Iii’m just gonna answer both of these at once.
I wanted to go to space and get away from Colony Only I think everyone’s caught onto that by now.
So, I got myself up in space, and, I mean, I got free rides around as part of the whole “hey let’s introduce galactic society to these poor aliens” and I learned a whole bunch, but i still had NO skillset for space travel so i was kind of out of luck when the uh, pity party ran out of steam
so it was kind of great when Captain Russet found me
Captain Stararrow Goldsheath Sweetbranch Russet had heard about my species because duh, the pity-party. We get a lot of free aid from a bunch of different groups who are all “oh no you poor aliens” and i mean, my race isn’t turning the help or attention down because honestly we’d be dead without outside help.
But Captain Russet’s species were one of the pity-party-goers, so he was like, hey, you wanna come on my ship? And I was like, okay i’ll be honest I have like no skills beyond killing animals and beating people up, and he was like, look, I have like, a dozen+ alien species on my ship and I need someone threatening enough to keep them in line if they ever consider stepping up, and I was like, okay, that’s cool, I hit like three times over my weight class sure.
But I mean, his real motivation was snatching up a rare and endangered alien and having it as a member of his crew because we’re still kind of a hot corpse, at least on the galactic level, so he can brag about me and stuff? but like
I actually do my job properly like you guys just see me fooling around on the internet but like every moment i’m not writing a response here i’m actually working it’s just there IS a lot of downtime i’m security for a ship that mostly gets along well with itself so
I’ve been on this ship for a few years and I like it I like the captain i like the crew. space is boring but honestly
anything’s better than Colony Only