Silence on Wala


Captain's Log, Another day another dollar, or so the saying goes. After over three years of hauling cargo you would think that I'd get bored of this by now yet here I am waking up at the crack of dawn hauling cargo. I guess the proof is in the pudding that taking a simple task, like traveling from A to B transporting cargo, and adding in some random players to the mix, you'll get a million different results. Our goal through all this is to turn a profit, but you'd be surprised how difficult that 'simple' task can be when you add in the human variable. 

The day started out normal enough, I teamed up with Liandrix, Pyro, and Hollow and we wanted to haul some cargo. My goal was to check all four outposts on Arial and Wala. I checked both Lathan and Bezdek on my own but there was only around 100 SCU worth of Laranite. Then we staged two more cats to make the trip to Wala. Beating a few bugs via team work we arrived at Wala. Liandrix. and I were in the Best in Show Cat, while Pyro and Hollow were in the other Drake Caterpillar. Liandrix is a new player so I giving him a few pointers. I wasn't too concerned about the other Cat because both Hollow and Pyro are competent pilots. I was just explaining how to watch your speed on Wala's entry when disaster struck. 

At of the corner of my eye, I see a dark silhouette shoot across the screen. It was just a few thousand meters off the surface of the frozen moon of Wala. To my surprise it was Hollow making up for lost time attempting to get to the outpost first. As the mammoth cargo ship darts through the thing atmosphere, I hear a brief transmission over the coms. "I can't move the ship!" 

The freighter collides with the ground and goes up in a huge explosion, the shockwave sending out a bright blue-white wave. 



The moon of Wala returns back to silence and cold state. The silence is broken as the best in show caterpillar touches down, I walk in to the small outpost only to fine the Laranite supply depleted. 

"All this? And at what cost?"    

I update my log, it's been zero days since the last fatality. 




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