[These logs can be found on Ebi's personal datapad, which can currently be found tucked under the couch in Omega's basement. The files are four digit passcode protected.] (3/10) Alright I'm done. That declaration the Council passed on mercenary work is going to kill me off. I'm not going back to working for Deagan. Creep can suck it. I'm gathering my things and spending a bit of my savings for a full tank of fuel. News has it that the frontier is a good place for people like me. There's certainly enough stories about people being shot. And it's far enough out there that the Council won't look for mercs. Time to hop on the old I-01 and take a long leap out. I'll try Alpha Centauri first, human colonies are always a good place to start. (4/25) So I've missed a while. Not a big deal. I might take that up as a regular thing. So a recap, a bit longer since my last one was so short. I'm out near the frontier sectors now, in a little nondescript backwater sector known only as "Council Space" I guess the place doesn't even have a proper name yet. Arrived yesterday. Went to the local settlement "Upside" looking for work. Place seemed quiet enough, talked to a couple people, bought a new assault rifle, ended up having lunch with the local gunsmith, Omega, a human. We talked for a while, he gave me a heads up that there's probably not much merc work out here, despite how much violence there is. He said I should check out applying for the local security force, later. Shortly thereafter there was a lockdown, no idea why. Ended up in the basement of the gun shop with Omega and a few others. That lasted for a while, we all talked and wasted time. Omega picked up a small group of people, some lady with some droids or something. The colony has a problem with androids, I guess. Anyway, that cleared up soon enough and I got invited back to Omegas place for drinks. We ended up just talking, but that's fine. I wrote up an application to join the security force in the meantime. Took a nap after that and waited for a response, which was actually pretty quick. I went and found the officer I needed to talk to for an interview, gave him my info, and I've got a job. Today I woke up late, I slept through my alarm. That's what I get for being awake that late. Stopped in at the town hall and talked to the chief looking for gear. Didn't have it yet so I went off to wander for a while. Then I found an old beaten up android on the beam pad and things got strange. Called the chief about it, he came over and looked it over, we elected to boot it up. Of course neither of us know how to do anything with android repairs, so we had to call on one of the locals. Brought it to the clinic with Omega's help and got it fixed up. He seemed to recognize it, said it's a recalled model of android, known for sentience. I don't really care as long as it doesn't turn violent. Then there was a gunshot and I had to run to see what was going on. It ended up that one of my kin shot a floran, I guess. I don't have the full story yet, but the floran lost a leg. Nothing major for it, probably. The attacker got shot in the eye by a novakid. That all went on in a bout of confusion. After that, I finally got my gear, went over the stats with the chief. This armor is beastly. Not saying I want to use it, and I can't write down the stats here, but it's awesome. Finished up my shift and went to talk to Omega, who went by earlier looking pissed, then went back with bloody knuckles. So I asked what's up, made sure he's alright. He said he had some disagreement with a friend. I asked him about rubber bullets, because I can't just go around capping people with lead now, and ended up asking him out for dinner tomorrow. I'm not really sure why, he just has... this... smile and weird charm... ... For a human. I don't know. He's attractive for a human... Anyway. That's it so far. I might write another entry tomorrow, but we'll see. I'm kind of excited for the date, actually...
(4/26) Alright, today needs a recap. To say the least, if the moon had crashed into the planet, it would have been better. I'm barely awake writing this, but I need to before I drink myself into a blackout. To start, I woke up late. Again. Fuck that. Went to see Omega about that date, got called out by Blanc to go check the beam pad for "A drunk guy with a gun" or some shit. On my way there, encounter a guy in power armor who's banned from the colony. Call the chief for help with that. Go to find the drunk guy. No drunk guy. Go back to the chief, he tells me we're going to show the power armored guy out by force. So I go get my gear on and come back. I get sent to handle civilians while chief and another officer -whom I haven't gotten a name from yet- try to escort power armor guy to the pad. Something goes wrong, I have no idea what. A floran falls down some stairs. (Good.) I end up down below the restaurant when a firefight erupts and the chief gets punched by the armored prick. Civi comes down to tend the chief (Good.) A few other civi's do dumb shit. Oh yeah, then there was the reporter robot that just refused to listen to anything I had to say during a firefight. Whatever. Never got that date, but I did get a random ass kiss from Omega after, which was... weird to say the least. Talk to him for a while while sorting shit out, like come on man, I'm doing my job still... Floran tries to steal the remaining scrap metal of the robot guy. Oh right, robot guy exploded. Like REALLY exploded. Fucked up the bathrooms and all that. Yelled at the stubborn floran. Got called to the beampad because, guess what? Another armored asshole just showed up. Apparently. Run there, see chief on the way, he's okay. Get into the beampad room with other officer guy and some marine guy who just showed out of nowhere. Other officer guy leaves to go catalog the explosion for some fucking reason. An avian fighting a guy in armor and a hood shows up out of the porter. I go up the elevator. An avian and two armored people fighting up above, one in black armor punches the avian. Wave my gun around like a fuckface. Get called a cunt. Separate the two armored people. Get told someone's been kidnapped. Try to work through that, get chief up there. He comes up, we sort through it, I get black armor fuckface on his knees. He doesn't comply with removing his helmet. He doesn't comply with removing his helmet again. He tries to jump off the roof. I shoot him in the dick. He flops over and whines. Chief waves the avian away, then tases the armored guy. Armored guy pukes in his helmet. Chief removes armored apex's helmet. Chief goes to get med supplies. I get to strip a vomit covered crying apex man. So yeah. There's a summary. Gonna look back on this one for years like: "You see, me? Look how fucking terrible this day was." I'm going to bed.
(5/2) So I skipped a few days again. I guess I missed a couple things on Upside. So... I guess some battle droid showed up a few days ago, just started blasting people. Omega and that beaten up android handled it, apparently. Which is great on securities part. Like sure, why not send relatively untrained civies to fight a machine designed to kill? Either way, Omega's got some burns from a plasma cannon or something. I guess someone with the battle droid kidnapped the local baker? Who's also an android? I can barely follow this. I need to actually meet the locals, because everyone assumes I know everyone else on the colony already. Anyway, some woman was pissed about the whole kidnapping thing. That's reasonable. She was raising an army to storm the place the androids are coming from. So I heard pay, she said she'd give me 1k for the job, kill everything except the baker. I said hell yeah. So only later after about an hour and a half of clusterfucking we're told this really only needs four people. So I look at it like this, we're sending eight. With eight people on a four man job, someone's going to catch friendly fire or just get caught up in the confusion and die. So I dropped out, 1k isn't worth being shot repeatedly or dying. Besides, Omega made a point, if they send all of security with the warlord woman, if the androids launch something against us, all the civilians on Upside are fucked. I stuck around. Ended up helping some massive glitch with a chore for Omega, moving his machines out of the sewer. Why the hell was he selling to criminals anyway? I mean, yeah I get it's money, but really dude? Really? So we get down there, this huge glitch and I, and we get confronted by some asshole. Long story short, the glitch nearly cut the guys hand off and I forgot to load my gun. I ended up throwing it at him and hitting him in the crotch. (Ten points) Guy fell into the sewer water, so I'm not dragging him out. Things went fairly smoothly after that. On another note, we were out of coffee at home. And on my ship. Which is great. I had to take a two day trip out of sector to actually buy any because I guess commerce isn't really a thing out in the Frontier-ish sectors. I also forgot to tell anyone, so I hope I don't get chewed out when I come back.
