The CRC keeps trying to reward them for going around rescuing Dereggers and going from station to station to help clean and repair things and getting the stations back on track. They only accept enough to keep their ship in good repair and have supplies. The rest? Well, there are now a couple of charities set up to help those in need. -- Fighting Fit
Picture in your mind a general transit made for just about any work within civilised space. The common name for such vessels is an Indie Clunker, and most of them are a collection of maintenance issues held together with ductape and the benevolence of the local JOATs. This one... is surprisingly well-maintained.
Lurking underneath that pitted hull is a set of the fastest engines and best defensive tech that the Alliance can provide. The life support system and molecular food printers are state of the art. At this point, the imagined observer might realise that the oxidation, pitting, and dents are there for subterfuge. Look at this clunker, it all seems to say, _It's amazing she's still getting anywhere.
She's called the Imahara Grant and her owner/captain is Human Tor. She has what one might call an interesting line of work. She calls it a patriotic duty. What she truly is, is an unsung hero of the Alliance.
She flies into Deregger spaces and offers her services to fix whatever they might want to repair. The Dereggers believe they are taking advantage of her. While she's in a Deregger facility, she finds those who are neglected, opressed, or otherwise invisible.
Then, Tor invites them all to a better life. All they have to do is get on board her ship. Free of charge.
Most of the time, the Dereggers don't even notice.
On the rare occasions that they do, many don't object. The defense systems and engines come in handy for the tremendously rare occasions in which the Dereggers object with weaponry.
Once the rescues are safe, Tor refuses any more payment than that necessary to make certain the Imahara Grant is still able to do her duty.
For the rest of the bounty, Tor keeps some for self-maintenance and supplies. The bulk of the bounty goes back into a fund to help support Deregger rescues and refugees.
"Nobody should be ground to powder just for someone else's dough," Tor kept saying. "I'm not in it for the money."
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