I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship, so I Became a Space Mercenary

We boarded the Black Lotus with Krishna and went straight into space from Leafil IV. We headed straight for the Leafil Prime Colony.

Are you here?

It's very small, but Black Lotus' subspace sensors are reacting. Here it is.

"Yeah, you're here, this."

Subspace sensors are sensors that can capture the reactions of other vessels while traveling at ultra-light speed.That sensor is picking up a small spacecraft following us.I'm sorry to hear that Space Dwellg says, "Best gear I can get" when I'm teaming up with Black Lotus.No matter how small a scouting ship is, we can't completely hide and track its reactions.

"I knew it was sticky."There were parts where I thought I was a little too nervous, but I don't think I had a hunch anyway. "

“Yeah, I thought so too, but it's not funny when you see this sticky stuff.”

"It doesn't even seem to happen..."

According to information from subspace sensors, the ship tracking the Black Lotus belongs to the Mercenary Guild, and the Flag ID is a scout ship that was cooperating with the system forces at the time of the Theta descent.In other words, a scout ship belonging to Crimson Lance.

By the way, we're waiting in Krishna again.Laugh if you laugh. It's just stupid to be alarmed when you know they have the ability to kill us.

"However, if this happens, your stomach will feel painful due to the boulders."Are you going to keep going like this? "

"No, as long as it goes beyond the gateway."I'll try to sound an alert when I catch Crimson Lance's ship with my sensors in the future.I mean, until now, you've been watching out for ships coming after you. "

That's right.

This is like a habit from when I was playing Sol.Of course, Sol was an online game, so there were various players.Some of you were playing with content that you could enjoy solo while loosely connecting with friends like me, while others were teaming up to do deep space exploration, peripheral exploration, and researching unexplored planets.

Of course, some of them had teamed up to play Space Bandit.Those kinds of habitual methods were placing seemingly innocent and harmless [scout ships with low combat abilities but quick legs] near the colony, selecting their prey, investigating the target's behavior pattern with multiple people to set raid points, and when executing them, destroying the prey in a short time with maximum firepower, and dazzling them before the system forces rushed in to catch the dumb ones.

The movement of the scout ships that are now clinging to us, I still think they're being watched as prey by the Crimson Lance.After all, you did the right thing with your hands.

Master, I will arrive at the Leafy Prime Colony soon.

Roger that. Let's rendezvous with our cavalry.



Iron Three, Bronze Four, Silver Two, a total of nine.Well, isn't that great? "

Iron and bronze can only be expected to be lively.

Still, you're much stronger than a space bandit, aren't you?

"That's right, but this time they're supposed to be dealing with Crimson Lance."Well, worst of all, it would be good if someone other than us succeeded in escaping or became our shield to escape. "

I know what you're talking about, but it's the mercenary's job to treat me like that in the first place.Of course, I'm willing to stand around to make sure that doesn't happen, but I'm not hesitating to do so if I have to.

Incidentally, the cost of this offer is 30,000 Enel per day for Iron Rank mercenaries, 50,000 Enel per day for Bronze Rank mercenaries, and 80,000 Enel per day for Silver Rank mercenaries.

The departure time is exactly four hours from now, and the number of restraint days is scheduled to be a full two days to forty-eight hours, including the sailing time in the hyperlane.If there is nothing, it will arrive in 24 hours, but even in that case, it is a contract to pay for two days.In addition, if you destroy Sky Bandits, etc., the bounty and loot will be taken by the destroyer.I'm asking Black Lotus to give me as much space as I can for what I can't load on my ship.

The target system for the gateway is the Hyperlane, which is not far away from the five-star system. The reason why merchant ships come to a system with a natural inhabited planet like the Leafil system is almost certainly a trade in crops and natural crafts made on the inhabited planet. Basically, the exchange of such products takes about a week or two.Since there are no merchants who continue to hire mercenaries in the meantime, mercenaries who have escorted civilian merchant ships to this Reefill system are often asking to leave the system.I sent a request to the mercenary guild to anticipate the demand.

A system with a gateway as its destination is basically a system where commerce is thriving, and the Imperial Space Force is also developing its combat capabilities, so security is also very good.Good security and a lot of commercial transactions mean that private merchant ships come and go vigorously, and it is also a system with many seeds for iron and bronze rankers.There were many requests for less difficult escorts.

It is a system that is difficult to disturb because it is a place where escort requests are rolling from a system around the gateway that is safe for silver rankers to a system at the periphery that is less secure.In fact, the system around the gateway flourished even in the Sol, and there were a very large number of players who made the area a root castle.It's a little too peaceful for a space bandit hunt, so I didn't get very close to him after getting used to it at first.

"Isn't the treatment of the shield terrible...?"

"That's what an escort request is."At the very least, it's the mercenary's job to get rid of the client's ship.If it works, I can get a reward of ten thousand units for just following me, even if I don't get attacked.Even when they attack, if they even buy time, the system forces will rush in. ”

"... I see."

“If the Star Thieves attacked a system where the Starfleet didn't rush in soon enough, we'd be graduating from Bronze Lancer.”

"... if you think about it, isn't this request pretty black?"

Oops, you've noticed.Yes, the request I made this time is a dangerous one for the ruin of the Gold Ranked Mercenary Corps, which might attack us rather than the Space Bandits.However, I am not sure that it will come, so I cannot state that in the request.We don't know if they're actually coming.In the first place, we might even be too self-conscious.

"Mimi, the world is unequal."

"There's something behind this tasty story."

"Is that all right...?"

"We're not righteous heroes, we're filthy mercenaries."Well, don't worry, I don't think you'll be able to set it up if you have all the heads. "

In the first place, if they come under attack, the Iron Rankers are going to flee quickly to become a Starfleet, an Imperial Air Force.If you're not just going to kill us, you're not going to suddenly hit us with an anti-ship reaction torpedo or a reaction warhead or a missile like hot water.Then we just have to be patient while the Iron Rankers flee and call for backup.There were a few other things I could do on the spot.

After all, it would be good if the Starfleet and the Imperial Space Force detected the anomaly and rushed in.There's nothing we can do to attract the Starfleet, not just the comms, but whatever it is we can do.