Post by svetlana on Mar 27, 2010 13:31:46 GMT -5
What is my story? Well is actually quite simple.
I grew up a belter, in asteroid Katringrad, in the outer belt. I was born in the black, and spend great deal of time there.
Until about 8 months ago? there about? anyway, I serve aboard the mining ship Moskva. When it got decommissioned, I move out to this part of space and start fresh.
I sign aboard "Our Lady of Opportunity" with Kepten Valiant. She was based over Shadow. Was good job and good ship. But not much work.
So I hire on to this security job. It was guarding new factory out in bad lands, with bad peoples. Meet ship at date and time, a grand up front, another when job was done. Oh, by the way, enroute we are going to stop off and do an impromptu training exercise, to evaluate the new recruits.
And everybody would be using blanks. They were very insistant on that point.
We roll out of drop ship and its Bootleggers, a bar in MacLaren I know very well. I see Cody, I shoot at him, with blanks. He fire back with real bullets, and I take a round. I yelling to halt to cease fire, when some zopha sets off flash bang, making me blind and deaf as well as bleeding..it was bad day.
It was all sucker ploy to kidnap bartender. Him and gal named Mickey were put on trial for setting off nuke at Londinuim earlier. But if it were law enforcement operation, why did they need to hire me to get shot and probably killed? Then fly off and leave me? They still owe me a grand.
Well, after that, I start looking to help out to break them out of whatever jail they were in. Trying to get a security ID, I ended up on Caliban, in the sewers fighting off Reavers.
Yes Reavers do exist, and yes they are ugly horrid vicious beasts that will eat, rape and kill you if given chance. But they are also not very bright and can be easily bottlenecked. And while they fly spaceships, is criminal the condition they keep them in. After convincing several dozen Reavers to give up space travel, I took one of their better ships.
But flying a Reaver bucket was disturbing. The smells, the stains, the noises. It was very creepy flight, and so by time I got to Botany Bay, I am needing to put down and walk on earth.
I meet and was smitten by, as is natural, by mechanic who runs machine shop on tarmac. And with some help, I clean and fix up and repair my new Cutter. I call her the "Jubilation", and she is best little cutter in the Verse. She is available for hire, and can haul up to 30 displacement tons.
Oh.. to finish story.. I am very bad about losing train of thought these days. I did not help break Mikie and Sentry out of jail, but the day that happened, I was aboard our Lady, above Shadow. That was day the Alliance decided to bomb Shadow, destroy the surface of the planet. I had just taken two steps into the station the Lady was docked at when the Alliance attacked. The station was almost empty and unarmed and unarmoured.
I quickly dived back for the Lady's hatch and undocked as fast as I could. Kepten Val and I got her away in time, and we flew down to pick up survivors, among them, the newsman Tillery. We rescued many peoples but not all. I did not get out of space suit for week.
Well Lady's back was broken, and I was out of job. Kepten says I have my own ship so that makes me Kepten too now. But is small boat compared to Lady. Such is life.
Svetlana Pleides
I grew up a belter, in asteroid Katringrad, in the outer belt. I was born in the black, and spend great deal of time there.
Until about 8 months ago? there about? anyway, I serve aboard the mining ship Moskva. When it got decommissioned, I move out to this part of space and start fresh.
I sign aboard "Our Lady of Opportunity" with Kepten Valiant. She was based over Shadow. Was good job and good ship. But not much work.
So I hire on to this security job. It was guarding new factory out in bad lands, with bad peoples. Meet ship at date and time, a grand up front, another when job was done. Oh, by the way, enroute we are going to stop off and do an impromptu training exercise, to evaluate the new recruits.
And everybody would be using blanks. They were very insistant on that point.
We roll out of drop ship and its Bootleggers, a bar in MacLaren I know very well. I see Cody, I shoot at him, with blanks. He fire back with real bullets, and I take a round. I yelling to halt to cease fire, when some zopha sets off flash bang, making me blind and deaf as well as bleeding..it was bad day.
It was all sucker ploy to kidnap bartender. Him and gal named Mickey were put on trial for setting off nuke at Londinuim earlier. But if it were law enforcement operation, why did they need to hire me to get shot and probably killed? Then fly off and leave me? They still owe me a grand.
Well, after that, I start looking to help out to break them out of whatever jail they were in. Trying to get a security ID, I ended up on Caliban, in the sewers fighting off Reavers.
Yes Reavers do exist, and yes they are ugly horrid vicious beasts that will eat, rape and kill you if given chance. But they are also not very bright and can be easily bottlenecked. And while they fly spaceships, is criminal the condition they keep them in. After convincing several dozen Reavers to give up space travel, I took one of their better ships.
But flying a Reaver bucket was disturbing. The smells, the stains, the noises. It was very creepy flight, and so by time I got to Botany Bay, I am needing to put down and walk on earth.
I meet and was smitten by, as is natural, by mechanic who runs machine shop on tarmac. And with some help, I clean and fix up and repair my new Cutter. I call her the "Jubilation", and she is best little cutter in the Verse. She is available for hire, and can haul up to 30 displacement tons.
Oh.. to finish story.. I am very bad about losing train of thought these days. I did not help break Mikie and Sentry out of jail, but the day that happened, I was aboard our Lady, above Shadow. That was day the Alliance decided to bomb Shadow, destroy the surface of the planet. I had just taken two steps into the station the Lady was docked at when the Alliance attacked. The station was almost empty and unarmed and unarmoured.
I quickly dived back for the Lady's hatch and undocked as fast as I could. Kepten Val and I got her away in time, and we flew down to pick up survivors, among them, the newsman Tillery. We rescued many peoples but not all. I did not get out of space suit for week.
Well Lady's back was broken, and I was out of job. Kepten says I have my own ship so that makes me Kepten too now. But is small boat compared to Lady. Such is life.
Svetlana Pleides