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My Ship

It was a beautiful ship, perfectly spherical with three ion engines sitting flush with the outside. Running all across it like lattitude and longitude lines were the blue marks of g-field emitters. Also, hidden from view, there was a laser powerful enough to punch a hole through a large asteroid.
It was a Master class vessel, it was my vessel, it was the Juggernaut.
Some people say that the Master class is one of the most useless classes of spaceships available, because of its small size, but those who look closely at the specs for it will discover that it has the same amount of power that a small Navy destroyer has, with a tenth of the size, the hyperdrive is included. You may wonder what all that power is for, and I’ll tell you that it is an exploration ship and you never know what you’ll find in the unexplored parts of the galaxy.
The unexplored parts of the galaxy is the general area I am now, and I’m going to tell you how I got here.
It all started at a bar in a seedy spaceport on Sirius 4…

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