Heading south

The corp had been formalized and everything was ready to go. The new office decorated, communication channels set up and recruitment procedures in place.

I was sitting in the new office making the final draft for the recruitment poster that was to be distributed. We had worked hard the last month and a half and were very happy with the result.

The holo screen flickered but I was not paying attention. What was that about Ushra’Khan ?

I lifted my eyes from the paperwork and slowly the news dawned on me. Tarac Nor, a person I had trusted had gone and shoplifted Ushra’Khan and not only that, he had transfered Concord documented control to HYDRA. That person was though a middleman also a co-director in our newly formed corporation Intercision. The plan was that he was waiting on a delivery of a Nyx and then would have joined Intercision. I had just gotten confirmation that the Nyx had been delivered and that he would quit Ushra’Khan.

A quick emergency meeting revealed that Tarac Nor had the support of quite a few of the pilots in Intercision. It ended in a heated argument with his supporting pilots yelling at me that I could piss off to Concord controlled space and mine if I could not stand the heat.

I went to the nearest bar to think this over. It did not take long to reach the conclusion that the relationship in the corp was ruined and with the things that had been said we would be unable to built a corporation on that foundation. Ombey was planetside so I had no clue what his reaction would be.

I started making calls ind order to get a clearer picture of the politics involved.

I felt partly responsible. Two months back, just before leaving Ushra’Khan, Tarac Nor had voiced that he would think it funny to empty the NKB corp hangar. I told him that I would not condone such actions and asked him to leave such thoughs behind and if he ever did such things against any entity I would never want to hear or know of it. He put it off and I wrote it off as a fustration with the current development in Ushra’Khan which had initially sparked the idea to form Intercision and go into what Concord labeled Faction Warfare. Truth proved to be much much worse.

Having gotten a clearer picture I called the local concord officials and informed them that they were to remove any roles tied to my pod licence. They confirmed that in 24 hours I would be released of roles in the official Concord database and would be ready for transfer to wherever I wanted to head out.

I then called the docking manager Scotty.

“Scotty please prepare Juturna, with a complete compliment of combat ships.”

There would be my Megathron ready for combat the moment Juturna docked as well as a compliment of  Sabres, a Falcon, a Guardian, a Vagabond, a few Interceptors and enough equipment for an additional 4-5 battleships.

“Yes sir.” came the quick and dry reply.

Time to reflect and contemplate. I had no clue what corp to join yet and even if they would have me. I had not heard from Ombey yet but hoped he would understand and join me for a month of campaigning mercenary style. If not then we would likely meet up a month or two from now and see where we were respectively.

I kinda liked the idea of joining as a mercenary auxiliary with no commitment other than bringing firepower for a periode. A single carrier that could deploy firepower anywhere. Back to the basics. Back to mercenary action.