Calliope's Ship Logs

[Dave Synk]

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Log Entry 1: 827, May 5th

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Author: Xander Cromwell
Location: MGS-Calliope

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Pfff... been one long day hauling Helium over at Penny. The scenery was filled with independent prospectors, hired contractors just like us, trying to do a living. It was a good season so far. I can say I am thankful that the pirates got more active around the mining interests. No risk no payroll at the end of the day mm?

Had this interesting thing going around a couple of days back. It was this new fresh prospector trying his luck in the field like most of us. We got on our transponder an SOS beacon, quite at the far edge of the mining clouds. That usually sounds like a trap, but at times, there's people in need. Usually the shards can mess up the aft thrusters, making the ship losing a proper gyro balance, and you can drift into oblivion.

The hard part with drifting is that if your thrusters push you too hard, you could get crushed from G force. It causes nausea and faint in the lightest cases, or your head just turns into a sad smooshed up paste. But until you get to wake up if you're lucky, you are out of transponder range and lost for good.

So we analyzed the signal properly because... well let's say it's not our first signal to "bite" it. We weren't loaded up with cargo so The Calliope was rather light and easier to maneuver, plus that Dom is a magical navigator. Got us from the tightest situations that bretonian jackal. We had our regular array of "Flashies" armed and ready just in case.

Luckily for us it was indeed a ship in distress. Apparently the good old thruster problem appeared and they accidentaly rammed their ship on an asteroid. Luckily for them, they only hit the side of it. A young couple. They begged us to help them, for they were really terrified. We got them and we scrapped what we could from the ship so they could at least sell some parts of it to cover a small bit of their loss.

We got them also half a shipment of Helium. We had everything, but they had nothing left. After all, at the end of the day it's about taking care of each other mm? I worked on bigger mining barges with my crew in the Omegas, we know how hard it is to break from corporate control and try your own luck.

Their luck just ended.

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Log Ended

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