mechanicalfrogs

God damn, a kid like you could never believe what it was like before the bugs. Pah! Nowadays, we're all engineers up there. Wiring, calibrating grav generators, navicomp work. You know - stuff that you need a brain for. Shut up. Let me tell you, it didn't used to be that way. I get by pretty well myself nowadays - got a little team of four guys and we do safe, feet-on-the-ground kinda stuff. We do it well, too, and there's no end of shit for four half-competent spatkas in a place like this. Yeah, don't look at me like that. Sure, I guess I've got a pretty easy life now, but that's thanks to the bugs. Fucking bastards. You've no goddamn idea what it was like. Before Integration, it was a different game. Hardspace work. Yeah. 14 hours in a pressure suit in Zero-G, tearing up hulks in a dry dock in low orbit. Three days a week. Why three days? Bones, it was for your bones. You spend too long in zero-g and your bones go soft, some kinda osteo-bullshit. Jump down from your bunk after a