THE ILLUSTRATED TRAVELS OF LOWELL WHUTT

[Ingenious]

Today, I decided I would explore some of the hostile Omicron systems! I stocked my ship full of ordnance and headed for Omicron Alpha. Once again, the gas clouds in Sigma-19 are always a pleasure - though it always feels like Beta is puking on me.

Anyway, I'm sure that's not very interesting. I got to Omicron Alpha and then headed for the burial grounds. Tons of wrecked sabres everywhere meant I was in the right place. But then I encountered a strange jump hole that happened to be lined up at that very moment . . . I figured, what the heck, I took it.

I ended up in a really odd pink system surrounded by aliens shooting at me. So I got to a safe place for rational thinking and then I figured I'd take a sample. It wasn't long before a patrolling mindnode attacked me. Luckily, all of these mines came in handy - the biggest challenge was disabling its Veil! My hull started cracking a little bit just as I delivered the final energy torpedo to take that thing down . . . I tractored in the remains and got away as fast as I could! Not even their battleships could stop me!



But you know me . . . I didn't go back to Alpha. I decided to keep pushing and ended up taking a bit of a rocky road through Omicron Iota. That way, no Outcasts or Order would try to take my newly acquired sample from me. I mean, cause it was so much safer . . .

Well, I ended up getting through that hellhole alive, but I didn't have the sense to take any damn pictures. After surveying the Zoner satellite in Omicron Delta, I landed on Freeport-11 for a nice long rest.

All that remains now is to get back to Liberty and see who wants to acquire these remains.


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