Lee's Diary - Pilot of The Narcotic

[Narcotic]

Date: 27 May 819
System: Omega-41
Location: Freeport 5, in my room.
Topic: Wars and cloaking devices.

I woke up early in the morning. I still had this dream in my head: It was a scary dream. I saw myself, on Malta, being father of two sweet babies. But those babies were different. They seemed to have orange skin with orange-glowing eyes. And I fed them with Cardamine, every day. For breakfast, for lunch and for dinner. It was a nightmare.

However, I had a healthy breakfast and tried to leave Freeport 9 as early as possible to avoid any contact with Corsair patrols. The fact, that I'm a Freelancer now, won't stop them from robbing everything and my pants. After buying supplies and refilling my Cutlass' tanks with H-Fuel, I undocked from the Freeport.

Freeport 9.

I saw that large colony ship, parking near the Port. It draw my attention at once and I started a talk with its captain. Marvin was his name. He appeared to be the Freeport Administrator of Freeport 11. We've been talking about the Corsair war, years ago. And how things are handled now, near the ports. Must be a difficul job, considering the massive Corsair activity in Omicron Theta.

I noticed his cloaking devices when scanning his juggernaut, and asked him about them. He had a small one for sale. I already knew that, since I left a bid on it. But someone has outbidden me, in offering a quarter billion for it! Wow. I'm afraid I need to get one built by my own. Anyways, he presented his cloaking device prototype with his Nephilim and it was awesome.

The Nephilim, engaging its cloaking device.

I really need to get such handsome device. But I'm not going to spend an amount of credits, that high as my whole ship had cost. I can wait. Hm can I? Well, after that presentation, I asked him about the production costs of such device:

Cloaking Device (small)
40000 Basic Alloy
10000 Industrial Materials
6000 Gold
5 Nomad Fighter Remains
2 Nomad Minor Brains
1 Nomad Major Brain

Uff. Where to get all those materials? Won't be easy.
But Marvin, kind as he was, present me with a 'Nomad Major Brain'. What a gift!



Doesn't it look beatiful? Must be a kind of an alien remain. Don't know exactly. Only heard in tales about those 'Nomads' or 'Spirits' as we Outcasts called them. I wonder if it were the same, who attacked me in Kappa, a few days ago. Maybe I can get some more of those remains there? Although I doubt, that I can gather them that easy... I'll see.

After a while, I realized, that I was still at the Freeport, although I actually had the plan to move on early, to avoid the Corsair patrols. So I said goodbye to my new friends, set a new waypoint to Omega-41 and started my cruise engines.

A last view back...

I've been lucky - I didn't meet a single Corsair patrol on my to Freeport 5. But as I arrived Omega-41, my systems warned me about high radiation in this system. But hey, I installed extra strong hulls on my modified Sabre, just for that reason. So I moved on, ignoring the radiation, coming from that amazingly looking so-called 'Neutron Star'. My neutral net, told me, that there has been a supernova, causing that mess. So that's the reason, why the whole system is filled with those large asteroids. Must have been remnants of large planets, which existed here thousands of years ago.

Anyways, after a while, I reached Freeport 5. A small base, built into an large asteroid. (Maybe to avoid any radiation damage?!) I've been afraid, that the high radiation could afflict me, while staying there for a few days. But later in the station's chemist's shop, I recieved special Pharmaceuticals to avoid said radiation poisoning. All good then.

So I took a room. Small but comfortable and had some rest. I haven't been in the mood to visit the bar. I bet, there wouldn't have been that many costumers anyways. So I decided to have a nap, dreaming of a cloaking devices.

Freeport 5 and the 'Neutron Star' in the background.