Ashley Blackstone

Wanna see my latest project?

Yer ready for a road trip?

God that looks awesome ! :o

Just wait until I attached the weaponry to the “Ashmobile”. Hrhr.

Does it mean Jayne is kinda your Robin ?

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na, probably more Alfred.

Let’s just say I’m simply going to refer to her as “Missas J.” .... Or “Puddin’“.

Wanna see my latest project?

Yer ready for a road trip?

God that looks awesome ! :o

#ashley #current #picture #ashmobile

Just wait until I attached the weaponry to the “Ashmobile”. Hrhr.

Wanna see my latest project?

Yer ready for a road trip?

Here are some pictures of the place where me and Jayne are currently living in. Still working on some of it, but it’s mostly done! Hope ya like it. I do. And I think Jayne does, too.

Of course, training the body isn’t all. Also the mind should be trained and there’s more to battle than strength. You need tactics. You need to know your enemy. And you need education. For this, I built a lecture room on the roof of the building, next to the solar collector (the whole plot is running on green energy, or else the Aurin would be pissed!). It’s offering a large wall screen and a state-of-the-art tactical interface. You can plan your battle strategies and learn something. Or play Dominion chess. Whatever.

And also, I gotta live somewhere. That’s where the “vault” comes into mind: My private space is hidden at the center, down the vault hatch (it’s code locked, so no random entering, honeys!)

I also got a boxing ring, fighting ring and of course a small medical bay for immediate treatment, shoud the training go haywire. There’s also a sauna, shower room and a restroom for your convenience. After a hard day of training, you can relax in the comfort zone, pool, balcony or at the campfire. Ain’t that pretty?

Now take a look at my work: The “Blackstone Camp” or however you may call it. I got an FCON-approved shooting range (including a gun turret for heavy weapon training and drop pods for drop pod training) and a little obstacle training course for fitness on the outside. Inside there’s a dance training hall (for your gymnastics, aerobics, dancing or other rhythmic training), a locker room to get changed or a training room for fitness and strength. At the entrance there’s a small bar area where you can sit, relax and buy the occassional sport drinks (yes, isotonic beer is considered a sport drink!) from the bot or the vending machine (from Protostar!)

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I’m startin’ with a selfie. This is me in my room at the - as I call it - Blackstone Vault!

Keep up the p(e)ace

Yeah. Been a while since I updated this.

Was quite busy, worked half the day doin’ errand jobs for FCON and XAS to earn some money, working the other half with rented builder bots on my skyplot, using the money I earned to transform it from a buried wrecked ship part into a home.

Man am I exhausted. But it was totally worth it. The interior is what I’d call comfortable now. I asked Jayne oftentimes if she was satisfied, but she always said yes... guess she’d even stay if it was just a pile of rubble as long as I was in it.

So she’s not much help on that part. Also, I think she’s afraid to make a wish, because I’d immediately run off to make it happen. She asked for a pool. So I built the best effin’ pool on Nexus! She asked for a few plants to liven up the place. I built an underground arboretum! And when she said that a few rugs would work wonders in her room I immediately ran off to fetch’em. But that’s just what I do. I make things. And I make things happen. I’m a go-getter. That’s just how I roll and I like it. Makes me feel needed and contributing. And the reason why I do it immediately is quite simple. If I don’t, I’d probably forget about it. Heh.

I also finished the training grounds and added a lecture room on the roof, everything’s now in place.

I’ll post pictures of it later. Guess it’s time for a pool party!

Right now I’m enjoying the serenity, before Aurin start to flood the place.

On another note:

I decided I’d volunteer and enroll with the Peacekeeper. Right now I’m doing jobs for FCON, setting things straight already, and I’m bouncer at the Charyb and also self-proclaimed protector of Jayne. So I’m currently keepin’ the peace around my people, so why not make it official?

Peacekeeper Blackstone. Now doesn’t that sound good?

Also, I just might become Judge someday. Jayne says she’d feel safer and Cley said I was wise. Dunno if that’s true, but maybe I’m fit for the job.

Well, only way to find out is by trying.

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Fightin’ never stops

Ain’t it strange how war twists people’s mindset?

I get that people are biased because of my heritage. People will always have prejudices. But when that ruins what was supposed to be a relaxed partying evening, I really get pissed.

We figured things out though. My boss (owner of the Charyb), Sirnana, a pretty narcistic aurin, freaked when she found out I was born on Cassus. I almost freaked, too, when she called me a ‘Dommie’, but I kept my cool. ‘Cuz the real reason she got angry was because Riley didn’t tell her and consulted her.

Obviously, when you are born on Cassus, you need a ‘special consulting’ if the boss lets you work for her or no. It’s funny, really. The Cassians treated me like a second-class human because I’m a lowborn. And some Exiles treat me like I’m second-class because I’m a Cassian. Isn’t it good to be loved?

Know what I’m thinking? Dominion and Exiles aren’t that different. Give the Exiles power, tell them they’re godsend and give them the technology to create a star-spanning Empire and they’d behave just the same. Power corrupts. No matter how good of a person you think you are. You get power. You sooner or later abuse it. But I guess that’s a thought I better keep for myself, eh?

Anyways, Riley took the shit because she didn’t tell ‘Nana about my past. That’s exactly the reason why I don’t keep my mouth shut.

People often tell me “Don’t tell people you were Cassus-born, some might hate you for that.”

But tell you what. People talk. Sooner or later they’ll find out anyways. And then they’re getting angry behind your back, think of you as a spy or something and if you’re not careful, you end up with a knife in the back. But if you’re honest about it and tell people, they get angry at your face. And then you see the strike coming, if they get mad. Better tell someone what you are right away, when they freak and leave, that’s it. But if you get to know’em first and they find out later, you’re in for trouble. Especially if you’ve started to like the person.

That’s why I ain’t making it a secret.

Well, I got things set with ‘Nana eventually, by proving myself by killin’ a few Dommies and helping a couple of Exile prisoners escape.

“You don’t hesitate on killing a Dommie, so I trust you”, that’s what she said.

Yeah, I know I don’t hesitate on killing a Dommie. ‘Cuz I know they won’t hesitate on killing me, either. It’s either them or me. I learned that.

But come to think of it.

Mistrusting someone because they were born on a specific world, something they don’t get to chose.

And then trusting them because they don’t hesitate on killing people.

Wouldn’t it be better to trust people no matter where they come from, but mistrusting someone who doesn’t mind killing? Obviously, war turns that upside down.

Just shows what a f’ed-up universe we live in.

*starting transmission*

Sorry to hear that you suffer from the look people give to you because of your roots, dear. Those kind of things never change, I fear, wherever you are. If you want my opinion, though, I would tell you that no matter what they think about you, the only thing that does really matter is to know who you are, and to stay yourself. You don’t care if people don’t like you for some bullshit : you can get over it. But the day you’ll realize that you betrayed the person you really are, that day you’ll not be able to forgive yourself.

People will try to lower other people, that’s the way it works : Protostar wanna stop the Freebot Code, Dommies wanna destroy the Exiles, Marauders wanna rob us all, the Strain wanna eat us all ! So be it ! But as long as you’re true to yourself, you can keep fighting for happiness. It will probably take time, but one day or another, you’ll not have to fear people’s reactions anymore.

That’s it for me. Keep it up, Ashley ! From an exile who think that the future is way more important than the past.

*End of the transmission*