The Icarus, docked at Azeban City, Eranin system.
DISASTER! GD 319 should have just been an inconsequential jump point on my nav plot to the Ethgreze system. Instead it ended up being the final jump my Type 6 would ever make. GD 319 turned out to be a deadly white dwarf star. It's massive gravitational field pulled me out of supercruise, and the ship began to rapidly overheat. I engaged the Frame Shift Drive to jump free, but this just put more thermal load on my crappy power plant. The hull continued to overheat and started to break up. I was forced to abandon ship.
Fortunately my distress signal was picked up by a System Security vessel. When I made it back to Azeban City, Eranin, the self doubt hit me. Should I be doing this? Why risk travelling hundreds of light years to trade rare goods? Why not just find a safe, local shuttle run? Are the credits really worth the risk?
The doubt lasted a full 30 seconds. I contacted the Pilots Federation, paid the 90k credit excess on my ship insurance and took ownership of another Lakon Type 6. Insurance covered the ship but it didn't cover my lost cargo. 100t, including around 50t of rare commodities all gone.
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