Cowboys and Aliens Ch. 18

Rayven then asked, "Wouldn't there end up being a lot of bodies floating around in space eventually?"

Liyana answered, "No, all two door cells are planet side. So if you push the service button you would get sucked out into space but would eventually fall to the planet and the frozen body would burn up entering the atmosphere."

Annabelle asked, "What happens if you break a lesser law?"

Liyana explained, "If you broke a lesser law with a sentence of a year or less, you would get a standard holding cell and/or a certain number of marks. Marks do eventually expire, but if you get too many marks on your record, you would be sent for an assessment."

Since they didn't have a security station, Mark decided they would build a jail of sorts in the community and hold them there until the security station was in orbit, then they could be transferred there to serve their sentences.

They boarded the shuttles and flew back to the community, where Laruun and Marta took the girls to Laruun's parents home. Mark, Bentiri and Solara designed a jail on the edge of the trees and built it with a construx, then the prisoners were transferred into the jail.

Unlike a security station, the jail was a very simple structure. It was more or less a rectangular building with a door on the corner that entered a hallway that went three quarters of the way down a short side, then exited into the main group cell.

The hallway did have p-shooters, so you could only go one way down it. The interior of the jail had a bench that went around the exterior of the jail to sit or sleep on. There was a toilet that faced the wall with a semi-circle wall around it for a bit of privacy and there was a food synth. It would do until the security station was operational.

Once all the prisoners were in the jail, the security personnel returned to their orbiter. Bentiri walked with Mark and Solara to Laruun's parents home. During the walk Mark vowed to improve the security on the planet and Bentiri thanked him for taking care of the hyena gang problem.

When they got to the house, everyone was lounging around in the living room as Mark and Solara came up and gave Laruun a hug expressing their sorrow at her loss.

Laruun was obviously still very distraught. It was already late evening so Laruun regaled them with stories from her childhood with Marta cutting in every now and then since she was also in most of the stories.

When it came time for bed, the girls left to stay at the hotel, so Mark could stay with Laruun.

After everyone had left, Laruun sat on Mark's lap and they cuddled a bit, then eventually suggested they head to bed.

When he got to the bedroom, there was Marta spread eagle on the bed playing with her pussy, needless to say his cock was almost instantly hard. Marta's body was a lot like Laruun's except she was a bit bigger and mostly orange with black stripes, her breasts were quite a bit larger than Laruun's with black nipples.

Laruun leaned in and began licking Marta's pussy, while Mark positioned himself behind Laruun and proceeded to sink into her warm depths. He fucked the cheetah girl nice and slow, happy to just watch the scene in front of him.

Marta was a very attractive girl, with entrancing golden eyes, she was purring very loudly from Laruun's skilled tongue. After a few minutes, Marta lifted Laruun's head up and kissed her deeply. Laruun then moved forward enough that Mark's cock fell out of her pussy with an audible pop.

Laruun and Marta both gave Mark kisses as Laruun said, "You get to cum in Marta tonight, I'd rather lick your cum out of her pussy than mine! But I want you to fuck her the way we first fucked. Marta you're going to like this!"

Laruun pushed Mark back on the bed and showed Marta how to ride Mark in that position, Marta then tried to mimic what Laruun just showed her. Marta managed to get herself into the position and it took a couple of tries until she was mounted on top with Mark's cock buried in her pussy. Mark then sat up and kissed the tigress and while his hands roamed to her breasts and nipples.

After a squeeze of one nipple, Mark saw there was milk on his fingers, so he brought his head up and began to suckle the sweet milk from her beautiful breasts. Laruun then moved in and began suckling from the other breast. Marta was enjoying the sensation as she moved her hips slowly up and down, to keep Mark hard inside her.

Laruun pushed Mark down onto the bed, allowing Marta to pump herself faster on his cock. Laruun then straddled Mark's face allowing him to lick her tasty wet pussy. Laruun continued to suckle the milk from Marta's breasts. After a few minutes Marta was losing her rhythm, so they switched positions so that Marta was back on the bed spread eagle with her legs spread wide, exposing her pretty pink pussy. Mark positioned his cock at her slick slit and slid in as Laruun lowered her pussy to Marta's mouth.

Mark smiled as he now had Laruun's breasts to suckle. Her milk was slightly sweeter than Marta's. His pace quickened a bit as Marta started gyrating her hips, soon he was reaching the point of no return and started pumping cum deep into the purring tigress. As Mark pulled his cock out of the tiger, Laruun licked his cock clean and then proceeded to lick the cum out of Marta's pussy.

When they eventually all recovered from their orgasms, Mark lay in the bed with a girl on each side. Marta asked, "What are you going to do now, Laruun?"

Laruun laughed, "Well, I was planning on cuddling and sleeping."

They all laughed as Marta said, "Me too, but after tonight?"

"I'm not sure, my brothers and sisters all died years ago, I was looking forward to spending some peaceful years with my parents, but even that has now been taken away from me," she said as she started to cry.

Mark hugged her and said, "You don't need to decide anything right now, take a few days to grieve your parents properly. You have a lot of friends to talk to and call on if you need anything."

They all cuddled tightly and the girls were asleep in no time.

With the girls fast asleep, Mark began to talk to Cricket about the security stations, "I've seen the security stations at Atlanterra, I'm guessing the ones around other planets aren't as big."

"You would be correct, a typical security station orbiting a planet is more like the embassy, but without the amenities. They bare in size from 100 to 500 metres long, they do have some armaments, but are only staffed by a few personnel, they are literally an orbital prison."

Mark then thought back to their plans of having the double ratio of Destroyers to planets and rotating them on a monthly basis.

"Cricket, can we redesign the security stations? Let's make them all like the statIons around Atlanterra, just maybe not as big. Let's upgrade them with sub-light engines to give them some mobility and make sure they have good scanners and communications. Also we should give them a complement of fighters, and emergency shuttles permanently stationed there to respond to planetary emergencies. They can still be prisons."

After thinking for a second, he continued, "I still like having a Destroyer also stationed there, but it could be stored in the landing bay. I just want a light drive capable security ship stationed around every planet to expedite responses to remote emergencies."

Mark then added, "Also we should choose the security personnel from the local residents of that planet, so they can spend more time with their families. Maybe at first they might need to be rotated in, but the goal would be to eventually staff them from their own planet."

Cricket said she was going to compose a message to General Marsbe about the changes.

Before long, Mark was drifting off to sleep, satisfied that he would be improving the security for all planets and probably making the personnel happier that they would be able to spend more time with their families.

Mark awoke the next day to a sexy kitty giving him a blow job. He had two pussies near his head, so he grabbed the tigress' ass and moved her over toward his mouth and began licking her pussy. Laruun then moved and mounted Mark and rode him until he came inside her. Then she lay down and spread her legs wide so Marta could lick the cum out as Mark suckled some sweet milk from her breasts.

As Marta finished bringing Laruun to another climax, Mark got a message saying to come over to the hotel for breakfast. So they cleaned up and walked over.

The girls met them for breakfast, as everyone comforted Laruun. Liyana went over the schedule for the day. Cricket had confirmed that the only step missed on both Savann and Atria was the security stations, which it turns out were ordered, because they used to actually build the stations at the shipyards and then deliver them to the planets, but the prince cancelled them to have two ships built. One was the Phalynx and the other was the Lorant.

Mark had Cricket locate the Lorant which, as it turned out, was currently in orbit around Atlanterra, but was scheduled to leave in the next few hours. Mark had this suspicion that the prince was using both those ships, but had actually been smart enough to never go to the Lorant to draw any suspicion to it.

Mark told everyone what Cricket had found and that he needed to make a quick call before breakfast.

Mark made a call, "General Marsbe, I suspect that the bastard is also using the Lorant, which is currently in orbit, but scheduled to leave soon. Can we legally board the ship for a spot inspection or something?"

Kaleb replied, "Of course we can! It's a cargo ship and we do random checks all the time, it looks like they are waiting for a shuttle."

Mark said, "I have a feeling they're going to run as soon as that shuttle lands. I think we should be waiting right by the Lorant and board just before the shuttle gets there, that way we can inspect the ship, but also the shuttle. Can we also put a tracker on that ship?"

"Ships are tracked by their comm links, which cannot be turned off, but we can't track a ship when they are in light drive. If they are out of comm range when they come out of light drive, we would not get any location updates, but I will make sure they are boarded and inspected before the shuttle!"

"Thanks Kaleb! Let me know what you find," Mark said as he ended the call.

Mark asked, "Cricket, is there any way you can get one of the new sensor beacons on that ship? That way, even if they run, we can find them if they're within range of any of our other beacons."

"Sure I can do that, I've got some beacons on the Battlestars."

Mark added, "Great! Also when the Lorant leaves, track their trajectory, or get their jump coordinates if you can, and send one of your seeding ships the same direction."

"Mark... hello Mark!" Annabelle was saying until he snapped out of it.

Mark shook his head, finally acknowledging his companions. "Sorry, Cricket and I were working out a backup plan!"

Right after breakfast they needed to fly to the senate, so they said their goodbyes to Laruun, Marta and Bentiri after breakfast and boarded the shuttle.

The flight to the senate chamber wouldn't have taken very long, but Maren flew low and slow so everyone could see all the scenery.

They landed just over an hour later near a very small version of the senate chamber on Atlanterra. This one was just one level high though and probably not much bigger than the jail they had just built.

Mark was dressed in blue tactical pants, combat boots, cowboy hat and black t-shirt which bore his name and rank. This was what the clothing synth's on the Battlestar made, so rather than wasting money and space having fancy clothes and then having to decide what to wear all the time, he just wore the uniform when travelling.

At any other clothing synth he could make blue jeans, it just didn't feel right wearing cowboy boots with tactical pants, but he still wore the cowboy hat.

As per the usual routine now for official meetings, Gyges exited first to assess the situation and to make contact with any security. Then everyone else exited, with Mark exiting last.

The crowd all cheered when Mark exited the shuttle. A network news crew was there wanting to talk to him, but they were instructed to wait until after the senate meeting, so Mark just smiled and waved at the crowd as they guided him into the senate chamber.

Once inside the chamber, he sat at his normal desk, which was one desk to the left of the head of the senate committee. The desks were exactly the same as the ones on Atlanterra so he was already familiar with fixing himself some coffee.

The senators filed in and began settling into their desks, then the news crews came in to sit in the central area.

As the head of the senate committee came in, he stopped and introduced himself to Mark. He was Senator Margul and he was human. The other 9 senators were a centaur, a minotaur, a lion, a tiger, a wolf, a hyena, an ape, a fairy and a bird person.

Similar to the first senate meeting on Atlanterra, this meeting was more or less a formality to introduce everyone and then discuss any really urgent matters.

Senator Margul, first introduced himself, he was the original ambassador to the planet from Atlanterra, but he had fallen in love with a local and had moved here. They made him the head of the senate, because he was a strong voice in the community and the reason a lot of stuff got done the 'Federation way'.

After that they went around the room and everyone introduced themselves... as before the Senator's profile was shown on Mark's display as they were talking.

With only 10 senators the introductions didn't take very long. When the introductions were finished they asked Mark to speak.

Senators, my visit to Savann has been eye-opening to say the least. I am afraid the Federation has failed you for the past 10 years, yet you stand before me as a symbol of the strength of your communities.

Upon first arriving on Savann, and learning that my friend's parents were murdered 3 days ago by some traditionalists, I made it my mission to bring them to justice, which is quite easy to do when proper security systems are in place. They were captured almost immediately and their guilt proven, it was then that I learned that one of the most important steps in a planet joining the Federation had been skipped for not only your planet, but also for Atria which joined around the same time you did. You were given all the technical and medical advancements, but the former Prince skipped the security step! Which, as far as I am concerned, is the most important step as safe living conditions to raise families are what the Federation is all about.

After letting what he had said sink in for a few seconds, he continued, "There will soon be a security station in orbit around the planet and if we don't already have them, we will be opening security training facilities and any local citizens over the age of 18 are welcome to sign up."

There was a round of applause when he finished and then Senator Margul chimed for a 15-minute recess.

During the recess, Mark got to talk to some of the other senators. Senator Jara, the tiger, said, "Bentiri contacted me as soon as they found the bodies. Laruun's parents were friends of his and he offered his condolences and that he was happy Mark was doing something about the security."

Senator Shiri, the hyena, expressed, "I am happy you are doing something about the security, and I apologize that many of the traditionalists are hyenas, but those groups are, in no way, indicative of the hyena population as a whole."

Mark said, "I try not to profile, there's bad eggs in every species, humans included, with the former prince being a prime example."

Just before the session was to resume, Mark got a message from General Marsbe, saying to call at his earliest convenience.

Mark found an empty meeting room and called the General.

Kaleb answered, "You were right, that ship was loaded with construx, stun guns, lasers, pulse cannons, medibeds and two mass fabricators!"

"Cricket, all that stuff is mass fabricated isn't it? Similar to the stuff we are using on Earth can you deactivate and disintegrate it using a drone with one of your fork routines on it?"

"Yes I can! All material made with Atlantean mass fabricators have a unique signature, kind of a fingerprint to trace where something was created."

"Good make up a fork routine with a time delay so that it won't activate until they land and offload the contraband. Once what they're hauling is gone, then go searching and disintegrate other stuff with an Atlantean mass fabricator signature."

"How soon can you have it done?"

"It's already done, I've commandeered the security drone from the Battlestar's shuttle that is doing the inspection."

"Kaleb, seize the mass fabricators, but leave everything else and let them go. I've got one of the new sensor and comm beacons mounted on the ship now so hopefully we will be able to find it when it exits light drive."

"Will do sir!" Kaleb said as the call ended.

Mark then had an idea, "Cricket, I just thought of something, let's put a self destruct feature into all power cells, mass fabricators, medibeds and construx. If they can't communicate with the Federation network for a period of 1 month, self destruct."

When the session resumed, there really wasn't much to discuss, pretty much everybody had the same contentions, security and problems caused by the traditionalists. However since Mark had already started improving those concerns with the addition of training facilities and security stations in orbit, there was no reason to continue discussing it.

The fairies and the bird people were the only ones not really concerned with security or the traditionalists. The fairies lived deep in the forests and the bird people lived high in the mountains, both were peaceful, fun loving species that primarily kept to themselves.

For the next couple of days, Senator Margul gave them a tour of the various regions of the planet.

T'Soona guided them to her community. She knew exactly where to go, but anyone else would've gotten lost trying to find the settlement.

The fairies were a very fun loving community. They had their own types of sports and they were very open with their sexuality, you often saw fairies fucking out in the open. Pretty much everyone was in a constant state of arousal from all the pheromones in the air.

Mark felt a lot like Gargamel in the Smurf village, except the Smurfs could fly. Full size people really didn't fit very well in their community as you couldn't get into many of their buildings.

Everyone had a riot hanging out with them, it was almost like living in a constant party, with lots of sex.

The avians were an interesting community. Some had used the construx technology to build their houses into the sides of cliffs, however most of the community lived in basic human style houses on a high plateau above the clouds near the top of a mountain. It was very scenic and the air was a bit cool up there, but it really was the only flat spot a shuttle could even land.

There were a few traditionalists that still lived in large nests, but they weren't violent and they were quite happy for some of the Federation enhancements such as the food synths and the medical.

Visiting a couple of hyena villages was quite different as well. These were villages where even the hyenas had kicked out the traditionalists, they were tired of being scavengers and troublemakers and wanted to change everyone's perceptions of their species.

Surprisingly, it was one of the larger hyena villages that Mark felt they were the most supportive of the Federation, moreso than even the centaur and feline communities.