Tales From The Deadcat

[carlfatal]

Login 819.4.13-1

Ship: Pelican
Members on board: Carl Bergmann, Luci Tomori, Kaylee Norton, Nolte, Natalie de Sonne

Entry:

What should i tell? First entry in the new logfile, nothing important in the last 14 hours.
Okay, we met a lot of members of the Benitez Family in only a few hours. That´s one of the wonders of the outskirts: You´l meet more nice people than on a marketplace on Los Angeles or Manhattan...


So only a few thoughts, nothing really important...
I´m Carl "Deadcat" Bergmann, born on Freeport 7 in 794. My Father was a Zoner, first an engineer on a bigger ship and later working as a constructing engineer on Livardia Shipyard.
My mother was born in Rheinland, but when she met my father on Freeport 7 in Sigma 17 she was accused to be a terrorist and a red hessian, so she had to flee.
When Freeport 7 was destroyed my parents and me were living on Freeport XV and later flying through the outskirts of Sirius with a solid old Pelican. As i was sixteen we started a journey to places the most never have seen. It was my first bigger flight, a very impressive experience, cause we were out there in the Omikrons for six months...
...when we met an alien fleet in the middle of nowhere.
It was the end of my childhood...

Next i can remember was me laying in a bed and someone´s saying: "oh, he´s back..."
Yeah, i was back, but alone from now on. My parents tried to flee when they scanned the aliens but their
vessels were faster than our old ship. We were stopped and some human-looking alien came in. They had these lucid eyes and tooked over our ship. When someone of
these...
When someone tried to touch my mother i freaked out...
Everything after this i only know cause of what an Order-pilote said while i was laying in the hospital. He was on a patrol route when he and his mates heard the SOS from our ship. They directly changed their way
and headed to our coordinates.
Too late to save my parents lifes but they shoot down these horrible nomads. Then they looked into the
Pelican where they found me and the bodies of my parents, only killed - not infected.
After my physical recovery (as there were some broken bones and other wounds) i found myself on Freeport 4 in Magellan. Sixteen years old i was alone but had to go to school. The ship of my parents was locked to a port on the freeport, a place to live but not to fly with. It was a hard time. Everywhere people i didn´t know,
tests and exercises and no friend no family no hideout.So the school on freeport 4 was my place for the next
two years. I was kinda loner in this time, as the most other kids there were normal and did silly games. I
hated them for their lives, and the only thing i felt was some kind of jealousy. Also i began to hate myself
cause i was´nt able to safe the lifes of my parents but had to live like a slave of my teachers and school
"mates".
I only weared black clothes in these years, dreaming of beeing the biggest hero in the fight against the
nomads, a guy every kid on every planet speaks about.
Oh, i was such a fool...
In 811 everything in my life changed from one day to the other: Luci Hamato came into my life. She was new on Freeport 4 and landed here cause her parents got jobs as medics in the hospital. They came from a Golden Chrysanthemum Base, Ainu Base in Hokkaido. Luci´s father, Romero del Hierro was a former member of the Corsairs, who founds his unbelievable way to the GC´s, where he met Hiake Tomori. And i was the lucky guy who met their daughter...
Luci was kinda bad girl, nothing is safe if she´s in the room but she was friendly to this outsider that i
was. We began to speak, we realized that our dreams were the same - beiing free beeings in a free space, no one who tells us how to behave or where to go.
Lucis father teached us how to fly a ship, i think he knew why we wanted to learn this. But he never said a
word against, and then, when Luci and i decided to go, he was the only one who was smiling...

Luci is my girlfriend now since seven years, both we are on the Zoner way. We do no pirating, don´t shoot
without a good reason but we sell things to places other people don´t want to go. The outskirts of Sirius are our home, no god is near and no company but there you can feel real freedom.

Our ship is a Pelican, name is Deadcat, the old ship where my parents died in. So i remember this all the
time and even if i´ld be on the Zoner way i will kill every nomad i can.
But Luci is not the only crew member as there is also our mechanic Kaylee Norton, a girl from Liberty. She
was born on Los Angeles, a farmers daughter with a big heart for machines. If you´ll see her you would say
she´s a sweet hippie girl but indeed she is one of the best mechanics in the whole Sirius sector. So it´s
really luck that she found her way to our little crew.
Next member is Nolte, he´s a boy with a nose for a good deal. We met him on Planet New Berlin where he worked in a Bar. So he´s specialiced on diplomacy, as he lived in one of the slums Rheinland pretends not to know about. It´s a hard life in there and he joined freely to our little group.
Then, 818, we were in the Tau´s not knowing much about the Gallia presence there. Reason for this visit was a good deal on Holman Outpost - as we thought before.
Actually it was the pure horror out there. We reached Holman and landed but after a short time we realized
the Gallians were looking for us. As fast as we could we made our deal there and returned to our ship.
But what was happened: Gallian soldiers standing at the doors of the Deadcat, our crewmembers were not to see.
So Luci and i hided behind some containers and looked. Then we decided a way the Gallians never would think we were able to do.
First we paid the hangar master a little fee for opening the dock ports in the right moment, then we did
some sleaky game. The Gallia soldiers stood only at the two main doors to the ship, both were closed. So if we were right our teammates were waiting inside. As quiet as possible we headed to the little backdoor of the Deadcat, always hiding behind all the stuff in the hangar. We slowly opened the door and entered our own ship. Quiet forward...
Every room was empty and at last we found Nolte and Kaylee sitting on chairs in the mess room, guarded by two Gallian soldiers. But they were the whole Gallia presence on board.
So it happened extremely fast. We came from behind and then these guys were sleeping for the next hour. After this we freed our friends we checked the systems and Nolte and i dropped the unwanted Gallian Cargo out of the ship.
Back on the bridge we started the machines. It was a funny thing to look to the Gallian people around us. First they were looking doubtfully but when they heard my commando: "open the hangar or i will shoot" the run direct to the station doors. :D
Never before i saw someone running faster... :yahoo:
Outside Holman i started the cruise engines and tried everything i could to flee the Gallic military. But they have good fighters, very fast and what should i say: a whole lot of them...
I would say i´m a good pilot, fast and agile although the Deadcat is a transporter. Luckily we found a way
out of the desaster until only one fighter was behind us. Whatever i´ve tried to do, this beast was in my back and shooting like a real angry one. So it came to a showdown short before we reached the jumphole to Tau
29.
I´ve killed nomads but this was a much harder fight. This little agile thing bited and bited but my shots did not find their target. Our shield was nearly down when Luci gave the first good punch to our enemy. After
a second and third hit his shields were down and we were able to wound the hull. This beast was fighting
like never seen but in the end we had the bigger ship and a lot more armor. So one shot destroyed the Gallian fighter and we looted what was there.
So Natalie de Sonne was coming on board in her Lifepod. First she was more than angry and sometimes we feared she could kill us and napping the ship for coming home. But now after half a year i think she is happy not to be imprisoned in any Bretonian Station. Also she knows that there is no easy way to return as probably the most Gallian would think she could be a spy now.

And knowing the rules on our ship she learned some really important thing: we are living in the outskirts of mankind cause there no god is near and no company but there and only there you can feel real freedom.

So now Natalie is a full member of the crew and working as our security officer.
And we are still on our way through the wonderful emptiness of Sirius searching for what we don´t know.

Thats all for now. Carl