User:Narc/Unnamed Story about Tully Winston

/Tully Winston Data Gathering

Prologue
"Tully Winston?" captain Van Der Meer exclaimed. "Who the fuck is Tully Winston?!"

"No idea, captain," navigator Chu replied coolly, "but he's clearly very good at this."

They stood on the bridge of the Bern and looked out at the cloud of expanding plasma that had been a very expensive automated freighter.

It had started out like any other incident response: they received a distress call, the system automatically correlated the ident header with the transmitting ship's transponder and verified the ship registry -- the EMSS Mule, a light automated freighter under private registry. homebased at Maison Gris, like most other local traffic -- and they changed course to intercept the ship on a least-time course.