Side Trip
15 Jan 2016ROWND
When I got up I checked the starport bulletin board and discovered 3 well paying missions to nearby Adeo, a system I'm familiar with. It was too much to pass up, so I jumped into my sweats and took a meandering stroll around the station offices, commons and markets where within a half hour I had met with all three contacts in secret and collected a stack of documents to transport to various stations around Adeo. These were all business types, so I didn't expect to have to get too devious in covering my trail. I hid one document package behind each vent in the Cobra's main hallway and set off with a mug of hot wakeup juice steaming next to me in the cockpit. Within an hour I had dropped the goods off at 3 stations with only one hostile interdiction on the first jump. The miracles of modern transportation techology! A second interested party (wait, maybe I WAS followed in the station...) interdicted me en route, but oddly played friendly and didn't pull out the pop guns and force the issue until I had jumped away and then dropped out again at the starport. Unfortunately for him I came out of supercruise inside the no-fire zone and he could only launch frustrated threats at my exhaust nozzles. Another 182000 in the bank isn't bad for less than 2 hours of cruising around the neighborhood. I think I'll take the afternoon off...