Starbound: A Space Odyssey 48 The Floran Colony 4

Lenny woke after 1 hour of napping.

He walked around the s.h.i.+p while admiring it until he started to feel hunger.

He began looking for John since it was his first time on the s.h.i.+p, he didn't know where was the kitchen.

He stopped walking after he saw that he was in front of a door that had a sign on top it that reads 'Crafting Room'.

Walking closer to the door, he was able to hear some sounds coming from inside the room.

[He is here...] Lenny thought. He walked even closer and soon the door automatically opened.

He entered the room and looked around. The room was filled with top-notch apparatus and machines that he had never seen before. Suddenly he started to smell the stench of blood.

He frowned and followed the smell.

After walking for a while, he soon saw John that had his back turned to him.

John was doing something in the table in front of him. He was so concentrated in his work that he didn't sense Lenny approaching from behind.

The moment John felt a presence behind him, Lenny was already only 2 meters away.

"Oh, Lenny..." John turned around and saw that it was Lenny that was behind him.

"What the..." Lenny exclaimed in surprise when he was John turned around.

He wasn't surprised by the fact that John sensed him, but by the fact that John was wearing an ap.r.o.n, gloves, and was wielding a knife, that was all covered in crimson blood.

"...?" John confusedly looked at Lenny.

"What's up with all this... Blood" Lenny glanced at the table and saw it was filled with Batongs' carca.s.s.

"Oh... This?" John looked at himself and realized what Lenny was talking about. "I'm just cutting and processing the meat of the Batongs. Also, I'm taking the poison from their tongues and placing it on this bottles" John showed a few bottles filled with some kind of transparent liquid.

"Great..." Lenny glanced elsewhere. "Where is the kitchen?"

"Hungry?"

"Starving."

John lightly chuckled. "Wait a few moments, I'll make something for us to eat."

John placed the knife on the table, took out the bloodied ap.r.o.n and gloves, and left the Crafting Room. He entered the Captain's Quarter and went directly for the kitchen.

"Hmm..." John searched around and saw that almost everything he had was canned food and some dried vegetables. He frowned. [Looks like I'll need to make use of Batong meat...]

He took the meat out of his PIPS and placed it on a chopping board, then he took a new ap.r.o.n he found on one of the kitchen's cabinet.

With a kitchen knife on his hand, John got ready to start cutting the meat.

His hands were very fast as he separated the meat from the bones and also cut the meat in small pieces.

After he was done with the meat he started to slice some vegetables.

John took everything and started to cook a soup.

In just a few minutes he had finished cooking. He opened the lid of the pan and the delicious aroma of the food exploded out of the confined pot.

"Food..." Lenny appeared like a ghost behind John. His mouth was hanging open while a fine trail of sparkling saliva came out of his mouth.

"Hey!" John slapped Lenny's hand that was almost reaching for the pot. "Go sit down on the table over there, the food is almost ready."

Lenny dejectedly walked back and sat at the table.

John helplessly shook his head and then returned to finish the food. He took a few spices that were at the kitchen's cabinet and carefully put a little of it on the pot.

John saw that it was done, so he took it to the table. He placed it down and then went back to the cabinet to retrieve some plates and tableware.

"Now you can eat." John couldn't look at the suffering Lenny anymore and allowed him to start eating.

"Thanks!" He swiftly took the pot and served himself.

John lightly chucked and waited for Lenny.

"d.a.m.n!" Lenny's Brand shone with a fiery light. "This is good! I didn't expect that you knew how to cook." He commented after he ate a spoonful of the soup.

"It's nothing..." John became full of himself after being praised. "If I had more seasonings, vegetables, and more tender meat, I would show you what I could really do with all skills."

"The Academy taught you how to do cook?" Lenny curiously asked while he ate one spoonful after another.

"No, they only taught us how to hunt, skin, and prepare food. The basic of survival in the wilderness. As for cooking, I taught myself, simply because I lived alone and sometimes I wanted to eat something different from what they served in the canteen."

"Oh..." Lenny suddenly took a bottle from his PIPs and placed over the table.

John glanced at the bottle and couldn't help but stare. "Wine? Seriously?"

"What? There's no good dish without a good alcoholic beverage."

John rolled his eyes and kept eating.

Lenny also retrieved two cups from his PIPS. "Want some?"

"No!" John said decisively. He doesn't want to experience the pain of hangover once again.

"Tch..." Lenny clicked his tongue in displeasure.

John only threw a side glance at Lenny and resumed his meal.

"What are we going to do now?" Lenny played around with his cup that was filled with wine.

"I need to find a Floran colony..." John resumed the mission Esther gave him to Lenny. "...That's basically what I need to do."

"Cool..." Lenny was completely uninterested and kept drinking wine.

"Hmm... If I'm not wrong you are completely out of bullets, right?"

"Yes..."

"What type of bullets you need?"

"I use the ammunition of 12.7x99mm USCM for my sniper rifle and a .45 (11.43x33mmR) Hyperion for my revolvers."

"Well, you are lucky then. I have the blueprint for those ammunitions in my a.s.sembler, I can basically make a lot of bullets for you."

"Really!?" Lenny was overjoyed. Even though his primary sniper rifle was of the same Tier of the energy sniper John gave him, he still preferred the old style fire weapons.

John, of course, have those types of ammunition, since most of the guns in the universe came from USCM, Hyperion and Maliwan. While USCM focused solely on fire weapons, Hyperion focused on Gaussian weaponry and also worked a little with energy weapons, and Maliwan only creates the best of the best energy weapons.

Maliwan is a special case because it belongs to the organization Nova Rebellion, this organization is very secretive of their operations, but they usually involve themselves in fights against the Letheia Corporation. Their products are so good that they are able to go head to head against Hyperion and USCM weaponry.

As for USCM weapons, after the fall of the organization, the ones who manufacture the weapons is the Black Star Syndicate.

That's why John had the blueprint of calibers of bullets that weapons from USCM and Hyperion use. The s.h.i.+p already came with the blueprints for the Protector to be able to make bullets for himself without the need to go supply in a Terrene Protectorate Outpost.