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Alex sat sipping his drink slowly, the slender red headed human had been left stranded at the Altair cluster space station. After the star liner he had been working on was impounded by the authorities, so he had been sitting around with little to do. He had filed a looking for work circular with the station master, but so far no one needed a new crew member. And so his days were just packed, first he got up and left his room first thing in the morning. Checked with the station master to see if anyone was looking to hire him, then he walked around the station watching for anyone he knew. And then the rest of his day was sitting around nursing a drink, and looking for a bit of fun in the bar. He had thought about gambling, but couldn't really afford to toss his credits away.

And so he was taking a long sip, when a tall orange and black stripped Caitian came gliding in. The lean feline pause just by the bar, his big emerald green eyes scanning the room slowly. Before they settled on the lone human sitting at his corner table, Alex watched in surprise as the Cat man strolled up to his table. "May I join you?" The felines voice had a throaty purring quality, that was exotic sounding there was also a slight lisping accent.

"Ammm sure." Alex grunted, unsure where this was going as he watched the other slide into the chair. "Alex Murphy..." The human offered holding his hand out, the handsome striped feline just looked at that pale fur-less hand confused. "What can I do for you?" Alex asked tucking his hand away, after a slight embarrassing pause.

"Captain Mr'osin of the good ship Jetaur monsa." The handsome Cat man introduced himself, simply starring at Alex with those big green eyes. "I am told you are a ships engineer... and that you are looking to sign on with a new ship." Alex nodded his head slowly, the human was honestly unsure about crewing on ship of the feral looking race. But at least it would be better than just sitting around the bar, soaking up cheap drinks and being bored out of him mind. The Captain seemed to respect the human's silence, and so pushed on with what he was saying. "We were set upon by pirates, as we past between the Beltran nebula and the Asteroid fields around the Tolulin gas giants. Our engineer was killed when one of the plasma conducts ruptured, we managed to stabilize our engines but sadly he could not be saved."

"What kind of ship are you flyin'?" Alex asked as the Caitian starred at him, the red head starting to know what a mouse felt like.

"Class seven zero one Caitian freighter... she's a older model. However it is a well built and well defended craft, and has been retrofitted with the latest upgrades in weapons, shields, and warp engines."

"And yet... you still had a plasma conduct rupture in a fight... Sounds like you have retrofitted a more powerful main power plant, but didn't upgrade all your subsystems like plasma conducts." Alex watched the Captain wince slightly, and knew that he had hit the nail on the head. Of course he wasn't completely displeased with the humans comment, it showed that this pale fur-less alien really did know his stuff

"Yes... There are only so many credits... out former engineer was in to process of installing them one at a time when we got attacked."

"So how many are left to replace?" Alex asked rubbing his chin thoughtfully, as the striped feline looked at him silently for a moment.

"Seven more... we have four new conducts ready to be installed, if you come on you could get them in while we are here. However we will need to complete a few runs to have the credits to afford to do the rest. I hope that will not dissuade you from signing on, I would not willingly travel without an engineer." Alex nodded his head slowly as he listened, it was both a challenging and dangerous job.

"Show me to your ship... I will get working on it right away. If you'll send someone to my quarters to pick up my things. I'll get the work done first... we can resister my employment status with the station master before we ship out." Alex explained watching the big felines eyes widen in amazement, it was a very trusting way of doing things and it surprised Mr'osin enormously.

"As you say..."