"You stole my scrap!!" I still remember those poor scavengers shouting at each other and their silly threats of "Give it back or I kill you!" while they had only mining turrets on their worn-out freighters! It made me laugh even back then! I mean, come on! They always argued on like, 10 scrap or so! They sold 600 a piece or somesuch on Pitts, is 6k such a big number? Even then, 6k wasn't even pocket change for me. Well... Those were the good old Pitts days for me. Sometimes I seriously miss those days, I would sit in the field and mine all day, sing myself some random songs, have some casual chatter with other miners. Hmm... I remember two of them by name, others just some fade memories. First, there was this Imar dude, such a strange man! Always silent, answering all the questions with the shortest wording possible, and never asking anything himself. But he was a damn fast miner! After a while he simply disappeared, haven't heard much about him since then, but I did hear a rumor or two about him moving to Taus to join the IMG to mine Niobium. Anyways... Then there was also this fun guy who called himself "Condor"... Some made fun of his name, but I'd rather not bring that one up! Funny thing about him, was he was in the Navy, but was mining scrap at Pitts when he was off duty! Seems they didn't pay him enough... Or maybe he spent too much! Heh, well, I never saw him rich, even though he mined a lot, and by that, I mean A Lot! He just spent all his cash on drinks and stuff. But yeah, he moved out of Liberty after a while as well. Didn't hear anything about him though... Once overheard some chatter from two passerby Freelancers talking about some Navy-Junker-Thing(!) who had gone rogue and the Police was after him... Well, might have been the guy, Or someone else! Who knows.
Heh, I still remember the first "combat ship" I bought when I could afford one... Was my good old Roc! She really served me well in this past year... But well, flying a bomber means you'll get half a dozen of fighters on your ass in any fight... Not really fun! So yeah, anyways, that Roc was my best buddy for a long time! And when I first bought it, I didn't even have enough cash to put a Snac on it! Yeah, just bought the ship itself and put some Wildfires, a Hornet and a Starkiller on it! Didn't really need to fight back then, had just bought the ship to travel around and chill when I get tired of mining Scrap. So yeah, those crappy guns did well enough, and looked cool enough for me! Hmm... Still remember when I bought my first Snac. Was a real bargain! Bought a second-hand one for 4 mils, and although that was nearly all the money I had back then, but was seriously worth it! Seems that same Condor dude had knocked out a Rogue Ghest, and somehow, the Ghest had a spare SN in his Cargo. So when I saw him the next day while we were both mining scrap, he was like "Hey, you have a Roc, yeah? I can give you a cheap Snac if you want!" And well, that was when I started practicing. Bought a combat simulator later on, installed it on my ship computer, and practiced every once in a while until I was good enough with all those guns and stuff to save my butt if I had to some day! But my 'freelancing life' started when I had enough cash put aside from all that scrap mining, and wanted to move on. A friend showed me the way to Barrier Gate, and although it was all familiar, everything seemed new. I got armor and stuff on my pretty Roc, and headed to Bretonia from there... Well, who knew that same "Humble Miner" people used to run into around Pitts would turn into someone who is on various lists on Liberty 'criminal' files and is trusted enough by the Outcasts to be able to use their weapons? I'm not a 'criminal' though, I'm a Freelancer who doesn't care what the so-called 'Lawfools' think of him!
