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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doghead" data-source="post: 2326905" data-attributes="member: 8243">Saanath, male human merchant baby.[sblock]Saanath closes his mouth and concentrates on booting up his brain."Four days ago?"We jumped in rather a hurry. We were a little closer to the planet than is recommended. The mis-jump added about 8 days to our time in jump space. The Keruuchan could have easily got here before us."We had both of the ship's boats from the Keruuchan. But they could have collected the one we left it drifting in space after the first attack, the one used by the first boarding party. If they arrived four days ago, they would have had four days to get it assuming that there jump was fairly conventional."Saanath is silent for a moment. He's telling her nothing they couldn't have worked out for themselves. He tries to recall what the question had been again, exactly. She's looking for something, and Saanath gets the feeling that the right answer here might just tip the balance. Unfortunately, he really has no idea. He decides to begin filling in a little of the blank spaces."Nels-C didn't want us to go to the Dvonn. Despite the distress call. He pulled rank on the captain, or tried to, claiming Owner-On-Board status. God knows whether or not he was entitled to it. The Captain, Julia, didn't seem to think he was. Nels-C claimed that he had information indicating that the Dvonn was a corsair or some such, which ment the Keruuchan was under no obligation to provide assistance. Julia thought it was a load of Bull, and organised a rescue attempt anyway."I don't know what was going on. Nels-C had a fair bit of security with him. He seemed to be in possession of something that ... well that he wasn't willing to risk."We speculated on what was going on until we were blue in the face. None of us could the pieces together in a way that made sense. My gut feeling was that Nels-C had something that someone wanted very badly, and the Dvonn was the bait. But that doesn't really explain why the fighters shot us out of space, or tried to, when we tried to board."And it really doesn't seem to explain why Nels-C bolted when he saw that the Emperor was in system."Saanath shrugs.Saanath realises that he has run off at the mouth. A part of him wonders if he has said more than he should. But another part of him is too tired to care. And a big part of him hopes that the Lt Commander will be able to find some form of meaning in all of it and give them some answers. And Saanath desperately wants some answers.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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