New Earth

"five weeks later"

“Way point reached”, A cheerful voice said on Matthew’s Arbitrator, a Amarr cruiser, as it warped in to the system New Eden after a fleet of Defiance ships killed a small fleet of insurrectionists ships that where coming out of warp from some part of same system. The ship Matt is flying is an Arbitrator made to lunch drones and armed with only a missile launcher made to tackle fast frigates. The turret ports where used for salvagers for the wrecks of the ships he can get his hands on.  As Matt move in to the center of the debris field he saw a shuttle and a Manticore. Shuttles are seen in the system a lot most are tourist and pilots who want to take a look at the Collapse EVE gate worm hole. The Manticore is owned by Defiance and piloted by personal friend of Matt.

A green text pops up on Matt’s screen saying “Comm Initlated.”  Video of a young white man of Gallente, Intaki origin.

“Hello Matt.

“Mark! Good to see you”

“Out looking for salvaging?”

“Ya. I was hoping I could find something useful from the wrecks.”

“I thought you were given the weekend off.”

“Ya but salvaging is a hobby of mine”

“Have fun. I got out and see what the insurrectionists are up to.” And after he finishes the sentence his Manticore Covert Ops frigate warps out of the area to find pray.

“What does the insurrection have out here? There HQ was out at the Sinq Laison region.”

“Matt, where not the only one who want the insurrection dead. They lost a lot of ships. About 60% of them are destroyed”

“Oh ya. I forgot about that and 10% are still in active combat.”

“That’s true Matt”

“Wait… does that mean 30% of the ships are missing?”

“Well yes but I just think there runners.”

“Runners?”

“Ya... runners. What would you do if your corporation started to fall apart?”

Well I would stay and fight for a couple of days but I would take off with a ship loaded with cash and supplies from what is left of Defiance so…..“I would take a ship and get the hell out of the region”

“And that is what I think. But command thinks there commander…”

“James Marr?”

“No, he was killed in an ambush. There new leader, Jarien Smith, could have taken the ships and ran off to set up a last stand”

“And if the ships here are Smiths, that means his last stand is here?” Kind of an odd place for a last stand but I guess I would like to die looking at something beautiful and the EVE gate is beautiful.

“That’s what I’m looking for Matt. Get what salvage you can and get out” The chat ended with a red text saying “Comms Disconnected”.

“And with that time to get to work” Matt starts locking up the biggest ships he can find which happen to only be industry ships. Matt started his work by getting close to the ships and unloads there cargo. Matt’s seat is made about the same as a car seat.  He pulls small lever and sits back relaxes and let’s his ship do the work. After about 40 minutes of work his cheerful computer tells him that his cargo bay is full. “Well time to get back to Mirilene and see what kind of junk I got” Matt flies to get gate and jumps out.

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”Im sorry sir we lost the cargo. A salvager took it.”

Matt’s Arbitrator gate jumps out of the system.

“He is going home sir.”

Another voice from the shuttle pilot’s computer in a deep voice tells him

“Follow that pilot and get the solder at his front door or your ass will be fueling P.O.S Towers for the next six years.”

“Six years sir?” The pilot asked both nervously and confused. “That kind of..”

The deep voiced man interrupts “That cargo could be worth more than a bloody TITAN! I NEED THAT CARGO!”  The voice from the comm says in an enraged voice.  Another voice, a calmer one who sounds old, starts talking to the deep voiced man. “Now Guy you don’t need to scream at him. I just want to know what that life form is and if it is dangerous to the fleet” The comm ends and the pilot of a Caldari shuttle flies towards the gate and tries to keep up to the Arbitrator.