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[Zukeenee]

Comm ID: Charlie Koskinen
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More disappointing news, I'm afraid. We got a new Enema of the Goddess: Peter.Douglas. Fancies himself a real clever one, I'm sure. The bastard...

I was sitting on Pueblo Bonito, taking a smoke break when our sensors at the Tau 29 jumphole started going off, indicating some ship had just entered the system. I got in my Arrow, headed down to the hole... nothing there. Well, that's not really odd, I thought. He came in and immediately took off for the Coronado hole, as most of our visitors do. But I checked the sensors for the Coronado hole, and it hadn't registered any ship exiting through it. So did he go back through 29? No, the 29 hole just had the one record of an incoming ship, no outgoing.

So this guy was still in Baffin, but I didn't know where. That worried me. I spent a good ten minutes flying around the whole pentagon, but I didn't see this mystery-man anywhere. Checked Pueblo, flew 'round the pentagon again, even flew out to Planet Eris and back, but didn't see him. And he was still in the system, according to the jumphole data.

So I started making my way back to Shasta, for one more try around the pentagon, and suddenly he showed up on scanners, flying out of the ice cloud. Then, he started flying straight up, towards Pueblo Bonito. I followed, and hailed him, asking what he wanted. He says he's going to Pueblo to get himself a SNAC. So I redirect him, and give him a few more options. All during this time, he was entirely silent and motionless. I assume he was, ah, busy checking his data. I started to wonder if he had died in his cockpit, when after another five or ten minutes of waiting, he asks the age-old question, "What am I?" I tell him.

Another five or even ten minutes pass, he's still sitting there, doing nothing. Still going through his charts, I assumed. I offered to get the gun for him, just to see if I could get him out of Baffin. Still no response, of course. The minutes tick by, and I'm startin' to loose my calm. He's just sittin' there.

After a few more minutes, I see him twitch to the right. I confront him again; still no response. Then he starts spinnin' like a wobbly Chao, and I know he's just being a smart-ass. I issue an ultimatum, and start counting. On "Two," he makes a break for Pueblo and forces his way in. And that's that. He's made a new foe today.

Charlie out.

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