Adventures of a space hobo. Episode 1
07 Apr 2017DRTerminus
After years of building my fleet of ships, reputation and credit balance I found myself in a strange place mentally. Returning from yet another civil war, credits balance swolen, I feel the need for a change and my doctor says I need to take things easy, apparently endless combat is not good for my health.Boarding my Python I begin looking through the mission boards at Barjavel station. Two missions catch my eye, both going to the same system, Hanjangai, just over 100ly away. A few million credits in total, not a huge amount but certainly worth my while and it makes a change from the usual war profiteering.
Accepting the missions I plot my course and begin the launch sequence. As I raise the landing gear I receive an alert. "Incoming mission update". "Oh for gods sake I shout" expecting Dolores my crew member to ask what was wrong, then I remember I fired here a few hours ago.(She had a tendency to ask for assistance after the fighter had been recycled into engineering materials). As sure as space is cold, one of the mission destinations had changed, fortunately only to Manamaya, 1 jump from Hanjangai.
A few jumps later and I entered the Hanjangai system and head for ibold Enterprise, a large planetary space port. Things are going well, my feet are up, blood pressure is down when suddenly "Interdiction detected!". Glichy Script and two wing men had decided I was not going to make this delivery today. I on the other hand had other plans, and it did not take much skill to evade his interdiction, I suspect even Dolores could have could have escaped that one.
I carry on and complete my delivery missions but my thirst for blood has been re-awakened. Can I ever live the life of a space hobo, drifting from system to system doing whatever mission catches my eye?
I plot course for the nearest civil war, there is some pent-up agression that needs to be released!