Stories From Space!

In the Eyes of a Delivery Man - 3

        "At BeeDew Express, we prioritize customer satisfaction! Rapid deliveries and most importantly-" ahh whatever, i can't be bothered to finish that line anymore. Boss man told us that we have a "Sacred duty to uphold the reputation of BeeDew Express" yeah yeah sure whatever boss. So, What do you wanna hear? I got a couple of stories i'd be willing to share.

         Sooo, where to begin.... Well i suppose i should fill you in on what BeeDew Express is first. We're a delivery company that started on Tera back in 2234, apparently the founder of the company started with just a few hundred credits and a bike. Since then, it's expanded across maybe two-thirds of the galaxy. BeeDew employees have been stretched pretty thin lately so sometimes a team of delivery men/woman have to drive the cargo ship and the vans when they get off on the shipping terminals.

         And me? well i've been in the delivery game for about 3 years now, i initially started to get some money for College, but i liked the job, ended up staying. But see here, delivery here is hard, especially with this one dude who thinks I'm his rival. But to be fair, we do tie with most delivers a month. I'm sitting at a comfortable spot of 4200 plus average deliveries, he's on an average of 3900, he's like one of those side characters in a movie or something, those "why i oughta" types, you know what I'm saying? He actually almost passed me you know? a few weeks back he was up 4100 deliveries! He was interrupted by that Pepper heist everyone's talking about, at the Janus System. He was stuck in traffic for 17 hours.

          Still can't believe one of the convicts escaped, it was a massive scandal that was. But lucky for me! cause I'm still employee of the month babyyy!

        I remember when i first started here, everything was a lot different from what i imagined it to be, i thought it was just "Grab a van full of boxes and go" nah bro, way different than that. You have to do routine checks on your vans, see if any of the Hydrogen Cells are empty, if so you gotta charge it, then you have to do hourly checks on packages, make sure nothing's left behind. then there's the cargo ship itself, we usually leave those to the Mechanics back at the warehouse but everyone must do double checks just in case. 

     Then there's the flying part, adjusting trajectory in space, entering the atmosphere of the plant, thats hard work. Unless that planet has a Space Elevator, then it would make the job so much easier. Maybe not the docking part, but at least i don't have to worry about burning up and turning into a pile of ashes everytime i enter an atmosphere.  I've delivered all sorts of things, from kitchen utensils to entire Planet habitats, when stuff doesn't fit we load it onto the cargo ship first and call the regional BeeDew company to take it for us.

        Ive been all over the Galaxy, I've been to the water planet of Taibos, who knew BeeDew had delivery boats? I've also been to the Izapus Deserts, that place is scorching hot, i could literally fry eggs on the hood of my van of which by the way, i did. I've also been to the fairly recently colonized planet of Olivian, they're still working on terraforming the land so we had to wear gas masks in order to keep us from inhaling the poisonous gas, i was delivering a flat-screen tv. 

         That's the thing about being a BeeDew delivery man, we always deliver stuff no matter what. I knew a guy who snuck aboard a Pirate Faction Cruiser en-route to the Janus System to deliver an AC unit because apparently his cargo ship was shot down in a crossfire between the Federation and some Rouge Soldiers. Funny thing was, the Pirate Cruiser was attacked at the Systems Checkpoint by Federation Border Patrol. He got into an escape pod and booked it to Aticus, the planet he was supposed to deliver it too, he showed up to the house with burnt clothing, bruised and bloody scratches. But the AC unit, besides a few dents and a tear in the box, completely safe. Unbelievable!!!! He went through a conflict zone and still managed to delivery it i mean are you kidding me?!?!