I was once a micro-gravity engineer at Norfolk shipyard, building and fitting targeting arrays into Naval ships, but when a Kusari company was able to build them and ship them for cheaper than we, Liberty's own workers, could, we were all out of a job. It was that clear cut, nobody tried to fight for our jobs they just sacked us and then made us reapply for 25% of the original positions and 75% of our original salaries, suffice to say a lot of people lost their jobs.
I was lucky, I guess, I had just enough money left from an inheritance to buy myself a small ship and start the life I'd always figured I wanted, that of a trader. I started small and once I'd got a half decent freighter applied to Interspace, they hired me and now I fly for them. I'm not so happy as I thought I would be half the time I'm shipping things which could be made at the destination system, and I know that by doing this I'm helping to cause the very thing that cost me my own job.
So I've made myself a promise, something to ease my troubled conscience, I'm going to aid those who seek to prevent what happened to me, who seek to end the tyranny of the very corporations I fly for, I can't do it by joining them, I'm no fighter pilot, but I can supply them, I can provide food and water, I can aid them.
If I can do this without getting into too much trouble with the law then so much the better, but I will defend my choice with my life if I must. It's all I have left.
Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.
So it's been a while since I updated my journal and I suppose I should, this is after all a way to keep my thoughts collected to make sure I don't stray too far from my chosen path.
Straying, however is something I have been doing lately, I bought myself a fighter and went exploring not quite to the edge of Sirius, but I did find a few interesting things, hte iniquities in Liberty are not the only signs of oppression in Sirius, I've seen farmers in Kusari being forced out of their trade and homes for cheap fake food imported from elsewhere, the Molly seperatists being told no because the Bretonian Queen feels that she's just not rich enough and those are just two examples in our galxy there are many others. I can't fight all these wars and I have no intention of doing so, but again, I can help I can fulfil needs, where possible I can provide help in the formof much required commodities.
So I'm back in a transport now, I've hired some crew, sympathetic to my views, most ex-criminals by government standards, but they are trustworthy and we're staying this side of the law, at least visibly, which looks good on their probation cards.
I'm looking to pull in a few favours from a few old friends back at norfolk, gonna try to get the message out to these disparate groups, that there is a corporate trader, god how I hate saying that about myself, one that is independent of faction or creed, that is willing to help.
Signing off...
Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.
The time has come, the time for war. The Liberty Navy has gone too far, issuing edicts as if Liberty was a Military state. I haveorgansised a protest march although this is merely a means to an end. I have been plying the trade lanes recently in an attempt to form a revolutionary army. It seems to haev meet with some success the Liberty Rogues have offered me a partnership with them, they will provide us with bases and supplies, we will provide them with the ability to attack their enemies. I have also been in negotiations with an old friend, he intends to start up a new shipping company within Liberty and has offered us a significant stipend per week to get this show on the road. We will also be able to use this company to launder gains from piracy and extortion.
Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.