A freelancers journey.
08 Feb 2018cookevs45
Today marks the fourth power play cycle I’ve spent outside of the bubble. Far outside. Shortly after pledging to Aisling Duvall I got word one of my contacts that there was to be an expedition underway for an ill CMDR who was looking to take what may be his last trip to a far away system called Colonia. I've always wanted to visit the place ever since I heard of it. Ive been reluctant to pledge to a power as I usually don't agree with the politics of our lovely human space, however war with the Thargoids is coming and even a skilled bounty hunter like me has had some trouble with the occasional desperate pirate and growing danger and paranoia thats been going around since the threat of alien war has began. It's making it hard to earn a living.Fast forward to today as I obviously joined the Dove Enigma Expedition fleet, and being that I'm not too crazy about being part of a superpower that I'm not exactly crazy about I have taken my time out in the far away systems surrounding Colonia.My primary mission, to honor the great CMDR and the journey we have been commissioned to take, and secondly, to gain as much capitol from exploration data to build up my fleet so that I might survive the war with the Thargoids. Hell I even decided to take a detour to Sag A on my way back, which if you don't know its a massive super black hole in the center of our galaxy. While I was out there I happen to run into a friend I made on the fleet, CMDR f8tl fury. I heard my comms go off while below deck on my ASP Explorer and I made my way to the bridge. "07 CMDR! No shields?" Fury asked. "Well I couldn't get my anaconda ready for the trip in time and this fuel scoop is shit" I reply, "So I like to turn off all non essential systems when I'm this far out, you know to save on fuel." He says, "Clever. And brave" and I can hear him laughing loudly through the monitors on the bridge. So we wing up and fly around the amazing sight as our drones take some great shots to sell to Galnet for their news coverage, like I said, its hard to make a living nowadays.
Now that the primary mission is complete, the second is still active and thats to make as much as I can financially of this journey. My next destination is the guardian ruins for a real payday.