The Journal of Caius Oakley

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The journal of Caius Oakley


Where to begin?

As a child, I was restless and unhappy with the life of a wandering accountant, flitting from base to base, performing audits for the tax collectors. We'd land on some far-flung base, and review the trading logs for the previous year, and then we'd be off again, to complete another exciting review of tax expenditure, so that the houses of Sirius could synergistically co-ordinate revenue exemptions or in other words, make sure no-one was squirreling too much away under the mattress. We'd not be bothered by pirates overmuch, as we never carried large amounts of money or cargo in our X-shuttle, and they'd get used to our little ship barrelling through Sirius. Occasionally a young bravo would stop us, and get disappointed at our cargo-hold full of family life. Mum, Dad, my older sister Camila and me.

Oh, I guess it wasnt such a bad life; working for themselves, Mum and Dad were quite happy, well, happier than they had been slaving away for the audit commission, missing meals (and weekends), working for the man. All that was before my time, the only life I knew was in Colin Oakleys Independent Numeration or COIN for short. I didnt know where I was born until I was 33; I had always assumed that it was in the medical bay, en route from one station to another but when I had to register a ship for the first time, my birth certificate was produced, and sure enough, Im a genuine Curacao baby, not even first landfall, but actually born on a planet, in an atmosphere and a pleasure planet at that!

Having an older sister is both good and bad good because she'll make you up a sandwich whenever you want, and look after you when you're toddling around the ship. Later, its bad because she'll be hogging the film-viewer, watching chick-flicks whenever you want to watch action films but at least there was someone to talk to, someone who shared the same experience on board ship. Both me and my sister were bored and frustrated. Bored of the constant travelling with very few distractions, and frustrated at seeing the totals that auditing the trading logs showed. Those guys must be raking it in we'd say to each other. This was probably why Camila accepted the astrogators job on the Interspace Commerce transport - that and the good looking captain.

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