Me and Betty became explorers after The War, going all over and looking for anything new. We spent a lot of time on our worlds, looking for things that nobody else knew were there. We also went places totally new, for all of us. I’ve seen waterfalls three kilometers high, meteor showers burning as hot as stars, and the deep darkness between the arms of the galaxy. We’ve been where no one has gone before. Well. No Terran at least.
We spent nearly a month in Arkadia after The War. We were looking for artifacts there. Arkadia was destroyed back during the Great War a couple thousand years ago, but there are lots of relics you can still find there. We spent a long time looking. Of course, T&J were doing concerts at the same time, and there were a lot of venues there. Nobody knew we were looking for anything else, which was exactly how we needed it.
After Contact, the Peloran medical treatments cured our worst diseases, and gave us the long lives that are common now. And in a very few cases, we stopped aging at all. We became Ageless. It took us some time to realize how important Ageless were. At first, all we saw was the shiny new gravitic technologies that could bring us to the galaxy at large far faster and safer than the mere rockets we flew the year before. At first.
After we The War, me and Betty spent some time touring with T&J. Those two girls are amazing. I honestly don’t know what I’d do without them. We traveled to so many worlds at first, but never really got to enjoy them. We sang at the starport and left, never experiencing much beyond it. I finally talked them into taking time to smell the roses. Or maybe Betty tuned their hyperdrives to go faster and we forgot to tell their scheduling agents. Oops.
Everyone has to make a choice on what to do. None of us really have to work anymore. Thanks to the Peloran, energy is free, and with energy you can do whatever you want to do. Ships like me just top off at gas giants or other places like that, and we can fly forever. It is amazing to be free like that, to be able to go wherever you want, whenever you want. We Cowboys have our jobs of course, but we all chose them. One day, I hope you will find out what they are.
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