Avery Coppershade was the captain of the ship, the Glory. Well, that was the name it had in the port cities. Its real name was the ShadowStrike. But since her father had died and his will saying to change the name to that, Avery did as her father wished. But in her heart it would always be the ShadowStrike. Avery had just gotten onto the main deck, her first mate, a Mr. Dante Williams, from getting some goods sold from their last trip. She had Dante put the gold and cash into the vault when a small robotic fox ran up to her, barking with glee. She smiled and bent down, rubbing its head. "Hello Engine, did you miss me?" She stood and called "Mr. Clark! I want a role call in fine minutes, then when everyone is on board, we head out." She heard the reply and headed to her cabin, rubbing her eyes. She was beat. She hadn't slept well lately and the last two weeks the ship had been attack three different times. They had won of course but it was all starting to wear her out. She shut the door to her cabin and sighed, leaning against the door and closing her eyes. She said "Arachnid? Can you make sure we have no unwanted guests on board?" she heard a chirping and a huge spider landed in front of her, rubbing its face against hers and then climbing back to the higher parts of the cabin and vanishing for sight. The Glory was full of Avery's inventions. The crew didn't mind and most of her machine friends were loved by the men. Avery sat down at the huge table and started mapping out the next course, hearing the steam and nova engines kick into life and start heading out of the port.