"Ok bring it in slowly." I yelled over the comm.

Astrid brought in the Henry MKII close enough so that the merge blocks on both ships would connect. Given Seena's the Nomad insistence to find her ship as soon as possible we all agreed to merge the red ship and Henry together instead of making an entirely new ship. Also she said that we could scrap the Nomad ship as it was mostly what space adventures did. But only if it wasn't useful. The merge blocks did their job and connected the two ships together. Once it as done the rest of us landed on the inside on the front side which was the Henry as the FTL activated and we took off.

OOOOO

On a remote planet a microbiologist named Nissa was assigned to a local mining hub, who is required to check asteroid ice for micro-organisms as per treaty stipulations regarding the exploitation of all celestial bodies. She had a very tedious job that was little more than a perfunctory fulfilment of legal obligations. So far no one ever found anything living, but the mining corporations still required to test each rock they mark to dig. But she was very excitable.

As she worked she remembered about the brake in the had recently. The guy they caught was named Kain. He was a well known crook and con artists, he conned several companies into selling ships and asteroids to him for a bargain price. She didn't like him he had those eyes that seemed to stare into your soul. It freaked her out in more ways then one. As she worked with one of the samples she had the building she was in shook causing her to drop the sample.

"Ahhhh nooooo my prec..." but before she could say anything the building shook again. This time an alarm went off.

"ALERT ALERT INTRUDERS DECTETED. FIRES THROUGH LEVES 5-6..." as the alert continued Nissa realised that people where attacking.

Nissa squealed and ran out of the lab as fas as she could. Blue clad security personal running towards the main lifts. She ran way from the as the sounds of gunfire sounded in her ears. Ignoring it she ran trough a door that lead to an emergency lift. But as she entered the area the lift was already up. She hit the switch allowing it to come down. It took a few moments but soon it came to her level and she got on it and activated it. The lift moved upwards as two bandits came into sight. But they couldn't bring the lift down as it required a code for it.

The lift soon reached the hanger and she exited the lift only too see the last troop transport ship being boarded by Kain. He looked to her in surprise. But then an explosion made their attention to a carrier coming down from orbit.

"COME ON!" he yelled.

"How do I know you won't hurt me?" she asked.

"I'm not that kind of guy, you'll just have to trust me."

Nissa looked behind her but ran to the ship and climbed into the back. The door closed and pressure engaged as the ship took off.

OOOOO

Capitan Kiran was dragged across the floor by two men in in black and red uniforms to a man who wore a sash across his chest. The Capitan was thrown onto the floor in front of the man who looked at him with no emotion in his eyes.

"Where is she?" the man asked.

"You and your Alliance can shove it up your ass!" he yelled as he threw himself on a guard and took a pistol from him.

The others trained their G8 assault rifles on him but all the Capitan did was press the pistol to his temple.

"FOR EARTH AND ALL HER GLORY!" he yelled before he pulled the trigger.

OOOOO

The hybrid ship exited FTL at the location of the Nomad ship. But there was no ship in sight. I checked the GPS and radar but nothing. Looking outwards we all saw nothing. Seena fell to her knees with Astrid walked up to her to try and comfort her while me and Jack made our way to the makeshift hanger bay. All we had was out little mining ship as such that was what we used. After putting our helmets on and activated the oxygen tanks in out suits we walked into the hanger and Jack climbed in the cockpit of the ship while I took hold of handle bars on the side.

The two of us then flew to the location to try and get a good reading of what we could. On arriving I let go and just looked around while Jack worked on the ore detector. The ore detector could have it's sensitivity racked up to find radioactive isotopes allowing us to try and find the ship, if there was one. Sighing I looked over to a large asteroid not too far away, I knew that we wouldn't be able to do much if we didn't have a station.

As such since we are more or less stuck together it would be the best idea to make a station. Not to mention that the area was frequently travelled by merchants and unmanned transport ships. Now since they where unmanned it wasn't considered piracy if you where able to take said ships and plunder the goods if you could get passed the defences.

"Errr yo due I think we might have something." Jack called me and I flew over to him. "I've picked up radioactive isotopes in a trail right where we are right now but they stop after a few meters meaning..."

"They used their warp dives." I said.

Unlike FTL which was made for short distances Warp was made for extreme distances and used on larger ships from cruisers to dreadnoughts.

"Ahh bugger it all." I said before I opened comm. "Astrid, Seena we have an isotope trail but it ends after a few meters meaning they jumped to warp."

"Cop..." Astrid tied to say but a bleeping sound attracted her attention. "Shit incoming its a small-large ship."

I heard the click of the Gatling guns meaning that Jack was ready for combat as I brought up my G8 rifle.