What Do You Mean I'm The Captain Of A Yandere Mercenary Company? Chapter 4 Hacking And Ship Class

Thankfully, I found the SC tucked away beside the pilot's seat which takes the form of a wristband that you can wear. When activated, a holographic screen would be projected that I can interact with by touch.

I tried to explore the functions of the SC a little and found that aside from the usual ga nu settings that were missing, pretty much all the other functions were still there.

Good enough for .

I strapped it to my wrist and went back to the pirate ship, plugging the device into their terminal to download their map data.

Then I realised that I actually needed to hack into their systems and disable their security to access that data.

Oh shit… If this ans I need to know programming, I'm fucked.

But it seems like luck was still smiling down on as I realised the screen on my Codex has changed to resemble the hacking miniga that I was familiar with in the ga.

On the screen were several words and numbers scattered across the screen and the required word and number was displayed at the very top. To clear the miniga, I just needed to search for the word and number within the ss and I will be able to unlock it.

[Data Download Successful]

The SC chirped, prompting to unplug the cable from the pirate ship's terminal.

Didn't even take a minute. Easy~

I then opened up the map display and a star system was projected up into the air in front of .

It seems like the pirates only have a map of the local system which shows a single star with four planets orbiting around it.

All four planets seed to be uninhabitable but there was a station orbiting the second planet from the star with a note that read 'Keyes Orbital Mining Station.

Near the fourth planet was an asteroid field and there was a similar marking there that read 'Ho Base'. I'm guessing that must be the pirate hideout.

Of course, there's no way I'm going to assault it myself, but this information might be useful later so I just kept a note of it for now.

Currently, I'm more interested in the location labelled Keyes Orbital Mining Station.

An Orbital Mining Station ant there were people and people that aren't pirates is a source of information for to get my bearings. Perhaps I can find a more complete map that would tell if I was still in the ga's universe since I don't rember such a station being in the ga.

This only reinforces the possibility that I'm most likely not in the ga but another universe instead.

Well, no use speculating right now so might as well just head towards the station first.

I tapped on my SC and linked the controls of the pirate ship's with my own ship, effectively making it into a single 'ship' as long as it was tethered to mine.

This was one of the ways that you could transport a ship to another location which is especially used in cases where one of the ships has broken down and needed towing. Though of course, this is used in the cases of small sized ships like the current ones.

Although for , I mostly use this chanic to tow disabled enemy ships back to a station to sell it for a quick profit.

And yes, that was what I was intending to do right now with this pirate ship.

Since I seed to have been dropped here without money as well, this should be hopefully a convenient solution to my monetary problems.

I'm not sure if this place follows the sa classification but in the ga, the ships are grouped according to sizes starting from A Class all the way to F Class with A Class being the smallest.

There's more sub-classification in between like A1, A2 or A3 Classes if you wanted to be more specific, but generally these classes denote how much space the ship requires to land.

My current ship is actually a B Class Heavy Fighter and the pirate ship should also be a B Class though I wasn't sure on what type of ship it was.

I sat down at my cockpit and made use of the new map data I got from the pirates to set a course for the habitat station.

The engines for the ships powered up before it propelled towards the direction of the station, the stars turning into streaks of light around .

I waited until we reached the required speed before engaging the engines to boost our speed to sub-light speeds. But even at this speed, it will still take us an hour to reach there.

That was fine since it gave ti to clean up the dead bodies while also looting the pirate ship clean.

I kept the bodies in one of the rooms just in case they had a bounty since I figured that I would need to get the security at the station to check them and pay if there was any, which was unlike the ga where you get the bounty imdiately after killing the target.

As for the rest of the ship… I found food inside their kitchen area but… Well… I guess there's no way to say it except for the food tasting bland.

It feels like the food was just there for sustenance and not for taste, or maybe it was just a matter of my taste buds being screwed while in space or sothing, I dunno.

Putting that aside, I tried to find if there was any money on board and I was surprised to see that they were using the sa currency as the ga was.

I picked up a rectangular shaped device that looked like one of those old school thumb drives you might find in my world in the past. It even has one of those ports sticking out that you can use to plug it into sothing.

This was a Credit Chip, which basically also functions like a thumb drive but it stores money inside it.

I don't really know the in-ga reason as to why these Credit Chips are used by everyone but yourself since you would store all your money digitally on your SC. There was no reason for to question if before after all…

Maybe I might go and look up the history behind this when I get the chance, especially when I'm not sure if the Spacer Codex is sothing unique to which might raise questions in the future.

I plugged the Credit Chip into my SC and then tapped on the screen to transfer the credits from the chip into my SC itself.

Seeing that it worked, I continued to search for more Credit Chips that might have been left around the ship and plugged them into my SC to take all the credits in them.

I also decided to keep the empty Credit Chips, since I'm not that sure what other use they have aside from storing the credits. But better to have a few of them in case I need them than not have them.

After searching through the entire ship, I had collected a whopping total of two thousand credits!

…

Which is dirt poor actually, especially when you have a ship to maintain and resupply… I should be able to at least refuel and rearm my ship but I'm pretty sure that would cost all of the money I have just to do that.

Ugh, whatever… If I'm able to sell off this pirate ship, I could at least get so money off its sale which should cover the expenses.

Now that I've looted the room, I was left with one place I have yet to check… Their cargo storage.

I missed it the first ti since the entrance was a hatch half hidden under a pile of discarded clothes in one corner of the dining room. I only spotted it by accident when I tripped over the clothes pile and kicked at it in irritation to reveal the hatch.

Ard with my blaster and a rifle once more, I prepared to open the hatch that led to the cargo storage in case there were more pirates hidden there.

I yanked open the hatch and peeked over the edge with my blaster at the ready, only to see a rather clean room below that had several crates and boxes pushed to the corners of the room.

Breathing out a sigh when I saw the room had no other signs of life, I descended the ladder to check what was stored down here.

The boxes weren't locked so it was a simple thing of just opening them up to see what was stored in them.

A few backup energy cells for the engines… So extra ammunition for guns… A crate of food… h.

These might sell for a couple hundred credits at least I guess, which was better than nothing considering my current financial situation.

I was hoping that being pirates, they might have already robbed soone and had so valuable loot stored here but my luck wasn't that good it seems.

I relocated so of the food, ammunition and energy cells to my ship for storage while intending to sell the rest.

Now that everything was prepared, there was nothing left for to do except to wait until my ship arrived at the mining station.

That gave the ti to check out the thing that saved my life.

I held up the rectangular box to the light, which I now know for sure was so kind of personal shield device.

This wasn't sothing present in the ga, which I suppose wasn't really needed since the ga had health bars and you could take a rocket launcher to the face as long as you had enough health to tank it.

But here… A well placed bullet in between the eyes is enough to kill you. You don't have health bars to tank damage here which is why there's personal shield devices here I guess.

I'm also guessing these are quite expensive since only one guy out of the five pirates had this and I'm willing to bet he was the leader too. Or maybe since they were pirates, they don't have access to the conventional market to get these kinds of things and he stole it off from soone? Who knows?

The shield managed to withstand about half of a full mag fired from a ballistic assault rifle, which I suppose was not that bad but it also ant you can't just stand there and tank hits all day.

Now I wonder if it protects you against lee attacks? Does a punch get through the shields or does it also stop the punch from hitting you?

Well, I'm not going to punch myself to find out either way… I'll just search it up later if I rember to do so.

I was just in the midst of attaching the shield device back on my belt when the console in front of started beeping, signalling our imminent arrival at the orbital mining station.

Wait… Are they even open to having visitors? Do I even have identification on ?

Crap…

Perhaps I should start a ship's log so that I can record down things that happened to appear more legitimate… Is it too late now? Fuck it, let's just do it.