A new client

Guest Poster: Jan the Intergalactic Aviator

Jon’s important message turned out that that it was his second Blogoversary. I flew all the way to Throneworld just to see him show us a clip of last year which included a clip of the year before. I briefly considered kicking him in the crotch but then decided to congratulate him instead.

I’m not very comfortable at Throneworld, everyone’s all buzzing around languishing attention on the Queen and everything just isn’t something I want to be a part of. The Queen seems very nice but she also seems to be hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. She also sticks her chest out all the time and that bugs the crap out of me.

So after the to-do about Jon’s thing, I beat it back to Orion Station as quickly as I could. I was hoping that my customer was still around and still wanted to hire me.

I was in luck, after I landed and made my way into the station, I got a message on my datapad.

I still need a ship if you’re interested, it said.

I am, I typed in reply. Can you give me the details?

As series of coordinates came up on the screen.

I need to deliver a shipment of energy cores to this location.

That’s a long ways away, I responded. In fact, it is a galaxy far, far away. It is not very stable there, either. There’s quite a war going on right now. Getting these cores there will be dangerous.

His reply scrolled across the screen: I understand that, and I will pay you for it. Half now and half after they’re delivered, of course. Ha ha.

I typed my price on the screen. There was a long pause as I waited for his reply.

Finally, his reply showed up: Wow. If I were sitting next to you, you’d hear a long whistle. Ha ha.

That’s my price

He responded: Very well. The cores are in docking bay B12. You can meet me there.

I folded up the pad and made my way to the docking bay. The doors slid open and I found myself face to face with my new client.



“Well well well, ain’t you a pretty little filly?”

I think that I found someone new to kick in the crotch.