Mechanics. we should shoot them more often

i hate mechanics. not the shiney spit n polish alliance mechanics.. i mean the hard drinkin genius mechanics that are either up to their elbows in engine oil or propping up the nearest bar.

after a night freezing my ass off cause the enviro plant went haywire i decided even tho the Denrei aint a tempermental aught two firefly with engine mannerisms that make you think its haunted, i needed a mechanic . nothing fancy . i dont need some super genius like Vega from hales . folks say that guy can build you a ship out of spoons and exhaust fumes. cant afford it and the Denrei ont need that level of expertise even if i could get the guy off Hales moon .

what i found . well she fits the stereotype perfect . a hard drinkin mech genius called Mychelle Foley. dunno what her story is yet but i do know she spent 5 minutes tweaking the port engine and now the Denrei makes pretty music when she flies. good enough for me any day.

problem is we was unloading the last of some cheap haul cargo at the drift . and she musta dropped a spanner or something in the cargo hatch cause half way to hales i hear a hissing sound coming from the cargo bay ... whatever got jammed in there tore a seal and of course mychelle true to form was sitting at the bar on the drift .

so there i am holding my breath for the orbit drop to hales .. no mechanic in sight , knowing damn well im gonna have to pay for new seals and not happy about it . i put a wave out to hales asking about parts and whos waiting to do repairs but Cody winterwolf himself . great mechanic but i know from experience ya never wanna stand to close to the guy . he attracts bullets .

me n cody got to talkin about this n that while he fixes the poor Denrei . turns out a couple of bolts UNDER the seals was the problem . all i know is mychelles getting the bill. and his little sister kitten running around the denrei looking at screens and playing with doors . never sure what to make of that girl . i like her but times she freaks me out . i mean lillybell can quote skyhook specs to me all day and its fine .. i know the girls got all sorts of info floating around in her head . but kitten was pointing out all the stuff i changed . no way the girls old enough to have seen an original c314. and then she heads off chasing bunny shaped clouds .

gotta admit though cody knows his stuff when he aint in bandages . 20 minutes and the Denrei was holdin air like new . so here i sit in orbit again waiting for a call for work or a message from that drift bar asking me to pick up my drunk mechanic . and its been one of those days that turned out shiney

Suta Denrei Log

sitting in orbit over Hales moon . seems the safest place to be these days . feels like every time i hit athmo down there the church is set on fire by the replicants , destiny gets attacked by Reavers or just out of control visitors in ships Ive never seen before. and the hales colony is just as bad .. reaver attacks ( seems everywhere gets those ) races through the alleyways or just having to stumble over drunks who only barely managed to fall out of fireflys bar .

but then the problem is no work up here . gotta hit the world . any world just to find work . heck i knew when i decided the alliance could carry their own cargo that work would be scarce but i spend more time docked or orbitin than i do moving from place to place . this poor old girl of mine looks worse and worse the more days go by without new parts . atleast what i got is kept shiney . got nothing else to do up here but sit and wait for a wave from the worlds and keep the Denrei ship shape like my dad said . " keep her cared for suki . that way when ya need her best she`ll be ready for ya . you start to let her go ya never know when something might fall off at the worst time "

cortex and local waves are all full of all sorts of goings on . some believable some not . gotta watch close though ... soon as some of this stuff comes up the alliance or someones got it locked down and hidden . dad talked about that too . how you could never be sure what you was reading was the real goings on . gotta get it from the folks that were there otherwise its fairy-tales like the story's from earth that was . sooner or later someone gets the story's on the cortex and shapes em for their own ways .

guess i better hit athmo and grab some supplies . running out of coffee which aint gonna be good up here alone . atleast aint no one thats gonna get hurt if i do run out up here . maybe the Denrei needs a lil gun . something to ding the paint of those that come near . more entertaining than cleaning the engine again