I see Trees of Green

[Akura]

Akura cleared security, tapping in his clearance code. The doors opened to reveal The Barrier, blue clouds and rocks spanned out infront of him. His Dagger accelerating to impulse, embracing the cold, icey space infront of him.

He tapped in coordinates for the Trade Lane, hoping to slip in, and disappear into Bretonia for a while. The intention was to rob a depot or two, bring home some gold if he got lucky.

Akura arrived at the first ring, slowing down his cruise to dock with the bottom half of the lane. His ship pinged it's signal, the lane responded, jumping into life, rings of energy surrounding the ship, creating a tunnel for him to travel.

He waited for the lane to grab his ship, propelling it through the opening in the rocks and ice, towards the gate to the Manchester system.

The lane fizzled, the ring of energy fuzzed up and disappeared, the whole ring going unresponsive. Akura sat up, his ship was mere inches from travelling, now the lane had gone down. he checked his scanners and swore.

There, his Deep Scanner had picked up two contacts, they looked to be Barracudas. He prayed for Mercs, Mercs were stupid, easy to ignore, they wouldn't attack him, there was no bounty on him.
Either that or Bounty Hunters, alot of Hunters took their work too personally, killing unbountied criminals when they had the chance to overpower them.

He wasn't important, civillian guns, cheap ship, he was safe.

"Well well well, look at that, an Outcast" a voice chuckled over comms,

Akura hastily slammed his palm on the reply button, nervously clearing his throat,

"U-uhhh, I'm sorry, I-I think you've made a mistake sir" he stuttered, releasing the button,

"Nope, scanners don't lie kid, that there is an Outcast gun, valuable one at that" the first voice sneered,

Akura cursed again, How could he be so stupid? With the Inferno, he was marked as a criminal on sight.

"Should we kill him Toby?" a second voice croaked, trying to mask his joy,

"Do it, preserve that pulse cannon, we can make a fortune with that" the first voice replied,

The opened fire, their shots sweeping over the hull of the Dagger, Akura lurched his ship down, narrowly avoiding hitting the trade ring, slamming on his afterburners on for a speed boost.

He needed a way out, or else he was a dead man...