Chapter 5: Emergency

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The Atmosphere Had Been Breached, And I Needed To Fix It. I Spent A Few Minutes In The Galaxy Map Looking For A Populated System. Just 1,000 People Would Do. I Only  Had 17 Hours Left And 32 Minutes Of Oxygen. 23 Light-years Away, 2 Jumps, Was A System Named "COL SECTOR 472" The System Map Reported A Planetary Base, Only 216 Light-Seconds From The Star It Was Orbiting. So I Went There And Spent 17 Seconds Actually Getting To The Planet. I Spent 6 Minutes To Arrive At The Base And Land

I Requested Docking Permission And Landed At Pad 3

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I Requested Docking Permission And Landed At Pad 3. I Only Had 13 Minutes At This Point. I Quickly Opened Starport Services And Selected Auto Repair. My Heart rate Had About Returned To Normal. I Was Relived. This Planet Reminded Me Of My Childhood. There Was A Similar Pattern To New America, The Planet I Grew Up On, In A System Near Sol. I Had A Flashback To When I First Left That Planet, 17 Years Ago...

Now I Had 9 Hours To Deliver The Mystery Cargo To The Company Of Pyro

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Now I Had 9 Hours To Deliver The Mystery Cargo To The Company Of Pyro. It Said They Were Imperial, But I Don't Really Trust Them...

So I Launched And Re-Plotted A Route To Jacksons Lighthouse, And Their Star-Port, 80 DD-D 774-CE-3. It Had A Very Similar Name To Jaques When It Was Broken. 

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