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Finally scraped together enough credits for the DL, and by stars is she a Beautiful thing to behold. She's got three more guns than the albatross, nearly twice the hold size, and a fair chunk more armor. She's no battleship, but I feel like we can hold our own against a pirate or two, if it comes to that.

The trouble is that I can't fly her by myself. With the camara and even the albatross I could plug in some software packages and fly the thing alone, but the DL's just too big for that. Her power draw to too high, and the software can't track it all fast enough. 9 cannons overloaded the tracking algorithm, and now it can't hit anything smaller than a moon now. And don't even get me started on Trade Lane docking; it's a mess. And those are just the problems off the top of my head. I know there are more, and I bet there are some I won't even notice until the damn thing explodes or something.

So I've taken on a crew. 10 folks: One on the forward battery, one on aft, two in engineering, one on comms, one on scanners, a navigator, a cook, a supercargo, and a pilot. I'm still trying to get a crew I like; most of these guys are temps, and they come and go from station to station. The only ones who are sticking around and the cook and the pilot. The cook's something of a friend of mine; he worked on the first ship I ever worked on. He was working for damn near nothing when I found him again, so I asked if he wanted a job with me and he jumped at the chance.

Moe ended up being my pilot. It's something of a funny story; I went to Newcastle once I picked up the DL. I wanted to say goodbye to the kid, and give him the albatross. I know that I said that I was going to sell it to him, but I've had something of a change of heart since then. He's been working his ass off, and he's never missed a payment. He'd earned it. But when I found him, he said he'd rather fly with me on my new bird. It worked out pretty well for me; the pilot I had couldn't fly his way out of a paper bag. So we sold the albatross and got underway.

It's a little weird, not being at the controls. It takes a change in mindset to go from running everything yourself to letting other people do it. I'm not sure if I like it, even if I understand why it has to be this way. Having other people's lives in my hands is a heavy thing and, to be honest, I don't know if I can handle it. Even if it's not my hands on the con, it's still my ship, and if something goes wrong, it's my fault. that's alright when it's just me, but when there's near a dozen people on board...

I guess I'll have to make peace with it. Somehow.

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