Dimensions?
how can a universe that you have become so familiar with, Change?
For me, that change happened.
My universe burped, and it changed.
Even physics changed, elements and properties that was common where I was born, now does not exist.
So this is what happened, should say, where it began.
I was born on Cardiff IMG Station, my parents both worked on the station; I went to school there, and got a job dockside un loading and loading the transports and freighters. I got interested in the traders that came through. An in-system transport captain that made the run to Cambridge and back daily, invited me to become part of his crew.
After working this run for nearly three years, and was Transport Qualified, got to seeing and noticing the other transports, and freighters from other parts of Sirius.
One day, a Freighter coming in from the Omicrons, Pilot was just called "Bull", he had barely escaped destruction from a terrorist from a clan called KAOS. He brought his ship in, but was serious injured. He needed a pilot to complete his run to California Minor of Alien Organisms, so I said I could. He got access to his ship for me, , and I made the Run which was pretty uneventful,
But, I got to fly his ship, a deep space, high speed transport; the Corrilan Corvette. Not as fast as a Trade lane, she can even out run missles. Her dual thrusters kicks her up to 400k, gets you out of range of guns fast, then kick in her cruise which shoots up to 1200+ and she slips through asteroids as slick as you can get. After making the run to Californa Minor, I ran over to Planet Los Angeles, spent a couple of days there, picked up a cargo of Optronics from Planet Los Angeles, and took them to Cambridge, when I arrived back, Bull had just been released from the Hospital, and when he saw what I had done, invited me to join his clan, ~STAB~, an Outer world Trader Clan, and its primary contract was the delivery of Alien Organisms to Cambridge Research Station, and California Minor. STAB was anacronym for Sweat Tears And Blood.
I had been with STAB for about 15 years when this happened to bring me to this Sirius.
Was running from three Pirates of the HLF (Hessian Liberation Force) and had ducked into Dublin by way of the jump gate, they had pursued me from Omega 11, I ducked into Dublin trying to get away from them in my Corvette loaded with Diamonds from Solarius Station. I must have really pissed them off. The DD, were the Bretonian Military, was scrambling to cover me, had told me to get to Leeds, and they would take over.
I hit the New London Jump Gate to Dublin at speed, and hit the cruise engines the instant she settled out of jump. Just as I had attained Speed, two of the three appeared which meant if I could see them, they could see me. I had made a bee line to the only Jump hole in Dublin, the one to New London, knowing that the other HLF would be scooting to its location to block me in.
Just as I saw the New London Jump Hole, and was about 4 k from it, another hole appeared on my screens, one that I had never seen before.
At first it registered as a unknown Jump Hole, then said it was a jump hole to Leeds.
Leeds? I didnt hesitate; I aimed for it, and hit it at speed.
That Jump was totally different from other jumps, it felt different, and my ship bucked, and shook very badly, then when I was through, my ship shut down.
Just as the familiar screen filled with the acid nebula appeared, I was in Leeds, and I knew the cloud where I was, but what part?
BUT
I had no power, nothing. I checked the engines manually; I could not get them to run. My power cells refused to give out power. The Triudium Phase alignment acted as if they hand been completely neutralized.
I heard scuffling on the outside hull, went to the airlock, at least it operated manually, and after cranking the outer door open. I heard footsteps. After a moment a muffled okay, as a helmet touched the doors surface, I cranked the doors shut, then opened the inner doors. SF officers stood there, I was totally surprised. Their uniforms of course were completely different, and their ships, I didnt even recognize, stupidly I asked, "Where is the DD?"
We could understand each other, and they had no idea who the DD was. But they assured me that they were the Bretonian Military. They took me and my ship to Leeds, of course no one had ever seen my type of ship before, which the Bretonian Military confiscated, and reimbursed me for another ship, and the cargo of Diamonds also didn't help, they were just rocks here.
My ships engines of course would never work again, Truiduim element does not exist here, and was no longer in the conduits, nothing was there, so the fusion to generate the power to operate the engines did not exist here.
The four houses are basically the same here, but technology is different, ships are different, and the sector is actually larger with more systems than in the Sirius I had grown up in.
I had kept the ~STAB~ because I didn't know anything else, and still getting to know this Sirius.
Flying as STAB, just doesnt feel right, I guess because STAB doesnt really belong here.
I saw on the Job boards in Honshu, IND needed Pilots, and escorts, so I applied, sent a vid gram to 'fellow hoodlum', the 'CEO', and was he fast, got a responce with in hours. No Prob he said, I plotted a course in my 2nd hand transport to Manhatten, met the Officials at Trenton, they gave me a low interest loan out at Interspace, told me my ship just wouldn't do, and they flew me to Nuimburg in Munich to buy me my Advanced Train.
All I can say is 'WHOA', she's big, and luxurious, passengers for 200, cargo for 5000. I was gonna like this.
When ever you see me coming out of the cloud in leeds, means I tried to get back the the Sirius I grew up in, what I could do there with this train!
scruffy out
I play on EVE, name is Zak Vanlor, currently i fly everything T1 Gallente and some Minmater ships. Also flying the Hulk, (massive ship built to mine)
I am in Gallente Mining and manufacturing, a small player corporation centered on the industries.
been playing now since December 2007
BUT: i love playing Freelancer, and my current character is the Finitey's End.