Nicole had landed and disembarked from the RAVEN with her jacket pulled up around her ears to protect from the sharp wind that was gusting across the tarmac. She'd planned to walk the several kilometers to the Dockers Lounge, a moderately maintained bar used by Space Port customers and some of the more seedy members of society.
The last time she'd been here she'd been forced to help with an evacuation of children for a 'non' event which had taxed her nerves and the resources of her ship for over a week local time. Now she was back with an assignment from Ashton; what he termed as a milk-n-cookies run...
She had a PADD with the secret assignment that he wanted her to complete with all of the specifics, something she wasn't suppose to read until she'd arrived at the lounge. She looked left and right before crossing the last free lane of the port, her destination in sight. It was late afternoon local time and the sounds and smells could be heard already from the bar.
Nicole entered and adjusted her jacket and spotted a booth in a far corner and made her way there. Having seated herself and ordered from the automated service a jasmine wine and house fries she pulled out the PADD and read her assignment.
Red;
Make contact with Dor'e'n. Arrange for your cargo to be brokeraged and then arrange a new cargo that will fill your holds and take you 500,000K over the Mulluran line -- both ways. Then return here to the bar in exactly 24hrs planetary time... Don't be late and don't be short.
The image of Ash winked and disappeared. She blew out her breath and tossed the PADD onto the table top and rolled her eyes. Even with a five percent cut of the gross... She thought about her cubic capacity and even if it was pure latinum she couldn't hold enough of anything ... except... She had an idea and picked up her PADD and jacked into an information jack and started searching. Her drink arrived and she had filled her black box on the ship with non weight bearing items of licenses of speculative market items from the Federation that would be valuable over the line, as well as physical goods that were hot. She still needed to find a certain Dor'e'n -- she looked around the room and tried to find the answer as to who that would be...
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