Everyone Started Without Me

I hate being late to a party as much as anyone, unless that party is a war, than I love being way more than fashionably late. I like to be so late its over before I even got there. - Chronicles of Lorentino

I watched in fascination as the corporate ships lead by Morlatech attacked the Rondyne, and in return the Rondyne fired back. It was fascinating because I had assumed I guess incorrectly that they would wait till I got there to attack me, or at least let me try and weasel my way out of it. But nope, they opened fire on the Rondyne and the cold war got hot. The benefit of the battle was I didn't have to do what I planned on doing. I didn't have to do anything. I just sat there in my small ship and watched as two governments started a war. I of course was worried my son was on one of those ships and the Rondyne had taken a gods damned pounding, but there wasn't much I could do really. I just had to watch, part horrifying and thrilling at the same time.

I would have been content to keep watching if a damned Ronerawth ship hadn't snuck up on me. Well less snuck up and approached from their designated entry position. Still it was rude and I had to think they did it on purpose especially seeing as how the other meeting was going. They had latched docking clamps on to my ship before I could even try and deploy counter measures.

"Unknown ship you are being detained." Was my first warning, I felt it was rather rude and sudden.

"I'm lost, can you help me?" I tried to play it off like I wasn't who I was, hoping maybe their dna programs didn't have me in them, a silly hope since my fugitive status basically said I would be, but you know sometimes you just...

"Lorentino you aren't lost." Know you are screwed from the jump. I mean I shouldn't be surprised, I was coming to turn myself in, but at the same time, come on couldn't they just have ignored me.

"Well now that we have that out of the way, what is going on here?"

"You're being detained for transport to the corporations as you agreed, stand by." I thought to myself "you stand by" but they cut the signal. So I waited at the door for who would come and get me. I figured they'd send an army, they knew I had no intention of just turning myself in, so they were probably going to be prepared for that. When the squad of soldiers came barging through the airlock I was all too happy to greet them.

"Gentleman I first want to thank you for connecting us, I was wondering how I'd get my bomb ship connected since the meeting turned to shit, but you guys thankfully made that easy." They smiled thinking I was joking until they looked around and saw yep my entire ship was rigged with explosives. "And now I believe is when you take me to your leadership, no shackles I think you don't want any sudden moves."

Yes my plan was to bring a bomb to a conference, no it doesn't exactly make sense, but you know me, first I plan to blow something up, then I plan on how to survive it, maybe I should change that around in the future.