Bennu Station, 191:6
Today is the first day of my new job as a compliance officer at Bennu Station. I quit my job in the academy last summer and spent the time after back in with my parents, sleeping in my childhood bed, and staring at the same glow-in-the dark stars that led me to the academy in the first place.
Maybe I'll write more about that later, but for now I'm just glad to finally be at the Station. There's no fast travel yet, but apparently they're working on it. I guess I should be glad it hasn't been finished, because I probably wouldn't have gotten the job otherwise. Not too many people—my age or otherwise—are willing to take the 10 months of travel from 山峰 station to the literal last vestiges of humanity.
Shah, my boss, is pretty chill, and let me take one of the offices with a view of the port. It's better than the academy, because these ships are built for the frontier, not as a model for some instructor to demonstrate how things used to be. It's a side of the navy that technology has nearly killed. But not here.
I can take a break from my screen and watch a delta class slide in to the station, close enough to see the stress fractures on the advertising panels. I imagine it's what a barnacle used to feel like. Each panel could crush an entire level of the administration spire.
The compliance division is third ring down from the top of the spire, so I get to look out over most of the larger concentric levels, and the whole of the yards.
The station is smaller than the dorms at the academy, but I've never been to a place that feels so vast. Literally the only way to go farther from here is to take a ship, something that only a handful of living people have done. I haven't really met anyone yet, but maybe someone can take me on an extraction run. Nothing novel, just something to say I've done it. Something to make my 7gen proud.
Break's over! I was too nervous to go eat with Shah, even though he asked. I won't be able to lie about important paperwork every time, so I'll probably have to write these from my room going forward.