Into the Black

Once we were back on the ship Kiki settled right into one of the guest cabins, and, after checking out the fabber we had on board, made suggestions for things we would need in order to set up a decent shop for her. Since I still needed to upgrade the medical and training facilities on board as well, that meant we needed to get back to work making money.

So we left Kiki on the ship to start getting her bunk the way she liked it (Raven was keeping an eye on her, and had locked down all systems) and headed down to the shuttle. There was a large mountain range that acted like a wall around the ‘civilized’ areas of kisArra, at the poles, and smugglers and ne’er do wells had a couple meeting spots to recruit workers, trade goods, or set up jobs. Of course, their main base wasn’t anywhere so close to the authorities. They went and put THAT at the other end of the planet, down in the Southern polar region.

But for the moment, we were still in the Northern area, because that’s where most of the people (and therefore jobs) were. Walking into the trading post that, most disappointingly, didn’t have a bar or other place for people to sit and relax (that’s why we were in town instead of coming here directly, after all), I removed my mask so I could speak with one of the clerks, and turn in the quests we’d completed, hunting down a couple groups of Freemen bandits that had been attacking one particular smuggler’s operations relentlessly. That netted us a decent 40k credits. Not enough to write home about, but it was good for rep building with the smugglers, which opened up better-paying jobs.