The Rise of Jacob Keller

[Leo]

I ran for what felt like days. The ship found me where ever I sat down, where ever I docked. It was like a relentless spectre that wouldn't leave my soul be. I knew that I had to escape, that I had to dodge this mass of metal and electrodes. That's all I knew, I didn't know why, but something deep down, somewhere inside my mind knew that it didnt want to get an autograph.

I landed on Freeport 9 just before the damn thing came into the system right behind me. I had only a few seconds before I was able to sneak through the cloud and into Omicron Eta. Now, at that time, I had several incidents with the people of the system, both Corsair and Outcast. Neither side truly appreciated my helping the other side, as it were, with smuggling operations here and there. However, I never helped them fight one another, so neither side was really angry at me, just on very thin ice.

I came barreling through the hole and immediately engaged cruise as I saw the space around me come into view. Shortly after I passed the cloud surrounding the hole, once again, the ship came into view. The Outcasts, I had overheard once, attacked an AI ship when it was carrying Nomads in its hold. This could possibly mean that the Outcasts wouldn't be very happy about the ship being inside Outcast space. I smiled and spun my ship, aiming for the Outcast side of the system. As expected, the ship behind me did as well. As we passed the barrier separating the system between the two factions, an Outcast battleship came into view on scanners.

"Halt, Keller. We don't -- Oh, shi-" was all he got out. "Captain, get the forward rail guns aimed at that AI ship! It's been known to cause problems in Alpha!"

The Outcast ship opened fire on the ship doing the chasing and I slipped out of the confusion and into Omicron Alpha, from there I doubled back into Omicron Beta and snaked my way back down into Honshu where I sat down on the planet for the night, laying low.

I really needed a drink.

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You fear oblivion. Yet you forget. The universe remembers every atom of your being. Even dust hums your name in the dark.

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