New Year's Eve and a Wanted CMDR
31 Dec 2024Enigmarocket
CMDR Enigmarocket's Personal Log:The start of a new year, yet another one, in the black is cause for reflection. This year, I've gone from some rags to riches and then back to some rags. I've been a hero of humanity, a restorer of order, a successful trader, and an explorer. My jumpaconda, the RMS Dionysus, is in fine working order since I've stopped flying her into suns and at 150% heat. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my new Imperial Cutter, courtesy of my recent promotion to Duke in the Imperial Navy, but that's a problem for next year.
What I don't rightly understand, though, is politics and corporate greed. I accepted a mission to restore power to a mining colony in Sol. Easy money normally, right? I flew from the Abraham Lincoln and self-landed on the colony's landing pad. Fortunately, no raiders were already present, so it was just a quick jaunt into the power station to reactivate the power. Imagine my surprise, after the base awoke, to receive instant fines from my employer--the company tasking me with turning on their power--for blocking the landing pad. Apparently "the help" can't park in designated guest parking?! I hadn't even stolen anything (yet) from the base. Five seconds later, after accumulating a 1,000 credit fine, it was upgraded to a bounty.
After dismissing the ship back to orbit, so I could angrily loot the place dry (allegedly), the
Unfortunately for them, I'm a better pilot and made it back.
Unfortunately for me, the Lincoln was not equipped to handle my bounty payment; I had to leave, evade bounty hunters, and fly to another station just to pay my former employer. Why they couldn't have just docked my pay, I'll never know.
Anyway, as I sit back on the bridge of the RMS Dionysus, with no current bounties and a hold full of "lawfully acquired" property just abandoned for the taking, I'm not sure what direction the solar winds will blow in 2025. All I can say for certain is that no good deed goes unpunished.
Happy New Year.