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-Nickie, John Grimes’ grand-daughter  (TKG 20/22), “back in the saddle”, after a five year hiatus in which she rejected her born world, then got back into it, due to circumstances beyond her control.
+Nickie, John Grimes’ grand-daughter ({{TKG|20|22}}), “back in the saddle”, after a five year hiatus in which she rejected her born world, then got back into it, due to circumstances beyond her control.
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 DW01/1   '''NICKIE'''     finds herself on the bridge of her recently stolen ship, with Grim and Meredith. Grim had been looking up the job listings for the ship they had just taken – finding slave trafficking, weapons dealing, drug- and people-smuggling,etc. Federation probably hadn’t known of its existence, so had done nothing about it. Meredith suggests they drop off all of their extra Skeins at the Minerva Trading Outpost, but the might just get taken for bad guys, for stealing the ship. Might not be a clever idea. Nickie suggests that they not dock, and that Grim go to the Outpost and restock as needed, while she would get whatever ships supplies they would need. Meanwhile, they might feed their “guests”, as it had been twelve hours since anyone had eaten. And now that Meredith has been activated, Nickie will have her in her thoughts at all times. Nickie will have to figure out something to fence in her “adult thoughts” from view.
-Meredith finds a Diary left for Nickie, once she gets “back I the fold”, that she will read, in time-delayed segments. Meredith sent her the cover letter, to start, while they were traveling to the Outpost. Meredith also releases the first segment, for Nickie to read in her quarters.
+Meredith finds a Diary left for Nickie, once she gets “back in the fold”, that she will read, in time-delayed segments. Meredith sent her the cover letter, to start, while they were traveling to the Outpost. Meredith also releases the first segment, for Nickie to read in her quarters.
-DW 01/2   '''TABITHA'''   Submit, Never Surrender Bar, QBS Meredith Reynolds. Angie was grieving upon having lost her husband, Manny, who had been her friend, companion and lover. Also Chef for their ship, the Carda. He had been killed in action, on the Recalcitrant. According to Lilah, one of the bartenders there, there were three steps to recovery. shock, Wallowing, and recovery. Angie was wallowing, so Lilah would listen.  Angie was trying to get drunk, to forget. Even months later, it hurt too much.  Lilah, the bartender, takes her to meet with Tabitha, also in the bar, in a booth at the back. Tabitha tells her one of her stories of loss, that of Shin. Others in the Bar, Dan, George Danvers (Brown hair, lively black eyes), Kelly, Terrence (His brown hair was cut fairly long and fell across his forehead in a long sweep, and his eyes had a hint of green to them. He had an open, easy manner about him that she liked.)
+DW 01/2   '''TABITHA'''   Submit, Never Surrender Bar, QBS ''Meredith Reynolds''. Angie was grieving upon having lost her husband, Manny, who had been her friend, companion and lover. Also Chef for their ship, the Carda. He had been killed in action, on the Recalcitrant. According to Lilah, one of the bartenders there, there were three steps to recovery. shock, Wallowing, and recovery. Angie was wallowing, so Lilah would listen.  Angie was trying to get drunk, to forget. Even months later, it hurt too much.  Lilah, the bartender, takes her to meet with Tabitha, also in the bar, in a booth at the back. Tabitha tells her one of her stories of loss, that of Shin. Others in the Bar, Dan, George Danvers (Brown hair, lively black eyes), Kelly, Terrence (His brown hair was cut fairly long and fell across his forehead in a long sweep, and his eyes had a hint of green to them. He had an open, easy manner about him that she liked.)
 Margie come over to hear Tabitha’s story again, always a little different, depending on what people need to hear.
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 Minerva Trading Outpost  Grim and Nickie leave ship, go into Outpost. Will meet back in two and one-half hours.
-DW 01/4  '''NICKIE'''   Nickie is overwhelmed and joyous at the Outpost (See Locations, Minerva Trading Outpost), even though it would not compare to what the Federation had to offer. But she had become used to much less during her sabbatical. First purchase was some cheap house bots, for cleaning the ship. All items delivered to ship, half up front, rest on delivery.  Will also be looking for more crew for the ship, as she and Grim were not enough to run it well.
+DW 01/4  '''NICKIE'''   Nickie is overwhelmed and joyous at the Outpost (See Locations, [[Minerva Trading Outpost]]), even though it would not compare to what the Federation had to offer. But she had become used to much less during her sabbatical. First purchase was some cheap house bots, for cleaning the ship. All items delivered to ship, half up front, rest on delivery.  Will also be looking for more crew for the ship, as she and Grim were not enough to run it well.
 Fuel cells? Check.
 Console covers? Check.
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 Nickie Hiring: Nickie stopped in a bar she had seen earlier (flavored smoke, music drifting out), asked bartender for recommendations for crew to hire. Three names offered. Not acceptable.
-DW 01/7    '''NICKIE'''     Meredith alerts Nickie to problem at ship, and not wanting dock security alerted, so she needs to get back ASAP. She does, comes to kitchen, gets fire suppressant materials, puts out fire. Alarms stop sounding. Nickie alerted that the Skaines in the next room might start eating one of them, so she fought them all, rescuing the smallest one. Ship needs to get off-station, so Meredith by-passes security, and ship pulls out of dock.
+DW 01/6   '''NICKIE'''     Meredith alerts Nickie to problem at ship, and not wanting dock security alerted, so she needs to get back ASAP. She does, comes to kitchen, gets fire suppressant materials, puts out fire. Alarms stop sounding. Nickie alerted that the Skaines in the next room might start eating one of them, so she fought them all, rescuing the smallest one. Ship needs to get off-station, so Meredith by-passes security, and ship pulls out of dock.
 Nickie unwraps the cleaning bots, cute- In front of her sat four little house bots. Fully assembled but not yet activated, each was a different metallic color. They were neatly bullet-shaped, with several little arms recessed within their plating and an array of circular sensors around their tops and bottoms that looked like eyes.
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 DW 01/8  Fight continues, and Tabitha finds a snithch (information broker), who gives her news of Skaine activities that she can interfere with, and kill the Skaines.
-DW 01/9   Fight continues on ships, Tabitha and the Tontos killing, liberating slaves. Want to get back on the Achronyx., THEIR ship!.  The Achronyx is home!
+DW 01/9   Fight continues on ships, Tabitha and the Tontos killing, liberating slaves. Want to get back on the ''Achronyx''.
 DW 01/10  Grim wants help in feeding Skaines, so Nickie introduces him to the new bots. He names them immediately. The copper-colored one is Brandy,  the silver one is Lefty, the gold one is Lucky, and the red one is Bradley. Nickie to make sure none of the Skaines escape as they are fed. Two hours until they can drop off the Skaines. Nickie and
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 Nickie was looking around on the job database  meaningful (payable) activities in which to engage, and found something. There’s a slave shipment that’s supposed to be picked up not far from here,” she observed eventually, glancing in Grim’s direction. “Headcount of at least a few hundred, and a pretty hefty payout for transport.” She paused for a split second to see if he had any sort of reaction to the news. “We’ve got plenty of time to interrupt them. The planet is in this quadrant.”
-DW 01/11   '''ACHRONYX'''    Tabitha and the Tontos made a big deal of all the new upgrades. The ship had been cleaned inside and out, and many improvements had been made beyond new paint and giving the ship a new hull. Tabitha’s fight with the Skaines continues, in all its detail. She is still grieving for Shin, and hasn’t come to balance with it yet. Guildert, their informant, told them to go talk to Don Guido for more information. He refused to deal with them anymore. At the bar Even.
+DW 01/11   '''''ACHRONYX'''''    Tabitha and the Tontos made a big deal of all the new upgrades. The ship had been cleaned inside and out, and many improvements had been made beyond new paint and giving the ship a new hull. Tabitha’s fight with the Skaines continues, in all its detail. She is still grieving for Shin, and hasn’t come to balance with it yet. Guildert, their informant, told them to go talk to Don Guido for more information. He refused to deal with them anymore. At the bar Even.
-Tabitha goes off to use the Lavatory, and Angie starts to talk about one of her ventures. “There.” Terrence patted the table. “See? You’ve been doing good stuff.” “I have.” Angie was buoyed by their cheer, but a moment later she remembered why she was here listening to this story and her face fell. “But I lost Manny—my boyfriend—and I just don’t know what to do with myself these days. My work doesn’t seem important anymore. He made everything come alive, and without him, things are…a bit gray, I’d have to admit.” Tabitha returned.
+Tabitha goes off to use the lavatory, and Angie starts to talk about one of her ventures. “There.” Terrence patted the table. “See? You’ve been doing good stuff.” “I have.” Angie was buoyed by their cheer, but a moment later she remembered why she was here listening to this story and her face fell. “But I lost Manny—my boyfriend—and I just don’t know what to do with myself these days. My work doesn’t seem important anymore. He made everything come alive, and without him, things are…a bit gray, I’d have to admit.” Tabitha returned.
 “Hey, now.” She nudged Angie with her elbow. “No calling yourself boring. Manny made the world interesting because that was the world he saw. You said he cooked, right? It’s like that. You see the ingredients. He saw the dish.”
 “I like thinking of it that way.” Angie nodded. Was it possible that the best way she could remember Manny would be to see the world as happily and as interestedly as he had?
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 Nickie keeps finding more Skaines to attack. . Eleven dead surrounding her, and many more than that in her back-trail. She finished the job with the last six, in a barricaded office.
-DW 01/15   TABITHA’S STORY AGAIN. Tabitha and the Tontos take Don Guido to another bar, cleaner, and quieter, where they can talk. Don Guido tell them of another bad criminal, named Rotciv, and a ship named the Gegward, which collected stolen medicine. The Inspector finds Hiritoshi, not the rest, and lets him go. They all go back to the ship and take off, without clearance.
+DW 01/15   TABITHA’S STORY AGAIN. Tabitha and the Tontos take Don Guido to another bar, cleaner, and quieter, where they can talk. Don Guido tell them of another bad criminal, named Rotciv, and a ship named the ''Gegward'', which collected stolen medicine. The Inspector finds Hiritoshi, not the rest, and lets him go. They all go back to the ship and take off, without clearance.
 DW01/16     '''THE THEMIS COLONY'''    After Nickie had killed all of the Skaines, they met with the colonists. They were made aware of the incoming Skaine ship, and Nickie took care of the landing party, ending up with Karvar, the Captain, as the last survivor of his crew, killing him with a knife slash across the throat.

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 DW 01/2   TABITHA Submit, Never Surrender Bar, QBS Meredith Reynolds. Angie was grieving upon having lost her husband, Manny, who had been her friend, companion and lover. Also Chef for their ship, the Carda. He had been killed in action, on the Recalcitrant. According to Lilah, one of the bartenders there, there were three steps to recovery. shock, Wallowing, and recovery. Angie was wallowing, so Lilah would listen.  Angie was trying to get drunk, to forget. Even months later, it hurt too much.  Lilah, the bartender, takes her to meet with Tabitha, also in the bar, in a booth at the back. Tabitha tells her one of her stories of loss, that of Shin. Others in the Bar, Dan, George Danvers (Brown hair, lively black eyes), Kelly, Terrence (His brown hair was cut fairly long and fell across his forehead in a long sweep, and his eyes had a hint of green to them. He had an open, easy manner about him that she liked.)
- Margie come over to hear Tabitha’s story again, always a little different, depending on what people need to hear.
+Margie come over to hear Tabitha’s story again, always a little different, depending on what people need to hear.
 DW 01/3     TABITHA, Memories.   The Tontos and Tabitha fighting Skaines, who went wild. Shin killed by debris caused by lack of gravity during fight. “When I came back, I was in a black hole of grief. The rest of my friends, my Tontos, supported me as best they could, but how do you get support from five Japanese vampires who’ve seen centuries of life when you are less than fifty years old yourself? I was such a baby then.” She had gotten lots of advice, but none of that advice had helped at all. To lose someone so suddenly was something that the mind couldn’t make sense of, and grief wasn’t something that followed any rules about how to behave. Nothing Tabitha could say would make things better for Angie. The first thing we have to learn is to be patient with ourselves. Tabitha went on, recounting her story. All she wanted to do was to kill Skaines. ALL of them!
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 Minerva Trading Outpost  Grim and Nickie leave ship, go into Outpost. Will meet back in two and one-half hours.
 DW 01/4  NICKIE   Nickie is overwhelmed and joyous at the Outpost (See Locations, Minerva Trading Outpost), even though it would not compare to what the Federation had to offer. But she had become used to much less during her sabbatical. First purchase was some cheap house bots, for cleaning the ship. All items delivered to ship, half up front, rest on delivery.  Will also be looking for more crew for the ship, as she and Grim were not enough to run it well.
- Fuel cells? Check.
+Fuel cells? Check.
 Console covers? Check.
 Wireless network extenders? Check.
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 Memento Luna, dropping off the Skaines. Nickie announces her intentions to the captive Skaines – to drop them off there. (See Locations, Memento Luna). Durq would rather stay on with them. Better chance of surviving. The Skaines being unloaded weren’t pleased about the conditions of the colony, and they made their thoughts known as they shouted and raged and picked senseless fights with each other. The gaggle of Skaines was milling about in irritated bemusement. The continued chatter of the dock workers made it seem like a scene straight out of a really bad comedy.
- Lucky and Bradley were patrolling the corridors. They had both acquired their own tasers. Nickie wasn’t sure where the tasers had come from, but she decided it was probably good they were armed. Saved her the hassle of stepping in. Durq was watching all of them unload.
+Lucky and Bradley were patrolling the corridors. They had both acquired their own tasers. Nickie wasn’t sure where the tasers had come from, but she decided it was probably good they were armed. Saved her the hassle of stepping in. Durq was watching all of them unload.
- Nickie was looking around on the job database  meaningful (payable) activities in which to engage, and found something. There’s a slave shipment that’s supposed to be picked up not far from here,” she observed eventually, glancing in Grim’s direction. “Headcount of at least a few hundred, and a pretty hefty payout for transport.” She paused for a split second to see if he had any sort of reaction to the news. “We’ve got plenty of time to interrupt them. The planet is in this quadrant.”
+Nickie was looking around on the job database  meaningful (payable) activities in which to engage, and found something. There’s a slave shipment that’s supposed to be picked up not far from here,” she observed eventually, glancing in Grim’s direction. “Headcount of at least a few hundred, and a pretty hefty payout for transport.” She paused for a split second to see if he had any sort of reaction to the news. “We’ve got plenty of time to interrupt them. The planet is in this quadrant.”
 DW 01/11   ACHRONYX    Tabitha and the Tontos made a big deal of all the new upgrades. The ship had been cleaned inside and out, and many improvements had been made beyond new paint and giving the ship a new hull. Tabitha’s fight with the Skaines continues, in all its detail. She is still grieving for Shin, and hasn’t come to balance with it yet. Guildert, their informant, told them to go talk to Don Guido for more information. He refused to deal with them anymore. At the bar Even.
 Tabitha goes off to use the Lavatory, and Angie starts to talk about one of her ventures. “There.” Terrence patted the table. “See? You’ve been doing good stuff.” “I have.” Angie was buoyed by their cheer, but a moment later she remembered why she was here listening to this story and her face fell. “But I lost Manny—my boyfriend—and I just don’t know what to do with myself these days. My work doesn’t seem important anymore. He made everything come alive, and without him, things are…a bit gray, I’d have to admit.” Tabitha returned.
- “Hey, now.” She nudged Angie with her elbow. “No calling yourself boring. Manny made the world interesting because that was the world he saw. You said he cooked, right? It’s like that. You see the ingredients. He saw the dish.”
+“Hey, now.” She nudged Angie with her elbow. “No calling yourself boring. Manny made the world interesting because that was the world he saw. You said he cooked, right? It’s like that. You see the ingredients. He saw the dish.”
 “I like thinking of it that way.” Angie nodded. Was it possible that the best way she could remember Manny would be to see the world as happily and as interestedly as he had?

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		+	A by-product of her activation, her internal computer system also finds her Aunt Tabitha’s diary in her memory banks. In these accounts, Nickie finds a long-desired link back to her favorite aunt, whose recounted stories help them both to accept the trauma they’ve survived.
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