The Only Good Bug...I thought I knew hell. Seven years as a Federal Marine, I thought I'd seen everything, but nothing prepared me for Shinrarta Dezrha. I dropped out of supercruise a handful of kilometers from the mangled Jameson Memorial Space Station. My comms crackled...
Starting Over (Again)I flexed the fingers on my cybernetic right hand and worked the wrist around as I sat in the cockpit of the shiny new Cobra Mk.III. I had accumulated a small fortune doing mercenary work and legal salvage operations. Second Heartbeat wasn't an expensive...
AwakeThe first two surprises of the day came in rapid succession. The first was that I was apparently not dead. The second, and only slighltly less surprising, was that neither was I in a prison ship, nor was I in a hospital. I've spent enough time in both...
A Rookie Mistake"Proximity Alert." Celeste reported. I unfastened the tether holding me to the bunk and propelled myself into the cockpit. After strapping myself into the command seat, I looked at the scope. It was Brenna. His Fer-de-Lance twenty or so kilometers...
On a Wing and a PrayerThe advent of the Frame Shift Drive revolutionized space travel forever. Voyages of days to weeks were reduced to mere minutes overnight. Systems too remote to viably colonize are now homes to thriving communities. The "Bubble" has grown from...
What Have I Done?Be advised, the following entry depicts violence and contains some harsh language. It wasn't strictly a legal op. Frankly, it was illegal as hell. I knew I was coming out with a heafty bounty. It wasn't the first time I found myself an outlaw. I've...
Starting OverNever fly without a rebuy. Right. Who needs a rebuy? That haul was supposed to set me up for life. 20 million creds worth of merchandise loaded up in my Type-9. Easy route, high security the whole way. And I had my Condor, just in case. To bad it wasn't...
