The newly captured ship would have muskets if they were needed later on in the siege of the fort.If there were male prisoners in the jail, they hoped ...o recruit them to fight against the pirates for a small share in the loot. Capt. McFadden was sure that they would have no trouble recruiting any prisoners they might release who would fight out of sheer hatred for their captors. Stanly suspected that some of the women would fight, too, if given the chance.On the night of the attack, they loaded. The first thing we did was to confirm her suspicions with a doctor I knew down on Canal Street. The guy had to be ninety years old if he was a day. He walked around with a stethoscope on his neck and was obsessed with sticking all his patients with a shot of penicillin whenever he couldn’t diagnose their problem.That seemed to be most of the time.His “office” was an old building built sometime in the previous century and still had the remains of an ancient Apothecary store with vials and. After that I tried a succession of jobs, failed at all of them, and had finally settled into a meaningless job as a security guard. I worked the four to midnight shift at a large pharmaceutical company, watching the people come and go who really ran the world. I had been off the teams for two years, and was quickly going down the tubes.I had started going to a nearby bar called Shakeys when I got off work to have a few drinks before I headed home. It was a noisy, smoky, metropolitan crowd with. . ooooh, god.” She grabbed a nausea kit from its place at her knee and vomited into the bag.Devin’s virtual keyboard was out, so he keyed up the manual override. “Okay, everyone, report in to the command deck.”Keith’s voice came back immediately. “Engineering is operational, although a lot of our instrumentation is out. The engines are shut down, but we still have power. Some of my people are sick, and one person is injured. A med team is on the way.”“Let me know what damages we have as soon as.