"What's your name?" Many ask me, and they think I'm making fun of them when I say "I don't have a name!"... "So what does 'aerelm' mean?" they always ask right afterwards. What I do, is shrug and say "Nothing!" and enjoy their puzzled expression. But it really means nothing... It's something completely made-up. "Where are you from then?" many ask after that, and when I say "Nowhere." they think I'm fooling around... Again! But again, it's part of the truth. I'm from nowhere I know. I woke up in a hospital on Erie, a year ago. That's why I guess I'm Libertonian by birth, but who knows? All I know is a Zoner found my pod on 24th of March, 817 A.S, somewhere around Allentown Base and brought it to a Zoners hospital on Erie... Or that's what the papers say! I've been in coma for nearly half a year after that, when I finally woke up... September 6th, 817 A.S... There were no ID card, no relatives who were looking for me, and not a single trace of my past. There was only a kind Zoner who accepted to pay all the damn costs of the hospital. So I was there, standing in front of the hospital door, not remembering a thing! Or did I? A Siege Cruiser exploding and me getting caught in the explosion was the only thing I remembered, but even -that- was not clear enough to be called a 'memory'.
"So who are you sir?" I heard and turned around to find that same Zoner standing behind me, "I don't know, and you?"... Well, Didn't notice it back then, but now that I think of it, he wasn't surprised at all, unlike many others I met later, he just raised his hand toward me and said "Name is Austin Elzner, the one who found your pod 6 months ago." I just nodded and shook his hand. "Well, you had no ID card with you, I believe you'll have to register for a new one." He said, problem was, I didn't remember how exactly to do that. Funny how he was willing to help despite not even knowing me! So, half an hour later, I was standing in front of the computer, looking at the screen, thinking about what should I put in all those fields. "Name", "Date of Birth", "Callsign" and all those required fields I didn't know what to write in. What I did, was just reading across the whole page and picking 5 random letters. a, e, m, r, l. Didn't take me long to figure out a good enough callsign out of that, and I did the same to other questions, I just filled them up with random numbers and letters.
But who cared? Many call it 'being lost', I call it 'a new beginning'. I started over, from scratch... But the only thing I knew I can do, was to fly a ship. Maybe the only thing I had with me from my 'past life'! Then it was when I got lucky, I was standing in a corner of ship dealers hall when this old guy with Universal uniform walked up to me and said, "Hey, you want a job son?" I shrugged and said, "I'd love to, but I have no ship.", "Well, none of the Mercs I know are around, so I could try my luck on you." so he walked to the dealer and I followed, That was where I got my Starflea, a really crappy ship, but still, better than sitting on a planet for rest of my life! Seems some Rogues had pirated that old guy and he was seriously mad, so he just gave me their last location, and told me he'll pay me 100k per Ship if I blast them to dust! Who was I to refuse such an offer?!
