4 Arriving at the Station

<Uhh...I don't recognize this ceiling... oh yeah! So it wasn't a dream.>

"Arfa! Are you here?"

"Affirmative captain."

"How long did I sleep?"

"17 hours have passed. We are currently en route for Pensha VI Station ETA 8 hours."

Before he could think further his stomach loudly made its presence known.

"So...hungry... Arfa where can i get some food on this ship?"

"Affirmative. All food is served in the mess hall. Please proceed according to your PDA instructions."

Immediately after Darx heard a familiar beep from his pocket, taking the PDA out he saw a new route towards the mess hall. Now that he was looking closer he noticed he can actually see the whole ship layout.

The ship was was 120 meters long, 60 meters wide and 60 meters tall, it had 2 floors with the first floor taking up most of the space with a gigantic Mech hangar in the middle.

Soon he reached a big room full of tables and chairs and as if on cue a door opened on the opposite side of the room and what looked like a sci-fi moving trolley came out heading towards him. It quickly placed a tray on the table in front of him and then left through the same door.

"Arfa, what was that?"

"That was one of the maintenance droids, its duties include maintenance, cleaning as well as serving the crew."

"Huh, neat. Anyway is this food?" said Darx while gesturing towards the plate.

"Affirmative. They are dry rations containing all necessary proteins and vitamins for human life and a glass of water. Unfortunately all other supplies were lost during the fight."

"Well...at least I'm not starving I guess...Oh it doesn't taste bad...actually it doesn't have a taste at all and its kinda like jelly in texture."

After eating Darx decided to familiarize himself with the ship and took a walk around, when he got tired he returned to his room and started researching on his PDA.

The Galactic Year is 3205 and humanity has spread throught the stars, there are currently 3 superpowers controlling almost two thirds of the known space, The Federation Of Terra, The Shirin Empire and the United Stars Alliance. They are historical enemies having wars with each other every other decade. Other notable powers are the League of Pilots also known as The Guild and the Forum de Tenebris known as The Forum. The former is an independent organization acting as a middleman between people and independent pilots helping the them find work using their ships and Mechs like guards, couriers and bounty hunters while the latter was the same thing but the work they helped find was more of an illegal nature like assassinations, kidnappings and destruction of property. Both organizations had their own ranks with pilots being able only to accept work at their rank or below. Promotion opportunities are offered after a number of missions at the same rank are finished.

The Pensha system he was currently in is an independent system with only one station and 2 mining colonies and other than its better than average mining reputation it is insignificant.

Other than that Darx also found out that his ship is a Parvus Class Mech Carrier, the smallest kind of Imperial ships capable of transporting and maintaining Mechs while his Mech is a medium size Multipurpose Mech outfitted for mining.

Unfortunately the ships antenna was damaged and so he was unable to access the Holonet, the galactic version of the internet which was only stable at station but he managed to get enough information for now from the Pensha net, the local version of the internet.

It seems that due to the big delay between stars on the Holonet each system made its own local version of it for entertainment and local news.

In the internal ship database he also found some information about the crew but other that the former Captain Constantin Adamaris, a former imperial with some slight fame, the others were nobodies hired recently, including himself.

"Now that I think about it...Arfa what happened to the crews bodies?"

"Unknown, scanning..., no biologic remains were detected during last scan."

"Arfa how long until we get to the station?"

"ETA 1 hour and 32 minutes."

"When we get there how do we dock?"

"First we will approach within 10 km of the station and you must request docking permission, if it is approved we will dock at the specified location. Due to the size of the ship we are unable to dock directly inside the station. Direct access to the station requires shuttle transport. Fortunately most services offered by the station can be requested directly from the ship."

"Nice, that's convenient."

"Captain, if I may make a suggestion."

"Go ahead."

"I suggest refueling and repairing the reactor, the engines as well as the Mech a priority. Food and water should also be considered."

"Yeah...how much is that gonna cost us?"

"Estimated cost are 2376 credits for refueling, 35700 credits for reactor repairs, 146000 credits for engine repairs, 1000 credits for water and depending of quality between 500 and 5000 credits for food. Due to using spare parts the Mech repairs are estimated at 65000 credits"

"...Can I really survive? *Sigh* Whatever I'll just get a depression nap. Wake me up when we reach the station."

"Affirmative captain."

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"Golden bunny...I'm rich...Hehe..."

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

"WAAAH!! What's happening?? Are we under attack??"

"Good morning captain, we have reached the destination."

"...please be gentler next time."

"Affirmative captain. Your presence is required on the bridge."

"Oh right."

After getting ready Darx quickly left for the bridge.

"So Arfa, how exactly do I request permission to dock?"

"Captain, you must first present yourself and then the name of the ship after that you must request permission to dock, if the station demands additional information then provide it. Failure to do so will most likely result in the docking permission being denied."

"I see, well then contact the station."

"Affirmative, connection established."

"This is Pensha VI Station Control, state your purpose."

"Eh... this is Captain Shutra Darx of The Fenrir, requesting docking permission."

"Acknowledged, please proceed to the following coordinates, welcome to our station captain."

"Arfa bring us there."

"Affirmative captain."

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