Justus Lynn

[boxcartenant]

Justus considered carefully the meaning of those items, but they brought to mind brief images and incoherent memories at best. A heavily damaged space station; a destroyed light fighter; an asteroid field against a red nebula... Nothing made sense.

Just before arriving at America base, Justus' communicator lit up and a freelancer's face appeared on screen. The man said, "Hellfire! 5,000,000 credits if you take me to Leniex."

Justus wondered, Leniex? Where is that? He took some time to carefully consider his answer -- if he could get a lead from the Freelancer without letting on that he didn't know where it was, he might be able to get the money. "How did you find out about Leniex?". Justus had never heard of the base before, and so he assumed it was secret. This could be the money I've been looking for...

"I learned about it from a Freeport trader in a nearby system. He told me I could make good money there, and that it was near G4, but he couldn't be specific." The freelancer spoke quickly.

I've got the sector. How hard could finding the station be? "I'll help you look for it." Justus said absent-mindedly, "follow me." Justus had no idea where to start, so he littered his map with waypoints in G4, and began to zig-zag across the map searching for this mystery base. It didn't take long for the Freelancer to catch on, and he left -- sputtering something angry through comm channel. The transmission was blurred by the thick interference in the electrically charged Leniex cloud.

Justus moved along his waypoints anyway, thinking the location may be commodious for him in the future, whether by selling it to another curious traveller, or by giving it to the law in exchange for a clean slate. When he was satisfied that he had scoured everything along the astral plane, he first dove "below" the plane, and spent a long time searching there, and then went back above. He had plenty of food and supplies, and nothing better to do, so although it took a very long time, Justus considered the time well spent.

Having searched almost the entire cloud within G4, Justus was about to decide that the Freelancer had been mistaken, but lightning streaked across the cloud, and Fort Leniex was illuminated in the distance like some massive and powerful creature, peering soullessly at him through muddy water. The starbase struck fear in Justus' heart, so that he was tempted to flee it at first. But the time during which he was stunned by the sight of it was just long enough for him to become aware of its nature. This was Fort Leniex: The Home of the Hellfire Legion.

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