August 1st, 2473 Earth Standard Calendar

     There comes a point in every eighteen year old’s life when he gets pushed to do something drastic- and usually for all the wrong reasons. For me, it was a lot of reasons that all converged on me at once.  Work was hard to come by in the Inner Systems unless you came from the right families. “Randel” wasn’t one of them, and Sol was about as “Inner Systems” as you could get. I mean sure, I could have gotten by well enough regardless, but I’d never been what would be considered “popular.” My favorite past time was watching a few of the more popular Combat TV channels. Comet Hawks, Orion’s Roughnecks, and of course The Blacksun Powersoldiers were among my favorite channe...

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