"Silence"

[Silence]

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I always wanted to command my own ship. He he Captain Tommy sounded so good. Ever since I helped my old pa on his ship. Ship an old rusty freighter, but I fell in love with that ship, with all ships, space, flying. We were poor, too poor for a better ship then the old freighter.
When I was young, I used to stand on the landing pad on planet Denver, looking at all those ships there. Watching, dreaming how I will one day command my own ship. Childish dreams they always said, adding that my fathers ship is the best I would fly.
I remember one of those days It was a windy day, and as usually I was watching ships on the landing pad, when a big ship landed and Bah, memories.

But I never wanted this to happened. To gain command over a ship because the last captain died. The crew voted me as their new captain, as I served many years under captain Saul, first as a crew member and in the end as his first officer. Well, I'm not sure about me commanding this ship, but the crew apparently is. Hopefully I will do a good job.

I have given the crew one more day to rest. Tomorrow we will move on, there are many criminals with a bounty on them, and we need credits. And we also need to find out about the pirate fleet that ambushed us. They knew we were coming, someone must have told them, and I want to know who.

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We unlocked from the Freeport, and set course for Liberty space. We need more crew, and I have few old friends there. Most of them I knew from my younger days when I was serving on board various trade ships. I know they are good pilots, and in need of a better paying job. Serving on board a trade ship is a tough, low paying job.

I thank Saul for getting me out of that. Luck, pure luck brought him into that bar on Huston at the same time as me. I had a free day, and nothing to do. That bar was one of my favorites, dark, quiet and with cheap drinks. Just what you need after a week on board a noisy freighter. Saul was hunting a petty criminal last sighted in that same bar.
Well, he did not find him, he found me and hired me. He changed my life. Now maybe I can change few life's too.