"Thanks for the ride, Herman," I waved.
The freighter captain gave a thumbs up, "No problem! It's the least I could do after you helped them with the pirates after all!"
"Right, I suppose I'll be seeing you around."
"Take care, Tera! Be seeing you!"
I turned my attention to the other person who currently has their hands tied up behind her back, "Now, let's go."
"Don't treat like a dog you fucking bitch," Yirfa growled.
"You either walk and shut up, or I stuff sothing in your mouth and shut you up, your choice."
She glared at but moved as I directed towards the station's immigration customs.
Theeve Orbital Habitat Station was huge. Like an entire city's population kind of huge.
From what I learned, stations like these are akin to a floating city in space with populations reaching more than a few million in each of them.
They even had immigration checkpoints to check the people entering the station as well, which I admit kind of worried a little considering the fact that I didn't exactly have legitimate credentials.
Or… At least I don't think I did? So I'm not sure what will happen when I try to enter the station like this.
Still, I already prepared a few excuses I could use to hopefully get through the checkpoint in the event that they found I had no registered identity.
I brought the pirate with towards one of the booths manned by one of the officers overseeing entry into the station.
The man behind the counter raised an eyebrow when he saw approach, "rc?"
I nodded.
He then tapped on the side of his temple twice and his eyes seed to change colour, which in turn caused the screen in front of him to react.
Yirfa's profile then appeared on the screen and I realised the officer was scanning her.
He whistled, "Oh wow. That's a pretty impressive bounty you've got. The security guys are going to have a field day with her."
"Thanks. I'm new to the bounty thing though, where do I bring her to process her?" I asked.
He raised an eyebrow and turned to which made shiver for so reason.
The screen then changed, surprisingly displaying my picture and my na.
"Tera huh? I see you're not a registered rc. Still starting out?"
I nodded again.
"In that case, you can just take her directly to the rcenary Guild. Just follow the street signs and you can register and hand her over to them at the sa ti."
Oh, that's perfect.
Also, it seems like my fear of not having an identity was unfounded. That's one less worry for I guess. I didn't even need to bring up the anomaly or whatever they call it to try and bluff my way in.
He then waved for to go through the checkpoint, making step past a tallic scanner that I'm guessing was supposed to check whether we were bringing illegal goods.
I still had my blaster strapped to my hip, though I did not bring along a ballistic rifle since I thought that might have been overkill.
None of them batted an eye at it and I realised guns were allowed inside the station, since the next person I saw was a seven foot tall man with a minigun strapped to his back strolling to the checkpoint.
With the pirate still tied up with holding the leash, I stepped towards the exit and into the station proper.
I realised that the place I had been was a building by itself and when I exited it, an actual street with familiarly shaped buildings on each side greeted .
They weren't kidding when they said habitat stations were floating cities.
When I had been flying towards the station, the shape of it resembled a spinning top.
If I'm not mistaken, it spins around to create an artificial gravity within the station so when I looked up, I could see the city curving up towards the left and right. Sort of like the ground was being lifted up to the sky.
It was a rather surreal sight for .
One unfamiliar thing was the fact that the vehicles that were travelling along the road definitely did not look like the normal cars I was used to and were a mix of either really sleek in design or very angular and boxy in shape.
The next thing I noticed was that there was an actual sky above which I assu must be a simulation to mimic a day and night cycle in the station.
The other thing I realised was the fact that this place had a lot of neon lights and the people walking around were obviously modded in so way.
By that I ant that they clearly had so kind of non organic adjustnts made to their bodies. So of them had chanical limbs while others had tallic parts stuck around their bodies.
It really hamred in the feeling that I was not in my world anymore.
Yes, yes, I get it, I was literally flying around in space, but the people I have been eting have all been obviously human so far so this really gave the alien feeling for .
Unfortunately… I do not see any other beings except humans which was a little saddening.
I guess the cat and dog girls will still have to wait.
Where was I?
Oh right, rcenary Guild. Now which way is it?
Yirfa spoke up beside , "If you're looking for the stupid Guild, it's that building over that, dumbass. Is this your first ti here?"
She was nodding at a tall tower a short walk down the street with disdain and I raised an eyebrow at her.
"While I am quite thankful for your help, I'm curious why you would even help with that?"
"You think I want to be tied up like this and paraded around like so kind of animal?! Fuck you!"
Mmhmm… I guess it was indeed quite humiliating for her to be seen tied up like this like so kind of dog.
Anyway, apparently criminals like her wouldn't be killed but most likely enslaved or sothing. Over here, they believe that imprisonnt was basically a drain of resources and sothing that benefitted the criminals more than the society.
By enslaving them, they would make them work off their 'debt' of the cri and they are allowed to earn back their freedom once they have served a period of ti depending on the seriousness of their cri.
For Yirfa in particular, she had shared with her guess that her supposedly biggest cri was stealing and selling so corporate secrets so she would most likely be enslaved for ten years or so.
I wondered if this was even a good idea since she would eventually be free to beco a pirate and go around robbing and killing again if she so chose.
Then again… I suppose it'll be the sa if she was imprisoned and it's not like I can change anything about how this works anyway so might as well just don't worry about it.
What I do need to worry about is her coming back for revenge I suppose. But that's also sothing to worry about in the far future and not now.
For my more imdiate problems, I need to get myself registered as a rc and turn her in for so Credits. Not to ntion sell the pirate ship I had captured too since I'm pretty much broke right now.
There's a docking fee for docking your ship on this station and it's a hundred credits a day for visitors and ten credits for residents.
Herman helped pay for the first day but I would like to be able to earn so credits on my own soon.
Since I didn't fancy myself getting so desk job or working a nine to five job in this station after coming to a new universe, the rcenary Guild was the way to go.
Ah, I also intend to find the black market here too since Yirfa so helpfully gave the details to it as well.
Alright, so first things first! rcenary Guild!
Following her direction, I brought her to the tall tower she had pointed out and it was evident she was telling the truth since a sign that read 'rcenary Guild' was hung above the tallic doors.
The mont I stepped through the doors, a loud roar could be heard followed by soone slamming a table with a fist.
"You think you're so hot shit just because you're a Gold rank?! I'll beat your bitch ass up right now! You wanna go?!"
I turned in the direction of the commotion and saw a few n surrounding a single woman with golden blonde hair who was staring straight at them without fear.
She rolled her eyes at them, "Please, you guys couldn't finish the job and then I had to finish it for you. Now you want to co here and demand I pay your share? What share do you want when you did zero share of the work?"
"Don't push your luck, Amber!! I'll fucking gut you!!"
Oh wow, is this a fight?
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