tanari Spaceport

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Date Posted: 14:55:09 07/31/03 Thu
Author: Raven
Subject: {Readiness}

Jerking the hovering bike to a halt before the numerous though strangely assorted rows of spacecraft, the woman swings inadvertantly from the now silent machine, attention fixed upon the choice of craft before her. Unhitiching her bag from the back of the bike she ambles across the aisles, gaze shifting from one vehicle to the next, looking for a small ship, well armed yet able to carry a sufficent number of passengers and sustain an acceptable speed. She hesitates before a mid sized passenger vessle, seeming to last have been used in a hostile solar system. The carrying capacity was good sized...with good engines for speed and precision perhaps originally an express for rushed transport between planets. Obviously the craft had not been originally outfitted with weapons but more than made up for it now, large phasers flanking either side of the ship and both fore and aft missiles providing a formidibal protection for it's size. The interior, somewhat disfigured and considerably cut down on passenger space from the crude weapons additions would accomodate four seated passengers but could hold eight or even ten. The downfall would be drag, reduced speed..and crammed quarters..but it was suitable for the job. Amazing what the pirates picked up.

Squeezing into the pilots seat, somewhat uncomfortably close to one of the fore phaser engines, she hitches her back to the seat as well, starting the vessle with a hint of trepedation. It starts suprisingly quietly, a tribute to the ships original make, landing equiptement retracting into the body as it hovers a few feet above the ground. Gliding down the row, she accelerates twoard one of the spaceport hatches, bursting into the chilled night and swiftly twoard the bright lights of the Tanari moons..

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