Various Core World Medicines - including gene mods and implants

As the door on the container slowly swings open you feel a chill coming from the inside of the container and when you look inside you see various long boxes and som small glass vials and jars. You quickly pick up one of the glass jars and brush off the coating of frost on them and reveal a long complex name as well as the logo of a pharma giant you recognized as they also produced all manner of medicines including some of the birth control and vaccines to the various STD's. You placed the bottle back and tried examining one of the long boxes and found that it when you brush away all the frost coating it, you were surprised to see that it was a gene mod, although you couldn't immediately tell what exactly it modified but you knew that even the minor cosmetic ones were still very expensive and if the rest of the containers had similar items then you were looking at a sizeable fortune. You put the long box back and seal up the container again so that the temperature wouldn't drop any further, and then looked through your notes on the holo terminal about your work bypassing the electronic lock to see if you could isolate the circuitry which maintained the cooling system, so that the medicines and other items would be kept at the right temperature, as while you weren't very knowledgeable on medicine and their compositions, you were fairly certain that if someone build these containers to transport them as chilled then they probably need to stay that way.

With the first container cracked and your legs feeling a little tired, you decide to go for a wander about the ship to stretch your legs, as your mind wonders about where these containers came from, as you knew they were destined for the core worlds because the frontier worlds tended to get very basic medicines with any serious injuries often proving fatal if the patient couldn't afford to be taken to a core world or a space port with a hospital. You also began to wonder just how much Jacque and his crew knew of their cargo, whether they had planned the whole thing or if they were just the courier step of the job, you hoped that the goods were taken from a planet that could spare them, as the gene mods were definitely luxuries for the most part, but the medicines could be essentials, and while given your life you can't get yourself too hung up on the morality aspect, you did always try and ensure you took from those who could spare it. You mind ran through these thoughts as you stepped along the metal catwalk of the cargo bay, your steps leaving a small echo through the open space, as you looked up at the various racks and shelves which remained empty, the storage cages to ensure they didn't escape in the event that the ship needed to vent the oxygen in the event of a fire, a possible hazard you could of done without reminding yourself of. You hear a heavier set of footsteps ringing off the metal catwalk coming from behind you in a slow and steady pace of someone more comfortable in the environment than you were, as you tried to block out the underlying anxiety space travel gave you. You lean on a hand rail and glance to your side at the source of the footsteps approaching you and see Jacque slowly walking over, and you smile at him as he walks towards you and takes a similar pose leaning on the hand rail.

"Restless?" Jacque asks as he smiles at you and surveys the cargo bay of his ship, making mental notes on anything that might need repairing soon.

"I've never been the best at space travel, I try and distract myself with something to stop my head thinking of all the horrible things that can go wrong." You reply as you shake you remove the cap that Jacque had given you back on the planet and shake your long red hair.

"Ah, not an uncommon trait, you tune it out eventually, just as many things can happen to you on land after all." Jacque says with a smile as he looks over at you his yellow eyes scanning you up and down.

"I suppose so, but at least on land, I feel like I'm in more control to do something about it, use my skills to try and get out a bad situation." You reply as you turn your body to face Jacque as his eyes wander back up to your face.

"Speaking of skills I hear we don't have to worry about finding new scorch marks in that room you're using." Jacque says with a wry smile.

"Yeah, I think I've got the electronics sorted, but I need to reconnect one of the circuits to keep the contents cool." You reply glad to move back to a topic that led your mind away from the perils of space travel.

"Oh, so you've seen the contents then?" Jacque says as he raises his eyebrows and removes his own cap and reveal hair which is pales than his skin, something you imagine is attributed to his homeworld or perhaps a reaction the gene modding either his own or an inherited trait from one of his descendants.

"Yeah, some assortment of meds and gene mods." You reply deciding to at least be honest in the hope that you can get some information to set your own mind at rest, that you hadn't just aided in taking medicines from where they were needed.

"Yes, a shipment of various medicines that will help a few outpost worlds cope better with the harsh environments, and the gene mods to actually fund the whole thing." Jacque says with a smile, which you weren't sure was completely genuine or not, although if he was lying about the purpose of the medicines at least he was bothering to do so, it's more than most would you suppose.

"So the genemods are the money makers and the medicines for people in need is just an added bonus?" You ask skeptically as you look into Jacques yellow eyes as you raise your eyebrows at him.

"Yes, but don't let the crew know otherwise they'll think I'm going soft." Jacque says with a chuckle as he puts his cap back on and you notice a few patches of scales on the back of his hand.

"The big bad smuggler got a soft spot for worlds in a similar position to his own?" You ask with a warm smile as you slowly feel more convinced about his story about the cargo, which sets your own mind at ease about the morality of it.

"I never said I was bad." Jacque replies with another wry smile.

"Oh, so you're taking the big then." You reply with a smile of your own.

"You'd have to find that out yourself." Jacque says as he throws a wink at you.

"Well, maybe that might make a pleasant surprise one of these days when I need something else to occupy my mind." You reply in a flirty manner as you look Jacque over, and while a good deal older than you, he still looked attractive and you could imagine being happy to blow off some steam with him, but you reckon you'll wait to get to know him a little better first.

"A surprise I might enjoy for a change, too many nasty surprises in smuggling." Jacque says as his eye's up your body to little effect through the unflattering jumpsuit you still had, although Viper did manage to find a few black ones as well as some plain white shirts and shorts to wear underneath, which you make a note to thank her for, as at the time you were too busy working with Ant ensuring you had the engineering equipment all set up right as you were determined not to add another set of scorch marks to the floor.

"Speaking of nasty surprises, I'm not going to get any from the containers, they do all just contain meds and mods right?" You ask as the mental image of crack one open and being faced with vat-grown organs for transplanting inches from your face,

"Actually there is supposedly a container of errmmmmm..... how do I put this....." Jacque says as he avoids your gaze and shifts awkwardly in place as you see his pale complexion redden slightly.

"Put what?" You as ask as you dread to hear the answer.

"A container of exotic items used for pleasure." Jacque mumbles quickly as he hoped not to have to explain further.

"Sex toys, in a medical shipment?" You ask in a confused manner.

"Well yes and no, they're various exotic shaped cocks from god know where or what, but the medical companies have been trying to grow vat copies of them, to either sell to rich people who either use or hell even try attaching them to themselves." Jacque says as he goes a shade redder.

"You mean to tell me we've got a container full of wangs of an Alien origin?" You ask trying to keep your face straight as you had heard jokes about this sort of thing, and had assumed it was just a joke.

"Sometimes we get requests to smuggle some weird stuff." Jacque says defensively as you begin to start laughing.

"Well at least I know before I got get a face full of them I guess, tell me that they at least pay well." You reply still giggling as you shake your head.

"They do, I imagine because so few people are able to get their hands on them." Jacque says as you start laughing again. "That's not what I meant." Jacque says as you feel the muscles in your mouth begin to ache from laughing too hard.

"So somewhere out there there's entire science teams who go about cutting bits off aliens, bet they're not too happy about the arrangement." You say as you shake your head.

"Yup, I only hope we don't run into an alien ship out here, I don't want to have to explain that one at all." Jacque says as he shakes his head.

"Well, this killed the mood a bit didn't it." You say with a smile as you look up at Jacque who's looking down into the cargo bay again.

"Although not as much as if you'd found them and screamed the ship down." Jacque says as she stands up straight and smiles. "Well I guess I better go and do captain stuff before the others think I'm slacking off." Jacque says with a smile and a wave before turning around and heading back to the crew quarters, leaving you to stare out at the cargo cage with the containers like the one in your room as you try and wonder which one is full of the Alein phalluses.