Sirius Business: The Life and Times of Jack Burton

[AngelOfIron]

Captain's Log, 04/25/3011

[Entry begins] Being a man who loves the rain I never really thought I'd catch myself using the saying "when it rains it pours" to describe anything truly terrible happening in my life. But there's always a first for everything isn't there? Goddamn Lane Hackers! I never caught their names, but they were on the Brumas before I even had time to power up her gunnery stations. Within seconds the engines were disabled, the shields were downed and my baby was suffering multiple hull breaches that went way beyond the red line. I could recall one of the frakkers demanding that I fork over some ludicrous sum of money, but before I could make any attempts to vocally salvage the situation they were already coming around for the next pass. I was lucky enough to make it to the escape pod, but there was no hope of salvaging anything from that wreck once those two were done slagging it. I found myself being picked up by a passing Liberty Navy vessel around the time the air in the life pod started to turn stale. The Captain was kind enough to let me stay in a vacant crewman's quarters until I was scheduled to disembark onto Manhattan soil. It was during those intervening days that I had a chance to speak with Dane using the ship's long range communications suite and he assured me that if either he, Finn or Seaver caught wind of whoever it was that sunk my livelihood that they were going to answer to Freelancer justice. All I can say to that is "good." [Entry ends]

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