Starlog - Entry 7 - 19 August, 3304
19 Aug 2018Thalikor
Well all systems showing nominal... Orion did a good job of patching up the sloppy hacker work. Traced it back to some no name at Mars High, and right around the time I was hashing out the details of my ships storage with Decker while I was away on this trip. Apparently the virus was set to kick in when I got 1000ly away from Sol. If Decker had anything to do with this, which I'm sure he did, he probably forgot I had Orion installed a few months back... Even though he's the one that installed the damn thing. Turns out there's a clause in my contract with Decker that says if I don't return for my ships in the next month, it's considered abandonment and he's the new owner of all my ships left in his care.
I heard there's an engineer who specializes in thrusters, he values exploration data and only seems to do business with people who have gone on long distance trips, 5kly or more out into the black. I've only got about 2000ly to go before I hit that so I'm gonna finish out this trip, go visit that hacker, beat the info I want out of him, then go see this engineer. Prolly have to make a pit stop in between to straighten some things out with Decker, I'm sure the look on his face when I show up will be the last piece of the puzzle.
There have been a lot of people that tried to take me out in a lot of different ways, part of the job when you hunt bounties for a living. If it turns out Decker was behind this, I'll make sure he doesn't pull this scam on anyone ever again. If there's one thing this trip has helped me realize, it's that it's a big open universe out there... people go missing all the time. I took some pictures of some systems no one's ever recorded being to before, I'll upload them when I get back.
Orion, thermal and thruster checks, prep jump for next system... Oh, and thanks... you saved my ass Orion. It's a shame ya can't drink cause I owe ya a beer when we get back. Let's see what's out there buddy.
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