==========>  Flight deck
  "wielding I can do with the best of them."  Garrat says following him in.  "Just show me the gear and what you need done."

Dragging gear towards the modified launch tubes at the sides of the cargo bay of the heavily modified old freighter Spartan looks at the man.
"whats your name kid? I like knowing who I work with. I'm Captain Thomas Spartan, the owner of this here vessel, and the one paying for the shit state its in." He points to a launch tube at the right, which seems to have exploded from the inside out, requiring an entirely new shutter system.
"Its all modified, so everything has to be cut to size and made by hand. Ask techy Cummings if she has the gear for that. She's likely outside with the other techs, repairing the structure. Dont forget a 0-G suit tho."

Spartan sets up a small workbench, and starts to take apart the number one tube.

  Cummings   is   called when a Plate is ready. She moves  with the others  setting  Up Grips and Pulleys to lever the  plate into postion. The  Lead welder    Tacks the Plate  Up, and  crew make certain the  plate is  solid. The Lead welder and the  #2 Welder  then  start at opposite sides , welding the plate into postion.

   "I'm called Garrat."  Garrat says following Thomas to the access ladder to where the Scare crow is docked.  He stopped looking at it.  "By the beards of Thor's goats.  There's no way I can climb that ladder after that gut wound from the last mission.  It looks like I'm going to have to take my workout out on the multi track.  Sorry Sparten...by the way, do you usually call people who are centuries older than you "kid"
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"I do if they are younger than me. Centuries huh? You an alien?"

   "Believe it or not, I'm both 100% human, and an extraterrestrial.  I'm just altered to have a bunch of genetic diseases that have up sides to them."  Garrat sighs looking up the latter  "unfortunately bounce back isn't one of them, but angel food is gonna make for some really old humans here pretty quick if they don't get themselves killed first."
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"Well, you cant help, so I'll be on my way at work." Spartan turns and gets to it.

   "Yeah, sorry about that.  I'll have to jump in latter when I'm better."

   It shows that Garrat is embarrassed but he doesn't really have a choice.  He could go back to the rec deck but doesn't really feel like partying.

   He picks up his data pad and heads to the observation deck to puzzle through some more designs.====> observation deck.
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Having fixed the tube after a couple hours of hard work Spartan decides its time for some quick food.

---->>> Rec deck.

  With the Second  Crew arriving outside, the  Repair to plates has taken  a faster  turn.

 Cummings   is shaping the plates herself , as the rest of the two  teams   haul the plates up and  Weld them into plate, carting off the damaged plates for the Foundry to  use for scrap.

 Since they were docked,  Everest Dock workers  were assigned to Help Cummings    repair the Scarecrow.

 although  they seemed to work well together. The Everest folks did seem a little insulted, by Cummings  rejecting    plates that did not conform to the Specs  she had measured against the  Hermes-made  plates.

 Still? She was in charge unless Spartan over ruled her, and the  patch work  was sped up as everyone wanted to get finished  so they could see the station.

Trusting Cummings completely Spartan decided to visit Everest and go and watch the game. Maybe he could even assist the coach here and there.

  Cummings  COM Buzzed, she looked at  it and said over the Headset,..alright  folks!..Game Time, we head  down to the  Rec Dec and watch it... eats are on me....You Everest folks, thank you for your help, yo may go back to your  duties ...

 ..But..Mam'zelle..we are to help finish this  ship, No?

 No, after the  game  we'll come up and put the last few plates on, if you folks can spare some Man power, then you are welcomed then..until then?... No one  near this vessel that isn't Hermes, Unless i am here...

 ..but  our  orders are...

 ..look..French Fry.. you have been great... but you see that metal under your feet?..Thats  thew Gods be Damned Hermes.... YOur  Orders don't mean too much here..now?..go hope your team doesn't get blown out in the first quarter... we'll call when we come back to work...and?....it would not be good for someone to 'hang around'... SEC doesn'[t ask questions when it comes to  protecting  the ship.

(Rodney Pullens)
Supervising the repairs in Spartans' absence Pullens recieves a message to prep another bunk for a new crew member. After doing so he goes to find Cummings to inquire about repairs. Meanwhile Zeon supervises the loading of newly acquired gear.

(Pullens to hangar deck)
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(Zeon Xondoloo)

After loading the new gear Zeon unpacks the new minigun. Using the unused cargo bay swing arm he then sets about welding a mount in place so the weapon can be attached and used when the bay door is opened.

  Cummings   enters the Ship, hakes off her  Head gear,, then pulls out  the Vid Board from her  Leg slot.... as far as the outside? Its  as good  as its gonna get, we used some Everest plates, but most of your  damaged hull was replaced with Hermes Fondy Steel, especially the special cuts, I won't  work with other  steel for that...  any wiring   and such, I can sent a Team of Tech in? be a whole lot then if you guys  do it yourself?..But its your ship...I'm just here to make her  fly again..

"Anything you can do is appreciated," Zeon replied between welds.

  She   hit the COM pad on the Vid Board,..Cummings here.. if you could scare up  at least one  team, if not 2 of Techs..we need the   start the wiring and such for the Scarecrow.

 Rivets  Voice  came back..I'll send ye  2 teams, if ye promise ta go on leave...

 She  frowns  and says,..alright Captain... you send me  2  teams, I'll go down for  some eats, maybe catch a vid?

  right.... 2 teams will be Up...10 minutes.....

  She   cut off the COM and said. no matter how you look at it? No matter  who advanced.. you still need  wires or  tubeways, to get  stuff from one place to another.

(Zeon Xondoloo)

"Will the wiring be done today?" Xondoloo inquires from Cummings as he finishes the minigun mount.
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  Cummings smiled a bit  as she laid her  helmet aside,Unless we hit a Red Alert?..it should be done  By lunchtime tomorrow, which gives  you a whole half  day on Everest, if you want shore leave....

  Arriving at the top of the ship they exit the elevator. Cummings  and her crew were taking equipment  down.

 The Scarecrow looked  good..in a way... some nice, new  plates...and some Decals  below the  Bridge showing  successful bombing runs.

   on the sides where  large numbers done in ESN style '300'

  Cumming  came over, she was tired, even though her faceplate, you could see that. She smiled at Thomas,The Numbers  are The Admiral's Idea, something about a play on your name? Anyway... with the pirate, merc and traders from both sides  flying around Pentrax and Beta space, he wanted to make sure Fleet could  tell you apart from the bad guys....

Even as they stood on the top of the Hermes, they saw a Nivarian Merchant smoke still trailing from its  hull The Argus was escorting her in.

 Blockake runner?.... maybe a slaver?....wonder why they didn't send it to fuji ?

 Behind them the  airlock Hissed and two Marines walked towards them , stopping behind   the three as they too, looked up to see the battered merchant man being 'guided' to the Customs docks.
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Thomas checks the cargo bay to see if everything is secured, and admires the work Zeon has done on the minigun. Meanwhile he explains to Gordan what everything is, so the kid knows whats what in his new home. Once done he does the same with the engine room, the living quarters and both forward and aft gun bubbles.
Finally, they enter the cockpit of the old freighter, the heart of the ship.

Rodney looks up from his consoles just barely long enough to introduce himself to Gordan, before phasing back into the computerised world he is so comfortable with. Zeon, his feet resting on the navigation screens, immediately sits upright.
"She's ready for launch Cap'n." he grins. When he sees young Gordan he adresses him directly. "So you must be our new deck hand. My name is Zeon, and that wizard with a blue screen is Rodney. Ever been on a ship like this before?"
Gordan shakes his head, somewhat uncertain how to react.
"No problem, we will get you up to speed in no time. Here, come sit in this chair." Zeon stands, gesturing for Gordan to sit down in his place. "As I will be in the cargo bay mostly you will have the very important task of navigating for captain Spartan. See this here screen? You tell the captain if any coloured dots show up on it." He hands Gordan a headset. Even though its a bit too big, the kid smiles from ear to ear as he puts it on.
Zeon turns to Thomas.
"We got a comm from that mercenary that went with us last flight. He will try to get here asap to assist. Any estimate on cast off time?"

Spartan drops down in the central chair, activating his consoles and running diagnostics. "You mean Mac? Would be good to have him on board, he can cover your ass with that mingun as you work the buoys. Make sure you both suit up, there will be some spacewalking to be done." He flips his comm to the gun bubbles, checking on both marines. "Gentlemen, welcome to this pleasure cruise. Glad to have you on board again. Make sure you grab a cup of coffee and some food, I have no idea when we will have time to eat again."
Flipping another switch he contacts Hermes control and MorningStar.

'Hermes, Morningstar, this is Scarecrow. You boys and girls listening in? Scarecrow will be good for launch in ten minutes.'

   Joseph shows up in his stripped for action gear.  His two pistols glisten with the polish of well cared for guns.  "Did you get your com gear up and going again?"

"All fixed and functioning. But i'd rather have you setting up the eavesdropping buoys so we can quickly attach them to the existing ones. Since we have to fix them to the old ones it will require space walks, and I will have to depressurise the cargo bay. Having an extra hand there to set up the buoys and link em up to the hermes would allow Zeon to work a lot faster in attaching them, and it would allow you to cover his ass with the new minigun while he does it. I figure that would save us at least ten minutes a buoy, maybe even more, because of him not having to go in and out all the time. There's extra suits in the cargo hold, all pressurised and oxyginated. One of them is bound to be your size. Do you know how to set up a buoy?"

    "Uh...minigun.  Sir, I'm a little small to handle one of those."  He laughs in zero G your gonna have a flying midget hitting the bulkhead after a 1 second burst.