Often, missionaries sought to be assigned to various dimensions for adventure as well as the chance to reach the lost.  Bevris Mauven was one such person.  When he was a young child he had read about pirates and wished he had been around when they terrorized the high seas.  Then when he entered the seminary and had his choice of dimensions to serve in he found some that appealed to his sense of adventure.

When he graduated from seminary in 1832 he chose to serve where pirates were active.  There was a world that was similar to earth in the late 1600’s to early 1700’s when the likes of Captain Kidd and Blackbeard roamed the seven seas. 

He chose to bring a male bio-syn that looked tough enough to fight demon wolves with a knife, six electromagnetic discharge pistols, a couple electromagnetic discharge rifles, a chest of steel projectiles, a couple sturdy swords made from ultra-stressed material for supreme strength and sharpness, a food and beverage replicator, a personal force field unit, a couple structural force field units that could protect a house and church, an injection reactor, a printing press that looked almost like what they had during the 18th century, a materials replicator, some books that were actually computerized multi-books, a chest of clothes from the period, a small chest of gold coins and gems, and some tools he would need to build a building in case he arrived in a location where he needed to build a church and home. 

So that he could be mobile, he also brought along a carriage and two synthetic horses that didn’t need to eat or drink.  But to make them seem realistic, they were able to eat and drink like a horse and produce the expected waste, only it didn’t smell as bad.   He also loaded in a transporter and transporter tags so he could travel easier instead of needing to use the portal all the time.  That would come in handly if he were captured and needed to escape. 

Bevris and his “manservant” Terj shifted to the dimension riding in the carriage with Bevris inside the carriage and Terj driving it.  The chests were strapped to the back and top of the carriage with a couple smaller ones and the printing press in the carriage.  If he needed ink, he could use his material replicator to produce it.  Both replicators were also strapped to the back of the carriage in the rear boot.