Humble spacer 09 Aug 3306 (taxi)
10 Aug 2020Igli
A meager 1 million Cr. for a ride to Colonia? Heh, this guy will sit in the passenger lounge till he's grey. Good luck finding a taxi. I'd rather pick a shady character and smuggle them safe and quiet into a not so distant a station. Anonymity is good for everyone. It's good for a client, no one likes to be disturbed. It's good for law officers, they will drink their coffee without haste. It's good for economy, not all of it has to be legal. It's good for the taxi driver either, the less I'm noticed the better.It's a nice and quiet job - carrying passengers around. Some are funny, asking to drop at local markets to have a look at some goods. Some demand to detour to take a peek at a place of interest. Some stupid ones even try to entice me into traversing half a galaxy to admire a view of some godforsaken ruins! These I usually throw out of the airlock and let them swim there through the vacuum by themselves, heh-heh-heh. Kidding. I don't do that. I just dump them at a nearest space station.
And that blonde lady last time - she parked herself and her luggage and her shitty little dog - and then after we hyper-jumped to destination she suddenly remembered that she actually needed to go to a different system! I surely delivered her to where the original destination was stated in the contract. What a storm of emotions and angry words ensued! The next day I found her dog roaming the cabin. I never ran a lost-and-found service so the pup was unloaded at some moon outpost. The poor skinny loser added some variety to the local cantina menu.