Null Space

Ross shrugged. "He was flying a stealth ship. I looked over the equipment. Nothing special really, except for he cloaking device."

"The whole ship is basically a totaled mess. I should know from how much work it`s taken to even get it to be manageable." Kit said and sighed. She pressed a button on her watch to talk to the staff in the upper levels of the ship. "I need armed forces to go check out a gunman in the X port." She said and sighed.

Ross nodded. "Yeah. I might be able to get a name for the guy if you give me some time."

Marco's head turned sharply again. "Ships appear to be attempting to contact with somebody on the ship." He said, looking over at the area where the ships were again.

Ross turned to look at him quickly. "What the hell did he just say?"

while Xan waited, he efected repares to the C,P,C,C. "there!" it gave a sputter and the Scopedogs computer booted up.

"Enemy ships are coming towards us. I don't understand why either." Kit explained trying not to make it sound like they were going to die.

~~~~~

A women with silver hair and pirceing crimson eyes walked out on to the X port a team with guns following after her. "You in the gunman get out and put your hands behind your head!" She yelled so he could hear her. Luna's voice was serious and powerful. Her uniform proved how high ranked she was on the ship.

"Alright! And to let you know miss, I carry no wepon on my person so theres no need to be marshal mam." Xan said as he set his unit on stand by mode and poped the hatch. "See! hands behind my head." he said as he hoped to the deck and put his hands be hind his head. "my name is Xan Fuigimai, A,T [Armored Trooper] jocky for hire."

"Don't try to tell me what to do little boy." Luna said and walked forward. She pinned him to the side of his unit. "I don't care who you are, what's your buisness on this ship? For your sake it better be good." She said with venom in her voice. Her crimson eyes stared straight into his without moving.

Xan grunted as the women pinned him to his Scopedog's side and silently sacked himself in the face in his mind. "It's that I'm looking for work and to resupply." he turned his head to look the women in the eye and keeped his face blank. "I work for cheep and am expendable, if you want me to be." He said to her. He hoped to get in her good books with that. he wished he had some leverage to lighten the mood. but he had none, he was at her mercy. and he hoped that he wouldn't be put down.

Marco shrugged. "I don't know how either. Its something with this eye." He said, pointing to the grey one.

Ross looked at the grey eye, his eyes squinted. "Kit, can I talk to you for a sec?" He asked, not waiting for a response as he pulled her away from Marco. "He's not real." He said once they were out of earshot.

"I don't care what kind of work you do. Do you hae a license to pilot this thing. If not your going to be in a world of trouble." Luna said strictly.

~~~~~

"What the hel* are you talking about Ross? He looks real to me." Kit said seriously.

Ross shook his head. "I've seen it before. He's outfitted with the parts of a reconnaissance droid. The way a reconnaissance droid works is that once it gets through the shields, it can start scanning the ship for weak points. Somebody wiped this poor guy's memory and dumped him there, hoping somebody would stumble across him. Classic pirate move."

Xan made a slight twitch of his head and the tags he kept hidden in his suit jiggled out. "These are my licence for my dog. And if those tags don't convince you, then feel free to deal with me as you wish." Xan said, still keeping the steel mask of blank calm on his face. "And I do have ownership of it. I keep the matinince records in the cockpit with the paper work under the seat. If you don't bleave me, take a look."

[Dog tags read "Xan Fugugami, A,T: Scopedog"]

"Then what do we do!? If he was an actual person at some point I don't want to just dump him somewhere. Is the person he was dead?" Kit asked starting to panic over the topic.

~~~~~

Luna looked over the tags carefully. "One of your go get the paper work in the cockpit." She commanded and one of the guys came over and retrieved them. He gave her the papers and she looked over them without letting Xan go. After carefully reading through them she stepped away and got a metal detector from her belt and scaned him over. "Your clear for now."

Ross shook his head. "No, not technically speaking. Its deep in his brain, though. If we get too far from the source, the original signal will deactivate. At that point, somebody can probably rewire him to work for us."

"Now that this whole mess is over. I would like to offer my services to your captin. I saw those ships out there and i don't think they want to have tea and sweetcakess." Xan said as he rubed his neck. "witch way is he miss?" he asked.

"So do we just lock him up for now?" Kit asked concerned.

~~~~~

"You can't talk to the captian directly. I'm his superviser I will be telling him anything he needs to know. He is far too busy to mess with someone like you." Luna said rather rudely and cold.

Ross shook his head. "That's not advised. He can still listen to communications and monitor ships from inside there."

Xan fished in his piolts suit and produced a disk. "Here. This should help with anything alhing him technologicly. I had this made as payment for a jod I did. It emits a jaming signle and allows you to acess Hard to acess tech." he sead as he held it out to Luna. "I was told it even works on the most protected and complex piriet tech. But then agian, u might not need it. Kus u have me." he said looking her in the face with the mask on agian.

(I don't think that a disc could do all that. You'd need some sort of signal emitter, not a disc. That's like me inserting a CD into my computer and shooting a laser out of it.)

(woops...... Hacking then. Sorry)

(Okay. I'm going to say that the disc can take information from a ship if you get it to the ships data storage. You can't just wave it around and hack things. Does that work?0

(it contains a worm program that Xan got as a reward for escorting a hackers ship. Its an anti-piret wepon that wonce sent through comms to tech being used by pirets. Like a creten gray eye maby?)

(Basicly the worm gets in and eats the protection from data, alowing some one to control it without the owners of the tech interfering.)

(But you can't do that between ships. That'd require way more than just a little disc. That's a highly complex program if that's what it can do.)

(i gusse it can be used as a trap for when u are borded and they try to steal info from the computer.)