<div class="floatleft">(http://i58.tinypic.com/9ad4z4.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Jinny Mattix, Mercenary and Mechanic<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Carrion Crow's Ship<br/><strong>With:</strong>Victrix<br/><br/>The bridge of the ship had been remarkably clean. No real signs of a struggle, only a single body poised in the captain's chair, a single gunshot through the temple. Jinny had escaped the ravenous horde in the hall by quickly bashing one zombie's head against the wall and taking the other out with one of her heel spikes. Afterwards, she crawled through the ducts, not really knowing where she was going. It had been hard to tell since duct systems didn't really come with lighting and maps. The former would've been helpful, especially when she failed to notice the drop and plummeted into the bridge, landing on her arm and breaking it as well as the transmitter for her comm system, located in her gauntlet. She was in quite a bit less pain now, thanks to the medical systems on her J-suit.<br/><br/>What held her attention now, though, was a datalog she'd just found on the singular body on the bridge. Jinny was about to say something when Vix arrived. The mercenary's spirits brightened considerably and she jogged up to the door. "Vixy! Is it clear out there? Let me get the door open.." she said, squinting at the panel. It had been busted, but didn't look beyond repair. After prying off the cover a little fidgeting with some of the wiring fixed it and the bridge door whooshed open. Jinny grinned, waved with her good arm and stepped up to her fellow merc.<br/><br/>"Hey, check out what I found! Let me upload it, actually.." said Jinny, fumbling a bit with one hand to upload the data file she'd found to their comm's systems. A log started playing over their communication channel, the gruff tones of the pirate captain of the ship they were on. Apparently space travel was complex enough that even pirates needed to keep concise records.<br/><br/><em>...Entry 465. Two hauls today. First one, a small food transport holding live cattle. Boys were pretty psyched at getting real meat for the first time in a while. Think Cookie may have fucked up, though. A few of the crew are sick. Fuckin' idiot can't grill a simple burger. <br/><br/>Later on we hit something from Caduceus Medical. Plenty of meds to sell, plus an even bigger boon; new AEGIS systems for our suits. Guess Caduceus is getting into the shield biz or something, since these look like totally new systems. Going to have the boys test 'em out. Hell, plus now we've got meds. That'll help fight this damn sickness.<br/><br/>...Entry 466. What little documentation on those AEGIS systems I can find on that ship calls 'em part of 'Project Lazarus'. It says the AEGIS systems have, uh, nano.. somethings. Whatever. Little machines, I guess, that try to restart the heart and restore brain function if the user kicks the bucket. <br/><br/>...Entry 467. That fuckin' meat was tainted! Those cows had something called 'Mad Cow Disease' and that's what made the boys sick. Doc says the medicine the fellas swiped off the medical transport just made the boys even sicker. Never trust a damn pirate to self-medicate. Should've just stuck with booze. Looks like O'Bryant is near death, the poor fuck. He's getting feverish, delusional, and angry.<br/><br/>...Entry 468. O'Bryant wasn't dead for a fuckin' minute when the AEGIS system revived him! He got the fuck up and started chewing on Doyle! What the hell is going on? Doc is too fuckin' scared to help, he just locked himself in his quarters. Should eject his worthless ass into space. Half the crew is deathly ill now and I don't wanna see what'll happen if they die.<br/><br/>...Entry... whatever. Fuck. It's over. It's all over. I smashed our comms systems, disabled the security, disabled the engines. Now we'll drift forever and with luck, nobody's gonna find us. Honestly, becoming a ghost ship is a very pirate way to go. Heh. To Davy Jones' locker, I suppose...</em><br/><br/>Jinny was about to say something over the comms when she remembered that hers was busted. So instead she just addressed Vix, "I think.. some combination of Mad Cow disease, improper medical treatment, and this new experimental AEGIS system did this to those pirates. Then the captain decided to set his ship adrift so nobody would find it. That must be what the other pirate ship is doing here; checking up on these guys since they've been silent!" She touched her chin a moment, "I wonder if I could improve on this AEGIS system.."<br/>