Tales From Tewanta

Drunken Fish Civilian Installation, LTT 14976 - 3306-05-16 8:37 Dwayne Roberts chewed on the last of his breakfast and washed it down with a swig of light beer. The mycoprotein empanada was good: savoury and a little spicy. It was filling and cheap, too, which was another plus. He had some credits, but his Imperial Eagle wasn't cheap to maintain, and it was a little too small to take down the really big scores. Besides, he was saving his credits for a Mark 4 Viper. With that he would be able to go after the bigger ships with the high priced cargo. He might even travel to Tewanta and see about ambushing the Low Temperature Diamond miners. That was the type of score that set a guy up for life. Dwayne was the only customer in the bar at this time of the day. It was just him and the barman, Antonio. The latest synth music played quietly in the background: it incorporated samples from an attack on Preuss Terminal in Di Jian, and Dwayne thought that that was badass, though he didn'...

Wilson Port, Tewanta - 3306-04-06 09:51 GST Sir Cedric Nolan lined up his Fer de Lance directly in front of the mailslot of Wilson Port and brought it to a full stop 7.49 km from the station. His cockpit was dimmed and he had his remlok deployed. Just under seven minutes of emergency oxygen remained. He had turned off all non-essential systems on his ship, which at this point included regular life support. He requested docking clearance which was granted promptly. He engaged forward thrusters to bring his speed up to 200m per second, launched a heat sink, and turned on silent running, as his ship drifted towards the station. An alarmed flight control officer broadcast that they had lost his signal and requested that he make contact. He ignored them, focusing on keeping his ship on a straight trajectory for the station dock entrance. He was flying without any automated flight assistance at all, as was appropriate for a knight of the...

Stable Cryptographic Analysis, Tewanta - 3306-03-18 08:27 "Hey, Denzel", said Brian Jones, as he walked into his supervisor's office carrying a data pad and a bulb of coffee. "I think I might have found something interesting." "Lay it on me!" "Well, I was working with FIDO to fine tune analysis of the low temperature diamond markets. Grete was complaining that some of the search routines were slow and difficult to use. So, to test the exploration interface I decided to put in that cult we were told to keep an eye on." "Chapter of Isinor?" "Yes! Them! Well, I may have found something weird." "How weird?" "Well, I was expecting some delivery contracts and maybe, they'd be the supplier for some LTD futures. You know, low level stuff. Well the search took a few minutes and I was worried that had mucked up the search indices somehow....

Luiken City, Reshas - 3306-03-13 13:41 Hiroko Watanabe took a drink from her beer. She was sitting in a small bistro bar near the outer edge of Luiken City with a journalist from The Luiken Gazette, Clive Glover. She'd been there for about an hour trying to get some insight into who in Isinor would want to attack Tewanta. So far Clive had spent he time boasting about his expense account, talking about how expensive the food was and dropping names about the famous people that he'd met. They were just finishing dessert on a delicious, but very pricey, lunch. Hiroko was bored and impatient. She put up with it because so far she learned that the guy across the table from her was the most likely person on the station to know about any shady dealings that Isinor factions were involved in. He had a reputation for uncovering corporate and faction corruption. He also had a reputation for being a bore and spending beyond his mean...