Out of Retirement Just in Time for the Invasion
04 Dec 2024Graniterock
After many years of retiring from the stars my cousin convinced me it might be more profitable to dust off my ship. He felt I should go visit the Granite Security Agency which carries the family name. I've never met them, but I wonder if there's some ancient family connection. Upon arriving in the system I discovered that they were a shell of their former selves with only 2% control of the system.While deciding what to do, I got a call from the Sol system to come help evacuate it. I had always wanted to visit there but never had the motivation to earn the reputation to get a proper permit. So I took a shuttle to a nearby star where I purchased a dolphin with the hope of evacuating as many Earth citizens as I could with the hope that maybe this would earn me a permanent permit.
My first run to the rescue ship with my passengers was a disaster. At least I lived. I do not know what happened to half of the passengers who were pulled out of my ship when some sort of Thargoid device attached itself to the passenger components. I thought I had learned how to outrun them, but my efforts to return to Earth were in vain. My dolphin got blown up twice and I had to be rescued. Insurance gave me no problems replacing my ship but frankly I don't know how many times the search and rescue team can pull me out of the void.
They had returned me to a carrier but I feared they may decide to rush away so I consulted my map and found an old bookmark to Hooper Station where I think I will spend the next few days deciding what to do next. Earth is almost certainly about to be hit by the alien invasion. I would get a thrill of blowing them out but someone needs to give me a ship with better guns.