Tales From The Deadcat

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

Entry:

We had some good times, fast money with short, safe trading routes and a nice visit in the Cayman-system. Never before i saw some beauty like there. Made a little stop on Safe Haven station, where we were taking some fine drinks in the bar looking to the wonderful surface of planet Braillia. I tried to speak with some of the people they live there on the station but they are some kind of... reserved...
Never heard of them before i wanted to know something about how they live and what they do. Wasn´t easy to get some answer.
I wouldn´t be that kind of reserved. If i would live there i would make a contract with Orbital Spa And Cruise, as there is no place in Sirius more interesting for touristic development.

Later back in space we were making a real sightseeing tour through Cayman. We were flying like one of these rich kids from Manhattan or New Tokyo from here to there and back without any sense. Fuel for nothing my father would have said. But it was spectacular wherever we came to. Luci was sitting behind the controls, looking with wide opened eyes. She said: "As if we were atoms inside an orange and this fruit would be the whole universe..."

We left Cayman not without tears in our eyes but we will return to this place of pure beauty.

Some time later we entered Omega 50, nothing spectacular. we only wanted to look on the stations for a good deal but we didn´t find some interesting goods. So bored flying we found the jumphole to Omega 52. I´ve heard stories of this sun system before, also i knew a few films, "commiegirls in nice uniforms" or "Olga From Omega - A Spy In Liberty".
Yeah, not the best films, i know, but i was sure they would´t like us, so i gave order to pass the jumphole. Good idea but Luci was sitting behind the controls of the ship again. She decided something different and gave order to dock. Strange, is this the real Zoner Way, everybody´s doing what he or she wants in the moment? Or do i´m looking like a babbitt to her cause i was not amused about this idea?

As i thought: the other side was hostile, and that´s no word for. They shoot like we were the most horrible nomad monster from outer space... No time to say stop or anything else, unfriendly contemporaries they are!
So we tried to flee. Cause it was inside an asteroid field we made it and searched for another way out. It was just Nolte´s idea, as he had heard some coordinates months before when we were resting on a station. As a stray from Rheinlandish slums he is a follower of these communist ideas like my own mother was. So he must have had a conversation with maybe some red hessian member.

Anyway, we tried to look for the other jumphole. And again it was Luci´s idea too fly closer to this planet on our way. Again there were some fighters only waiting for a humble fish like us. This time there was no way to flee between asteroids, free open space everywhere. I´ve tried what i could but they were angry. At least they gave up, but i think only cause we headed directly to the jumphole back to Omega 50. No reason to destroy a mouse i hope...

Back on Leon base i´ve read some e-papers there. Most interesting article was about opening Omega 52 for traders. Oh, it seems they need a little more time to realize their plans...

That´s all, Carl