"Essay 14, we're picking up unknown contacts on long-range sensors. We're dispatching a fighter wing to escort you out of the system."

"Do you always leave that thing on?"

"It's a Freeport. They enforce a no-fighting rule on the station, but right outside the docking bay you could have Corsairs and Outcasts throwing down. It's worth knowing what local space traffic is and is doing." This guy must not get out to the Freeports very often.


"President Jacobi has asked the LSF to investigate the sudden destruction of Freeport 7. No word yet on whether it was accidental or a deliberate attack...


"Alert! Unknown ships have breached the perimeter! Man all stations!"

Guy owes me money. Well, he'd better come too then. Start dragging him in a half-run for the launch bays.

Never actually heard that sound before. Not in person anyways. I've heard it on sim tapes. It's never a good sound, the sound of a torpedo impact...

The door won't open. FUCK! There's vacuum on the other side, we're deep in the station, that shuddering...the station's gotta be coming apart. There's an escape pod rack a deck down. Gotta move!


"Officially the Liberty Security Force maintains there is no proof Freeport 7's destruction is deliberate..."


Not deliberate my ass. No ship. No money. Can't fly. Can't run anything. Can't even fight, not that I ever did much of that. Can't get any worse.