The abridged biography of IMG employee Duncan Lawrie

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Entry one:“I’ve always had an affinity with the Zoner’s”. Duncan smiled, stepping through the plasticised doors. “I guess now I’ll find out how much”.

The space ahead of him was colossal; a huge infrastructure platforms and elevated park spaces that latticed around a kilometre cubed, and every single inch of it, stuffed with people, more compressed than a can of Synthesised Luncheon Meat in a myriad of paradoxes. Corsairs mingled with Outcasts, off-duty Order with Libertarian Expats; even Bretonian migrants with Gallic explorers.

“Good to see nothing’s changed then”. He murmured, looking vacantly around the Porto Novan Peacekeepers Concourse with mildly dazed eyes.

Something tapped him on the shoulder. “Konnichiwa…, you new here”?
Duncan glanced over expectantly, and was disappointed to be staring into the face of some Kusarian who certainly wasn’t the weapons contact. Rapidly he analysed what he saw: “Ok, I’d say young, older by maybe a year, mid height, fairly standard clothing, cheap watch, pineal amulet… possibly a Discordianist… not much in the way portable possessions, one hundred credit chip in the back pocket… slight sun blindness from lengthy stellar exposure, mild muscle and bone wastage, completely harmless”. He thought, blinking slightly. “Good, probably not a con man then”.

“Do you need directions”? The Zoner repeated, sensing the slight delay.

Duncan didn’t miss a beat: “Oh, yeah thank you. I’m looking for a machine shop. Manuel Tennyson’s, 5th adjunction.”

“That way, second avenue on the right”. Indicated the Zoner, in possibly the most unhelpful directions ever given to man.

“Excellent, thanks”. Duncan walked off in what was almost certainly the wrong direction, lurching through the crowd. “What’s wrong with corridors”? Duncan thought. “Why does every single item of space need to be congested”?

He was pulling into a narrower street now, heading from the sterile cleanliness of the docking levels into the true guts of the station. Like all good guts, it wasn’t much to look at, but still did it’s job digesting all the detritus of the station. Even the people looked unsavoury, pitted and scarred.

“He said on the right”. Thought Lawrie. “The right… which right…”

Another tap on the shoulder, a tap hard enough to send him staggering.

“No honest man is ever walks that silent”. Duncan thought. “You Manuel Tennyson”?

“Depends on if you’re the Miner stiff who’s been browsing my ordinance”. Grinned a short, wiry corsair. His face was jovial but his eyes were riddled with intrigue.
“Not surprising…” Thought Lawrie; “…I’d be jumpy to purveying ordinance on a station with gun controls”.

The man was standing in front of a short, battered storefront crammed to the windows with broken or purposeless industrial parts.