Silvers was sitting on the desk in his quarters carefully going through the 'coffers' of Drea's Revenge that appeared on his datapad. He tapped his fingers playfully on his chin while trying to figure out if there was a trend going on with the crew's finances. The stuff that the crew was spending the most on was disastrous. Yes, everyone had a cut to do whatever they wanted with but also everyone, as allowed by the captain, had one pick of anything they wanted to be supplied on the ship using the budget. An action that resonated with the surprising generous persona that the captain had.
Silvers ignored the numbers that went next to 'Captain's Alcohol Problems' as he had gotten used to that. The treasurer believed that if it wasn't for him to insist that the captain have some limits, all of the credits would've gone on booze and the crew would be drifting fuel-less in space.
Which, as a matter of fact, once had happened but they were lucky enough to drift to habitable world and buy- No. Buying is legal. Steal- No. Stealing was done in the shadows. Confiscated would be the non-barbaric verb for their acquisition of fuel.
His eyes fell on an alcohol beverage that was trademarked as a Zeltron alcoholic beverage. The holoprojecting maniac Sunny was at it again. She shared the lavish style that the captain had. The love for the finer things in life. Silvers assumed that was quite normal for Zeltrons. As far as he knew the species had quite the hedonistic culture.
Well hedonistic or not, she had to decrease the amount of her orders. Unless she could make magical fuel appear with her tricks, which Silvers had to admit looked as real as the datapad in his hands, then the woman had to tone down a bit her lavish style.
On the next expenditure data, Silvers facepalmed. Simultaneously, dread and disgust surged through his body. The scary and primitive Gruk, who was the sole reason Silvers slept with his blaster under his pillow, was absolutely ravaging through the budget. The meat that he had to eat for a creature of such small stature was a lot. And it always had to be a whole animal and more often than not - an animal which had a stench more hideous than death itself. Although, he appreciated that Gruk would usually prefer to hunt himself when on a planet with fauna, it seemed as if of lately he'd decided to be more human and simply order food as if in a restauraunt.
As if to make things worse, the next expenditure data that came right after Gruk's was the grumpy and loud Twi'lek - Rika Anor. The girl always seemed to have a problem with everything. He had played once sabacc with her and she rage quit. Not even paid the wager she owed to him. Additionally, she called him a typical Corellian cheat. Silvers did not press on getting the money he had won due to her trigger-happy personality.
That trigger-happy personality was the reason the number showing on his datapad was that large. She had no idea about credits and that they were actually not infinite. Rika had been ordering ammunitions, special ones, stating those that the captain usually preferred to supply were not good enough. Silvers could not argue with her, he thought there was not much difference. In the end it all resulted on how good you aimed, according to him. Now to make life harder for the treasurer she had ordered almost a double of what she had ordered the month before.
Silvers was able to take just a glance at what the other Twi'lek on board - a male going by the name of Chee Saren - had requested before he was contacted to assemble on the bridge of the ship. The treasurer exhaled a sigh of relief. Saren had simply wanted a bigger share in credits rather turn the value of those credits into something tangible. The percentage was quite low compared to what the others were requesting. Silvers was glad there was at least one person on board that had some sort of limitations on spending. Apparently everyone else wanted to live the high life of Coruscani aristocrats. What next ? Gruk dressed in a purple shirt with puffed sleeves and embroidered with symbols made of gold?
The con artist left his quarters putting his datapad in an inside pocket in his blue coat. He took the long way towards the bridge carefully taking a glance at a section of the ship where he was told a new member of the crew resided. Silvers was not really happy when he saw the figure - a Mandalorian. Considering their expertise, they came expensive. Great. More expenditure. What was the great captain Serg Leone thinking ?
Shaking his head Silvers entered the bridge where it seemed everyone had gathered. His facial expression were quite comical to an observer. It was a mix of surprise and annoyance. The smell of that expensive Zeltron beverage lingered in the air. Coughing silently, Silvers spoke to those on the bridge:
"Alright, ladies and gentleman. Time for the news." Silvers' eyes glanced at everyone and then stayed on the captain. "I hope this operation would reward us double than usual, Captain. Otherwise I see a similiar scenario to that where we almost starved to death while stranded fuel-less in the middle of space. I am sure no one wants to revisit the memory of Gruk salivating at each one of us. Personally, I do not plan on working a full-time job as a bacon."
He paused just for a moment before he continued with a lecture on each one of them.
"Sunny, you'd have to tone down on that thing in your hands. If it is water, it has the price tag of a holy one."
"Gruk. Well. Captain, perhaps you could translate to Gruk that he should utilize more his innate ability of a predator rather than order more food than a Hutt."
"Rika, how should I put this..." Silvers started trying to find words not to aggrevate the Twi'lek although he knew well that would be impossible "You would have to satisfy yourself with some 'ordinary' ammunitions for your arsenal for a short period of time."
"Chee wins the golden medal today for his exceptional service of not leading us to bankruptcy."
"Oh and captain. What are we paying the Mandalorian that for some reason seems depressed in the back of the ship? There's been quite a price increase lately on such... warriors."
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