Prolouge: Money For Nothing
March 4th S.A.0021
XI-2322, Elegia controlled Territory asteroid belt
The Highway Star slipped silently though space towards XI-2322 it's black hull stark against the equal blackness of space. "Sir we're clear for docking." a helmsman said.
"Alright bring her in." Lance told him, he had been absentmindedly fiddling with his hair, sitting in his captain's chair on the bridge it followed a typical layout of a ship deployed by one of the European commonwealths in the Earth Union, having a single captains and commanders chair in the center of the bridge and ops stations around it, not too atypical as a whole but more ornate than most. It was a stolen ship after all, and lance enjoyed the gaudiness of it, if nothing else. "So of the past hires only Nova is staying?" Lance asked his first mate, Katarina.
"Yes, all of the others have already left or will be leaving here. I've been in contact with Hargrave and she's arranged a few likely candidates, and put the word out we're looking for hired help."
Lance nodded "It would be good to bolster our compliment to go with our own full time forces." Lance said as the ship slid into the docking clamps of the asteroid's largest hangar. As the docking was complete lance stood up, pushing his hair past his mask again like normal and sighed. "Well let's go see what await's us." he said as they began walking to the main airlock. "I have a feeling about this mission Hargrave wants done. She's never hired us for anything like this."
"Anything in general, most of what we've done for them is to...well secure favor in the region."
"Well I sympathized with her and her men's plight. As well as those who followed them. After all Mars wasn't a stable region during the war." Lance said as they left the ship and began walking into the docks of Xi-2322 a rather bustling place, the past three years had been kind to it, and Elegia was on it's way from becoming a deserting corps of mercenaries and militamen and turning into a full nation, the first in the Astroid belt, at least of any note and any amount of order. Even then though it was a den of all sorts of illicit business at the end of the day, but that was the astroid belt for you. No white knights, but one could hope for grey.
"During the way implies that is more stable now." Katarina chuckled, she held no love for the Mars Confederation, and while she can't say she celebrated the pockets of civil war that currently ravaged her home world, she did take some enjoyment out of the Confederate imploding in on it's self.
Lance couldn't help but chuckle as well "I guess so. Of course I bet the Union is going to take advantage of this weakness. They don't know when something isn't worth it."
"Do you really think Mars is that useless to them?"
"In the here and now? Yes. Mars has served it's purpose, it got people off of Earth. Exactly as it was meant to do, they even had an out to let someone else manage the thing. Yet they blew it and all over one embassy. Short sighted." Lance shrugged. "Of course Mars was equally short sighted as we see now, Neither party is particularly well suited to leadership as the past twelve years has demonstrated."
Katarina looked over with a smile "You won't get an argument from me." she said, the two of them just hoped this fledgling nation, Elegia would prove better. Both had hopes resting on it, as they got into the Car that would take them to the night club paradise.
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Paradise Nightclub-XI-2322
A bouncer led a group of some people into a backroom, it sat rather unassuming compaired to the Neon lights of the rest of the club, not to mention the cacophany of purples, reds, greens and blues set amount the orange haze of the machinery of the asteroid based city. (OOC: This group of people is the mercs that'll be hired so everyone this is your cue here, well sans those already hired and bob, also if you'd like them to come in after that's fine since Exia's character was called here by Lance he can be either here or somewhere else in the club this is just a cue for people here to get a bit of RP in instead of waiting)
"If you'd all please wait here, your potential employer will be here shortly, please help yourself to any and all refreshments courtesy of the club. Private dances will still cost you." the bouncer explained bored, it's obvious that he had done this before as he hit the switch to light up the VIP lounge, it wasn't uncommon for mercenaries and smugglers to get jobs here, or for people to do hiring sessions like this. It was easy to put out a bulletin and meet people, and Elegia's security kept the place rather safe.
(OOC: If you want Twitch you can have Nova catch up to Lance and Katarina before the leave, or do an intro on your own, the choice is yours, it's why I haven't had them rush off to the club yet)