Personal Log, 16 June 3304
16 Jun 2018User78245
When I picked and moved away from Lave over a month ago, I'd been back home for nearly 7 months and starting to understand why I left in the first place. Irritating, self-important locals, gross failures of leadership in the Pilots Federation chapterhouse there, all the wrong sort of contracts. When the Lave Fortune Organisation ousted the Workers of Lave's democratic government and replaced it with a corporatocracy, I'd had enough. Word has it they themselves got ousted a month later by some other pack of arseholes from the Lave Radio Network who've screwed the system up even more. Murders, protests, shortages of food, shutdowns of services...I left not a moment too soon.I'd moved my operations over to the LTT 4772 system. Much quieter area, better Pilots Federation leadership, contracts that weren't sending me off risking my neck supporting some corporation's pissing contest against a democratic government just trying to make their peoples' lives a tiny bit better. It was a nice place. I enjoyed my short time there. But constantly on the local news: Lave Lave Lave Lave Lave...I've had it up to here with Lave. I left again just a few days ago.
We'll see how the BD+40 2903 system works out. The local Alliance-aligned patronage has given me a letter of marque as a privateer watching over their out-system assets. This area isn't nearly as riddled with pirates as the Old Worlds are, so my support has been limited to ferrying government officials and supplies while taking on any private contract I can get my hands on. The main news sources come out of either Eranin or the Alliance core worlds around Alioth, and barely anything is going on there, so much better for my peace of mind.
The Dagr system is nearby as well. I thought about dropping in on my old unit to see how old comrades are doing, but I checked over their roster and nobody I used to get along with is there anymore. Just a couple of people whose attitude cemented my decision to leave the ADF remain. A couple months ago the 351st turned over all of their Asps and accepted Type-10s in their place, and now they're based out of Bixby Port in G 139-21 instead of grimy old Judson Point in Dagr. There was a massive turnover of personnel around that time, Type-10 qualified pilots were brought in and all the Asp qualified pilots were farmed out elsewhere around the ADF. So now there's no reason to return to Dagr, no reason to return to Lave, just me, my ships, and whatever contract's in front of me. Just as well, I suppose.