Personal Log 116: 11th - 17th April, 3302 (Part One)
16 Oct 2016Jemine Caesar
11th - 17th April, 3302 (Part One) I woke the next morning and checked the Leavitt Orbital bulletin board. There was a mission to take twenty-four canisters of titanium to LHS 54 for the United Mombaluma Resistance. The pay was an eye-watering 120,000CR! I accepted the contract eagerly, and powered up The Last Thing for the four-jump trip.
On arrival at LHS 54 I headed straight for Popper Enterprise starport. In addition to the payment for the titanium, I also sold the stellar cartography data I had gathered at Minmar for another 49,000CR. I clapped my hands with joy as I read the total of my credit account. Sam would be so pleased...
My heart leapt into my throat. Sam! He would surely be annoyed with me for walking out on him yet again. I had to go back to Beta Hydri, at once! I tapped the return course into my navcom, and set off.
Fortunately Sam had been busy bounty hunting, and hadn't regarded my absence as anything out of the ordinary. Over a coffee at The Rose, Sam listened to my edited version of the previous day, sympathising with my troubles and praising my successes. I felt that I was a lucky girl to have a man like Sam.
I knew I didn't deserve him, really.
We parted with kisses, and went about our normal day's work. For Sam, of course, this meant bounty hunting. For me, trading and courier jobs.
While delivering coffee and fruit to L26-27 I was attacked by a Cobra III. The pilot, Meindert Niemeyer, was rated Competent, but my lasers made fairly short work of him, and I collected a bounty of 19,000CR.
Before returning to Beta Hydri I loaded up with twenty-four canisters of crop harvesters, which I sold at Stevenson Base for a profit of 2760CR. I powered down The Last Thing, and accessed my Pilot's Federation social media account.
Two of my friends, Karvin Delront and Kyle Senreiko, were online. We chatted about this and that, including a recent Galnet news item about someone called Lysianassa, who had proclaimed herself Queen of Sagittarius A.
"Why she wants to be queen of a black hole is rather a puzzle to me," I remarked.
"Well, better be a queen of a black hole than be a queen of nothing!" quipped Kyle.
"You could demand a fee of everyone who wants to see the black hole." replied Karvin.
The next day, April 12th, I carried out more delivery jobs, and chatted by k-cast with MK Potter. MK said he was in the Vesuvit system, involved in some sort of work with an organisation called Time Of Chaos. It sounded dangerous, and I told him so.
An interdiction by a Viper IV at Sosolingati went well for me, and I redeemed a bounty of 21,000CR.
Back at Stevenson Base, I chatted with Sam about my day's work. Everything was all right between us, and I felt happy. But then Sam made a casual remark about something really trivial, which irritated me for no good reason, and I snapped back at him. As soon as I'd said it, I realised how foolish I'd been...
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Thanks to commanders Karvin Delront, Kyle Senreiko and MK Potter