I was recently informed that my little brother decided to follow my footsteps and enter capsule training. Which suits him, he’s always been an egghead… I expect he will go the R&D and PI route, unless he favors piracy.. in which case I would have to kill him, mother would not be pleased. I remember well how sad my brother was when I left for the academy.
Mother wasn’t happy with me going either, she thought it was un-natural that a person allow circuitry to be stuck into their bodies, or to be cloned. She’s the obligatory holdout against advanced technology. She was one of the last to adopt sonic showers, thinking that somehow the polluted water of our little backwater planet was a better way to clean one’s self. She still uses a carbon fuel burning stove and oven to cook with. Granted, nobody can match her Swedish meatballs..
You know.. I think it’s high time that I wrote her.. I did promise to send her money once in a while, which was why she let me leave. I bet she could even cryopak a tray of her meatballs and ship them to me for a tiny sampling of the amount of money I’m making these days.. I just won’t mention how I lost a ship in a wormhole to sleepers, and had to self destruct to get home.. I don’t want her to know I’ve already been cloned once.
Once my brother is setup with a ship of his own and starts whatever career he picks, I’ll let you guys know more.
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Gavinton finished the academy on Friday afternoon and after all the arduous training and testing.. The first thing he did was go on vacation.. what a bum.. In any event, He sent me a holo shortly before leaving telling me that he was going to scout a few planets for a likely spot to plant a mining operation very soon. For now he intends to stay near civilization and try to help work my corp’s reputation up with the state enough that we could setup shop with a small or medium POS for research and Manufacturing.
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