"I had my solo license for a week when my instructor rang saying the mining colonies were commissioning a couple of commercial flights, just passengers and some light freight. No heavy equipment infact a nice easy job. It takes 3 days to get to the colonies, there was only 36 hrs in deep space where your out of immediate retrieval. I took the passenger flight [i] Her pain at that decision was evident.[/i] " There was a mother 'Violet, her 15 year old son Michael , and a ....10 year old girl Emma. There were also two engineers starting their 18 month rotation on the colonies. She was taking the kids to see their dad out at the installation. Everything was normal until we went dark , to warp. [i] She closes her eyes.[/i] " The alarm on the air lock and I went to turn when I had a blade at my throat,they had chucked the boy out the airlock. the woman and daughter were held seperately. so long as they did what the were told, there other wouldn't get hurt. I was to fly to somewhere only an hour from the original ldrop off. for 36 hours they tortured and brutalized that little girl and her mother. For 36 hour I was powerless to do anything ." " the little girl died of injuries related ,at which point her mother shut down . " Later I heard them discuss if they thought i would still be any use as a pilot , if..... well you get the idea, so I went into survival mode. I waited til one was alone, made a pass at him and stuck my blade in his throat. stashed his body,rinsed and repeated. I took us all on to the colonies , but there was only the mother left. She gave up and hour from docking, I found her body in the bathroom."