Commander’s Log

3300-11-22, Coratha – Today I stepped onto Traveler for the first time. It’s hard to describe what I was feeling: elation, trepidation, pride.

It’s a battered old FdL Cobra 3, fitted for range and scan. Room for 18 standard cargo containers. Decent sensor suite. A couple of small pulse laser guns. For some reason an old and a new celestial scan system. But I’m not complaining; the price was good. Meaning I had just enough beans saved up after selling my place on Korzun Platform!

XSo now I can get off this tin can factory my parents call home and make a mark. Post-secondary? Pfah, not for me. Who was it said “I won’t let school get in the way of my education”? Some old Terran coot, I think, and I figure the same. I want open space, not dusty, oily, classrooms!

But first, the FdL Cobra MkIII manual and my first pre-flight check…

Commander Graf Stefan