<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/2f/Captain_Braxton_T._Early.jpg)<br/><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;">Braxton T. Early</span></strong></div></div><strong>Name</strong>: Braxton Early<br/><strong>Occupation:</strong>Captain<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Bridge, The Line, Shadow<br/><strong>Time:</strong>3rd of september, 2505, early afternoon<br/><strong>With:</strong>Lance, Keri, Isi, Open, Phil<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=158094.msg7261703#msg7261703">Quote from: kckolbe on 22-11-2012, 08:37:55</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>"How is this my fault?  Are you implying that you've been trying to hire other engineers but I have been protesting because I didn't trust them to help out?  What kind of disasters have you been imagining I've been imagining?  I've been trying to get our first mate to learn it for months!"</strong>  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><strong>”Yah, well, Richard is <em>my</em> backup guy, not yours. I know you are bitching about how he has no skill with the ship, and that may be true. But he has a skill with the <em>people</em> and he knows the burden of command. He will keep you going and he will keep the peace till you reach port in case I am too injured to keep command. Or, you know, too drunk. Or too horny. That happens. <br/><br/>Either way, he already has a job. I’m not complaining if he picks up some new skills, just sayin’ that he doesn’t have to to be a valuable member of the crew.”</strong><br/><br/>Braxton shrugged. It was a bit of an impasse. Lance had a point, of course, but sometimes it was hard to tell if it was his professionalism talking or his laziness.<br/><br/><strong>”And do you really want Cookie fumbling about in her inner workings? I don’t think the man has seen a school from the inside for any noteworthy period of time. We could give Phil a shot, though. Not much formal education either, but I hear he is good with his hands…”</strong><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=158094.msg7261010#msg7261010">Quote from: TheRaven on 22-11-2012, 05:57:32</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>"Oh, don't tell me there aren't any good seats left,"</strong> <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><strong>“Speak of the devil. How about it, Phil? Lance wants to give a crash course in engineering for some of the crew. I would really like to see the cargo delivered first, though. It doesn’t look they are actually <em>needing</em> the stuff right now, but we are on a contract for door to door delivery and we don’t get paid until they have the goods in their hands.</strong>”<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=158094.msg7261703#msg7261703">Quote from: kckolbe on 22-11-2012, 08:37:55</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>"All right, then, forget about more pilots, then.  I'll think about training you, but would really like someone a little more contracted to stay."</strong> <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><strong>”We could certainly spare Isi, seeing that she is a passenger and hasn’t any part in our cargo-hauling. And I <em>do</em> get the feeling that she is one of the sharper knives in the drawer. But Lance has a point. There is no point in teaching you unless you stay. Here is what I offer: Standard Alliance one year apprentice contract. Board and lodging. Full medical by our lovely ship’s surgeon. Some pocket money. Don’t expect to get rich but you will be learning a proper trade. How does that sound?”</strong><br/>