A ruined life

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My story.. Jeez thats a story worth reading Ill start from the beginning

It all started when I was 17. It was a boring life on Los Angles my family were very poor and my dad was the equipment dealer there and I always helped him out with repairs and stuff while my mum was at home looking after my family. He never really got much money but hey at least we were alive. He always wanted me to become a mechanic but I didnt want to. Soon many jobs were suddenly available mostly for traders and their companies. I thought to myself why dont I be a trader? Not one of those mindless zombies that worked for Universal and Synth foods but my own independent company. My mind was set on it. I would try and save for a rhino transport. But 50 thousand credits and another 10 thousand for the guns!? I would never get that sort of money so I looked for some jobs around and about.

After a bit of looking I found mostly factory jobs and some farming jobs. I thought they were alright but itll take me ages to get the 60 thousand credits I needed. Although, despite all that I was set on my goal and wasnt going to give up that easily. I chose a factory jobs working for Synth Foods making the infamous Synth Paste.

3 whole years it took me to get my 60 thousand credits, 3 long years. At day working in that factory at night helping my farther with those repairs, being lucky to get around 6 hours sleep. At some times I wanted to quit but I thought of that rhino I was going to buy and I got through it. Hugely eager to buy it I rushed to the equipment dealer but it was closed.. Instead I got a GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP which I hadnt had in 3 years and I was dreaming about being a millionaire.


The next morning I woke and rushed to the equipment dealer again but they hadnt opened yet. I waited and waited outside the shop until a man in a suit came and opened up straight away I walked in and saw 3 ships they were all beauties. And then I saw one my ship that was going to be my ship!!! HAHA I WAS GONNA BE A MILLIONAIRE. I asked the ship dealer for some details.

Hey son hows it going?

Good thanks. Im interested in buying the Rhino freighter

Wow excellent choice sir. Would you like a brief tour of the ship son?

Yeah sure, of course, Id love it

Aight son calm down

Sorry, hehe just a bit excited.

Well I would be too if I was buying a beauty like this its got the lot! Comfy seats, a GPS system, instant access to the neural net and such easy controls even a child could fly it and also a cup holder

We got out of the ship and the dealer said

So son will you be buying it?

Hell yea Ill be buying it!!

Youve made a great decision son

Im sure I have you got me at the cup holder

I paid him the money and had the ship taken to my farther for weapons. If there was anyone who new about weapons and whats good and whats bad its my dad. As soon as I got there he was so proud of me. And I spoke to him for a bit.

Son Im so proud of you!

He hugged me.

So dad what weapons should I mount to my ship? Maybe some justices or Star beams?

No son Ill get you the perfect setup

Ok Ill pay you tomorrow morning, right?

No son its on the house

Sorry dad let me give you the mon

No, no its yours, free

At least let me pay half the money

NO!!!

I took his hand opened it and gave him the money

Here dad, I promise Ill give you money and make you rich, one day

He took the ship overnight and in the morning I got a note in my room saying Your ships ready son I hope you like it I got breakfast and hugged my mum and dad, bro and sis they were crying their eyes out apart from dad who just sat there, smiling. I started my new life: trading.


I only vaguely knew how to fly but I was so keen that I knew I would be able to master my ship. I started off with a simple runs within liberty occasionally taking delivery jobs around and about. And after a few months I was an expert trader of liberty making thousands per trip. Then I found a route that made me tens of thousands!! Once at some station somewhere I saw a transport for sale although I didnt have enough money for it (only 2 million out of the 7 I needed) so I traded my heart out. But then I saw another freighter, the Camara which I could afford and carried a hell of a lot more than my Rhino so I bought that and some weapons and started trading with my smaller routes as I didnt have much money as it went into my new ship and into weapons.

A year passed by and after a couple of close scrapes with some outcasts, hackers and liberty rouges my Camara was getting worn out although I only had to do a days worth of trading to save for my transport. 6.8 million Credits the ship would pay for the rest so I went for the transport and bought that.

I had that ship for years just trading away as the time flied by Millions I made, MILLIONS!

After a month I remembered that I made a promise to my dad and I will fulfil that promise I went back home to Los Angles which I hadnt been to in about 2 years. I looked at the old house I lived in to still find my family, farther at work of course and my mother opened the door. She said

Hi, do I know you? .......... Oh my god! John?

Yea mom its me Im back home

We talked and I told her everything that had happened to me. Later my brother and sister came home from school and asked who I was but then they realised. I was waiting for dad to tell him my wonderful adventures.

So mum, when is dad gonna be home its getting kinda late, does he work later than usual now?

Erm honey Your farther is well, dead, I thought you knew, I mean I, you didnt know..

I was shocked

Howd he die?

Well it was at work and some xenoes came and tried to steal some parts but your farther wouldnt let them so they..

Killed him

Well yeah

I need some time alone mum

I left and went to my old room. I just couldnt believe he was dead. I decided that I would keep my promise so the next morning I took my family on my transport to Planet Manhattan, New York I helped them buy a nice home near a good school and gave them 2 and a half million credits.

Hey, thanks kiddo Said Mum

They invited me in and I stayed for another night so I stayed, caught up with my brother and sister and the next morning I left. I just hoped that the next time I visited I wouldnt be left with another family member dead.


Years and years I traded until I started my own little company buying for low prices selling for a reasonable amount, employing young men and teaching them the ropes of trading. It was a good life until once I found a deal. One that would make me 600 million smackaroons. It was a long route but I wasnt worried, I just kept my eyes on the prize. During that route I say some strange ships that just appeared right in front of me. Id never seen that kinda technology before.

Hand over the cargo They said

Look buddy, this is a big deal Ive got here and I wanna finish it so if you would move out of the way I might not..

OPEN FIRE!!!!

What the, are you mad, ok youre dead boys

I took evasive manoeuvres, but they were too quick.

Who are you working for??

Never mind, we can tell him hes dead anyways we were hired to kill you by Synth foods.they were jealous of your riches and were scared you would put them outta buisness

Straight away I ejected and was tracktored aboard 2 men suddenly approached me.

You *******s what the hell, that was a 600 million credit deal, ILL KILL YOU!!!

I rushed at them but was punched in the face again and again until I was knocked out.

I woke up and heard voices.

.O you say he attacked you.killedtook aboard..contraband..evidence? .........Cardimine,

Looks like our friends awake

They tasered me and I was knocked out again

I then woke up in the corner of a room on a hard concrete floor and it felt like a hangover.

What, where am I?

Your in ell mate

What

You are in Sugar land prison, people say youre here for cardimine smuggling for 20 years.. This true?

I told them my story and some believed me, mostly Rouges as theyve had troubles like that before.

But jeez 20 years just for a false accusation

4 years passed and with all the fights that broke out those same rouges were watching my back, teaching me how to fight in a ship and with hands and feet. They were good friends..

One day all I saw was a couple of men running along the cells.

Everyone get up were getting you outta here all you rouges and allies come with us everyone else get on our transport were heading to buffalo GOGOGO!!!!

My friends grabbed me and took me aboard the transport. In there was hundreds of people even thousands and we set off for buffalo. When we got there many people were taken to the sick bay. I grew up for 1 year the rouge way of life, in a bloodhound, getting some scratch from traders and getting in a few scrapes with the cops. And learning new things about piloting, tips and tricks and trading routes. Now Im here still in my bloodhound doing missions for the Rouges although I was never an official rouge I would like to be. So I applied for official registration and am waiting for a reply, Hoping one day to make back some of that 600million credits, one day, one how.