Intermezzo at Djachroum

Happy we docked safely, we said our goodbye's to Jihan. I gave him a hug and we promised to keep in touch. We made our way to the Cave of the Hanging Bridges. We suddenly noticed that Shamus was walking very funny. Turned out his monocle was broken, so he could not see anything with one of his eyes. How he managed to dock the ship this way, is still a mystery to me. He most defently has een lucky bird on his shoulder. Shamus needed to get his monocle fixt, but we also needed a drink, or better so, Armand needed a drink.
 
We set down at Janna's Cantina. A lot had happened since we last visited the cantina, almost a week ago. We met our new friend Shamus, we went on a mission and found ourselfs in a most amazing adventure.
Armand ordered us drinks and the barlady gave Armand a warm welcome. "He you, tall one, there you are again". She told him she heard about the discovery of Spacestation SS-18 from two guy's who came in the cantina yesterday. Hmm....... news travels fast in the Third Horizon, we thought.
 
All of the sudden, Shamus cried out: "Poffertjes, I want poffertjes" We all felt hungry, so we all ordered poffertjes, with poeiersuiker and veganbutter. We talked about what we should do next. We decided to stay together as a team. We needed each other. Armand and I want our independence and Shamus wants to proof to his father he can make it on his own. We didn't know exactly what kind of missions we wanted to do, although Shamus did say something about diamonds.
 
While enjoying our drinks and the poffertjes, I recieved a message from Jihan. He told me that he found out more information about what had happend at Spacestation SS-18. He would keep me informed if he had more information. After finishing our drinks, Shamus went to repair his monocle and Armand said he would check out if he could learn something about other missions we could take on and maybe a place where we could buy some new gear. I took a stroll over the Bazaar, to take my mind of things. I bought some things for Jezebel to play with.
 
When I met up with Armand he told me about an interesting mission he had found. A man called Dr. Samah was looking for a crew who would take him to the Mining Baron's Palace on asteroid D14465 in the Ashala's Belt. He wanted to do research on a recently discovered 200 year old building, probably built by the Firstcome. Although we wouldn't recive any money for bringing Dr Samah to the astroid, we could keep everything we found out there. For us two things made it interesting. We could mine Maghdan ore there, but there was also the possibility of finding rare archeological artifacts. I could see Armand eyes light up when he told me about the possible archeological finds.
 
Suddenly we heard someone shouting our names. It was Shamus. His monocle was repaired so he could see us from afar. Shouting and franticly waving his hands he made his way to us. We looked a little embarassed and told Shamus to keep his voice down. We didn't want to attract to much attention to ourselfs. Although Shamus still had diamonds in his head, he also agreed in taking on this mission.
 
After a good night sleep and a refreshing shower, we went to the to the Mining Office to get more information about mining Maghdan Ore. Although there wasn't much enthusiasm about our plan to mine Maghdan ore at the Ashala belt, they did sell us the necessery equipment. Two prospecter drones and eight collecter drones. Armand paid 1.700 Birr and the drones were ours. We then bought a compass, bionoculars, some spare parts and a breach charge. The ship needed some maintenance, so we took care of that and Armand contacted Dr. Samah, who agreed to meet us the following day.
 
Back in my hotelroom I again recieved a message from Jihan. This one made the hairs on the back of my nack stand up. Jihan told me that he found out that the Task Force Massar had spotted Armand disarming the nucliar bomb at SS-18 using a little spycam. He urged me to tell Armand to be carefull. After that message I couln't sleep very well. What did this mean. Who could be after Armand. Should I tell him.......