Update: We're in contact with the ransom target, a somewhat wealthy independent merchant company. Captain's discussing plans of action.

Been nearly a week, but things are progressing slowly. It would seen that Captain's got some kind of plan that he's just not sharing yet.

I won't ask.

Had my communications disabled. Damn "mission security." It's not like anyone reads this, anyway.

Either way, the mission was a success. Like I said, it was ransom, but apparently not for the cargo. The guy's son was on-board.

Didn't do any forward fighting, but I was sent to disable engines. Couldn't do it remotely, thanks to some... decent countermeasures.

Still, firewalls for cyberwarfare are cake to get through if you're next to the thing. ...Ah, I extracted comm logs while I was at it, too.

Nothing fascinating, but this back-and-forth goes from professionally written to nearly impossible to read with each message.

Pirates are pretty stupid. ...Though, a part of me wishes they wrote "yarr" and "me hearties!" in these messages.

Couplings, heat sinks, and manifolds, oh my.

About to dock at a small station for a routine maintenance sweep. A thousand credits for there being at least one loose combobulator cap.

Apparently one of the switch-field arrays controlling the airlock depressurization functions had a null setting. My bad.

Well well well! Seems like something important may be pinging the long-range scanners. The bridge usually isn't this noisy.

Of course, I won't know a thing unless I have to. Back to work, then.

That scanner ping from the other day was a stray fighter drone. It's condition was perfect, but it had fired off some shots.

Still working on it, but we're thinking that it's out here by no accident.

What happens when you mix a high-density energy resonator with a faulty amplification control module? A giant explosion, that's what.

Well.

Whole crew received a mandatory Omni-tool upgrade. It's about time, considering my many repeated compatibility complaints.

Of course, the new diagnostic tools haven't been pushed yet. I'm betting it'll take two more weeks. Give or take.