Admiral Elli Quinn

Well, then.

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:12:20 GMT

That worked out all right. Now we are on to the next stage. I got us, or a portion of us, a contract guarding a trade fleet through the Hegen Hub, then on to Komarr. The rest are going to take a couple of small jobs....enough to keep us rolling until the next assigment from ImpSec comes down from on high.

Speaking of which, I'll be in their neighborhood. It ought to be easy to find out what's going on with those Barrayaran stuffed uniforms, for once. And if not, we still have money coming in. Quinn Exclaims Decisively!

EUREKA!

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:32:29 GMT

What was I thinking? Or rather, not thinking? Quinn, you're an idiot.

Remember what we did on Terra to scare up funds? We don't have to limit ourselves to military ops. We can go looking for jobs in other areas, just as well. I've got hundreds of highly trained personnel, here. Diversify, that's the ticket. I'll start 'em on it immediately; by the time we get back from Vega, we ought to have plenty of good jobs lined up.

Oh, and we should look into acting as security for trade fleets as well. Not exciting, but good bread-and-butter in between. And travelling around the Nexus is a good way to find more work.

Quinn, you're a genius.

My Views on Kidnapping, & Other Stories

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:53:55 GMT

Shore leave, training, all is going well. I think the training was a good idea. Everything, from recruits to floors, are buffer. I've tracked down a small but adequate job on Vega Station. A political figure of some sort has gone missing and as usual we're to find him. From Dendarii eyes, everyone in the galaxy seems to be going missing every once in a while. Well, we've become quite the pros at finding them-- usually with a minimum of fuss. More times than not, with these political figures, they've staged their own kidnapping to have a holiday on Varusa Tertius or some similarly-suited backwater paradise. Nine times out of ten the taxpayers aren't too happy with their politicians wasting tax money on us. Hey, but it's money. Sometimes the kidnappings are even real. Very rarely, they might even be exciting. Regardless of which this turns out to be, here's to hoping this is our last kidnapping for a little while yet. I hate to say that I hope things on Barrayar kick up and we can stop footing so many of our own bills. I hate to sy it, but I did.

Odd how the days of political unrest seem to be the most beneficial for us? Political arenas everywhere have been surprisingly quiet. Maybe I'll poke around and see if I can sniff out any upcoming changes I don't know about. Then I can stick my nose just where it doesn't belong and get us a real job for once. Don't worry, I'm not one to start wars. I'm just daydreaming. It is my experience, though, that for some worlds, even small changes in the political structure can be the foreshadowing of upheavals. I'm not as up-to-date on this kind of stuff as I should be, and a little poking around is probably the right thing to do.

In more personal news, Captain Gray sent me more music. Some of the stuff he sends is downright decent. I'm learing far more about classic pre-jump Earth music than I really ever wanted to know.

Shore Leave

Tue, 30 May 2006 15:31:07 GMT

We finished our job here on Orient IV, and I've issued a shore leave for the day on account of that (and to cover up the lack of new leads for but a moment while I work on that). The troops seem restless and sloppier than usual to me, so I was thinking after shore leave, maybe a week of training excercises, and then I better have a job lined up by then or we're sunk. One week is plenty of time. I can't claim any interest in the shore leave myself. I hear it's a lovely planet, but a planet nonetheless, and I don't mix too well with them.

Falling on Harder Times

Mon, 29 May 2006 18:08:15 GMT

It's been hard recently, between you and I. Well, you being my journal, and I being, well, me. I'm new to this journaling idea, other than my official log. So as I was saying, we haven't had a well-paying gig in a while. We've had plenty of small ones, well, small with respect to maintaining the whole fleet. Could it be we've solved every problem in the Nexus? Not likely, eh? So then, why aren't we being hired? Here's to hoping it's just an economic lull among the galaxy's richer deviants. I hope. Sometimes I worry that I'm doing something wrng. I haven't let on to the fleet about the lull, of course. I just... I just wish it were all done with and the jobs were as steady as they were not too long ago.