Scouting Mission Day 14
29 Jun 2020Excess Fire
Its so quiet, so dark, no hum, no chatter, nothing, nothing at all. its dead quiet. this is unusual. Life support is on but nothing else, i wonder, Ha!... there's no fuel left... so they just up and left?, that's not right... someone could come and steal this ship and take it... oh yea, no fuel, take it nowhere... frakin idiot, wake up, they are all out mining for fuel... if they can find it, i should go help aye, i really should, probably a good idea... nah, breakfast first, then a bourbon, you know, kickstart.Where was i... yes, back to the hunt, Destiny's sorted, nice repaint, you look good old girl, lets go, we will keep the SRV on board for now, don't need range here so lets see what we can find.
10, 20, 30, are you kidding me, 40, 50, 60, seriously, nothing at all, aww come on, this is crazy. hour after hour, empty rings, rings with junk, no rings, nothing. this place is barren, time for a change of scenery i'm thinking. 61, 62, 63... this one has something, a whole waterworld, wow... i'm so frakin thrilled, prolly a cheapie, starmap down for frell knows what so i cant ascertain its value, gonna go map it anyway, need to make a dollar or two aye.
And we're jumping... this way... into a class T, and out again. the word for today... "system scan complete" for frackin nkvjgvh sake... next... Class B... should just skip it... yep, shoulda. Next a red dwarf, hope fading, yep "system scan complete" "system scan complete" "system scan complete" next, wait for it, waiting... nothing, ok, 16 bodies, 3 of em gassy's, with rings, icy rings, finally something to investigate.... "Go back to sleep kid, its only lunch time" strike one, strike two, strike 3, we're out... of here, next... 23 bodies, 4 of em gassy's, with rings, icy rings, again, something to investigate.... strike one, 3 single fuelers, strike two, 1 spot, strike 3, we're out... of here again, next... rewind, repeat
Jump 81 paid a little, finally, 4 hm-tf's and a ww... at the least, that's 4.5 mill. Might make the minimum 10 mill after all, no icy's but...
The daughter decided to go home, asked when i was going home, seriously, me home? domestic like shit? on the same planet as her mother? she's not talking to me now, yup... problematic... can't win em all aye. Dammit, she forgot the damned cat.
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