Commander Ashley Williams
04 Feb 2016AVON NOVA
The Sirius Corp paid me for the mission and asked if I would take one of their Commanders back to Newholm with me. 
My passenger was Ashley Madeline Williams, an Independent pilot pledged to Li Yong-Rui (CEO of Sirius Corporation) and assigned to the Sirius Navy. I was very aware of the Sirius Navy as it had ships based in Sothis, providing vigorous protection for all Sirius Corporation interests. Although the navy used a large number of Cutters all built under license from Imperial Gutamaya in Sirius' own naval yards it also operates other older types of patrol ships as well as a great many fighters. All ships are branded with the Sirius Corporation's logo and painted in a blue livery.
During the journey back to Sothis I learned that Ashley was born on April 14th, 3267 on the old colony world of Lave. Her father was a pilot and following her family's tradition, Ashley trained as a pilot in the legendary Lave Space flight School and graduated with glowing performance reviews. Ashley then took an internship with the Sirius Corp and served at numerous orbital stations and planetary garrisons working through the Corporations Junior grades with shipboard co-pilot postings.
She had recently been given a promotion to level 5 and has just been given command of a heavily modified Python "Interdictor patrol ship". She was heading out to Newholm to collect the ship and she was also looking to recruit a good co-pilot. This sounded interesting and I wanted to learn more.
She told me that if I pledged to Sirius I would start as level 1 commander with a weekly salary of 1000 credits but if I worked hard I could be a level 5 like her and be earning 50 million credits a week. Also the corporation paid very attractive mission bonuses and all rewards and transactions count towards my Pilots Federation ranks. By the time we had arrived at Newholm I had agreed to pledge my services to Sirius and join her as co-pilot aboard the Python Interdictor.