Outpost 69

My name is Asayo Ishitaki, former special agent for Earth Corps now just a treasure hunter.

Humans love to waste. I can't think of one time in human history where we didn't drop old reliable for something new and shiny and in space it's no different, hell it's even worse. It is estimated that there are over two thousand abandoned space outpost in our solar system alone. Some are just empty shells of what they used to be, some are left intact abandoned because of reactor leaks and the such, and some...some are empty for absolutely no reason. The latter two are how I make my living. I find things of worth, bring it to the nearest colony and sell.

Outpost 69 has been the Moby Dick of Outpost to find. It was owned by a wealthy buisnesman about a hundred years ago and served as his personal harem. Then one day it was just gone. Supply ships came to drop off food stuff and the sort and the outpost wasn't in it's position; a tight orbit around Neptune.

For years Earthgov searched for it but it was never found by them or people like myself, until now. I was searching the area around Nebulas 5 when a blip came up on my ship's monitor, I went to investigate and at first I had to check my rets to see if I was seeing correctly. Outpost 69, power on, artificial enviroment still working. I scanned it for lifesigns and when I found none, I blasted my way into one of the landing bays.

Within hours I had collected enough stuff to be able to live a very, very filthy rich life for me and great grandchildren (if I believed in breeding that is). I was coming back to my ship from one of the jewel vaults to discover my ship was gone.

It's not like I don't know where I landed it. I had made three trips back to it already and my autopilot on my arm couldn't locate it either. Probably some bastard that got there after me and instead of being the slight bit generous, probably tractored my ship so they could strip it down and steal my treasure, or at least that's what I thought until I checked the still functioning cams on the bridge. No sign of any other ship approaching and a splice in the vid for a full ten seconds...ship there...ship gone.

Maybe not claim jumpers, probably some dregs that had taken refuge here and somehow managed to evade my earlier scans for life. Whatever the case, I needed to find my ship and get the hell out of here.