...the cockpit. He never had time to fix the motion sensor, and the few money he could afford for repairs always went to more urgent things. Grumbling, he hit the manual switch.
The "Dice's Roll" was a P-70 Tarsus class light freighter, an obsolete design made even more dangerous by the fact that despite 120 years of human presence, Gemini Sector was still a frontier zone. The Terran Confederation had to redirect most of its insys security towards the war effort against the Kilrathi Assembly of Clans, and -- as usual -- those who payed most from it were the small privateers like himself, free traders forced to get armed and ready against pirates or Kilrathi intruders... and still mostly defenceless from Confed income taxes , at least if they wanted to remain legit.
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