OUTCAST Ops: African Firestorm

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A 210-meter long container ship based out of South Africa with a cargo of 6,600 containers, the Northstar Venture was barely twenty years old. The ship had a clean, though slightly worn look, with a green hull and a white, five-story tall superstructure located three-quarters of the distance from the bow. The flagship of the SeaStar Ventures line, she was traveling from South Africa to Singapore, with stops in Doha and Mumbai.

It was near midnight when the Northstar's captain, Alexi Novikov, walked onto the bridge. Longer than it was wide, with doors on each end and windows affording a 360 degree view of the ship and surrounding sea, the bridge was currently cloaked in darkness. The lighting inside was subdued, most of it coming from back-lit controls and monitors.

Novikov was a short, thin man, and he dressed for comfort this far outside of port in slacks and a golf shirt. He'd gone to sea when he was sixteen and had spent most of three decades on one ship or another, working his way up to command the Northstar for the last five years.

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