A goodbye?
03 Apr 2020PsychoLuke
I feel a litte bit sad as I stand on the deserted looking Bridge of the Vincent. Cables hanging out the Ceiling, the used and dented Pilot chair evoking a lot of Memorys. Countless days I spent in that chair. The Rudder-Stick I clenched hard on so many fights, trying to evade enemys or trying to get into their back to shoot them. Even that one time I held on to that chair as tight as I could as the canopy cracked and exploded in front of me during a particular fierce chase with a well known Pirate. The Vincent was my home. It was my biggest proud as I worked relentlessly to afford it, doing freight-runs with a chunky old Type-9. Once I got it I put all my efford and love int this ship, for the other Crew-members I hired for different occasion it was just another ship and just another job but I spent every hour devoting to this ship. I flew all over the bubble to visit talented Engineers and bargaining with them to improve the Vincent even further, crawling into its guts and twisting and tweeking the FSD, the shield and nearly all other Modules. Some of the modifications I did may not be approved by the pilots-federation but they don’t necessary need to know everything. I basically know every Cable in this ship by it´s name.In the Bars I heard the laughter of Pilot flying those fancy imperial Cutters but it was never an option for me to work for those Slavers. And to be honest I preferred the rugged looks of the Core-Dynamics ships over those Candy looking Slave-ships.
Now the proud Vincent sits on a landing-Pad besides a shiny new ship. As I am a proud citizen of the Federation I did quite a lot of Jobs for the Navy, including even quite a amount of deployments in combat-zones and at some Point last month I got surprisingly promoted and got the Chance to purchase an federal Corvette from a nearby shipyard. So I scraped my last credits together an did so. But as I could not afford to maintain 2 of those large ships I took the Vincent over there and started to transfer all these nice custom-modified modules from her to the new ship to replace those mediocre stock modules. Now I am standing here watching the shipyard-crews gutting my beloved ship and installing her remains into this new ship wich is a strange to me by this point. Don´t get me wrong, she is a beauty but doesn´t have personality to me. Yet. So I came to the conclusion to not completely sell the Vincent but to put her in a Hangar and maybe one day when I got a coulpe of credits left I will rebuild her and she will fly again.
What´s left for now is to make a new beginning and for that I need a name for that new and shiny ship to be lasered on it´s side and to be programmed into it´s transponder.
I thought about it a lot but in honour of a great love it´s gonna be “Vincent the 2nd”.