Galaxy of Empires- Space Pirates Episode #1 (11 page)

In Arachnid language, Che says, “I’ve got
some diamonds that I’m looking to sell.” She pulls out a bag and
puts a few on the table.

Jaksi, the vendor, says in Arachnid, “Happy
to meet you. Let’s take a look at what you’ve got.” She pulls out a
scanner: “91% flawless, nice. Give you 50% of market value. “

Che says in a shocked manner, “Are you trying
to rob me? I want 80% of market.”

Jaksi counters with, “60%.”

“75%.”

“My final offer is 65%.”

Che says, “Nay, I want at least 70%.” She
turns and starts to walk away to the next vendor.

Jaksi says, “Okay, 70%.”

Che turns back around and gives her the
diamonds. Meek is just standing there looking around, not
understanding a word they are saying. Jaksi counts out the platinum
bars and puts them in the bag. Che takes some of the bars out and
puts them in her purse when Meek is not paying attention.

“I got 65% of market value for them,” Che
says, giving him the bag of bars.

“That is about 105,000 bars,” Meek adds in
his head.

“Yup,” Che agrees with a smile and begins
walking.

Meek wonders if he was scammed or not, and he
will never know. They walk back to the ship and inform the crew to
move the ship to the repair dock. After about an hour of unloading
the cargo and helping move the guns to the ship, the crew gets
ready to depart on a shuttle to the planet’s surface. They see the
gun-mounting crew begin to mount the guns. Cogg stays behind with
the ship, while the others go down to the surface.

“That’s 15,000 bars each and nice gun
upgrades—awesome,” Python says with joy.

Chad agrees, “Yeah, we rocked this trip.”

Meek says, “Well, it wasn’t all cookies and
cream. But we came out on top.”

Che asks, “Are we going to Deadeye for drinks
and poker?”

“Are we still allowed in there? Seems like we
get in bar fights every time we go in there,” Sean reminds
them.

Meek says, “They have bar fights there every
day—it’s nothing. Remember these are pirates and outlaws we are
talking about.”

“Probably right. Maybe we won’t have a fight
this time,” Sean hopes.

“Don’t hold your breath on that,” Che
chides.

The joyous pirates ride down to the surface
looking for some fun. When they reach the surface, they catch a cab
to the bar and tavern known as Deadeye. They get to the bar and
walk inside. It is full of people, drinking, gambling, dancing, and
eating. There are female and male prostitutes of every race looking
for business. This is one of the largest bars on the planet. The
music blares, as the crew finds an open table and sits down. They
are known as The Smoking Aces not because they are good pilots, but
because of how well they cheat at cards.

Chad gets out a deck of cards. “Okay there is
only 52 cards in a deck, so let’s not end up with 10 aces at the
end of the night, you cheating bastards.”

They all laugh as they order drinks from a
wench passing by their table. They deal the cards and begin
playing. After about an hour, a fight breaks out between two
ruffians a few tables a way. A cup comes flying over to their table
and hits Python on the head.

“Oh, man, here we go again....”

To be continued in Episode
2