The Long Trip - Home...
08 Dec 2016NickTheGrey
It seems my last log entry was prophetic.I was warned hostile ships would be sent to stop me completing my mission but wow, I was not prepared for just how "hostile" they were going to be. I held my own for as long as I could but in the end I could do nothing but watch as the last of my systems were destroyed and the Hrafnkel was reduced to atoms around me.
I was surprised to wake up in a medical facility on Asellus Prime and not aboard Jaques station as my last stop. Twenty-something thousand light years? I learned just a couple of hours ago that I'd lost a lot of blood in the attack and the doctors aboard Jaques could do nothing about my injuries. Luckily. an advance scout from the Christmas Convoy from the Bubble was planning to return to the Bubble using a newly-discovered "Neutron Highway" and agreed to take me along.
So now I'm back in the Bubble with a borrowed Sidewinder and - luckily - the bulk of my fortune, so finding a replacement ship is not going to be difficult. It looks like I'm going to be laid up here while I recover from my injuries so there's plenty of time to plan my next move.