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I also noticed that there were three main distinct personality types amongst the groups.įirstly, there were the laid back ones. I soon realised that bounty hunters tended to hang around in small social groups who would go out and hunt like a pack of wolves. I always enjoyed it when we stopped here. We would dock at Francis Orbiter, and go to Jeng's Bar, which is the local bounty hunter hangout. Normally, we'd join up with a group at Aenze. The bounty hunters would usually stick with us for the entire circuit. Eventually we'd get one to tag along with us, and by that time we would usually be loaded up and ready to go. Our normal practise was to hang around for several days in the bounty hunting hangouts, getting to know the different groups. In return, the trader is protected from pirates. This gives the bounty hunter kills and cargo to scoop up, increasing their bank accounts and Elite ratings. Similarly, bounty hunters stick around and escort traders.

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The birds eat the tics, keeping them fed, and in return free the bison of parasites. Bounty hunters and Frontier traders have a sort of symbiotic relationship, like those birds that live on the backs of bison. I realised it wouldn't be long before I could put a downpayment on my own ship, and start in business myself.īut I digress. However, I saw how my bank account had increased in size, and decided it was worth the risk. My nerves were shot to pieces, we'd had so many close calls. I almost quit after our first circuit around the edge. There is one constant about these systems - they are crawling with pirates, and you'll get attacked. Our trade route was pretty much fixed - we made our way to the southern Edge, taking in such wonderful systems such as Riedquat, Tionisla, Olquack and Aenze. It wasn't long after this that I started meeting bounty hunters. That was an enormous amount of money for a crewmember who ranked somewhere between amoeba and pond-scum on the crew roster. I couldn't believe my ears when my commander, Alice Robbins, told me that I would be making over CR 10,000 per year. Well, I had the sort of idea that they go to the further flung systems, but I didn't realise that these systems were crawling with pirates. At the time, I had no clue what a 'Frontier Trader' was.

You'd haggle over your wages, and hopefully get hired.

This was where prospective crewmembers would mill around (like cattle), and commanders would pick out one they thought would work out well. I was expected to go out and earn my own living when I turned 18, so I went to Sol and got myself a job with a frontier trader at what was called the 'cattlemarket'. I had lived 'planet side' on Landfall in the Wolf 630 system for all my life. At the time I was a 19-year old crewmember on a Lanner II that did the trade rounds on dangerous, frontier systems.įirstly, a little background. These events happened during Feburary 3292. It was the first time he witnessed 'space psychosis' - a bounty hunter's condition. In February 3292, Miguel Perez, an extremely deadly combateer of the latter group, went berserk at Francis Orbiter, and shot down a few innocent ships before ramming his ship into the station in a fit of Space Psychosis.Įditors Note] This story is told by Josh Smith, a Frontier tradesman. He divides bounty hunters into three groups: highly intelligent laid back one, the ones with big egos, and the quiet but volatile type. Josh Smith was a young Frontier tradesman, The ship he is a crewmember of travels in the company of bounty hunters, for protection, in what can best be described as a symbiotic relationship. Space Psychosis is a story by Dylan Smith set in the Frontier universe.

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