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Pooh Runs

21 Aug 2016KronenBrg
How did I get into this? And more importantly, how am I gonna get out of it?

It started with an idle conversation over a synth ale. I had been running errands all day to try and get enough scrap together to pay another gambling visit to Felicity.  I needed to get my Python up a better jump range, though I'm not actually certain why I needed this. I guess you could call it peer pressure. Or maybe lack of smarts. Anyway, I digress.

So as I sat there, sipping my ale and watching the steady stream of ships coming in and going out, I saw her.  Oh my, she was something, that massive nose slowly slipping through the docking mouth, gracefully.  Well, almost, as it appeared the pilot wasn't yet used to his huge ship, and was scraping it and bouncing it slowly through the doorway, accompanied with a truly awful noise, like a Sumerian Cat being run over by a terraforming machine.

It was then I saw the insignia below the bridge fore window.  It was my old friends'! But how had he been able to afford such a grandiose ship? He had been having enough trouble, by his own admission, keeping his Annie up and running through habitual bounty hunting, so how had he now upgraded to this?

When he had disembarked and joined me in the Fiery Nebula, he explained how things had changed so much and so quickly;

"Sh*t! For some damn reason they can't process their own sh*t, so they pay good money for me to take it away. Strange thing is, at the other end of the journey are people who seem almost excited to see sh*t arriving"

He went on to explain that he'd managed to buy his latest ship and totally A grade it just through running this sh*t from one place to another, and that the smell wasn't so bad after a while.

And so, ten or so ales later, I'd made up my mind; I was going to run some pooh.  It wasn't that I needed the money and it wasn't that I really wanted a Corvette. But I felt that if it was there to be done, then damn it, I was going to do it.

So that's how I got into this. Now I just need to figure out, how do I get out of it?
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