Piemur wakes up from the floor where he had been laying while being trampled and stepped on, and the occasional Grog spill, and looked around. Consulting his personal messaging device, he reads Talon's message. He looks up and says "sorry, im still in the states, and i know i havnt given back the books, and my parents have no idea what we are going to be doing for the thanksgiving and winter breaks. but anyway, bartender, could i have a Sprite?"
Being served promptly, Piemur drinks the drink and goes to a personal stall where it is somewhat safer, and watches the action happen. Examining the device brookeview made, he sees that it is an interdimensional warp core. He compares the device with the current drive system on his ship and sees that it could go at about 120% more efficiently in fuel consumtion and 200% in speed, he goes up to him and offers to buy it. After bargaining for a few hours, he finally gets it for a bargain price of Earth equivilant of 30 cents and rushes out to install it in his ship. Then he returns and happily contemplates his great idea. Simply replacing the warp core would increase the stats by 120% and 200% but if he just added it to the system, then it would increase again by 100%. This was great! Just about that time, the ship gives a great shudder and turns a shining white. In a flash, the ship folded in upon itself in a transdimensional rift and turns into a small ship-shaped wormhole. The glare fades from everyone's eyes and the rift seems to be getting larger. Suddenly, a green and brown speckeled monster comes out and starts to shoot green lightning at everyone. Floating brain things fly around shooting globs of orange goo and little crab-like monsters start jumping up at people and grabbing their faces (they happen to be only NPC's). After a few minutes, the bodies mutate and grow large claws which could do a lot of damage. Piemur rises up to the challenge with a crowbar and finding a few other weapons manages to destroy the alien menace and destroy the thing on the other side of the rift which held it open and came back a hero. Then he wakes up and realises he'd been knocked out from what turned out to be the explosion of his ship. He really should stop playing Half-Life...
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Captain of the SA.SC.Pern
SA.SC.Pern=Shadowcat Alliance, Star Commander, Home port
Shadowcat Alliance = merchant clan
Star Commander = rank in clan