Arc's Faith
22 Mar 2019Valcatta
I don't know how I ended up in Arc's Faith, but I guess I never really set a destination so... why not end up here? I left LP 320 and just pointed the ship in this direction. I didn't want to mess with passengers and, I was tired of getting shot at for mining, and, I did promise my mother that I would do my best to get a permit to be able to get back to earth. She still has family there, of course, I have never met nor talked to them in my life, but... I knew that my mom had written them often even though there was no way to send the messages from the backwater hole that we lived in. nothing was private there, whoever you gave your communications to would usually go through them, so she saved them in case any of us ever got to go back to the Sol system. Now, if my brother ever found out he would try to destroy them. He has always said that our earthbound family was a bunch of no good snobs, he would start with how he had met them and that they weren't worth the salt in our tears. he would go on and on about how they were soft because they never had to work for anything, how they lived off the backs of the generations of our family that came before them. If he got going on about them, you couldn't get him to shut up, but I digress.Once I got to HIP 19637 I noticed something strange. the communication patterns across the system were, well... they were strange that's all, just strange. I was going to check one of the signals out but, I'm just a passenger tug, I have no weapons or defenses to speak of, so to say I was apprehensive would be an understatement. I decided not to go, instead, I took a completely empty ship to the next sector to see if I could hear any of the strange transmissions there, but I didn't. I'm not really sure what to do now, should I go back and check it out? If I tell the authorities, they will either do nothing, or they will be so heavy-handed that it would cause issues for countless numbers of people. And boy wouldn't they just love to blame our family for more crap than what we already have going on. Yep, my brother would absolutely murder me.
Since mom died, he’s kinda been the one in charge, and I think it's going to his head. I mean after all there is only him, myself and Josh to deal with and as long as we are carrying people through the stars he’s happy, and he doesn't have to deal with us if we get a long trip. Nope as long as the credits are coming in, I really think he could care less about what we are doing. I know he is under stress though after pop died, and then mom a year later. Old man Thomas has been hammering him hard over some bills that my did had, but that we have no record of. So it’s been hard to keep our ships in good working order... I mean, after all, this tug was built for exploration not hauling people. My brother and my father retrofitted these cabins in here, and I have to say they did a nice job, and, its the cleanest ship we have. Not like that Hauler that Josh has to fly, man that thing takes ten years to turn.
Well, Arc’s faith, I hope you have a bar with some good beer and a decent meal. Tomorrow I'm going to go find out what those strange transmissions are.
Val.