A Board Among The Stars Chapter 9. This one isn’t done, and no, it wasn’t marked as being so.
The crashed moon had a door in it.6 words AwesomePythor thought he’d never think.then again,he didn’t think he’d be looking at a crashed moons that had been turned into secret bases.Him and KOF went through the door.inside the moon,nearly the entire thing had been hollowed out by what Pythor could only explain as dynamite.the whole structure looked like it was going to crumble in on itself at any moment.Users,were running around carrying heavy metals and weird machines.a few cranes were lifting what the users couldn’t.in the centre,though,was what the cranes were lifting them up to.
“your building a rocket?” Pythor said in surprise.
Theres a fine line between a rocket and a spacecraft.rockets need a lot of fuel and rarely use anti grav like spacecraft.they are,however,very cheap and are used to launch satellites and mines into the atmospheres of planets.they haven’t been used for transport for a decade.They are,however,very easy to make if you want to illegally get off a planet.
“we’ve got about 20 Rebels here” Kof said “we’ve been hiding here for about a year,trying to find a way off this hole.eventually we decided to escape by rocket”
“you know you cant get far with this thing?i mean,firstly the mod’s will see and fire on you,and secondly your using physical fuel,which would probably get you about…I don’t know…a lightyear?”
“don’t worry.we’ve thought of everything.firstly,we’ve fitted this with shields captured from S.P.A.M cruisers that were on the moon when it crashed.same with the ban lasers.also,we’ve found an Octan trade route about half a lightyear from here.We have enough oxygen and food to last us about a week,but that’s a backup plan if the trade ships are running late.we will arrive in the ship's path, hijack the ship and divert it to wherever the Rebels are.we have an Octan beacon on board our ship.we’ll fire it up and they’ll find the rocket.also,we’ll rig some explosives to the rocket and blow it up”
“wow” pythor was vaguely shocked “you’ve really thought this through”
“we’ve planned nearly everything”
“well let me shake it up a bit.you know how I was ‘banned’ on Mixelon VII?”
“you mentioned it”
“well,now I think is a good time to tell you that story”
“go ahead”
“I went to Mixelon VII with a group of Rebels onboard the cruiser Hammerfist.we had been tipped off that some piece of important information was on the planet.What it was we weren’t told:for all we knew we could be walking into a trap.we retrieved the datapost,but as we tried to leave the planet a S.P.A.M fleet jumped out of hyperspace.they noticed us and hammered our ship.i ejected from the ship moments before the Hammerfist was shot down.im not sure if any of my crew survived.i used a false account to fly here,knowing I’d be able to trust you with the information”
“and what is the information?”
“its information capable of changing the tide of the war…”
“just tell me what it is!”
Pythor hesitated
“I know where Skulduggery773 is”
if anyone else had heard,a hush would have fallen across the entire hollowed-out moon.
“you sure?” Kof asked in disbelief.
“I was questioning it as well”Pythor said “but it’s right.he’s been using the name Lord_Vile to avoid the mods notice.he’s been smuggling weapons around the boards,to the Rebels in a lot of cases”
“and where is he now?”
“he’s based on Gamealon”
Pythor wasn’t surprised by this fact.Gamealon had been the home of the Boardverse’s most renowned bounty hunters.Skul would fit in well there.