Personal Log Entry 1:08:59 08 JUL 3302
08 Jul 2016Freyrson
......finally ........things are looking up.Long ago I thought going out into space was an easy way to make some credits. Support my family, keep them safe, and maybe find some excellent vistas to look at. Wow, was I wrong. Docking fees, fuel costs, ship repairs, slim profit margins and the ever present pirates have made it so that a guy can't hardly scrape together a living out here in the black. Hell, thanks to those psychos I've had to go on "unscheduled spacewalks" no less than 10 times! Floating out there, unprotected, slowly suffocating and freezing to death. Hoping system security forces heard your ships' emergency beacon before your drive went critical and blew it all to hell. Man, now that's pure terror. Makes a guy wonder why he's even trying out here in the cold and dark.
Problem is, it's worse planet-side. If the street gangs don't get you, the industrial accidents will, or disease, starvation, drug addiction or any other of a dozen things that can always be found where large numbers of poor people live and work. And if you somehow manage to avoid all that and start making just enough to make ends meet (which is nearly impossible with 5 mouths to feed and protect) the corporations and politicians finish you off with their greedy "economic rebuilding initiatives".
So yeah, to give my family a chance at something other than wage slavery and repression, I stole that case of credits during the gang shooting that was just outside the building we lived in. Pried it out of a dead man's hand. Jayce was his name. Ran with him and some of the others who were there before I met my wife. Different time. Different life.
I used the money to lease a Sidewinder and a small apartment (really more of a glorified storage unit) out at Dalton Gateway far away from that place and set out to make sure my kids don't have the same kind of life I had. But to do that I have to make some money. Lots of money.
Recently I've been able to upgrade to a Cobra MK III so that I can start to make some real cash as a trader and courier. We even signed a lease on a 3 bedroom condo at Sopheos station in the Phiagre system. Not sure how I feel living in a system that's being exploited by that warmongering Imperial bastard Denton Patreus, but the rent is affordable, the facilities are good, my children will get a good education there and this group of traders and explorers I joined operate out of that sector of space. They seem like a good bunch of pilots. They don't mind my sometimes Federal, sometimes Independent views on things, and I hear tell that they know some of the best trade runs and have some things they can teach me that'll help when I'm out in the void.
Only thing I need to do now is get my ass out of this dive bar in Sothis, get home to pack the wife and kids up, and move on out to our new home.
Heh.......so, things really are looking up........hope those aren't famous last words.