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A Commercial Commander's Tale Of Woe


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So my Jenstar makes planetfall on a bumpy unhabited dustball, you know the kind of backwater that doesn't even have a single decent flat stretch to land on. The kind of place that leaves you wondering 'Is my landing gear crooked?'. I drop off my mining drones and then saddle up a shuttle with some of my boys and take them out to do some combat drills.

After a lively episode of running and jumping, crawling and crouching, and hiding from and shooting at nonexistent enemies we returned to the ship. Feeling a bit faint I head down to medibay to get checked up, only to find out that I'm suffering from radiation sickness. At this point I knew it was time to go.

I made haste to the bridge, already feeling better from the vacpac I'd just huffed. I snatched the helm and tried my damndest to pilot the ship out of the planet's atmosphere and after several miserable failures I decided to try something unorthodox. I launched in a shuttle and tried to TOW the ship out of the planet's hold. As you can imagine, this didn't work too well. Frustrated, and not wanting to land to change crafts.. I jump out of the shuttle in the hopes of jetpacking over to the board the CC in midair. Well, I hit the ground alot faster than I thought I would. I must have blacked out, because I missed the entire fall but was miraculously unhurt.

But now the situation was grim, my CC was being towed by a shuttle and I couldn't figure out a good way to get back to it. After issuing all manners of orders I eventually got the shuttle to drop the CC off nearby.

At this point I was tired, confused, and angry... and perhaps not capable of the soundest of judgements. I told my best men to gear up and climb into the LAV, put the LAV on another shuttle.. and then I abandoned them, my crew and craft. Not trusting them at the helm I left the CC in the shuttle's tractor beam and then I blasted off.

This time I broke the atmosphere and made it out into space. I got a few jumps away, and had collected several cargo pods and explored a couple of promising planets when the guilt hit me. Then I turned that shuttle right around and went back to check on my baby.

When I arrived in the system I called up tacops to see what the status of my CC was.. and what I saw shocked me.The shuttle was dragging my CC along the ground! It would let the CC scrape the ground for a few seconds, pull it up for a while, and then lower it again. Maybe I should've thought this order over more, but what I saw told me I had to act NOW. I ordered the shuttle to stop, and it did. It released my CC to fall.. a relatively short distance, about a 1/5th of it's length aft first, to the ground. Boom.

The report said I was KIA, but I know the truth.. only my career was. Better they think I died in an accident than they know I killed my whole crew and then turned that shuttle around and spent the rest of my life jumping.

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Ah! memories, Well I remember giving a prisoner a deserved fate. I had taken intruders while running trading routes for GALCOM from Pluto. Anyway, this one intruder got all of my items except for a few radine in my shuttles. I figured him and his men were trying to steal from me. So after my marines took care of his men. They grabed him and then the ship proceeded to the Jupiter sector. I ordered my marines to escort him to the transporter room. I then transported the intruder to the surface of Jupiter and there he remained.

As a lone trader I figured it was my decision to decide his fate for attacking me! And no one ever knew.

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