[FTL RP, WE'RE BACK, REBOOTED!] The Rogue Cadets

[JakeCollins]

"We should just leave them be," Jake said, sighing. "If they won't reason with us then there is no point in diplomacy. And they're not hostile, we have no reason to attack them."

But that hasn't stopped me before...

[BrenTenkage]

"Fine lets do it" he said, "Be glad to get out of here" he said checking the next beacons, Nothing nothing and one beacon marked RockMart, for all your rocking Needs..." he said sighing a bit

[JakeCollins]

"We need to go to the store." Jake said. "My hull's still in red."

As they materialized at the store, Jake got a signal from the Hull Repair department. The whole store was mined from an asteroid, with the Hull Repair department on the starboard side. Jake docked.

"Hey there!" A slender looking Rockmen said. "In need of some serious hull repair, I see."

"Yeah. Quite a scrape." Jake said.

"Lemme guess - the Rebels and their Black Holes."

"How'd you know?"

"All of our customers these days are victims of some kind of Black Hole attack or another. We don't get calls for standard laser burns anymore."

"Can you repair your hull?"

Jake noticed some kind of drone attach to the ship. It began doing some kind of intensive very-short-range scan on the hull plating."

"According to my drone, your hull is some weird material we can't produce. But it's close to Federation Issue plating. Fed plating isn't nearly as... resilient as that stuff. But it's similar. Your ship would look quite patchy - but looks arn't everything!"

"Name your price..."

"100 Scrap"

"You drive a hard bargin,"

"You have a very damaged ship with a totally new hull configuration. Can you afford it?"

"Why's it so expensive?"

"I told you. Weird hull configuration + alot of damage = pricy repairs."

"How much will my other two ships cost?"

"Well, the 'Scarab' is gonna cost around 80, and the 'Pelican' is gonna cost around 30. That brings your sub total to 210 scrap. But we have a discount for multiple ships. I'll cut it to 190 for ya."

Jake momentarily switched to a fleet-only encrypted channel. "100 scrap for repairs to the Mature. 80 for the Scarab and 30 for the Pelican. There's a discount, so our total is 190 scrap for all three ships. Can we afford it?"

"No, we can't afford in. The Pelican's cargo bay was cleared out." Sarah said.

"Then we'll have to sell something..." Jake sighed.

"We have nothing to sell."

"I know."

[BrenTenkage]

"We need to go to the store." Jake said. "My hull's still in red."

As they materialized at the store, Jake got a signal from the Hull Repair department. The whole store was mined from an asteroid, with the Hull Repair department on the starboard side. Jake docked.

"Hey there!" A slender looking Rockmen said. "In need of some serious hull repair, I see."

"Yeah. Quite a scrape." Jake said.

"Lemme guess - the Rebels and their Black Holes."

"How'd you know?"

"All of our customers these days are victims of some kind of Black Hole attack or another. We don't get calls for standard laser burns anymore."

"Can you repair your hull?"

Jake noticed some kind of drone attach to the ship. It began doing some kind of intensive very-short-range scan on the hull plating."

"According to my drone, your hull is some weird material we can't produce. But it's close to Federation Issue plating. Fed plating isn't nearly as... resilient as that stuff. But it's similar. Your ship would look quite patchy - but looks arn't everything!"

"Name your price..."

"100 Scrap"

"You drive a hard bargin,"

"You have a very damaged ship with a totally new hull configuration. Can you afford it?"

"Why's it so expensive?"

"I told you. Weird hull configuration + alot of damage = pricy repairs."

"How much will my other two ships cost?"

"Well, the 'Scarab' is gonna cost around 80, and the 'Pelican' is gonna cost around 30. That brings your sub total to 210 scrap. But we have a discount for multiple ships. I'll cut it to 190 for ya."

Jake momentarily switched to a fleet-only encrypted channel. "100 scrap for repairs to the Mature. 80 for the Scarab and 30 for the Pelican. There's a discount, so our total is 190 scrap for all three ships. Can we afford it?"

"No, we can't afford in. The Pelican's cargo bay was cleared out." Sarah said.

"Then we'll have to sell something..." Jake sighed.

"We have nothing to sell."

"I know."

The lanius came in, and Bren contacted them, "Excuse me you wouldn't happen to have anything to trade or help us with repairs?" Bren asked, the Lanius's repair methods helped but...

"Sorry but repairing your ship used up most of our own resources" the Lanius captain said in Crystal

Bren contacted the fleet, "Sorry no dice, the Lanius have nothing to offer"

The Rock now noticed the strange ships, not with fear but curiosity, he was a smart businessman and could easily see that they wearn't hostile

Bren got into contact on the channel for the rock

"Hey how about a rare crystal shooting weapon? Would that help with some of the costs, give me a dummy target or something and I can show you how it works. I can say right now if you need something to really scare off more hostile customers it would help" he said trying his best to sell it off, he knew while it was useful it would help the team to get these repairs

[Chickengames]

“Wait, do any of the prisoners Eden has have bounties? We could trade some of them if they do. I think we should try and keep our weapons,” Kyrie said. “Or maybe they need some work done we could do easily.”

[stylesrj]

Eden said "I've already checked the databases for bounties... out of the prisoners I've got, none of them have outstanding bounties here."
She gave out a loud belch "And I've already eaten four of them... my crew was getting hungry"

Lux then said over the comms "We might as well check the local bulletin boards for jobs that don't require us to go far from this system... there may be a need for a runabout or a shuttle."
Eden laughed "The Pelican did that sort of thing as well between the big jobs. We'd get paid small sums of Credits to transport heavy cargo from one planet to another; the old Captain would even have the clients pay even more for the privilege of using the cargo teleporter as it saved hours off of loading times."
"Hmmm... I've got this message requesting an "outsider" deal with a local familial dispute... weird" Lux remarked "Considering it's a dispute between two Rockman families... that sounds like something Bren could handle, right?"

Why not a part-time job plot while we scrounge up the high amounts of Scrap needed to pay for repairs?

[BrenTenkage]

Eden said "I've already checked the databases for bounties... out of the prisoners I've got, none of them have outstanding bounties here."
She gave out a loud belch "And I've already eaten four of them... my crew was getting hungry"

Lux then said over the comms "We might as well check the local bulletin boards for jobs that don't require us to go far from this system... there may be a need for a runabout or a shuttle."
Eden laughed "The Pelican did that sort of thing as well between the big jobs. We'd get paid small sums of Credits to transport heavy cargo from one planet to another; the old Captain would even have the clients pay even more for the privilege of using the cargo teleporter as it saved hours off of loading times."
"Hmmm... I've got this message requesting an "outsider" deal with a local familial dispute... weird" Lux remarked "Considering it's a dispute between two Rockman families... that sounds like something Bren could handle, right?"

Why not a part-time job plot while we scrounge up the high amounts of Scrap needed to pay for repairs?

"Why me?" Bren asked, "I mean I don't know rock laws very well, I barely remember all the Zoltan ones"

[stylesrj]

Lux shrugged "Because the Rocks will listen to you more than the other repugnant aliens? You heard that border guard. He knew the Zoltan protocols... a bit too much"
Eden remarked "Hopefully you're not banging rocks over there... the dispute is probably about them not doing enough of their own."

[Chickengames]

Lux shrugged "Because the Rocks will listen to you more than the other repugnant aliens? You heard that border guard. He knew the Zoltan protocols... a bit too much"
Eden remarked "Hopefully you're not banging rocks over there... the dispute is probably about them not doing enough of their own."

“I didn’t know rocks were into that. With all they’re ‘repugnant alien’ talk. We might as well check it out, though,” Kyrie suggested.

[stylesrj]

Lux said to Kyrie "I'm not sure if the Rocks would appreciate having Humans along... besides, I think we should look into light freight work with the runabout while Bren tries to play relationship councillor... or at least fakes it."
Eden chimed in "I'm sure there's a Rockman who doesn't care what your skin is made up of as long as they can get their goods from one planet to another without breaking the bank in shipping charges or tithes."
"Tithes?" Lux asked "Wouldn't they..."
"Charge a bigger tithe for outsiders?" Eden interrupted "That's why you got to be discrete about it... and speaking of discrete..."

She sent one such application to Lux's datapad. "Hmm... it seems there's a Rockman on Numa II looking to spread literature denouncing the Holy Words to Numa III."
She looked to Kyrie "Should we take that offer?"