STF

Space Port - Ships That Sail By (open)

Posted March 15, 2023, 9:39 p.m. by Civilian Jezem (Upstanding Citizen) (Abigail G)

It wasn’t really a song, the mindless tune that Jezem hummed while watching the flow of people and ships through the Oed V spaceport. From his vantage point upon a bench in the second floor waiting area he could watch the ships ascend and descend from the landing pads and dance around one another in the open orange skies. Private ships, merchant ships, shipping vessels and starfleet ships and shuttles shared the airspace like animals circling around the favorite watering hole. People, too, of all kinds went about their lives.

Jezem would play a game of guessing the work each person did based upon the ship they arrived or left in, the clothes they wore and how they held themselves. With near 100% accuracy. That wasn’t even bragging really, it used to be his job to pay attention to details. To know with one glance the essence of a person and the value or danger they possessed. Funny that, what once was his work now became a hobby. There were worse hobbies to have.

“Oh, you’re a terrible merchant,” Jezem noted by a newly arrived ship. Scuffed and chipped due so it must have the cheapest deflector dish. Poor paint-job. A second hand ship not worth the dilithium she ran on. The merchant, human, dressed obnoxiously bright, but the cloth quality was poor. The guy wouldn’t stop itching and fidgeting where the clothing rubbed against the joints. False bravado. Guy down on his luck and lacking the skills or knowledge to turn things around. Some ferengi is going to buy his product for pennies and there goes his money. Heh.

Jezem


Posts on Oed V

In topic

Posted since


© 1991-2024 STF. Terms of Service

Version 1.15.9