Tales From The Deadcat

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Login 819.4.23-3

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

Entry:
things happened, so much in a so short time...

as a trader i´m always happy to find good new routes, some places only a few ships service. So you haven´t to be a real good trader, here is not that much concurrence at all. So i thought about a route my father had spoken about, a route from o Gamma to o Alpha, short, save, nice to fly...
But the jumpholes i knew from childhood on were not at the coordinates anymore. After a short discussion with my lovely girlfriend and Natalie and Nolte about the sense of our journeys we take course to the outer omicrons. I had preferred a way through the sigmas but my mates...
What wonder - we reached Alpha without blessings but it was a hot ride through a strange hostile world, and by the way not that short...
Sometimes i´m happy about that space we have on board the Deadcat. After we entered o Iota i left the bridge, angry about the rude democratic behavior on MY ship. I give jobs and credits to these mates and they treat me like one of themselves...
In may little cabine i keep a bottle of finest Whiskey from the Orkneys waiting for such a situation like this. For what the hell am i the captain?
Pure anarchy on my own ship! Some kind of pirating!
Yes, as more as i thought about all that happened in the last year i got more angry. But i have to admit, we always worked as a crew of brothers and sisters, as this little freighter was in every way our home, not only mine. But as a little trading and exploring team in the so called outskirts we don´t have the abilities to get a good insurance without a rated policy. Something out of reach...

And we would get lost anywhere where nobody will ever find our remains. As much as i hate these strange creatures we call nomads, for what in the hell should we fly into their territory. This is in no way a little nonsense, it is pure insane.

So i led my thoughts come and go till Kaylee asked me to let her in.
"The door is open" i said, so she entered my little "captain´s" bunk. She was the first who had left the galley while our aggressive discussion, now her face showed her sad mood about our behavior during the conference. Sometimes she reminds me to the girl same name in this really, really old neighborhood series i saw as a young boy: "Firefly", The girl i think of in this series is the mechanic on board of a firefly, a ship you can see in space often. I like these series telling stories of ordinary people. It´s not that kind of liberty propaganda series "LSF-team 1" or "Heroes of the space"...
But back to my mechanic who was waiting for my attention. And then i´ve heard some arguments i only heard cause Kaylee did it in her own way, full of love for every single one of us. Calling us a family, a wild one surely, some kind of "outcast" as we all felt no need to return to the boring world of the old houses, these big corrupt system of big companies and their depending governments. Nobody of us wanted to be involved in the wars they fight only for resources. As we all only have one real enemy, ourselves.
So we would form a little family here in the complete loneliness she said, not a military group. Everybody of us would be a reason for the current existence and a needed part for the future of this ship, whatever´ll happen to us.
At the end i agreed with her as Kaylee was right again. And as she gave a little bit of her special synthetic marijuana i was in a much better mood when Luci came in some hours later.
Nothing was happened, only the same green foggy cloud we flow through since our entry in the system. We had no idea where to head to, where to find a jumphole. Some trade lanes were shown on the radar screen but for sure they were not human made. Natalie had set course to a direction she chosen cause of the right feeling...
Is this the way the Gallian win all the battles since years? trusting in feelings?
But okay, i have to admit she found a jumphole to a system without any contact to a hostile ship. Also it was not secured by weapon platforms ruining the shield in seconds...
But on the other side things then looked a bit different...
We had to hide in the middle of a complete open but well defended and wide controlled alien system. They needed not half an hour to find us. Don´t know why but it seem´s to me these nomads don´t use cruise disruptors, or they have really weak ones. As there never were less than six of them on our radar we tried not to shoot them, and after a while they gave up.
It wasn´t the last time we met them there but we always avoid an direct confrontation as we´re not able to fight successful against more than two or three of them together. Were not flying to die as heroes...

Some planets we saw but did not try to come near to them. Only Natalie´s seventh sense leaded us through here. A good scanner is also worth a lot, we luckily found a jumphole away from this world of strange beauty...
...only to dive in the next one. But here we didn´t scan anything on our route to the o Alpha jumphole we had on our radar cause we used it one time to hide our ship from a pirate years ago. But it was our first time passing this system as a way between the both Hispanic houses of Sirius.
If they would unite...

But as they are human they never will. Sometimes we show our evolutionary background: apes we are but not that serious and rational kind living on planet Primus.

Cause we had absolved a complete successful mission, we had to make a little party and short holidays on Planet Malta first. We found a nice little hotel planetside near a wonderful empty beach, and were laying there in the sun, feeling inspired and relaxed at once by only breathing the air. Sometimes we went swimming or tried to ride real horses on a farm nearby (never seen these animals before but it was an very interesting experience.
Luci was that nice in these days - maybe cause of the high concentration of this cardamine. She was friendly and peaceful, you could have thought she were a really nice young woman and not that little beast she could be. But nonetheless i love her as who she is. And so i have to live with her special behavior.

Something little - i think there happened something between Natalie and Nolte during our stop on Malta: a romance between a Rheinlandish thief and stray and a well educated former Gallic officer? I´m curious about that...

Back to the really important things again: we left Alpha to the sigmas, a way shorter route back to the Imperio del Corsario, where it would be much more easy to find a good job.
And there was one and i wasn´t fast or wise enough to take it. Some corsair member wanted to rent our ship for transporting materials and goods to a station construction site. But i wasn´t sure about it, and after a discussion (yes, always these meetings of the crew) we decided to get our Zoner ID´s first as we now are living like refugees with freelancer ID´s every homeless stray in Sirius possesses.
So we missed a damn good deal that would have give us the ability to buy a much bigger and in some aspects more luxurious ship.

But i have to think about this as there happened some strange incidents, coalition ships where i never would have supposed them...
And although Nolte is affected by their ideas i don´t want the coalition rule our lives. Wouldn´t wonder if they would be a lot more control fetishists than the Rheinland police and army...
So i´m sure i know what party i will support if neccessary. I remember good these coalition propaganda events in Zoner space, in no way polite, doing like they were the owners of the sun there cause of their heavy armed fleets builded on the shoulders of an complete oppressed people.
No, we´re really not in the mood for a coalition with the coalition...

It´s time to get the Zoner ID and show the flag of freedom. And we have to think about a better ship, some firefly eventually, as they are not as expensive and we could find some used one in Bretonia. I´ve never had the chance to try one of these ships but Kaylee said it would be a fine solution.

We will see...

Everything else is in order, ship´s working fine, my mates are in their best mood, the suns of sirius shine on our faces.
Log off, Carl