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Dark Future Short Stories - Twenty - The Pirate
The Pirate
Sean NightHawk was in comand of an old school style Submarine about 30 meters long and a crew of only 6 sailors, but two dozen spider robots onboard. The vessel quite looked like a WW2 U-Boat but was powered by extremly strong hybrid engines, had a full carbon fibre hull and rather luxerious cabins compared to the original. The shape was the same except the added wings and piped rotors to allow both water and air movement using both diving and ground effect.
The only weapon was a high power guttling gun connected to an AI aiming bot that would sink even destroyers guarding cargo vessels.
In this world cargo was protected by private security companies as contractors of major shipping companies, corporate internal forces by the biggest players and sailing militias even using sloop style sail boats riding the waves in even storms way faster than any super fright ship korvette could forced to ship around the heavey winds.
The big main routes between the remaining industrial hot spots of harbouring to the seven seas were off topic and only under fire in corporate full scales wars.
This was one going.
A major South American Corporate offered free load sale. if the load was just from a competing company with offices on land just 100 meters away.
He had hooked up to a run signing an online agreement, no contract so, using a hub at a highjacked underwater internet cable instead of using a tunneld satellite connection, because this corporate war was another level of escalation and already had seen main battles in the internet and made some street samurai runners a tiny fortune on assassine and sabotage runs.
He had received a vector to a convoi of tankers and cargo ships guided by a small air carrier and two destroyers on their way a tiny bit too close along the Indian coast line trying to reach the save Suez Channel and leaving the contractor guarding ships for a corporate internal meditarrainen speed boat protection until they reached Rotterdam.
His part was collecting the sinking containers after a land based rocket attack would have sunk the cargo vessel using his drone armada to attach preassure air cussions onto the sinking and sunk containers and then simply pull them away on a carbon fibre wire to the contractors cargo ship a few hundred sea miles away.
He would use the fact that the convoi was bussy counter attacking the land based forces, that his ship was able to avoid sonar and that his crew and him were the best trained pirate vessel out there relying on half autonomous drones. Just this time, he had not to sink the ship himself or even highjack the container ships cargo port to drop the wanted containers off board.
The crew would turn all silent in 2 days and 4 hours and had time until then to train the run in the mission simulator.
Their Phillipines home just deep enough to still catch sunlight was a week away and the remaining half plus bonus, if remaining unseen, would be in his crypto wallet as soon as the pick up cargo ship was fully loaded with all listed containers.
Time to program the simulator.
