I don't like it out here
28 Jul 2019Creamy Goodness III
The Cobra part was easy enough, but the jump to a Krait is a much bigger leap then I was thinking. I was told the Cobra is the only ship for a new Commander looking to make his way to riches fast. People don’t seem to know what fast means. I’ve been working all day and I only just made a million. That’s quite a lot of credits to the average Jo on the station, but it’s not even a fraction of what I need to get away from this region of space. I was told ships right out of the dock are in need of upgrades, but I was thinking extra fins and paint jobs. I didn’t know the power plant was less than stock from new. To make this Cobra respectable for getting about, I’m going to need to do three days more work and that WILL NOT stand. I named the Cobra Extramarital Affairs, but currently I should call it Mandatory Overtime.
Stop, let me take a breath. This is not me, I don’t complain all the time. I’m just not used to having to do so much just to travel. It’s been a tough few months and I’m not quite myself. I was gathering some data on a planet for some white coat and clipboard type and I went exploring once I was done. I came across two cargo containers just sitting there on the surface. I drove over to pick them up, and three skimmers burst out the ground and started shooting at me! I was shot at! Having a gun pointed at me is nothing new, but an AI using a large cannon at me is most unreasonable. Naturally I took care of the drones and collected the canisters, but it didn’t end there.
On my way back to the station, some moron in an Adder contacts me to let me know he’s going to kill me. Kill me over 1 tone of Platinum and some sort of machinery I also picked up. What kind of man would shoot down a Sidewinder for a couple of poxy tons of cargo? Someone called Hermann Frogkiller it seems. Frogkiller? What’s a frog and why people be proud enough to make it their family name? I’ve been living in this galaxy for 24 years and it seems I’m just getting to know it.
I’m ..working on upgrading the Extramarital Affairs so I can get out of the region and hopefully find a place with more of the people I’m used to socialising with. Civility is just an upgraded power plant and Jump Drive away.