Terry Mixon wrote:

> > Shawn and Ilane have finished whatever they were doing after
> > Ricardo left. Kelly and April have finished in the Engine room,
> > too.
> >
> > Suddenly, an alarm goes off on the small bridge.
> >
> > Looking at the sensors, Shawn sees that a small grav craft is just
> > lifting off from the /Bright Star/. He had set the alarm to go off
> > if there was any action around that ship, and this qualifies. That
> > a craft would be lifting off from that ship this time of night sets
> > off warning bells in Shawn's brain, too.
> >
> > Should he call Ricardo over on the /Mae Lee/ and ask about it?
> > Should he get his new ship involved in this? Should he just take
> > Ilane to bed and forget about everything else?
>
>  "Hell!"
>
>  He opened the com channel to Ricardo.

Ricardo is outside and his comm buzzes. He lifts it to his ear, "Captain 
O'Brien here."

>  "Ricardo! The other ship is sending out someone in a grav craft.
>  Anything going on?"

"Yeah, there is." Ricardo says, "Jac got a message. It said that they've 
now got orders to eliminate the hostage, and we think that's where 
they're going."

"Woof, Cory, Mira and Jac are  taking the /Random Walk/ and going after 
them." Ricardo says, "Um, I don't suppose you'd be interested in joining 
them. You and Kelly, maybe?"

Eris
AKU GM