Saw That Coming : Part 3

Players:

Crew of Serenity & Badger

Prologue:

The story extends. Mal learns more info about a particular job opportunity that has come Serenity’s way. Will he take the job? Well, the Captain is smart enough not to jump into uncertain circumstances. Still, there is a lot of money being offered, and if there’s one thing known about the Captain……he like coin.

Saw That Coming Part 3

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Malcolm Reynolds turned off the screen to his cortex monitor and pushed himself away from the small desk he had set up inside his bunk.

“ For someone who claims to know everything that happens on Persephone, both as it happens and before, Badger sure seemed blind-sided by this one.”

Mal was referring to the conversation he’d just finished with the Persephone crime boss about a weapons shipment which someone had sent to Serenity in a coded message a few days before. He had teased Badger about being kept out of the loop on this particular illicit activity.

“ Don’t you fret none Sergeant Reynolds ( Badger referred to Mal as Sergeant just to irritate him) I’ll have an answer for you by the end of the day.”

Badger himself, had been miffed at hearing that there was illicit “ job for hire” work being touted around this quadrant of the verse without his knowledge. If there was one thing the small-time crime boss prided himself upon, it was his ability at knowing of all the illegal activity going on around Persephone. Both the ones he was personally involved in, and those he was not. He meant to find out why he hadn’t found out about this sooner.

Just as all crime organizations around the verse conduct their business, Badger had a turf to protect. If someone was trying to weasel in on his territory,……..well then that person would have to be dealt with.

Badger could care less if his territory were populated by small-time pick-pockets or con-artists, but what did bother him, was the idea that some