The Mercenary

The Mercenary

I was going to the county jail to drop off one of my catches (A guy who had 70,000 credits on his head. When I got a call from a guy I know (his name is X). I met this guy in the city of Trion. He had a job possibly one of the hardest you will ever have would ever have. He wants me to have you travel into the old kingdom and get something for him it was called "The Centurion Hourglass". I consulted my partner King He said yeah we might as well. So I told him we would and I cut the connection. My name is Ulrich I have a last name to but I can’t pronounce it. I am kind of an outlaw or as we in 2159 call them space cowboys more or less we are bounty hunters we travel the galaxy looking for our marks (people we are trying to catch are called marks). So I got onto our older Mac G35 Computer and connected to the police website and plugged in the words Centurion Hourglass. It came up with one file. It was a video file about 1 minute long I opened it and downloaded it. I opened it in our plasma screen T.V. and watched it at first there was nothing and then a scientist appeared it was really blurry probably a bad connection which was weird the only way you could get a bad connection nowadays was if you were really far out in space. So we were watching and this guy was talking kind of fast something about a voyage out there and a ship hull problem he said the hourglass was safely hidden and then there was an explosion and the video ended. I e-mailed the file to my 780 Internet tablet (A tablet pc the size of your palm) just in case our computer crashed. Well I thought we better get going so I walked up to the bridge and started it. I attached my 780 to the nearby interface and put in the coordinates of the nearest space-craft fueling station into the GPS. And let the ship do all the driving. So as we waited to get to the fueling station I started to look up more stuff on the Centurion Hourglass but all I came up with was a text file that was basically useless because it was encoded so I e-mailed it to my 780 again just in case. By that time we were at the fueling station. I kept looking while we were at the fueling station by plugging it into several search engines. I still wasn’t getting very much info. We got a rough map of where the hourglass might be. But it was a pretty large area. So it could take awhile. But it never hurts to try. I put in the coordinates for the nearest planet to the area they said to search and locked them. About 10 minutes into our trip I saw a heavily armed cruiser pass us on the way I grabbed my Tablet and took a picture of it then I ran it though G.S.I. (Government. Ship. Identifier) it came up the Nautilus an pedestrian cruiser. The reason I ran this though G.S.I. was because normally you wouldn’t see a pedestrian cruiser this far out in space. We kept going but about 20 minutes from destination when I noticed the same cruiser was following us I walked over to the interface and clicked the talk button and said “Unidentified Cruiser State your business”. For a second there was nothing then a face appeared on the screen I noticed right away there was a DNA strand on his forehead a space pirate.