Should know better

Joron sits back down from turning on the video feed. His face, previously scarred and wrinkled, now appears soft and pliable, with not a hint of stubble along his jaw.

Took out my Rifter through Placid on a patrol to find a particularly poorly-organized mining operation. Destroyer, frigate, and an Iteron (though the latter got away). Turned out that Catalyst acted like nothing happened — kept mining while I shot it, and the pod just sat there. His Imicus buddy showed back up, I guess figuring I would leave immediately. He managed to get his pod out, though.

Then I figured I’d go find the party in Syndicate and made my way out to some back-ass system, where I ran into a T3 buzzsaw. Damn shame, since I hear you can find about anything out in Syndicate. Still want to get back out there.

I really should know better.

After grumbling quietly for a second, he leans forward and cuts the camera off.

That didn’t last

Joron sits down in front of the camera holding his drink. One can occasionally observe two women passing in the background of a luxury suite decorated in Gallente fashion.

Settling in out here

The video feed blinks on and a grizzled Civire man sits down in front of it. He holds a drink in one hand and occasionally runs his other hand back through his close-cropped hair.

So I’ve got most of my gear set up in Domain now. Not a real pleasant place out here: damn Amarrians will drive a man to drink. Or drink more, in my case. They like to pretend to be all holy and “chosen”, and usually that’s a pain in my ass, but at least out in lowsec you can find girls who don’t quite hold to whatever their priests tell them, thank God… or not, I suppose.

Anyway, I’ve spent some time  getting set up with Anshar. Hasn’t gone as quickly as I’d like, but that’s more on my end than theirs. Boss seems nice enough, but I’ve gotta keep my eyes open. As long as he’s flown with the Cartel and all, I know there’s more to him than he likes to let on. Works for me, I suppose, and he flew a mean Cyclone when we hit those Sansha the other day.

Guess I’ll head back down to the lower deck, see what I can scare up…

He grins with the right side of his mouth and winks before reaching forward and fiddling with something. The video feed abruptly cuts out.