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Previously./.

“Why aren't we attacking them now?” Inta-Co asked as he looked at the screen. It was a media update from Dirt, showing celebration and parties all over the system.

The captain looked at his fifth in command and grinned. “You don’t know? Well, that’s why your ships always got caught.”

“I don’t follow. Why does your hesitation have anything to do with my failures?”

“Because you see an opportunity while I see a trap. They know they are vulnerable now. So there is extra protection out. There are hyper-alert soldiers who make sure they are safe. Besides, this celebration is mostly for the younger. We are waiting for the one for the grown-ups. The one when they are drunk.” He said, and the bridge was listing as if trying to learn something from the newly crowned king of the pirates.

“Oh, so we attack when they are all drunk?” another asked, and Jargy shook his head. “No, the same system is in place, and all their soldiers have those sober-up pills. Besides, we all know it's stupid to attack us during a celebration. We might be drunk, but we are more willing to fight to the death. No we do as the law does with us. We wait until the hangovers and tiredness set in, when they think they are safe. Yes, there will be guards, but they will be tired at the end of their shifts and tired. “

“So we let them wear each other out?”

“Yes, and we've got some saboteurs on the planet already. Kun-Nar sent down some followers who will die for the cause.” He walked over to the table and changed it to a map of Dirt.

The latest loot from the Mugga raid is going to be dropped in these cities and let loose.  That’s 30 000 Mugga combat droids with pre-programmed instructions.  That's why you all needed those implants. They will attack anybody without them.” He looked at the map and smirked. A few more days to iron out the few kinks and make the plan foolproof. He had to rerun the simulations multiple times to ensure that he had a counter for everything.

The bridge was quiet as they listened. Captain Jargy was better than his father, and it had been a blessing in disguise when the father died. He actually predicted how they could fail and devised strategies to counter it. Nobody would admit it, but that prison time had changed him. Apparently, he had started to read there.

Galy-Nur called him up with some good news. Another fleet was going to join them; he now had 17 dreadnoughts, 86 frigates, and 12 hangar ships, besides the hundreds of smaller crafts. However, the best part was that this new fleet was not made up of pirates, but mercenaries who saw the alliance between the Haran and Tufons as detrimental to their business.  Jargy grinned to himself. He likes this type of mercs. Kun-nar's speech was doing wonders for them, it got even better when the Haran crown princess and Tufon's king married. Half the mercs thought their jobs were lost, and many of them had joined them. It was going to be a small invasion force. But the best of all was that Adam and his ilk knew nothing about it.

On Dirt, Adam was lost in thought as Jork dropped by.

“Got a minute?”

“Yes, of course. What can I help you with?” Adam adjusted himself in the chair and turned his full attention to his friend, who sat down, took out a pad, and opened a file, then sent it to his desk.

“As you can see, some of the others are ready to perform the test, and the humans are close to finishing their end of the tunnel, and we have made reinforcements in these sectors. Your friend Harold has really made this easier. The team he put together is quite excellent.”

“Yeah, but it means Ares gets a part of Bifrost.”

“Part of doing business, as you keep saying. Besides, how bad can they be?”

Adam just looked at him, and he got it.

“Anyway, I ran a test run near Trellhuim, Project skip is ready, just in case we need them.”

“I will let them know, hopefully I’m just paranoid. What about the mech suits?”

Jork chuckled. “First Generation is already in production. Oh, and I tried to get in touch with Sig-San; the fifth-generation skin suite is ready now. He has been on my ass since the incident.”

“Understandably, it cost him fifteen operatives.”

“Tell him to contact me when he comes around. I’m tired of hunting him down. He is too slippery.”

Adam nodded, and Jork got a message that made him smile. “Miker says hi and don’t be angry.” He got up and looked at the pad as the second message came through, then laughed. “Miker had an accident in the art department.”

Adam looked at him confused until Jork showed him the picture from the teacher. A sad picture of Miker covered in blue and red paint, the room behind him was filled with exploded colour cartridges in all different colours. Then both laughed as Jork left to deal with their son.

Adam was still smiling as the next report came in, yet another system had chosen to distance themselves from the Wrangler company, claiming security risks and population discomfort. Those words from Kun-Nar were growing bigger now, it wasn’t just rumours and gossip, it was becoming politics. He had attacked him in ways he really couldn’t defend against. At least the pirate problem will soon be a minor problem from now on. The Human pirate hunters were spread around the galaxy, hunting them down. Forcing them into hiding on the known edges of civilised space.

He would deal with Kun-Nar soon enough, but tonight he had to attend another party. As Ginny had said, the New Year comes around only once a year. She would probably say the same about the other festivals as well. It would be yet another exhausting party, he was going to sleep for a week when all these parties were over.

In the most remote part of the system, six advanced fighters were strategically spread out around what appeared to be the start of a space station. It was just the framework now, with drones flying around in a pattern awaiting further orders.

“Gods this is boring, patrolling the a damn science project while the rest of the system is celebrating,” Dj said over the com.

“We have our orders., Besides, you can join the next one, that’s a whole week if I read the book correctly.” Dora replied, and DJ sighed. 

“Easy for you to say, I’m missing out on some heavy drinking down there. And my girlfriend is partying alone while I’m on radio silence.”

“Which one? I have lost track of who your dating now.” Hima replies laughingly.

“Funny, at least I’m not sleeping with the squad leader,” DJ replied. “Besides, it's Anita, and she is the one. I’m going to marry this one.”

Everybody groaned.

“We have heard this before, so enlighten us human, why is Anita the one?” Alak said, awaiting some description of the perfect size of breasts, or something similar.

“I don’t know, remember Gunia? I had just found out she was cheating, so I was pissed off and ran out. I wanted to beat up somebody, and suddenly I heard a teenage human girl shouting and trying to run away from some Tufons teenage boys who were chasing her. I stepped in between them. I mean, I know they are teenagers, but those boys could probably tear me apart. They stopped when they saw the uniform and started acting tough, as if they were trying to decide whether to gang up on me. Anyway, she called somebody, and her boyfriend showed up. Now, this boyfriend is a Dunshin boy. He ran over to comfort them, then told the boys he would tell Won-Kin about it if they didn’t run away. I later found out that he was the school's gang leader, so the boys scram.”

“Nice story, but what does that have to do with your new girlfriend?” Gark-urk ask.

“I’m getting to it, chill.  It's not like anything is happening out here anyway, so I check on the girl and the boy tells me I’m brave and all that shit. And I’m just laugh and tells him an more an asshole, I just wanted to get out some frustration and that I don’t like bullies. Now here is the strange thing. Before I knew it, I told this kid all about Gunia. His girlfriend is just standing there, smirking as if she knows something is going to happen. Then this bastard of a boy told me that I should go to the library and get my act together. Who knows, I might find love in the history section. His girlfriend laughs at him and grins at me, then they say bye and leave.”

“Okay again? What does that have to do with your new girlfriend?” Hul-Dro replies, and the rest are laughing.

“He is just trying to pull one over us, there is no meaning to the story. He just wants us to think he was a nice guy for saving a kid.” Hima replied.

“No, that's it. About three hours later, I walked past the library in Sudal. I want one of those Buskar hotdogs, you know what it's called again?”

“Ghosta? Damn those are good.” Gark-urk commented.

“Yeah, those. So I’m on my way to get a few, and then I see their library out of the corner of my eyes, and I stop, and then I decide to just for fun go inside, check the historical section.”

“You’re kidding me?” Alak said.

“What?” The other asked.

“Nope, I swear I bump into her, and she drops about ten crystals. The most beautiful woman I've ever seen. I mean. ...

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