"But you can make the Bastard work for it."" "MAJOR KORGO KORGMR, "Last of The Lancers" ." "AFC 32" "So according to Harper reparation will be completed in the next couple of days." "Sure, until the next time he needs to conduct repairs." "Tell me about it." "At this rate he is gonna to run out of spare parts to cannibalize." "Hopefully if Dylan and Tyr expedition will take care of that." "I still don't like that." "We might need weapons, but getting into shifty army dealers, never a good idea." "I wouldn't be there but a t-shirt." "Uh, that explain your wardrobe." "Don't even start with me, I have see what is in your closet." "And finally, the last stop of our tour will take a visit to the Haukon Tau drift, where the only thing more unbelievable than a nebula ...are the barg's you can pick up and sugar gal [chicks]" "Ship, do I really have to say that?" "Affirmative." "Well, if you would be tour pilot Molly you got to play the souvenirs!" "Ok, let see what else there is to check." "Ok, emergency EVA suits, checked." "Distress picking, checked." "Couple of escape pod recharged, checked." "The most thankless piloting job in the know worlds, marked." "Hi, excuse me .. but I don't fly for on other hour how did you pass the gate?" "By smiling, my winning personality and good look, now... please shut the door behind you on your way out." "I get it, this is one of the security test, right?" "Company want to make sure I read the posy [poesy]" "Ok, I admit it:" "I don't have read that totally stupid shootings at us someone is shooting at us." "No, they are shooting at me." "You are not from the Company, are you?" "The cargo?" "This is not very pleasant people and I don't want you get hurt, so hide on to the cargo and I keep the ship to you until I have done." "Ok, that is great but you can go anywhere without me, the ship is tap into my implant!" "Good point, looks like I am booking a private shuttle" "Seal the airlock and start the launch sequence." "Laser torches, if we don't have something to spare, we are dead." "I actually never flew my ship before, this was supposed to be my first tour." "If you don't move will be your last!" "Get your butt in there!" "Great." "He is the last guardian of a fallen civilization, a hero from another time." "Faced with a universe in chaos," "Dylan hunt recruits an unlikely crew and sets out to reunite the galaxies." "On the starship Andromeda, hope lives again." "Its depressing see myself in this condition again" "You have seen worse." "Yes, but is the repetition I am been shoot that I found so annoying" "I would like just one day where I can build missiles and tweak fire control in peace." "We definitively need to found you an hobby." "That is my hobby!" "Speaking of people need to find less dangerous hobbies." "You wanted to see me?" "Yeah." "Harper is on deck 14 trying to get fire control online." "I think he can use your help." "You are still not use, are you?" "the new me." "Honestly, its not every day that you... watch one of your best friend walk in the future change place with themselves and then walk out again so no, I am not used to it." "But then,.." "I am get there" "Personally I love the force lances." "Beka, we received the help the Eureka Maru." "Tyr will be on deck in 6 minutes." "Tyr?" "What about Dylan?" "Tyr is alone, he left Dylan behind." "Tyr what the hell happened, and where might I ask is Dylan?" "He is not with me." "I can see that." "What have you done to my captain?" "Would you like the long version or the short one?" "Ok we are in orbit." "Now where?" "Slipstream range, I need to get to Enkindu." "All right, let continue." "There are few other things I need to know." "Who are you, who are those guys shooting in and why you chose my ship?" "In order?" "Yes please." "My name is Dylan, those people shooting are the bad guys and this is the best locking ship in the spaceport." " Really?" " Yeah!" "Till today I have been made Captain" "Congratulation on the promotion." "Thanks." "Oh, crap." " Ogami?" " Think so." "Mercenary culture, deadly killers never break their word, always keep their promises and always fulfill their contract." " Those Ogami?" " Yes, there are the ones." "We are so dead." "I apologize for giving you involved, but if we stay calm..." "Where did you learn to fly like that?" "Simulators." "Often in a low approach to vulcanos, is far convenient" " you know - for tourist is a good show." "Sound good.. great tour, I am sorry I miss it." "Yeah, to my." "Dylan and I went to Haukon Tau drift to meet with Fehrar Kalinka." "He was one of my supplier.. back when.." "Well, back in the day" "Fehrar was supposed to have setup a meeting with a reputable arm dealer on Hautum-Wora." "However when we arrive on Hautum-Wora we found several mercenary lining and waiting in his stead." "They shot at us and we shot back." "Fast forward to the part where you took the Maru and let Dylan defend from self." "We agree to split up in order to drawn them off." "I was surprise to see when the Ogami went after him." "we have both assumed that they have been hired by Drago-Kasov to kill me." "Hardly we are wrong." "Apparently..." "In any case," "Capitan Hunt ordered me leave and return to the Andromeda and alert you of the situation." "All which I have done, end of story." "Tyr, it is not secret that you and Dylan are at odds." "as I recall this could hold the key to some of your property." "Now if he will suddenly disappear, your problem will be solved, I am wrong?" "Consider this: if I wanted Dylan dead, or anyone else for what matter, he will be a corps already!" "And if we find him alive, then I must be innocent, and you will owe me and apology." "And if we find him alive, I will give you one, but if we find him otherwise, I will give you something else entirely." "Do we understand each other?" "My Lady, I imagine in all your years no one has ever accused you to have been obscure." "How was that my little pretty starship, better?" "Much, you know Harper I had six engineers at my service but only one who actually enjoyed damage control." "Well, you know, a few months waiting to be the main meal on the Magog menu and I begin thinking..." "About what?" "about all the things I wanted to do but that I never will get the chance to." "And you know what?" "I might realize the things I love to do best I am already doing." "Fixing me?" "You better believe me, darling." "There is not an other like you in the know universe." "Harper." "Beka send me here to help you." "Ah, it is ok, I got a cover, no thanks." "Seams to me like the status over here..." "I said, I don't need any help." "Yes, I heard you but this data link here..." "Trance, would you just go.." "please?" "It's me, isn't?" "The fact that I am different as I used to be?" "Different?" "No your are not that." "Look, the true is..." "I got a lot of work to do and I just want to get it done ok?" "Alone!" "Fine, you know where I am if you want to talk to me." "That was not very nice." "kill it, would you?" "if I really fix you." "You know they are really persistent." ".. the ...[].. switch.." "seeked by a secondary communication array" "I don't suppose this ship has weapons?" "Other than your force lance?" "There will be no." "Then we vent fuel if we have to." "You want me to vent my proton and anti-proton tank?" "Where do you escape mental patient?" "No, I will use the gas to put a good light show, you know the kind will blind the Ogami sensors so we can escape." "I love good light show." " Had worked?" " We lost them." "You know, may be you are a kind of maniac but that was really really cool." "Oh, thanks, now please set the curse for Enkindu, where this gun waiting maniac friends will happily remove from your trouble and send you on your way." "Those friends of you are irresponsible people like you?" "They have their moments." "Oh, I will like to meet them." "Stand by for slipstream." "That don't feel like a slipstream." "Oh brilliant, just really..." "the tricky maneuver of your has cracked the anti-matter lens and now we can't open a slip-portal and we are stuck with the Ogami!" "Well, on the bright side we still are with each other." "Ok, let me get this strict.." "You are a 300 years old High-Guard Captain." "I don't technically age during those 3 centuries, but who is counting." "And your own mission is to restore the former System Commonwealth and save the universe." "It's a lot too simplified but essentially yeah." "That's amazing." "Pretty much." "You are insane." "Ouch, that hurts." "No, really, I guess I heard about some exalted wild guys flying around, doing what you are claiming to be doing, but sure as hell, I think never to meet them." "And I definitely don't expected him to be so.. earnest." "Earnest, well, I like that better than wild guy exalted." "Oh, their are both to play." "Then I take all that I can get." "Approaching Haukon tau drift." "Haukon Tau?" "This is the tour ship head to the Haukon Tau drift." "What are you trying to do, lead me in an other ambush?" "Why are you paranoid?" "a lot of people have been try really hard to kill me today and Haukon Tau is where my day has started." "Listen soldier boy, if you want to slip out of this system in one piece we are gonna need parts." "And there is only one place to get those parts and it is Haukon Tau drift." "Unless you want me to turn it back to spaceport on Hautum-Wora," "It's where you scare my customer, you stole my ship and you took me hostage!" " Ok, you right." " You damn right, I am right!" " What I am right about?" " We need to find parts." "Yes." "Not even a time we can make one hell of a deal." " It wasn't me, I swear." " It wasn't you to do what?" " What do you meant?" " I have already told you I am angry!" "Then why..." "Ogami has set me in ugly Who sent them?" "Let me think, ..." "I know." " It wasn't me, I swear." " Well, he is consistent." "Fine." "If you are innocent, prove it!" "I will be delighted." "I want an exotic matter lens for class 2 slipstream drive." " And I want it in one hour." " One hour, but that is..." "All the time you have." "And make in the temper that is an Alpha 9 model not one of those out of market jobbies." "Lady knows her part." "You quiet." "When I am in the mood for a conversation I will let you know." "In the meantime fly." "I think someone has taken her captain disappearance harder that she like to admit." "That doesn't sound like flying." "I am sorry, if I distracting you from your work." "With your desire, you can run every system on this ship at once and still feel as you have nothing to do." "Yet you can't seam to spare the attention required to engage a peasantry with your pilot." "I have nothing to say to you." "Would you like to hear a theory?" "No." "Impossible as it might seam" "I believe you are becoming emotionally involved with your captain." "I think you have lost your objectivity." "I suggest Tyr, that you fly more and theorize less." "As you wish." "Thanks for you assistance back there." "No, I was not suppose to hear the last thing I need right now is installing a falsie component into the Hildie's systems." "But now, I want to how what you are gonna answer for your gun." "Yeah, about that, if after we have to run" "I really do regret you have been mist up in all of this." "Oh you do, what part you regret most the any they gunning me part or the any they shot my by psychotic mercenary part?" "Ok, I deserve that, the answer is both." "But you have been remarkably good nature to about it." "Well, I see this is call for case of diplomacy" "And you know what the say about diplomacy?" "Is really the art of saying nice dog eat little big enough steak." "What are you talking about?" "See that two cops right there?" "They are my steak." "Help!" " Please help me!" " Is there any problem?" "Yes, there is definitely a problem." ".. excuse my sister she suffers of a wide disorder that express extreme paranoia." "and inconvenient emotional outbursts." "Oh, how sad, what she worth to you?" "Excuse me?" "You heard me, what is she worth?" "Rounded up our shoulder" "This is a shake up, this is a kidnapping!" "and you are a cop, you know my tax money work?" "Yes, taxes, that is the problem, not enough taxes, to many criminals." "What about you?" "Can you cover his incarceration fee?" "I think is better been an hostage." "No incarceration fee for you and no mental health evaluation fee for you." "Ok, then you skip right to the fine for filling a false police report.." "And what if we can't pay?" "Then we take you both..." "on the house" "Well, in that case I think we can work out some kind of arrangement." " Like what?" " Yeah, like what?" "Clear they all." "Freeze!" "What it's worth to you?" " Oh, my hero!" " Yeah, I get that a lot!" "So I guess that officially ends my welcome back to Haukon Tau drift." "Thank you." "Who fault is that?" "No, really, thank you for saving me from those crap cops." "let say for kidnapping so far." "Yeah, I can say .." "should I believe you from the beginning." "Since we are clear we can start repair our slipstream drive." "Ogami." " They are closing" " Thanks for the update." "The Hildie wasn't build for speed, it's a tourist part, remember?" "Find then a tour direct, Molly what if you find an nice planet and you show me the sight?" "Oh, you wanna to loose them in the atmosphere?" "Ok, I know just the place." "I thought you mind it" "I like to help you but I haven't see nothing, since we made contact four days ago." "And I am the genetic reincarnation of Drago Museveni." "With that hair?" "Ok, you say, you haven't see Dylan and we say that you have." "Now only one of us can be telling the truth." " And I am not lying, are you lying?" " I am not lying." "Tyr, we have been doing business together for over a decade." "And in all that time I haven't never lying to you." "Ever." "You haven't a reason to do it before, you have one now?" "Here is a thought." "Let's play to any question!" "Heavy gravity worlder?" " Android." " She is very strong." "More the point..." "I can peak up galvanic skin response and respiration glitches." "I can also analyze pupil dilation in real time." "Which makes me a locking lie detector." "So, tell me the truth or I turn the bones in you hand until they cancel by each other" "Absolutely, absolutely" "What you know?" "He is not lying." "Harper." "I brought you a Sparky Cola, to make you feel better." "No, thanks." "I know that I seam different to you, but everyone changes." "Yeah, points of view!" "Attitude, weight, underwear even, but you its like not even you anymore." "And now I don't am even sure you are worth to begin with if you know what I mean." "No, explain it for me." "All right." "Over the past years we run in so many nasty evil ... pieces of work I lost count." "Kalderean, Nietzscheans, Magog, crazy starships you name it, it attacked us." "And I can't help wondering if that is all one big coincidence, or if, may be, the biggest baddest bad-guy or girl of the mob, has been with us right here all along watching and waiting and looking for any opportunity to manipulate us," "into serving whatever of his unspeakable aims may be knocking us around at the proper time, rings any bells?" "No, there was a time where I though you were the smartest person I had never met, but listening to you now, if that is the way you think, then I was wrong about you as you are about me." "Enjoy your Cola." "Thanks, I will." "I am very disappointed Mr. Fehrar." "I am not lying to you!" "You haven't said anything!" "This make me think that you miss the point of the exercise entirely." "Fehrar..." "I will shoot you." "Oh, I like that:" "logical, efficient, right Tyr, I think that this is the most practical course of action." "Good show." "Ok ok, the truth!" "The truth is ..." "I ...see them less than a day ago." "He was with a woman." "They are looking for an exotic-matter lens for their slipstream drive." "Model Alpha 9." "Did you setup us?" "Look Tyr, the Ogami... ..are here." "Haukon Venia, the hottest part on the tour, literally." "The tidal forces of this mass giant it is orbiting, made his volcano work like clockwork" "A really nice hot cloud atmosphere for us to shake the Ogami, I like it." "That was close." "This is the part of the tour I can charge more." "As long as the passengers survived." "I don't have lost any yet." " I thought I was your first customer." " Good point." "Damn!" "The Ogami sensors are too good picking us" "You got a plan B?" "I have always a plan B." "Let me thing about it, you are plan B." "Oh great, you really want make me feel special?" "This is one of my many talents." "You mention something about volcanoes.." "Who sent the Ogami, Fehrar?" "Who?" "Tyr, I..." "Well, now we want get any information upon him." "He was telling something." "Of course he was, he was my friend." "Here we go, we have three Ogami on tail." "Have you factored the eruption schedule?" "Yeah, I have done it about three times." "Good because if we screw the sun we are gone to have a very very bad day." "This changes our situation, how?" "You just takes us in." "Ok." "For luck." "Ok." "Oh, damn!" "Molly." "Come on!" "Molly!" "Fireworks." "Actually we.. we crash." " Oh yeah." "Let me help you." "." "No, I am ok." " You sure?" " Yeah, I am tough than I look." "The Hildie and I have a lot in common like I said best looking ship in the spaceport." "We know from Fehrar that Dylan has broken the exotic-matter lens, he need time to repair it, he must be in the system, somewhere." "Space is big, Tyr, but we would find him." "Hopefully before the Ogami do." "You mean that, don't you?" "I see your wanted artificial intelligence has finally managed to grasp the obvious." "Tyr only does things that benefit Tyr!" "So, if you really didn't abandon Dylan, what is net for you?" "Then ask .. for the sake of argument assume that Dylan and I having opposing agendas, in this time neither of those agendas are far for long for either of us to safely dispose of the other." "And, in fact, there are several scenarios where our respective agendas are mutually beneficial" "In such a case why will I fight an unnecessary battle with a man that is not and will never be my enemy?" "You are a machine." "Surely you can see the logic in that." "I also know humans." "Well enough to recognize a massive rationalization, when I hear one." "The true is, Tyr, I think you grown to like Dylan, perhaps, you even view him as a friend." "Going to war with him, doesn't just mean risking your life, it means be alone again." "And if there is one thing Tyr Hanasazi of the Victoria by Barbarossa is afraid of it's be alone." "Oh, look at this place." "The Company is been docking my pay for 10 year when they see that." "Primary guiding system disengaged." "Switching to manual system." "What are you doing to my ship?" "I am rewiring the Hildie so I can fly myself." "Excuse me, I am the pilot." "You staying here." "You will have the distress signal and the survival capsule you will stay well until a rescue party come for you." "Like hell!" "I am not liking you go fighting the Ogami when I am here eating fridge rations." "I want see you dying because of me, this isn't your fight." "Excuse me, may be you noticed they are shooting at my ship." "Only because I was on it." "You are a hell of pilot, Molly, but this is one job I can't like you take." "Listen, I admit that some of this run and jump is a little new to me, but I really wanna do this." "I do, I just wanna fly." "My mom is a cryo-pilot and she let my stay with here on the the short course and sometimes she let me take the controls and I love it!" "But I don't have the connections inside the military and I sure can afford the pride of be FTA" "So I take this job: ferrying tourists." "And I haven't even done one yet!" "You are a hell of authority," "I want adventure!" "This is not that bad of a job, Molly." "And it's a lot safe that having every bad guy of known world chasing after you." "I don't want safe, I never want it safe!" "And now here you are, you are a genuine hero and you have genuine quests" "And you expect me to seat in the side lines because it's not my fight?" "I will make it my fight." "I don't wanna get that life again" "Please." "Data guiding priority system restored" " Thank you." " You welcome." "Hey boss, what brings you down here?" "Well, I like to know why you shoot Trance away after a specifically asked her to come down here and help you with repairs." "I was just doing fine without her." "Did you hear me say pretty please with sugar on top?" "I have work on my on," "I really don't have time to referee some siblings squabble between you and Trance" "It's not a squabble!" "it's..." "I thought I knew Trance, ok?" "But she is changed." "I can handle quirky mysterious but.. cosmically terrifying" "It's too much, I can take it, no way." "Harper... she saved your life." "And that is enough for me." "Look, you don't have to like the new Trance, and you don't have to blindly accept what happened to her but you will work with her." " No questions are asked." " But I..." "What part of "no question asked" do you not understand?" "You fight the High Guard manual, learn't you?" "You turn the navi-laser to a point defense system and you reinforced the hull with the fore door and the game place" "You know what I think?" "I think with the modifications you play, we can probably flight the Hildie in the hell on the other side" "Well, we just might have to." "You still wish leave me behind?" " good luck - we need it" "No sign of the Ogami." "May be our luck is changing." "Ok, we are at slipstream distance." "Next stop the Enkindu system." "I got a slipstream event relay at 3 minutes out." "Looks like it come from the Templar Industries exotic-matter lens model Alpha 9." "The same type Dylan required from Fehrar on Haukon Tau." "May be it's a coincidence, may be no I take that chance" "Do you think it is heading home?" "It's a long way to run with the Ogami on his tail, most likely is trying to reach the nearest friendly world." "Enkindu." "Slipstream." "The Enkindu system, we made it!" "You sound surprised." "Why, because we aren't dead?" "There is a need to mention why?" " Oh, yeah, that's why" " The Ogami, they have surround us." "Ok, the navi-laser is taking off the Ogami missiles we are gonna to make it" "Tell me will are gonna be ok." "Stay focused on getting us to Enkindu 3, I will do the rest." "You should reinforce the integrity of the hull to keep us all together" "They have found out." " Oh God, we are alive!" " You're welcome." "No, I was not thank you, I just believe." "But the spirit is weakening." "Ok, start praying this time is not gonna hurt." "That was the engine department, I have to shut them down or we will blow" " No!" " What you mean no?" "The explosion of the engine is not a so bad thing" " I hate you." " I know!" "Four fighter and one barge." "I see them, the Ogami must have set an ambush, which mean that is probably Dylan." "Bring us closest, we have to take off pressure or they will never get to Enkindu." "Maru, open a comm channel I wanna talk to Dylan." "Comm line open." "Dylan is that you?" "Who is that?" " It's my ship." "Dylan you come in, we shake them up we have buyed you a little time." "Not enough, our engine are about to go critical and there is nothing we can do." "Now cut your comm and stop broadcasting on this channnel, you make us a target." "Understood, but Dylan..." "The Ogami are breaking off." "Dylan ship ... is gone." "Good timing, the Ogami think we are dead." "I think I am deaf." "This cockpit break-away charges are loud." "Yeah, on the bright side, welcome on Enkindu." "Engaging brake thrusters." "Hello, brake thrusters!" "Clinging to the pilot back-seat seams a really good idea." "The brake thrusters are not responding." "We are falling down!" "The speed will burn us on the re-entry." "You are not supposed to have the idiot pilot insignia." "Open a comm channel." " Rommie." " Dylan!" "Rommie, we don't have a lot of time, we need an emergency brace now and you will lift us" "On our way." "What are you doing?" "Your are planning to get us in front of them and matching speed lifting up and braking for us all." "That would require a perfect timing and excellent reflexes, mine are good, yours are better." "Now get out of there and seat down!" "Come on Rommie." "It's turning hot, this is gonna be close" "Ok." " Good luck." " Yeah, good luck." "Matching course and speed." "9 seconds from re-entry." "Got them, braking." "We did it!" "Yes, we did it!" "Sometimes all you need is a little luck." "I can agree with that." "Nice piloting." "I couldn't have done it without you." " So, peace between us for now?" " For now." "So any news about the will of the Ogami to kill me?" "No, but will be safer if we hit them some day" "Well, yeah, this is nice this night I will not really cares." "Your friend is waiting for you in your quarters..." "and you wanted that." "Thanks Rommie, I don't know what I do without you." "Beka sent you again?" "Yes." "Thanks." "Looks good, just like new." "Not really, some of the parts don't exactly match and there are some microscopic stresses." "I had to mix little human engineering with alien technology." "I don't known if that is gonna work." "This is the problem, when you try to fix things, Trance." "No matter how hard you try put something back together, it will never be quite the same." "You right." "But, may be, if something is important enough and you try really hard, then you can turn in something different, may be even something better." "May be." "Do you wanna double-check my weld when is see what is next?" "Yes, let us go to work." "I have something for you." "Yes I know you do." "No, it is not what I meant." "What is this?" "It is a letter of recommendation for the Military Academy we establish on Moebious" "Military Academy?" "Yes." "They training soldiers, engineers and pilots for the new High Guard and I thought you may like to be part of them." "You said you want the adventure." "This... this is amazing, thank you so much." "I will not fail you" "Well, that's fun, never trust my mind." "We can take you at the station in 24 hours." "Oh, that sooner?" "Well, we can take the stenographic path." "Well,.. a second.., a 3 week tour of the restored System Commonwealth signatory worlds" "If you like." "Yes I like that." "It's that for luck?" "Well, you can never have enough luck!" "Creation by giovanni / 6502 / italy sychronization by pronoia23 / greece"