Date: May 3025<br/>Location: Siege Perilous: Starport Tarmack<br/>Tagging: Open<br/>Content: Boarding instructions<br/><br/>Cavanaugh hadn't been kidding when he mentioned that the co-pilot's seat would have the best view.  The wide cockpit window dwarfed the smaller windows in the passenger compartment.  There were fifteen seats set in three rows of five.  They were roomy and comfortable compared to the cockpit of a mech and didn't smell of sweat metal or smoke.  There was a single bulkhead door that linked  passenger compartment and the cockpit.  Cavanaugh stood at the door, allowing his passengers to sort out there own seating.<br/><br/>"Personal cargo is being loaded.  Any other cargo that has been brought will be handled by ground transport, unless you want to make other arrangements," he said.  "Currently your fast freight options are convincing me to fly it or contact the Draconis Combine camp and see if you can convince their quartermaster to retask some of their Maxims.  In either case, the ground shipments tonight will likely be completed long before you can make arrangements to have things shipped by a faster vehicle.  It's more for future endeavours that I mention it.  My shipments are always accompanied by the two Warrior attack choppers that will be with us on this trip.  That's Hauptmann Angelino on our port side in the Double Angel and Hauptmann Parrish to starboard in the Double Devil.  Whether you wear seat belts is up to you.  For those unfamiliar with the Kharnov, it is a VTOL, which stands for vertical take-off and landing.  The engines rotate from vertical to horizontal for forward flight and back to vertical for landing.  If I tried landing with the engines in the forward position, we would all die a horrible fiery death because the propellers are longer than the Kharnov is high.  Any questions so far?"<br/><br/>He seemed like a cheerful, engaging sort but then he was a peasant dealing with nobility.  It could all have been an act.<br/><br/>