Free Fleet Box Set 2 by Michael Chatfield

Author:Michael Chatfield [Chatfield, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Michael Chatfield
Published: 2019-12-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter A few last stops

Carsickle looked out over the sensor readout that was connected to the Commando sections of Resilient. He had been on Chaleel a few months ago. It seemed so much longer than that.

Everyone had seemed different, changed by the Kalu threat and the Free Fleet.

Chaleel had grown into space in a big-way. It was making quick trade with AIH and the planets beyond Parnmal at a good rate. Merchant ships travelled straight from Chaleel to Parnmal every few days. Other traders plied the entire corridor. Everyone wanted food and Chaleel, now armed with the knowledge of the Union had quadrupled their crop production, and reduced their workforce by forty percent. While there were those that blamed the Free Fleet for taking their jobs, there were so many opportunities that a large number of people were moving from the farms onto trade jobs, or taking their knowledge to other planets to sell their skills or raise their own farm. One aspiring Chaleelian had started to build domes on one of Chaleel's moons. The soil needed a bit of chemical rejuvenation, but he would have his own tiered farm up and working within a few months. The Free Merchant Fleet or FMF was a silent partner at thirty percent. The Free Fleet was the biggest lending house in the entire known Union and they had the power to move any freight anywhere. Parnmal had become the trading place in the known universe. It was one reason that the station was growing faster than ever.

In Chaleel while food and farms were king, Nelly, the dock separated from Nancy was undoubtedly second, and growing as fast as Parnmal.

The Yard was doing booming trade with the merchants and the contractors that were trying to make their own ships. The AIH-Chaleel partnership was made for the purpose of increasing their trading abilities, one of the factors keeping them back was the number of ships they could get their hands on. There was a number that the FMF rented out, but as the merchant's ranks increased, the ships available for rent were getting small.

There was plans to build a civilian yard in Parnmal, but for now military needs had to come first.

Though in some situations both sides could be satisfied.

The yard was happier than anything else to give the partnership re-serviced non-military parts in exchange for raw materials to fill the yard's appetite.

The Fleet barely slowed as it went through Chaleel, picking up ammunition from the factories that were now in close orbit to the yard. The two corvette's that had patrolled the system were now doubled to four and had a Destroyer on station, that wasn't including the sixteen or so ships going through the yard.

A message beeped on Carsickle's screen, a childhood friend that he had one day hoped to make something more, but had never been introduced to his mother, requested to talk to him.

He grinned, thinking of the times they'd gone to the meetings of youth in the fields, or their escapades with his closest friends in school.

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