Chapter 14 The Erchius Mining Facility Incident 1 (2/2)
And the Condor class has 14 rooms and can accommodate up to 21 people.
The spaceships usually aren't bigger than a Condor class, because if it is bigger, the FTL Warp Drive won't be able to transport such a big and heavy ship through warps. That's why about 90% of the ships in the universe belong to one of those classes.
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Pete scrolled down at the resume of the situation of the ship, ”Damn, yer ship is in a pretty bad situation.” He started to calculate how much would cost to fix such damages, ”It's possible to fix it. It will cost yer about 500 hundred thousand pixels.”
”...” John looked at his PIPS and saw the miserable number of 2 thousand pixels in it, ”Can't you give me a discount?”
”Impossible,” Pete said without hesitation.
John glanced at the smirking Lenny at his side and annoyingly asked, ”Do you have some pixels?”
”Nope, most of my money is stored inside the vault in my ship.”
He sighed and helplessly said to Pete, ”I came here because Esther asked...”
”Esther!?” Pete jumped high and almost fell down, ”I-I'm sorry, lad, I didn't know. I-I-I'll fix yer ship with no problem.” He tearfully said.
[What's up with that sudden change?] John confused, but elated at the same time, [Using Esther's name really worked, but why is him so fearful of her?]
”But-but there's a small problem...” Pete hesitated a little but still spoke.
”What is it?”
”You see... Yer ship's FTL Warp Drive engine is heavily damaged and there's no way to fix it. Yer is goin' to need a new one.”
”Okay, then what's the problem?
”I'm out of Erchius Crystal. It was supposed to arrive about 20 of them two weeks ago, but till this day I heard nothin' about my shipment.”
”Where I can find it? It will probably be faster if go personally.”
”Well...*Ahem* there's just tiny little problem. The cargo is supposed to be smuggled from a Letheia's Mining Facility in the Lunar Base 12” Pete awkwardly said.
John's face twitched a little, [This guy really has balls. To think that he would be smuggling goods from the Letheia Corporation.]
”Please... Don't tell Esther about or else I will be finished.” Pete started to shamelessly beg John.
John could only nod and promise to not do so. But he was curious at the same time, what had Esther did to make Pete fear her so much.