Ponderosa: Freelancer (personal log)

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Things have been going well for me. After a few cunning business deals and the occasional odd-job, I have been able to save up enough creds to buy a new ship. It is still a piece of crap, but at least it has enough space to run some freight. I have procured an old CSV from some junkers I met. I'm hoping it's cargo capacity will allow me to start mapping out some profitable trade circuits. I plan on lining up buyers and suppliers over the next couple of weeks.

I'm to meet with my old acquaintance, "Instigator" in the couple of weeks. I am going to try and pitch to him getting involved in my fledgling little enterprise. It'd be good for him to get behind the stick again.

"Instigator" is the best of the last generation of atmospheric pilots. He served in the atmospheric flight combat squadron for Liberty, and actually is the only current atmo pilot in the sector to hold the title of "ace." Unfortunately, Liberty brass has decided atmo-only aircraft and pilots are too anachronistic, and have moth-balled the whole squadron. Instigator was given the choice of a desk job, early retirement, or being bounced back to flight school to get certified in zero-g multi-vector flight. He chose the one he found least insulting, and left the service. He's the last of a now dead art form. But the Liberty brass is right. The only time an atmo fighter would be relevant is in the case of planetary invasion, and the lack of flexibility in assignments ultimately makes them inefficient.

I think getting him up in the stars will be good for him. And in the end, flying is flying.

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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
-Sir Winston Churchill