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The ship exited hyperspace. We had just barely escaped. "How the shit did they know we were going to be there?" I yelled. "I don't know, but someone must have tipped them off." said the pilot.

That was Donald R. Anders. I had known him my whole life. Now, we smuggled together. We were making money to buy a moon to found a Crime Organization.

I was standing in the cockpit, watching the monitor on my shift, when a hologram showed up. "Hey, this Joseph Moretti?" ask the man. "Depends. Who wants to know?" I replied. "We heard about how you smuggle extasy. I wanted to buy all that you have on the ship." he said. "How much per ounce?" I ask. "I've heard about how you sell quality stuff, so $100.00 per ounce." he said. "Great. Meet me on Earth in SOL. But come alone. A crew you can have, but no UN Escort." I said.

We landed on a landing pad in Earth's artic region. It was a criminal trading post. "So, you getting a good deal?" ask Don. "Hell yeah. 100 bucks per ounce. We have 20 ounces, so that will give us enough to buy Ven and visit the cloning station on Io." I said. "Good." he replied.

When the man landed, we loaded the ecstacy on the freighter and collected $2000 for Ven and to get some clone soldiers. We took off and were about to hyperspace to Ven when we were fired on. I fell out of my chair. "What the shit?!" I yelled. "Incoming UN fighters! Do you want to flee?" he ask. "Yes. We can't get killed now!" I yelled, slamming the coordinates into the navigation console.

We made the jump and were off. After a couple hours, we paid the owner of Ven and hired some men to build a compound. We got 100,000 troops to protect the area, and were in pretty good shape. After a couple weeks of work, the inner compound was finished. My room was great, with an anti-gravity bed, a footlocker, and a hidden closet. I had a desk with paper, a computer, and a hologram projector/reciever.

I had sold the Bombard and got a contract with the Earthian shipyards to produce ships based on my design. We got an ecstacy farm growing, and the money rolled in.