<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=13163.msg597633#msg597633">Quote from: Asherah on 10-05-2008, 02:35:21</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Box Text</span></strong><br/><br/>The director looked at the doctor.   For a split instant thought about the threat.  Then discarded it without a thought.  The man was perhaps delusional.   He was out gun, out manned and their ship be blown out of the sky.   He be dead before he even made good on his threat.  He turrn this attention to the captain then.  <br/><br/><em>"Captain,  I have told Mary here, that her husband and son have already left. Though I suggest you take control of your crew."</em><br/><br/>He did not need to keep an eye on the doc.  More then a dozen guards had a bead on  him right now.  They really did not care if the fool tried something or not.   Kill or not, it did not matter.  Except for the fact that he get the captain and Mary killed in the process along with him.  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"My apologies, the doctor sometimes overvalues the amount of medical supplies we're carrying, and the value of his services," Jeff responds smoothly, focusing his glare on the doctor and willing him to shut his trap before they end up in a neat series of shallow graves before turning back to the mining director.<br/><br/>"And we appreciate the information you've given us, though I'm sure it's a mite painful to his missus to hear he's gone, and with her young'n too. I'm just hoping you can give us an idea of where they may be off too. The 'verse is a mighty big place tah stroll from planet tah planet hoping to run into someone."<br/><br/>He keeps his hands well away from his rifle, knowing he couldn't hope to take down enough to make this worthwhile. Best case, they'd give them some garbage story he could use as a pretext to get away from them with, and they could figure out the next move. Worst case, he'd have to try and draw, hopefully get the director in his sights and use him as a hostage. He could certainly put a bullet in the man before they could gun him down, and that might buy some time.