Cra returned her attention to the System map for Chendar and continued to pore over the detailed survey maps for the sr system. The Gas mining station was orbiting Chendar D, the Gas giant which formed the fourthary body in orbit around the G-type main sequence star. The yellow dwarf had sixs in total in its system, another gas giant and four rockyoids, as well as the asteroid belt that formed a sporadic ring in the fifth orbital path around the star.


    She zoomed in on the Rastan-Cooper Gas mining station and the likely source of the pirate attacks expanded in the hologram, looming over the tactical station like a malevolent red spider. Rust coloured, the centuries old mining station had a cylindrical body with eight fuelling arms, which could be used to refuel ships or to load Tank-freighters with the harvested Gas from the below. Underneath the central body, the station red out into arger bulbous section which sank into the swirling eddies of the upper atmosphere of the. This section of the mining facility was used to process and store the valuable resources it leeched from the Gas Giant below, like some kind of hugeary parasite.


    The mining facility had been shut down and stripped by the Rastan-Cooper corporation when they had retired the station, but if it been converted to a pirate base, who knows what kind of modifications the pirates might have made to the ce. The tanks would have been drained of gas before it was abandoned, so she wasn’t too worried about rupturing the storage cylinders and triggering a gas explosion If she did have to attack. Her main concern however, was that these pirates were known to be vers and she was worried about sailing in guns zing and identally killing innocent civilians.


    Cra’s basic n so far was to approach stealthily in the asteroid belt and then perform some passive scans of the station. Once she had been able to confirm the location of life readings in the pirate base, then they could alter their course of action ordingly.


    The other big wild card was theposition of the pirate fleets. ck box recordings from the shattered hulls in the pirate’s hunting grounds provided some clues, but it was difficult toe up with a precise order of battle. The pirates seemed to have ess to a lot of older models of Terran Federation military ships, which in itself wasn’t that unusual, as a budding privateer might well pick up a dmissioned hull from a salvage dealer for a cheap price. However, the sheer number of ships that made up the pirates fleet nagged at her and she was sure there was something that she just wasn’t seeing.


    Exasperated, she sat back and rubbed her eyes. “Perhaps I should ask John to take a look,” she wondered. Cra had been impressed at how quickly he had been able to sniff out the potential site for the pirate’s base. Even though he hailed from a marine background, he seemed to have a natural ir for navalbat and tactics.


    She sat there dreamily, as her thoughts inexorably returned to her man. Ever since he had rescued her from the pirate attack, Cra had fallen helplessly in love with him. Strong, decisive, a natural leader, she admired his ability tomand and a thrill ran through her every time he gave her orders. Not only that, but he was kind and considerate, going out of his way to make sure that she, Alyssa and Sparks werefortable and happy in their new home onboard the Invictus.


    Then of course there was the sex! God, she had never known she could feel so good! The Latina had only been in two rtionships in her young life prior to meeting with John, the first was an innocent school dalliance, a boy she grew up with and had slept with to satisfy her own curiosity. It was a fumbled and brief encounter, marred byck of experience on either side and had beenrgely disappointing. Her second rtionship was an affair with a senior at the Terran Federation Academy. Craig Harrison was a rising star, scoring highly inmand and tactics, which led him to be actively groomed for great things by the Academy faculty. Craig had been drawn to her by her exotic good looks and she had fallen for the big man on campus.


    Cra had brought Craig home to meet her parents at the end of her first year at the Academy, hoping they would like him as much as she did. Her parents had been polite, but never really warmed to him and their intuition had borne out when Craig dumped her unceremoniously before he shipped out to his first posting after his graduation. This was the first time she had thought about Craig in thest several months and she was surprised that she no longer felt any feelings of rejection or loss over the end of her first long term rtionship. Shepared Craig with John in her mind andughed to herself at how Craig failed to match John in any category.


    She wondered what her parents, Jack and Maria, would make of John. Her father was a naval officer as well, Captain rank and inmand of the Terran Federation cruiser Damocles, while her mother had been amunications officer before she left the military to raise a family. They owned a big townhouse on Jericho, a in the Epsilon Eridani system and Cra had grown up there as the youngest of four children. Her three older brothers had all joined the military before her, following in the proud military tradition of the Fernandez family.


    Cra smiled to herself as she imagined how the scenario at her old home would y out. Her father and brothers were all fiercely protective of her and she knew John would be subjected to one of their infamous interrogations. Craig hadn’t fared too well, but she knew John would be able to hold his own. Cra was a fair bit younger than John, but there was a 10 year age gap between her parents, so that wouldn’t be too big a deal. There were a few things that did have the young Latina worried though.N?velDrama.Org: owner of this content.


    Firstly, how was she going to exin the physical changes she had undergone over thest month? She had grown a couple of inches taller and her bust had gone up a few cup sizes, which could perhaps be dubiously brushed aside as ate teenage growth spurt, but she wasn’t convinced her parents would buy that. Cra knew she still mostly looked like her old self, although her skin was now wless, all imperfections magically wiped clean and her hair was now thicker and more lustrous. She still found it a surprise when she looked in a mirror and this stunningly beautiful version of herself looked back in amazement.


    The second thing was what to say about her intimate rtionship with Alyssa and Sparks. Her parents were fairly conventional and though they would probably be able to ept her newfound bisexuality, she was pretty sure they would balk at her being in a polyamorous romance with two other young women as well! Cra didn’t want to lie to her parents, but perhaps that was the only route avable to avoid a huge fracas.


    Then there was the subject of marriage. Her parents no doubt expected her to get married and raise a family eventually, but although she loved the idea of being Mrs Cra ke, she realised that it was an unlikely scenario given she was sharing John with two other eighteen year old girls. She smiled to herself as she thought how her family would react if she, Alyssa and Sparks descended on the Fernandez household all sporting swollen bellies and proudly carrying John’s babies. Perhaps a visit back home sooner rather thanter might be a good idea after all!