Career & Retirement, Part 1: Beginnings
07 Sep 2018Tango Indigo
Back in 3301 was when a friend I hadn't see in a long time visited me with the proposal that would soon change my life. Wiggins was always a close friend across a long distance. I only actually met him in person twice. The first time was when, due to my administrative job at the time, I had to fly to the Kamadhenu system, where I knew he was stationed and we arranged to have some lavian brandy when I had finished visiting a client. We were both fascinated with the blackness of space and I couldn't help but feel grateful that my job position allowed me to fly intersystems so often, and we talked about that all the time, that day, in person, and many other days, via symlink.Back at Conversion I ended up changing jobs, as life orders it, and my space travels became rarer, but I would still go off world once a year, sometimes two. That day Wiggins hurriedly called me and said he'd be visiting me soon. When he arrived we talked a lot, again, space was the subject most of the time and when he told me his real intention with the visit I was both surprised and somehow reticent: Wiggins was for some time now flying his own spaceship, and had enlisted with the emperor guard of honor, Lavigny's Legion.
He was a highly appraised pilot of many battles now, and as such he was in a position to grant me a Pilot's Federation recommendation. That alone could be enough for them to train me, free of charge and actually give me my own first ship. Only a Sidewinder Mk2, but hyperspace-capable. I would be free to roam the galaxy, this time no longer as a passenger, but as the pilot of my own ship, to blaze my own trail.
Truth be told, I didn't accepted the honor that moment and he would still call me repeatedly to check if I had changed my mind. One day, in a mix of fortunate and not-so-fortunate events, I decided to drop everything I had and head into the void.
Thus started my life as a Pilot's Federation commander.
