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

[BrenTenkage]

"All those sound like fine offers but I'm interested in a more..." Trenchcoat started before his holograms lit up "That's some fancy tech you got there on that ship... and that AI, bless her digital ghost that she's a real cutie... tell me friends what sort of tech have you got on your ship that you're not going to be using?"
He rubbed his hands together "I know a few people who'd love to crack open some of those databanks."
Lux whispered to Bren "I think he wants to know about the singularity tech we..."
"Oh so that's what it is? A singularity generator?" Trenchcoat laughed "I heard about those. Tell me, you wanna sell it to ol' Trenchcoat and take it off your hands? The Rebels would no doubt want to chase you to the ends of the galaxy to prevent you having that... but they ain't caught ol' Trenchcoat and I doubt they'd ever will even if I had some of their stuff."

Bren raised an eyebrow and then spoke, "...what are you?' he asked

Trenchcoat seemed surprised, no one ever asked that before

"You know more then you are letting on...we never mentioned an AI on our ship...." he said

[stylesrj]

"I am Trenchcoat, a merchant of great repute who asks that you keep your questions about him to yourself. Trade Secret" Trenchcoat explained cheerily, regaining his composure.
"Yeah, but when you docked your ship here, someone tried to take a closer look at my ship's computers" he continued about the AI inquiry "So I did a little digging of my own... it's not THAT hard for a trader like me to figure out that your ship's computer is more than just an Engi plugged into the network"

[BrenTenkage]

"I am Trenchcoat, a merchant of great repute who asks that you keep your questions about him to yourself. Trade Secret" Trenchcoat explained cheerily, regaining his composure.
"Yeah, but when you docked your ship here, someone tried to take a closer look at my ship's computers" he continued about the AI inquiry "So I did a little digging of my own... it's not THAT hard for a trader like me to figure out that your ship's computer is more than just an Engi plugged into the network"

"You don't say" he said, "And I'm impressed you were able to detect her..." he said, "...Well Captain jig is up about our AI, we might as well come clean...if we have to shoot up the place to escape at least the ships would make a nice explosion and the setting would be pretty awesome if it was in a movie"

He saw a combat drone raise its gun arm but it didn't rev it up

"Kidding kidding, I'm not that stupid" he said, "So Trenchcoat, yeah we have an AI but she isn't for sale, she is needed with the ship and losing her would be like selling off a crew mate, just something we can not do"

[stylesrj]

"I'm not asking you give me your AI. That'd be like a slaver demanding that you hand over your crew so the rest may live" Trenchcoat said "I'm asking that you sell me some valuable technology you may have acquired, like say that black hole gun your Human friend mentioned... I'll take good care of it and you don't have to worry if the Rebel Fleet catches you with it."
The drone with the raised guns looked towards the Scarab "You sell me that tech along with your old ship's hull, you get this ship. I'll even throw in a free System Repair Drone schematic and some Drone Parts for it."

[BrenTenkage]

"I'm not asking you give me your AI. That'd be like a slaver demanding that you hand over your crew so the rest may live" Trenchcoat said "I'm asking that you sell me some valuable technology you may have acquired, like say that black hole gun your Human friend mentioned... I'll take good care of it and you don't have to worry if the Rebel Fleet catches you with it."
The drone with the raised guns looked towards the Scarab "You sell me that tech along with your old ship's hull, you get this ship. I'll even throw in a free System Repair Drone schematic and some Drone Parts for it."

"Well I already have my own System repair drone, but two...hmmm, I'll have to talk to my captain about this, if not I'll consider that other ship you've shown" he said

(so does the Scarab here come with the railgun, cause I'd be ok with that, nothing like turning enemy ships into swiss cheese with a hull peircer LOL. Anyway time to wait for the captains response)

[JakeCollins]

"Hold on... You want to sell this pirate a black hole induction weapon?" Sarah stammered into the radio. "No way. No way are we giving these fools this tech. Melted or not, Black Hole Induction research is top secret Federation business. We give that weapon to the Feds, or we give it to no one." Her holographic body stiffened. "Giving this technology away might get us a ship, but it could change the course of Galactic history."

"I agree." Jake said, also talking into the radio. "But these guys are pirates. And let's not forget; we stole a ship, so we're pirates too. Just because we are on a mission for the Feds doesn't mean we are distinguished officers." Jake coughed a little. "So if we are pirates, let's do a little pirating."

"What do you mean?" Sarah asked.

"Using all of this scrap, we make our own black hole weapon. A fake one. Get a metal tube, wrap some FTL coils around it, and boom: a sellable Black Hole weapon."

[Chickengames]

Sorry for my long absence. Today was the first in a while I don't have something going on. I guess I'll just pretend like I've been here all along?

Kyrie smiled. "I like that idea. We'd have to get out of here fast before he realizes it's not what he thinks it is." The situation reminded her of the time her and a particularly lazy lab partner had made a fake sensor array the night before it was due. It showed random readings, but they had still passed with a low C. "I'll work on the fake if you want."

[stylesrj]

"I don't know about you but I'd hurry up with your dealin's" Trenchcoat said, his hologram suddenly turning from a nice friendly blue to a rather hostile red "I got probes at other beacons pickin' up some FTL signatures from the Rebellion."
He gave a small chuckle "Heh heh heh, they seem real intent on chasin' you."
Eden spoke up on the comms "Trenchcoat, just send out one or two of your ships with an FTL signature that matches mine and that fancy ship over there."
"And why should I do that?" the hologram asked, turning purple.
"Because I think I just found some RX-43 memory capacitors lying about in the cargo hold... you did say you had a supercomputer you..."
"Good deal" Trenchcoat announced quickly, organising his drones to free up two of the "short-range" Slug interceptors.
"That might buy you a couple hours but I can't stay here forever. Someone's bound to not be fooled" he continued as a few of his people boarded the small craft.

Lux said to Bren, rather loudly "Well, while our Captain, my Captain considers the deal with the black hole gun, I think I should consider looking into medical supplies for the Pelican. I can't say the crew isn't already mad from The Gift but I wouldn't want them contracting Space Madness on top of that."
I wish I were joking about Space Madness, she thought to herself, but I'm hoping that what Eden did buys Kyrie time to build a fake gun.

[JakeCollins]

Sorry for my long absence. Today was the first in a while I don't have something going on. I guess I'll just pretend like I've been here all along?

Kyrie smiled. "I like that idea. We'd have to get out of here fast before he realizes it's not what he thinks it is." The situation reminded her of the time her and a particularly lazy lab partner had made a fake sensor array the night before it was due. It showed random readings, but they had still passed with a low C. "I'll work on the fake if you want."

"Kyrie, get to work on the fake. Sarah will assist you. It doesn't need to be super precise, after all the weapon is supposed to be melted beyond repair!" Jake said into the radio, chuckling at the memory of Kyrie's science lab, back in the academy. Sarah appeared in front of Kyrie, after hearing her captains orders. She created a projection of the basic scans from the Black Hole weapon, that Kyrie could model after.

"Here's what you're trying to build. Just fill the inside with melted metal, after all that's pretty much what fills the authentic one! Their scanners are weak, so it doesn't have to be super precise. Plus, they have nothing to base their idea of a Black Hole weapon on. They have no idea what one even looks like, and next to no idea of what it even does! I don't even know why they want it so bad. After all, we did tell them it's melted, right?" Sarah said, smiling at Kyrie.

[BrenTenkage]

Bren however was working on touring the Scarab, the long thin hallways darted the ship, but everything seemed to be in working order

"Alright then, while everyone sets you up" he said to the drone following him, along with the hologram, think you can install this weapon?" he asked showing the crystal one "just need that installed, looking at this railgun, yeah won't be needing the 3 old lasers, I'll throw it in for ya, something you can scrap or put on your fixer uppers" he said sitting down at the cockpit

"Yeah this ship is really good" Gorlag said looking around, "Design is certainly slug like, wonder who the first owner was...and how they lost this ship" he wondered

"Perhaps it was left by fate for us to take" Ruwen said heading to a place to mediate

"Drone system online...alright got the repair drone control linked to my tablet, and I can even control everything through it, thank you modern systems" he said

"Yeah I think this is a keeper" he said chuckling a bit

"So Trenchcoat how long you've been in the business?" he asked making conversation as well as being a distraction, "I hope you arent' dealing with slaves, I might have to try and fail to kill you" he joked