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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 1321894" data-attributes="member: 515"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">Chapter XI</span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Date: 114-993 and 115-993</strong></p><p><strong>Place: Aboard the <em>Bray Keaven</em>, in jump space between Sentry and Alief.</strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">For most of the crew, the third day in jump space passes fairly quickly and without much incident of note. Most of the crew does take a bit of a break, but much to Argent’s satisfaction, they also spend time familiarizing themselves with the ship or otherwise honing their edge, as it were.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">For Martha, Swann, and Darishun, the day is a bit harder. Martha and Swann decide that taking the easiest route to remove the safe probably isn’t the best idea given that the removal would end up gutting a good part of the furnishings in the cabin. So, there is a laborious process of dismantling the furnishings around the safe before getting to the process of cutting the safe free in such a way that it can be restored again. Finally, around dinnertime, the safe is free.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Darishun spends quite a bit of time moving ration packs out of the port airlock and into the cargo bay as well as making a large stack in the lounge. Rather inexplicably, cases of certain types of ration packs (mostly stews/casseroles rather than the simu-roasts/steaks) seem to have more of a chance of ending up in the lounge.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Once the safe is free, Darishun nonchalantly and easily moves it down the corridor and places it in the port airlock, ready to be opened.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">-----</p><p></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The next morning, Martha and Swann enter the port cargo lock, evacuate the air, and begin working. The safe has a combination of a mechanical lock and an electronic lock. The electronic lock seems to have its own internal battery (or possibly other power source) and doesn’t seem to be affected by the safe’s removal from ship’s power. After a number of false starts, Swann and Martha are able to defeat the electronic lock by resetting the lock using a handcomp. Both think that the lock can be reset later.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The mechanical lock seems to be much simpler in comparison, and Swann decides to break for lunch.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">-----</p><p></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Upon hearing the progress that Martha and Swann have made on the safe, Vasilii listens intently about how they defeated the locks. "I guess we didn’t need a locksmith after all," he thinks. "What a resourceful crew we have aboard. Sigh. Another Terran program on the vid."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Martha and Swann talk about opening the safe after lunch and asking if anyone is going to join them to watch.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"I am interested to know what is in the safe, perhaps trade contracts?" Vasilii thinks. "I better complete my work in cargo. After all, that’s why I’m here."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"Although I am intrigued, I must complete my work in main cargo," Vasilii says aloud. "I’m sure you’ll be willing to talk about the safe and its contents at supper time. See you then."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"Yo, same goes for me, guys," Ian adds. "We are on the downslope and I’d really like to get it all squared away and ship shape. Give us bell in the cargo bay if you find something thrilling. Like the Cap’ns little red book — someone will have to console all those women."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Dr. Talbek asks if it would be possible to capture a sample of the air inside the safe as it is opened.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Martha pauses while eating her authentic imitation shepherd’s pie to ask, "Eh? What’s that, Doctor? Are you sure that you want to do that? Hmm, I suppose that I could rig some sort of bag or containment system to try and catch some of the air when we open the safe. We’ll have to defeat the lock first, but we might be able to leave the door closed so that we can get the bag in place to catch the air when we do crack the seal. I’ll probably need about an hour to throw together the bag."</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">At this, Argent looks up. "Doctor. If you feel that you can safely examine the air sample, you have my blessing to do so, but you’ll have to work in vacuum in the airlock."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">-----</p><p></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">After finishing lunch, Martha rigs up a system for Dr. Talbek to capture an air sample, and then she joins Swann at the air lock, ready to open the final lock. Argent and Saro decide to also suit up and join them.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">-----</p><p></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Observing via remote camera from the lounge, Darishun is struck with the parallels to a long–running and much–maligned series of "Opening the Ancient Sites" series of vid specials on the Solomani Fox News Network that usually had a few hours of "build up" to opening a tomb or ancient site that almost always just contained destroyed and decayed junk and dust.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">-----</p><p></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Swann looks around the crowded airlock. He starts to rub his hand across his face, then stops when he remembers he is wearing his vacc suit. He sheepishly lowers his hand back to his side. "I don’t think I've ever had this big an audience before for a safe cracking, not even that job inside the gem exchange on Capitol," he thinks. "We had a big crew on that job, but most were busy elsewhere. It was just me and Babaji cracking the safe itself. At least we had plenty of room to work in. Not like here."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">He notices that Martha and Doc seem to be finished with their preparations for catching some of the air inside the safe for testing. He turns to Argent. "Captain, if you would be so kind as to hold the vid recorder to document the momentous occasion. I’ll get started on the lock, and I believe Martha and Doc already have their hands full."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Swann then reaches into a cargo pocket on his vacc suit and pulls out a waterproof case. "My lucky lockpicks," he says, laughing. He unwraps the case and lays it out on the floor, next to the safe. He uses some small magnets to anchor it to the floor. "Now, let’s see what we can see." After another close examination of the lock’s mechanism, he selects some tools from the case and sets to work.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowdancer, post: 1321894, member: 515"] [center][b][size=4]Chapter XI[/size][/b][/center] [b]Date: 114-993 and 115-993[/b] [b]Place: Aboard the [i]Bray Keaven[/i], in jump space between Sentry and Alief.[/b] [font=Verdana][size=2]For most of the crew, the third day in jump space passes fairly quickly and without much incident of note. Most of the crew does take a bit of a break, but much to Argent’s satisfaction, they also spend time familiarizing themselves with the ship or otherwise honing their edge, as it were.[/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2]For Martha, Swann, and Darishun, the day is a bit harder. Martha and Swann decide that taking the easiest route to remove the safe probably isn’t the best idea given that the removal would end up gutting a good part of the furnishings in the cabin. So, there is a laborious process of dismantling the furnishings around the safe before getting to the process of cutting the safe free in such a way that it can be restored again. Finally, around dinnertime, the safe is free. Darishun spends quite a bit of time moving ration packs out of the port airlock and into the cargo bay as well as making a large stack in the lounge. Rather inexplicably, cases of certain types of ration packs (mostly stews/casseroles rather than the simu-roasts/steaks) seem to have more of a chance of ending up in the lounge. Once the safe is free, Darishun nonchalantly and easily moves it down the corridor and places it in the port airlock, ready to be opened. [center]-----[/center] The next morning, Martha and Swann enter the port cargo lock, evacuate the air, and begin working. The safe has a combination of a mechanical lock and an electronic lock. The electronic lock seems to have its own internal battery (or possibly other power source) and doesn’t seem to be affected by the safe’s removal from ship’s power. After a number of false starts, Swann and Martha are able to defeat the electronic lock by resetting the lock using a handcomp. Both think that the lock can be reset later. The mechanical lock seems to be much simpler in comparison, and Swann decides to break for lunch. [center]-----[/center] Upon hearing the progress that Martha and Swann have made on the safe, Vasilii listens intently about how they defeated the locks. "I guess we didn’t need a locksmith after all," he thinks. "What a resourceful crew we have aboard. Sigh. Another Terran program on the vid." Martha and Swann talk about opening the safe after lunch and asking if anyone is going to join them to watch. "I am interested to know what is in the safe, perhaps trade contracts?" Vasilii thinks. "I better complete my work in cargo. After all, that’s why I’m here." "Although I am intrigued, I must complete my work in main cargo," Vasilii says aloud. "I’m sure you’ll be willing to talk about the safe and its contents at supper time. See you then." "Yo, same goes for me, guys," Ian adds. "We are on the downslope and I’d really like to get it all squared away and ship shape. Give us bell in the cargo bay if you find something thrilling. Like the Cap’ns little red book — someone will have to console all those women." Dr. Talbek asks if it would be possible to capture a sample of the air inside the safe as it is opened. [/size][/font][font=Verdana][size=2]Martha pauses while eating her authentic imitation shepherd’s pie to ask, "Eh? What’s that, Doctor? Are you sure that you want to do that? Hmm, I suppose that I could rig some sort of bag or containment system to try and catch some of the air when we open the safe. We’ll have to defeat the lock first, but we might be able to leave the door closed so that we can get the bag in place to catch the air when we do crack the seal. I’ll probably need about an hour to throw together the bag."[/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2]At this, Argent looks up. "Doctor. If you feel that you can safely examine the air sample, you have my blessing to do so, but you’ll have to work in vacuum in the airlock." [center]-----[/center] [/size][/font][font=Verdana][size=2]After finishing lunch, Martha rigs up a system for Dr. Talbek to capture an air sample, and then she joins Swann at the air lock, ready to open the final lock. Argent and Saro decide to also suit up and join them. [center]-----[/center] Observing via remote camera from the lounge, Darishun is struck with the parallels to a long–running and much–maligned series of "Opening the Ancient Sites" series of vid specials on the Solomani Fox News Network that usually had a few hours of "build up" to opening a tomb or ancient site that almost always just contained destroyed and decayed junk and dust. [center]-----[/center] Swann looks around the crowded airlock. He starts to rub his hand across his face, then stops when he remembers he is wearing his vacc suit. He sheepishly lowers his hand back to his side. "I don’t think I've ever had this big an audience before for a safe cracking, not even that job inside the gem exchange on Capitol," he thinks. "We had a big crew on that job, but most were busy elsewhere. It was just me and Babaji cracking the safe itself. At least we had plenty of room to work in. Not like here." He notices that Martha and Doc seem to be finished with their preparations for catching some of the air inside the safe for testing. He turns to Argent. "Captain, if you would be so kind as to hold the vid recorder to document the momentous occasion. I’ll get started on the lock, and I believe Martha and Doc already have their hands full." Swann then reaches into a cargo pocket on his vacc suit and pulls out a waterproof case. "My lucky lockpicks," he says, laughing. He unwraps the case and lays it out on the floor, next to the safe. He uses some small magnets to anchor it to the floor. "Now, let’s see what we can see." After another close examination of the lock’s mechanism, he selects some tools from the case and sets to work.[/size][/font] [/QUOTE]
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