Pieter Tuulinen
Akagi Initiative
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
7255
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Posted - 2017.03.18 09:23:05 -
[1] - Quote
I wasn't born at all and my home wasn't even a planet that you could walk on.
I was decanted on the tenth of January, YC 093 aboard the Peace and Order Unit station orbiting the fourth moon of the eighth world of the Abagawa system. This isn't a rocky planet, it's an enormous Gas Giant of a world that comes equipped with three asteroid belts and six moons!
I was part of a creche of one hundred little Civire who were all from batch 6 of series 14596. We were housed in a single barracks, growing up, divided up into rooms of ten. I slept in bunkbeds while we were at the creche. At fifteen I went off for vocational training and from that time I was housed in a regular single male barracks. We had single beds at that time, which felt like a huge luxury, because I had a top bunk as a kid and it took me six months to stop rolling out of bed without sitting up first.
The station was pretty much like all Suvee stations. We had less Achura than you would get at Saisio - but we had way more Achura than you'd get at, say, a Lai Dai station. That meant that as well as regular Caldari and Napaani, I grew up speaking conversational Achura. It was a useful skill in my vocation.
The station has its administrative offices around the core, with the barracks and retail/office spaces on the side closest to the planet and the utility and infrastructure on the space-side of the station. When I did a rotation learning the ropes to become a detective, I actually worked in the core and I quite liked it there - although some of the spaces are a little cramped, because core real-estate is more expensive. There are, however, some open spaces in the core with actual trees and grass and so forth. I used to eat my lunch on a bench under a stand of trees when I wasn't slammed with work.
Caldari stations are typically a little colder than visitors would prefer - especially Achur. Now that I think of it, it was probably a little mean of us not to accomodate our Achur staff. They all came from Saisio and it took them quite some time to acclimate to the standard temperature. You could heat your quarters to any temperature you preferred - but the further away from the baseline temperature the more it cost you to do so.
We did have a lot of Achur food on the station. One of the senior patrol officers that guided me through my period as a cadet was married to an Achur woman and he used to insist on Achur food a couple of times a week. You'd think he'd want to eat regular food more, since I'm sure he got Achur food a lot at home, but I never did get around to asking him about it.
I used to watch the storms on the surface of the planet, quite often - especially during my sleep cycle. I once heard that the sound of storms is soothing, but when I got someone in astronomy to get me a recording of the storms on Abagawa VIII I found that actually they made me tense, rather than relaxing me.
For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead
in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a
hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
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