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>>> BEGIN TRANSMISSION <<<
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>>> /\/\/-\||_/\/\/-\|\| <<<
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v.1.0.3 // node(RS001::IGIN{};
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#SOL#V645CENTAURI#BD+38°4344
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).tun(μ){76HSKGV-S2-84G772}
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---/ DSAC@SOL[[31.532.21.43:312]]IGST
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+phthalo::buenaventura#IGSS_SIERRA
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-indigo::T%822::toyon#SISKIYOU
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SUBJECT: Re: here's those tracks
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Indigo,
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Thanks for sending the tunes. They sure help make the repetition of
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this job feel less monotonous. It's not so bad, it's just that it's
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basically the same route over and over, hundreds of times a shift
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even. And it's not like it's very scenic. You don't get that simple
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joy of watching the scenery change or looking forward to what's
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around the bend like you would flying terrestrial. Anyway, having
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something good to listen to has given the void of deep space some
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texture.
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> Must be lonsome just stowing away on your ship all the time.
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> Don't you get restless being cooped up by yourself?
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Well, I have been making it onto the SS a little more lately.
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Mostly just for supplies. But occasionally I'll stop by a few Inns
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here and there. Trivia night is kind of fun. It is nice hearing
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stories from some of the old timers, guys who know their way to the
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outpost by memory. It sounds pretty rough, actually. It puts in
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perspective why there's so much money behind all this--it's a
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gamble, every time. All these barflies I've been talking to have
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outlived most of their comrades and crew. It's scary out there, but
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the way they talk about it...I'm not gonna lie, I really want a
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taste myself. I think I mentioned about maybe getting a charter out
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there someday. But I'm not so sure now, at least after the
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incident.
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Yeah...so I've been going to these Inns like I said, and well...the
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thing is you get to drinking and you don't really want to just
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sleep in some capsule, not once you've gotten used to having a
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whole damn ship to yourself! It's not a big deal, I guess. I've
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slept in plenty of capsules. But it's not exactly where you want to
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take a hot date... (You see where this is going?)
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This girl was hot dude...I mean, maybe that was the glug in me, but
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damn. She was like fantasy pretty, you know??? WAY out of my
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league. So like, a capsule was out of the question! haha I have
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this whole ship to myself (well apart from the onboard. Oh yeah,
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did I mention I have an onboard? He's called Serpentine...anyway!).
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It would have been fine if we had just stayed moored for the night,
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but come on...what's sexier than space?
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Anyway, I pulled out of the slip too soon and mangled one of the
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stays. It's a dumb mistake to make, but really, shit like this
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happens a lot around here. But it's a mistake a pilot shouldn't
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make, so I got a good swat on the nose for it. So yeah, the outpost
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will probably just be something to bullshit about on trivia night
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for me, at least for the foreseeable future. Oh well...
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This girl's been ghosting me ever since. We had a good night,
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like...a really good night. But she was gone in the morning. I
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never figured out how she got back to the SS. I don't remember
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giving her a lift, and Serpentine just snickers about it when I ask
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him, so who knows. It's too bad. She was something else...
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So yeah, that's what's been going on here. I'm gonna get some shut
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eye if I can. There's another wave coming in from across the void
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tomorrow, so I'll probably be pulling a double shift. Better sleep
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while I can.
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Take care, Dig.
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- Phthalo
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P.S. I'm working on getting my own transmitter setup here, so we
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won't need to mess around with this god damn Mailman business. I'm
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getting close to my quota, so pretty soon they'll start showing ads
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I guess.
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/---
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>>> END TRANSMISSION <<<
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