Life of a Freelancer by G.S. D'Moore

Author:G.S. D'Moore [D'Moore, G.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-01-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

When the skipper walked on the bridge, I put all the fuckery with Miko and Astrid behind me. It was time to get to work, and I couldn’t be distracted. Based on the quick conversation with the skipper when I returned to the ship, I could tell I had a role to play in whatever the hell was about to go down. I wasn’t going to be sitting on my ass in aux guns, or patching scratches on the hull.

At an unspoken command from her LINC, the bubble around the command chair expanded to take up the entire bridge. I looked around and took in the entire Confederation. Sitting closest to the sun was Aurora. It was a tropical paradise. Shallow, blue seas dominated ninety percent of the small planet’s mass with archipelagos and islands breaking through here and there. I’d been there once. It was a little too hot for my taste. I had enough swamp ass to deal with when I ran around in my armor. I didn’t want to have to deal with it on vacation. Plus, women looked at me weird there.

“I asked one of them how much for an hour and suddenly I’m persona non grata,” I scoffed. If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, then it’s a duck. It wasn’t my fault she walked and talked like a whore.

With so little landmass, Aurora’s real estate was limited; and that made it expensive. I don’t think a plot on the planet cost less than a million credits, and then you actually had to build something. The capitol of the planet barely stuffed a few hundred thousand people together on the largest island. Still, people called it paradise. Whatever.

A little farther out from Aurora, but still in the goldilocks zone, was Titania. The second most populous world, and the second colonized by our diaspora ancestors, Titania, was the closest to Old Earth of the worlds. Temperate climates, four seasons, and plenty of room to spread out on a forty-sixty, land-water ratio. Most of the residents of Aurora didn’t actually live on the paradise world. They had their real homes on Titania, where they manipulated the market, or were titans of industry. Then, they hopped a shuttle and spent the weekend on the water. It blew my mind people would hop planets for just a few days of fun in the sun, but when the rotations were right, the two planets were only a few hours away. If you had a place on Aurora, you definitely had one of those speedy private yachts the rich and famous always flew around in.

Sitting between Titania, and the asteroid belt, was the capitol planet of the Confederation: Oberon. The military and political hub was the powerhouse of the Confederation. They might not be as wealthy as Titania, but there were other types of power. Money was great, but you couldn’t beat someone to death with it.

Because we were a confederation, not a federation or union,

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