[Kairu]

============================================================= Midnight – Infinity's Voyage – High Orbit – Hangar Bay 2 – 1544 Hours - October 11th 2555 ============================================================= Cochraine, Fireteam Harmony, hangar personnel, Silverblur, and the Trust Vulture were all occupying the hangar bay. The pirate ships had arrived about 20 minutes prior, many of the ships having seen better days, especially before going to San Angeles. Cochraine and Silverblur were aware of the pirate fleet's condition. The two were facing each other, Silverblur just before the vulture's loading ramp and Cochraine facing the vulture in front of the pirate. She began to speak to Silverblur. Cochraine: "Are you sure you won't fight the Trust with us? They tore your fleet up pretty bad, surely you'd want revenge?" Silverblur shook his head. Silverblur: "They may have hurt my fleet, but the situation report shows that my people are okay. Ships can be repaired and replaced when necessary, lives are not. The Trust has made no real harm to me or my people. Maybe took a jab at our pride, but nothing more." Cochraine softly sighed. She couldn't believe she was unable to get his fleet support. Still, she didn't let it get her down too much. She was still getting something of use. Silverblur: "I do have an agreement to honor. Give me a second to recover the information. If I may borrow Mr. Axlon's PDA?" Harmony looked a little troubled but Cochraine motioned for the request to be granted. Axlon stepped forward to hand the pirate his PDA. Silverblur: "I'll be just a minute." Silverblur walked into the vulture with the PDA and out of sight. Robertson: "Captain, is it wise to allow him to be unattended with it?" Cochraine felt she knew the pirate well enough to answer. Cochraine: "He's been nothing but honorable with us in this matter so far. There's no need being unnecessarily suspicious at the end." On board the vulture, Silverblur attached the PDA to a port cable on the dashboard of the craft. When the link was made, Silverblur radioed his ship. Silverblur: "Silver, enable Protocol Trust-Alpha-1. Isolate this vulture's internal database and establish a link. Take all known necessary precautions. Begin a background process of datamining this vulture for any data needing to be updated or added to ours. Additionally, begin a datamine of the PDA. I want as much information as you can pull. Make this process a top priority. Afterwards, access and upload all available data about known Trust locations of operations to this PDA; encrypt it with Cipher-9." Silver: "Yes Sir." The AI responded with the same voice as Silverblur, which didn't bother him. Silverblur monitored the PDA's progress as it was being worked on. After nearly seven minutes, Silverblur returned into view off of the vulture where Cochraine and Fireteam Harmony were still waiting. He approached Cochraine with the PDA in hand. Silverblur: "Here you are, Miss Cochraine. As promised, all information about the Trust locations and bases of operations that we are aware of." Cochraine took the PDA and began to make an attempt at accessing the information. While she was doing that, Silverblur was nearly inside the vulture again. Cochraine looked up at him and raised her voice to be heard. Cochraine: "It's encrypted!" Silverblur shrugged at Cochraine. Silverblur: "I can't make it too easy for you, Captain. After all, I never specified its encryption. You're with ONI, I'm sure you'll get it cracked in time. Good luck taking down the Bismarck." Silverblur stepped on the vulture the ramp/door combination began to close. Cochraine ordered the release of the vulture and she watched the pirate pilot the Trust vulture back to his fleet. Cochraine dismissed Harmony, PDA in hand. She began to walk back off the deck, tapping her earpiece. Cochraine: "Commander, go ahead and transmit our location to FLEETCOM. Track the pirate's slipspace coordinates and save them to the computer. I'm heading to science lab 3." Littleton: "Yes Ma'am, I will do so."