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

The Kensington system was recently claimed as part of the Gracchan Empire. Although its very existence was recognized long ago, it was actually claimed as a territory of the Empire, and the actual incorporation became more recent because it required the appropriate steps to be recognized internationally - in other words, by other galactic empires.

Well, even if you mention it recently, it's about three months ago.

"Is that lately?"

I wonder if it could be classified as recent?

Whiskers tilted their necks as they tilted their heads. Well, if you look at the scale of the state, it seems that the time of three months is the same as the time of the recent past.

"So, what do we do?"

That's what Tina asks, dressed casually in room attire rather than the usual work suit of a tuna. Well, it's not strange that I'm in a situation where I'm gathered in the Black Lotus cafeteria. It wasn't strange, but the top of the tank top was a little too loose or too defenseless.

For now, it looks like scouting and intelligence gathering.

Elma says that and drinks a mysterious drink from the cup-shaped container with the straw stretched out and doesn't know what the contents are. I always drink it after I move my body, so I think it's like protein, but I've never checked it before. Is it delicious? I'll ask you later.

"Specifically, it was space bandit hunting." After all, it seems like there are a lot of Star Thieves attacking our transports and adventure ships. It seems that the Imperial Aerospace Force is worried that there may be a Nekko castle in the surrounding system. "

"So, we mercenaries split up and hunt down the bandits to extract information." Either we get the prisoners or we get the data cache. ”

I see.

Elma, Mimi, and Tina seemed to agree with my explanation.

Take the captive - that is, if you surrender the thief and purge the cockpit block, the thief basically clears all the information left in the cockpit. If I didn't, I might end up selling my Space Bandit allies. I heard that there were some crooks who turned me into a crook. Either way, you're going to die a terrible death, so I wish you'd come in handy.

Well, without the data cache, we'll just have to interrogate the prisoners, so it might just be a bit of a hassle for the Imperial Space Force. In a world of advanced technology, there is no obstacle to gathering information such as silence. Cosmic bandits don't give a damn about human rights. Hey, it's the world.

I mean, it's the usual thing.

Son of a bitch.

In the end, we're going to fill in the holes in the unscrupulous army. As it stands, this system lacks all the defensive capabilities against the Cosmic Bandits.

Resupply ship Dawn Torres has no problem defending itself. The Dawn Torres itself is equipped with a number of defensive turrets, as well as an assortment of interceptor fighters. The name of a resupply ship might give the impression that its combat capabilities are low, but the reality is that it's like a mobile fortress.

However, when it comes to defending the system, a single Dawn Torres ship is not enough. The interceptor fighter has the full range of capabilities a combat ship needs, but is not ideal for operating far from the mother ship. So when the rescue call came in, we were going to send a combat ship, not a fighter plane, but a Dawn Torres escort fleet alone. That's why we were hired by Colonel Selena and Colonel Selena to send us to this Kensan system.

However, as far as I can tell, the galaxy bandits operating in this system are very sophisticated and troublesome. The raid was swift, putting personal safety before entry, or they would disperse before the ships of the Starfleet and Imperial Navigation fleet came in.

I'm not a cosmic bandit either. If I don't think I can win, I run normally. I've been running away too many times.

I think it's a coincidence, but it feels like we're going to be dealing with a space bandit who often escapes the moment we get an Antrion equipped with Gravity Jammer.

"I don't know what you're trying to say, but Antrion's Gravity Jammer is a gear stinging gangster in the first place." It's inevitable that this will happen more than dealing with the Sky Bandits. "

I shrugged my shoulders as I answered Whisker's question.

I was not surprised that Colonel Serena's hunting for space thieves didn't give me the same impression. There's no better match for a cosmic thief hunting mercenary like us than a piece of gear that can wipe out a cosmic thief's super-light speed drive by inhibiting it from starting up.

Well, if you ask Kugi, this kind of situation may also be my bad luck or my destiny. However, we are the ones who make decisions at that time, so I don't really like to deal with it in the direction of fate theory.

"It's said that the bounty being jumped by the Space Bandit is also higher." Let's make a lot of money carefully and boldly... well, I'm off for the day. "

"Thanks to Tina and Whisker, the plane is finished, and the resupply was done by Windus." Would you like to say hello to your beloved Dawn Tress for a while? "

"Oh, yeah. I'm curious to see how old the ship is and how much of it is inside."

It seems like it would be fun to look inside this big ship.

Tina and Kugi seemed to be very enthusiastic. As usual, Tina was curious. I guess you're curious because you grew up in a box. It's cute to shake your tail loosely.

Well then, let's all go together.

Yes! I'll call Mei as well.

Mimi manipulates the tablet and starts sending messages or something to Mae who isn't here. Resting slowly is likely to keep you under control for a while, so let me take a closer look at it with interest.