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// So, this is my first attempt to write a character-based forum story. I'll try to tell it in different styles, such as a 1st-person log style, 3rd person, maybe even documentary every now and then.

So, read and enjoy! //

Log File #1

Wow. I really can'€™t believe it. I mean, it'€™s incredible!
All right, here'€™s what happened. Ben and I were flying around the Southampton Debris Field in our good old CSVs, dodging around the scrap, when suddenly, we find a preeeeetty big wreck. And it wasn'€™t some wreck! It was a Salvager! I mean, that as such is no big deal. Dozens of them must be floating around the debris field. But this one'€¦ was still in working order!

So, Ben and I flew around the thing for a bit, checking whether it was worth salvaging and then selling for scrap. But hell, it actually looked brand new! Well, as brand new as a Salvager can look, I guess. So, I contacted Henry to help us tow the thing back to Trafalgar. Thank god he has that CSFreighter. Soon as we got the thing connected to one of the mooring points, we docked to the station and got over to the airlock. Ben had gone totally bananas and Henry was shivering in anticipation. Probably because neither of them had ever been on anything bigger than a freighter. Well, neither had I, but it seemed I was the only one who wasn'€™t going totally nuts. No wonder, with all the possible radiation leaks, evacuated sections, overloaded reactors, and so on.

Anyway, I finally got them to put on some rad-suits, even though they were arguing against it. No idea why. After minutes of bickering from Ben, who had gotten lost in his suit, we ventured on board.

God, it was incredible! There was crap everywhere! Pieces of armor plating, toppled-over consoles, and even some of the blastdoors were deformed! The bridge was a real mess though. Looked like someone had set of a det-pack in there. Henry thinks he found some dried blood in a corner, but I'€™m sure he was just seeing things
But, and this is what made Ben almost faint, the craft was in perfect working shape. The reactors were running at one hundred percent and the maneuvering thrusters had more than enough fuel in '€˜em. Sure, it needed some repairs, but that'€™s nothing three motivated Junkers can'€™t handle. But the way Henry and Benny were bouncing around with joy, I decided to first do a test flight, before getting down to the hard labor.

And by god, it was wonderful! I'€™ve never flown a ship of its size, but I sure know why those old men in the bar always tell stories of their Salvagers now. Several thousand tons of welded-together junk flying through a field of yet more junk! Ben had a great time knocking smaller wrecks aside with the hydraulic claws attached to the ship'€™s front, and Henry went off to explore the rest of the thing'€™s insides.

Too bad the ship didn'€™t have any weapons mounted. I heard that most Salvagers can mount military grade armaments! Can'€™t wait to get a hold on some of those. But for now, we'€™ll have to repair about a dozen hull breaches, two leaks in the main plasma conduit, and several wrecked doors, computer terminals, and some stuff I'€™ve never even heard of'€¦

Jeez, this'€™ll be great!

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Olivia Sable