Mining or sleeping
11 Mar 2019Greenstuff
The sad story of the Sleeper Commander...Me and my mate, Ordnaloc, were near Shinrarta, in a solar system called LHS 2509. We'd been mining void opals to be the richest pilots of the universe for many days.
For my part, I had enough exploding those big rocks... Much tired, I went back home to talk and drink beer with mates in Shinrarta.
Ordnaloc, however, stayed in the icy ring to quench his thirst for wealth.
Ordnaloc may be a warrior, but even warriors deserve a break...
As we proceeded communicating through intercom, we suddenly heard a dull and muffled noise in our ears. It seemed that the break finally catched up to our good warrior of a friend.
Grabbing the opportunity, as mischievous as we were, one of us decided to join him in order to capture the moment and immortalize the apex of a carreer.
Little did they know, upon reaching back the icy ring, they forgot the possibility of luring wicked pirates to their position.
Obviously, the said pirates didn't fail to follow the unaware crewmember. They indeed found a massive hoard of wealth : many hours of mining worth of opals in one load, and no one consenting to defend it.
The events that followed were of a tragic nature, the sleeping commander fought valiantly despite his lethargic condition causing him to spin like a rock.
The travelling crewmember, aboard his defenseless ASP Explorer, could only watch his mate getting ripped open. He couldn't resist however, he started screaming and shouting like a sportcaster, commenting the mythical fight for our ears to listen to the dramatic events that occurred many lightyears away.
The poor commander could not even ponder the amount of laughter and fun they had in spite of him, and how ironic the situation was due to their entire responsibility for this unfortunate turn of events.
The awakening was a tough one, as he was met in the Jameson Memorial Hospital by a bill urging him to pay the bail of his ship.
Thankfully, the Imperial Octopus Cartel takes care of its members, an by such they've organised a vendetta upon those filthy second class pirates and a mission for the robbed commander to be repaid his lost load of opals.
