Logs of LR-Base.Race - How Leo Nine got lost

[RockCrystal]

7/8/826 AS:
10:47 Ohhhh man, my head. Got waaay too drunk at the Heart Thorne last night. Last thing I remember is thinking this post on the job board looked good. Then I wake up in this piece of crap Jackal (Where the hell did I get a Jackal in Galileo? Ship dealer won't even sell them up here...That's how crap they are) with Base Race painted on the side. Did I enter a race? The hell? Gotta figure out what I was looking at on the job board.

11:33 ...Hump me sideways. Wasn't too hard to figure out once I turned on the Neural Net in this steaming pile of a ship. Had a note from Underboss Brooke in my messages. 'Accepted. Don't screw up, or you're dead meat.' Had the job I took on attached. I need to get a blazing Base Constructor to TNF, with all the bits and pieces it needs to do its thing. Bloody hell.
At least the job doesn't have a time limit. I'll ask my Junker buddy Joe on Rochester. Maybe he's got one in his salvage yard.

12:10 Wow. OK, the Jackal may have paper thin armor and guns that wouldn't tickle a sleeping LPI desk sergeant, but DAMN it's quick. I think I overtook a ship in the Rio>Pueblo lane on the way down to Rochester.

14:22 Had to threaten to hit Joe before he stopped laughing at me. May have been a bad idea. He didn't have one in stock, and says none of his Junker buddies will have one either. Bastard. Told me if I wanted one so bad, to steal one from Texas. After I just got out of the slammer last month. With half the cops down there probably still looking for me. Thanks a ton, Joe.
He did shout something after me. Think he said 'Or get one off the Order'? Well... It's not like I have any other leads worth a damn. All I know about the Order is they show up in Liberty every so often hunting... Something, then piss off before the Navy gets there. Never heard of them having bases in any of the houses. Huh. Well, if there's one group of smarmy, pacifist dirtbags who know where everything is, it's the Zoners. I should know that better than anyone. Wonder if Ames still has me on their 'Do not dock' list...

17:57 PAYDIRT. I found an Outcast pirating ships in Kepler and had a nice long talk with him. Didn't even need to dock at Ames, they can kiss the fattest, grungiest part of my... Anyway. The 'Cast said the Order hangs out in a system called 'Omicron Moo'. Dumb name, but at least it's easy to remember. He also said I could get there through... damn. Toe-Hockey? Toe-Hokum? Friggin Kusari names... He also said I could get there through Alaska. LAWL. What is it with people giving me dumb ideas today? Sure, lemme just go through the most heavily fortified system in all Liberty on an errand to grab a ship. Thanks. A. Ton.
Welp. On to Kusari. At least after all these years I can say 'Shikoku' without breaking my teeth on it.

18:38 Ooooh, 'Golden Dragon Casino'? This wasn't here 8 years ago...

20:04 Aaaaaaand now I'm broke. At least I got a room for the night before I put everything on red. Should have stuck to cards, I bet the damn table was rigged...

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Be kinder than necessary, because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
J.M. Barrie