The escort mission is under way, bound across the Sea of Sardinia in the Mediterranean for Cagliari, but with the merchant vessels taking their sweet, careful time.

Get this man a Nintendo Switch and some Wi-Fi, stat! CHAPTER 3 The rest of the chapter details the aforementioned outfitting of the ship, as well as a testdrive (testsail?), which doesnвЂ™t really go all that well, but AubreyвЂ™s pleased well enough since heвЂ™s got his own command now, even if his quarters are awful lonely this way. Now theyвЂ™re just trying to hide that fact.

CHAPTER 2ДЄs Jack and Steve-o begin their friendship by talking about the wonders of languages, and we meet First Lieutenant James Dillon, who as it turns out, shares some secret history with Maturin, seeing as how theyвЂ™re both Irish Radicals. Those were always the worst Starcraft missions. Seeing as how heвЂ™s got nothing to do, Maturin accepts, and thus weвЂ™re off on our first assignment, an escort run. But our man goes about securing things that need to be secured, including a cunning little move to get some new sails - though he finds out in the next chapter that the ship cannot handle 12-pound cannons, much to his chagrin.ДЄnd after holding some clear the air talks with Maturin, he invites the good doctor to grow some sealegs and join him as the shipвЂ™s surgeon. Opposites do attract! (And because IвЂ™ve seen the movie, oneвЂ™s Russell Crowe, the other is Paul Bettany.) OneвЂ™s a naval officer without a ship, the other a doctor without a patient (he had one, but they died you see).ДЄnd then that changes quickly, with Aubrey getting an assignment from the admiralty and a promotion from Lieutenant to вЂњMaster and CommanderвЂќ (thus the title), and a (relatively) little ship (sloop-oвЂ™-war) called the HMS Sophie, with relatively little manpower to crew it and few resources to outfit it. MaturinвЂ™s pretty much the opposite in every respect.

AubreyвЂ™s a boisterous, outgoing, emotional, large and loud man, mostly ignorant to the world outside the Royal Navy. But the former decides against doing so with a tiny white chair after the latter makes a comment about his overly enthusiastic music enjoyment, and instead they get to talking. We meet our heroes almost from the first word, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, at a concert of some вЂњBaroque musicвЂќ on the island of Minorca, and as any great friendship, it begins with the urge to beat up the other person.

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