Recruiting Office
Skull
"Are you sure?" I asked wide eyed.
"Yeah," replied the gruff little old lady behind the desk. "Says so right here." She indicated the data tablet on the desk. "You've been promoted to Sparrow Class Pilot."
"Wow. I didn't think i'd done that much," i said running my hand over my completely hairless scalp, a side effect of an accident during my maintenance days. I had been particularly unlucky with a welder and now it just wouldn't grow back. I'd been called Skull or Skully for so long since then i couldn't even remember my name.
"Here is the activation card. You've been issued with number 3670." She handed over a small key fob with a skull on it and a simple card.
"Erm thanks. Maybe i'll see you for my next promotion Dolores." I smiled, taking the key and heading for the hangar doors.
"I doubt. I'll try and get a message to you if that lay about friend of yours Kobain ever gets promoted again."
The doors slid open with a swish and i stepped through to see a huge room, brimming with craft, jostling pilots and maintenance hands.
After a good twenty minutes of searching i found it. Sparrow 3670. She wasn't the largest craft i'd ever seen, nor the sleekest but she certainly looked liked she'd do the job.
A beautiful purpley blue paint job adorned the hull and a large YWS logo was displayed boldly on either wing. I climbed into the frankly rather tight cockpit and idled into the lift off lane. After a few minutes of waiting for a gap i was off into the cold obsidian murkiness of space. Suddenly a voice blared through the comms.
"3670 due to your flight simulator results you are to be deployed to the Solass and from that to the SPEW Griffon. Now sit back and relax while the auto pilot carries you to your destination." I lay back, accidentally hit the button marked stealth and grinned as the little craft blasted off on some computer designated course.
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