"Space Trucking"
31 May 2018CelticSpartan01
It’s been a while since I’ve had the time to write a log but between recovering from my injuries received in my most recent brush with death and the new found ability to make the most efficient use of the trader app found on galnet “EDDB”.I used it for days and days, trading between two systems and made 10s of millions of credits, but, there was a part of it that made me feel.. dirty..
I was trading slaves.. Now, these “slaves” were well fed and looked very healthy and I know the rules of how imperial slaves are to be treated with dignity and care, but there are cases, such as with me and my mother, where those rules are bent and even broken into hundreds of pieces.
No telling how many slaves I took from one station to the next, likely thousands over those few days, making turn arounds in as little as 11 minutes and 23 seconds (Which includes taking off, super cruise, hyperspace, super cruise approach next station, landing, offloading cargo, on-loading cargo, taking off, and landing at the previous station.) yea, it got so dull, and I got so good at landing and taking off that it became boring.
I also know that if I didn’t take these slaves, someone else would have, still, doesn’t make me feel a whole lot better, so..I took the 160 mil I made and set off for another supposed high paying trade route, one between Sol and a station called “Hutton Orbital”.
Now I’m sure that this is one of, if not THE home of the Hutton Truckers which I joined by invite not long after I started flying, an invite from a man in a bar of the first station I docked at.
Supposedly you can make tens of millions of credits by taking missions and going to this station, which, better be the case since it’s over 4 million light seconds away from the star. Which by my calculations, will take almost 2 hours to traverse at maximum super cruise acceleration.
I’ve also been hearing more about and studying more about these “thargoids” which seem to be getting more and more bold.
The footage I’ve managed to find is horrifying and I know that I need to hurry and make the money I need to A rate my Python, I also need to mine to get the materials to make use of the engineers that are waiting to help me. Why?
Well I want to get involved in combat missions, that little scrape I got into escaping that planet a week or so ago.. well it made me realize I might be good at and even like combat.
And then there are the thargoids, from what I’ve been seeing in the pilots net, it’s been getting harder and harder to hold them back and so I want to help, but, I’ve got a long way to go in a short amount of time.
Of course CoolJ is raring to go thargoid hunting but I’m not even attempting it til I KNOW my ship is ready, might not even be ready then.. But I’ll do my best.
So, guess I’m about to make my first trip to Hutton Orbital, only 8 mil this trip, but hey, gotta start somewhere, right?