New chapter 2 scene one

New chapter 2 scene one

Switch to the FB and the former XO of the FB sitting in his cabin brooding over his fate. Something in his personal history prevents him from being able to find other employment, and then there's the pilot. She's essentially defenseless and in big trouble if the ship winds up being sold for scrap, but that's really about all it's worth after the way crappy captain has run it into the ground. Whatever happens to him, he can't abandon her to her fate. –Pilot announces that there's someone at the gate who claims to be the new owner. Alarmed, XO drags himself out of his funk and goes to investigate. Maybe, just maybe, there's a chance he can convince the new owner to sell the ship to someone who might refurbish her enough to get her into space. – He is dismayed when he meets Salome. She doesn't seem to have the sense God gave a duck, and for some reason she is leading around a cat and a pair of young men roughly the size of rhinoceroses (or future – space equivalent). They go through the ship. XO is trying to convince this obnoxious woman that the ship is worth refurbishing and taking back into space and that she can still get more money for it as a working vessel than by selling it as scrap. –Suddenly, to his horror, XO realizes that Salome has started asking the kind of questions that sound almost as if she were thinking of keeping the ship and running it herself. Desperately, he backtracks, trying to convince her that the ship is worthless. The best thing she can do is sell it to the nearest sucker and get it off her hands.Possibly switch to Salome. Inexplicably disappointed, Salome goes back to the bar to think it over. There, she starts asking around about how she should go about selling the ship and how to get the best price. All the same, she can't help thinking about how much bigger and more comfortable the captains state room on the fantastic blindness is then even the best used residence pod she could afford, especially since she has just learned that she lost her job. –Into her life comes Skyler. Why sell the ship? If she needs a cargo, he happens to know where to get one that we are them all a fortune. Then if she decides to sell the ship, she can always make that decision later.