{"data":{"id":13627,"title":"Terra Gazette: An Uncertain Future","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/13627-Terra-Gazette-An-Uncertain-Future","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/13627","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/13627","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":1494,"name":"TG_SalvageFI2.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/7e55q1tpr4j1or\/source\/TG_SalvageFI2.jpg","alt":"","size":604569,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2014-03-10T18:49:30+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1494","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1494\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":27892,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/w3o9r4zgppm77\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":900916,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2021-09-06T14:48:40+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE\n\n\nBy Solomon Bhavsar\nContributor\n\n\nCara Hoshji is a smart person. She scored so well on her Equivalency that she received a hefty scholarship from Terra University. Graduating with a degree in AstroEngineering, Cara transformed a summer apprenticeship with the Support & Supply Agency, a lesser-known department of the UEE responsible for procuring and transporting resources and supplies to sate the Empire\u2019s massive infrastructure needs, into a full-time position shortly after graduation.\n\n\u201cYou\u2019ve probably seen those long snake-like hauling ships pulling trails of massive cargo containers. Those were my life,\u201d Cara said, sitting in her small apartment in Odyssa. From the stacks of packing crates, it would seem that she just moved in, but she\u2019s already been here for three months.\n\nCara looks over the cramped space wearily. She claims she keeps planning to finally unpack, but she\u2019s either working or too exhausted to try and tackle it.\n\nHer first full-time job with the SSA was in their maintenance department, working with the pit crews to keep the ships flying. Cara had other aspirations though.\n\n\u201cGrowing up on Lo [in Corel], we would see haulers and shippers constantly passing through, either entering or leaving the Banu system. My family never really had the kind of credits to travel, so the lifestyle and the promise of visiting another culture was even more fascinating.\u201d\n\nCara eventually got her wish. After two years with the SSA, she earned a promotion to an On-Board Engineering Specialist. Monitoring a ship\u2019s critical systems to make sure that everything was working properly and being on-hand to resolve any issue if they weren\u2019t, she began touring the UEE aboard the same transports she had been maintaining.\n\n\u201cI loved it. I really did.\u201d Cara sat silently for a moment at her kitchen table, an outsized piece of furniture clearly intended for a larger space. \u201cI used to bore my friends to death talking about it, but it had everything: great people, challenging work \u2026 everything.\u201d\n\nUnfortunately, it wouldn\u2019t last.\n\nAfter a tumultuous battle in the Senate, Article 416 passed. Derisively called the Hemorrhage Act by the opposition, A416 called for a line-by-line assessment of current operating fund allocations by a group of Senate subcommittees to see where cuts could be made.\n\nSSA was one of the hardest hit divisions as the Senate subcommittee decided it was more cost effective to outsource hauling needs to private contractors rather than own and maintain an internal structure.\n\nSo, after seven years at the SSA, Cara was let go.\n\n\u201cThe severance they offered was offensive. A standardized package across the board, it didn\u2019t matter if you had been there a month or thirty years. We all got the same scraps before getting kicked out the door.\u201d\n\nAs Cara would come to find out, there was more to A416 outside of the lack of financial compensation:\n\n\u201cI found out that A416 only applied to infrastructure; the military and the Synthworld program were exempt from having to make cuts. Look, my brother is in the Marines, I got a cousin in the Army, so I totally appreciate and understand how incredibly important our military is, but, honestly, I feel like everybody should have to make sacrifices.\u201d\n\nCara was forced to move to her current apartment in an effort to save money. It\u2019s been nearly impossible to find a job aboard a cargo ship of the same class that she was trained on, so Cara\u2019s started salvaging to try and generate some credits. Cara took her small severance package and managed to purchase some second-hand gear to outfit her ship to make salvage jobs easier. Unfortunately, that means that she constantly needs to be out there.\n\n\u201cIf I\u2019m home, I\u2019m possibly missing out on something of value. I\u2019m learning you have to move fast. Even when the scrap hasn\u2019t been picked up by another salvage op, the longer it\u2019s on the drift, the less of a chance you can save anything but the base metal.\u201d\n\nHence the stacks of still-packed boxes, the exhaustion and the moments where our conversation drifts into silence.\n\n\u201cIt messes with your head, living like this. If I stop to think about what I\u2019m going to do a month from now, it\u2019s almost overwhelming. There\u2019s this crushing weight on my chest. I don\u2019t know.\u201d\n\nDespite her situation, Cara isn\u2019t resentful.\n\n\u201cSomething will turn up, I hope. I just need to keep busy, keep my head above water until it does,\u201d she said, forcing a smile before drifting off into silence again.","de_DE":"EINE UNGEWISSE ZUKUNFT\n\nVon Solomon Bhavsar\nMitwirkender\n\nCara Hoshji ist ein kluger Mensch. Sie punktete so gut mit ihrer \u00c4quivalenz, dass sie ein kr\u00e4ftiges Stipendium von der Terra University erhielt. Nach ihrem Abschluss als Astroingenieur verwandelte Cara eine Sommerlehre bei der Support & Supply Agency, einer weniger bekannten Abteilung der UEE, die f\u00fcr die Beschaffung und den Transport von Ressourcen und Lieferungen zur Deckung des massiven Infrastrukturbedarfs des Imperiums zust\u00e4ndig ist, kurz nach ihrem Abschluss in eine Vollzeitstelle.\n\n\"Du hast wahrscheinlich gesehen, wie diese langen, schlangenartigen Schiffe die Spuren massiver Frachtcontainer gezogen haben. Das war mein Leben\", sagte Cara und sa\u00df in ihrer kleinen Wohnung in Odyssa. Von den Stapeln mit den Packkisten scheint es, dass sie gerade erst eingezogen ist, aber sie ist schon seit drei Monaten hier.\n\nCara schaut m\u00fcde \u00fcber den engen Raum. Sie behauptet, dass sie immer wieder plant, endlich auszupacken, aber sie arbeitet entweder oder ist zu ersch\u00f6pft, um zu versuchen, es anzugehen.\n\nIhr erster Vollzeitjob bei der SSA war in der Instandhaltungsabteilung der SSA, wo sie mit den Boxenteams zusammenarbeitete, um die Schiffe am Laufen zu halten. Cara hatte jedoch andere Ambitionen.\n\n\"Als wir auf Lo[in Corel] aufwuchsen, sahen wir Spediteure und Verlader st\u00e4ndig durch das Banu-System ziehen und entweder in das Banu-System eindringen oder es verlassen. Meine Familie hatte nie wirklich die Art von Credits, um zu reisen, so dass der Lebensstil und das Versprechen, eine andere Kultur zu besuchen, noch faszinierender waren.\"\n\nCara bekam schlie\u00dflich ihren Wunsch. Nach zwei Jahren bei der SSA wurde sie zum On-Board Engineering Specialist bef\u00f6rdert. Sie \u00fcberwachte die kritischen Systeme eines Schiffes, um sicherzustellen, dass alles ordnungsgem\u00e4\u00df funktionierte, und war bereit, jedes Problem zu l\u00f6sen, wenn sie es nicht taten, und begann, die UEE an Bord der gleichen Transporte zu bereisen, die sie gewartet hatte.\n\n\"Ich liebte es. Das habe ich wirklich.\" Cara sa\u00df einen Moment lang still an ihrem K\u00fcchentisch, einem \u00fcberdimensionalen M\u00f6belst\u00fcck, das eindeutig f\u00fcr einen gr\u00f6\u00dferen Raum gedacht war. \"Ich langweilte meine Freunde zu Tode, als ich dar\u00fcber sprach, aber es hatte alles: gro\u00dfartige Leute, herausfordernde Arbeit.... alles.\"\n\nLeider w\u00fcrde es nicht lange halten.\n\nNach einer turbulenten Schlacht im Senat wurde Artikel 416 verabschiedet. Von der Opposition sp\u00f6ttisch als Blutungsgesetz bezeichnet, forderte A416 eine zeilenweise Bewertung der aktuellen Betriebsmittelzuweisungen durch eine Gruppe von Unteraussch\u00fcssen des Senats, um zu sehen, wo Einsparungen vorgenommen werden k\u00f6nnten.\n\nSSA war eine der am h\u00e4rtesten betroffenen Abteilungen, da der Senatsausschuss entschied, dass es kosteng\u00fcnstiger war, die Transportbed\u00fcrfnisse an private Auftragnehmer auszulagern, als eine interne Struktur zu besitzen und zu erhalten.\n\nNach sieben Jahren bei der SSA wurde Cara also entlassen.\n\n\"Die Abfindung, die sie anboten, war beleidigend. Ein standardisiertes Paket auf breiter Front, es war egal, ob Sie einen Monat oder drei\u00dfig Jahre dort waren. Wir haben alle die gleichen Reste, bevor wir aus der T\u00fcr geworfen werden.\"\n\nWie Cara herausfinden w\u00fcrde, gab es an A416 mehr als nur den fehlenden finanziellen Ausgleich:\n\n\"Ich habe herausgefunden, dass die A416 nur f\u00fcr die Infrastruktur gilt; das Milit\u00e4r und das Synthworld-Programm waren von K\u00fcrzungen ausgenommen. Mein Bruder ist bei den Marines, ich habe einen Cousin in der Armee, also wei\u00df ich es zu sch\u00e4tzen und zu verstehen, wie unglaublich wichtig unser Milit\u00e4r ist, aber ehrlich gesagt, f\u00fchle ich mich, als m\u00fcsste jeder Opfer bringen.\"\n\nCara war gezwungen, in ihre jetzige Wohnung zu ziehen, um Geld zu sparen. Es war fast unm\u00f6glich, einen Job an Bord eines Frachtschiffes der gleichen Klasse zu finden, in der sie ausgebildet wurde, also begann Cara zu bergen, um zu versuchen, einige Credits zu generieren. Cara nahm ihr kleines Abfindungspaket und schaffte es, eine gebrauchte Ausr\u00fcstung zu kaufen, um ihr Schiff auszustatten, um die Bergung zu erleichtern. Leider bedeutet das, dass sie st\u00e4ndig da drau\u00dfen sein muss.\n\n\"Wenn ich zu Hause bin, verpasse ich m\u00f6glicherweise etwas von Wert. Ich lerne, dass man sich schnell bewegen muss. Selbst wenn der Schrott nicht von einem anderen Bergungsunternehmen abgeholt wurde, je l\u00e4nger er auf dem Drift ist, desto geringer ist die Chance, dass man etwas anderes als das Basismetall retten kann.\"\n\nDaher die Stapel von still gepackten Kartons, die Ersch\u00f6pfung und die Momente, in denen unser Gespr\u00e4ch in Stille verf\u00e4llt.\n\n\"Es verwirrt deinen Kopf, so zu leben. Wenn ich innehalte, um dar\u00fcber nachzudenken, was ich in einem Monat tun werde, ist es fast \u00fcberw\u00e4ltigend. Da ist dieses erdr\u00fcckende Gewicht auf meiner Brust. Ich wei\u00df nicht.\"\n\nTrotz ihrer Situation ist Cara nicht ver\u00e4rgert.\n\n\"Etwas wird auftauchen, hoffe ich. Ich muss mich nur besch\u00e4ftigen, meinen Kopf \u00fcber Wasser halten, bis es soweit ist\", sagte sie und zwang ein L\u00e4cheln, bevor sie wieder in die Stille abtauchte.","zh_CN":"AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE\n\n\nBy Solomon Bhavsar\nContributor\n\n\nCara Hoshji is a smart person. She scored so well on her Equivalency that she received a hefty scholarship from Terra University. Graduating with a degree in AstroEngineering, Cara transformed a summer apprenticeship with the Support & Supply Agency, a lesser-known department of the UEE responsible for procuring and transporting resources and supplies to sate the Empire\u2019s massive infrastructure needs, into a full-time position shortly after graduation.\n\n\u201cYou\u2019ve probably seen those long snake-like hauling ships pulling trails of massive cargo containers. Those were my life,\u201d Cara said, sitting in her small apartment in Odyssa. From the stacks of packing crates, it would seem that she just moved in, but she\u2019s already been here for three months.\n\nCara looks over the cramped space wearily. She claims she keeps planning to finally unpack, but she\u2019s either working or too exhausted to try and tackle it.\n\nHer first full-time job with the SSA was in their maintenance department, working with the pit crews to keep the ships flying. Cara had other aspirations though.\n\n\u201cGrowing up on Lo [in Corel], we would see haulers and shippers constantly passing through, either entering or leaving the Banu system. My family never really had the kind of credits to travel, so the lifestyle and the promise of visiting another culture was even more fascinating.\u201d\n\nCara eventually got her wish. After two years with the SSA, she earned a promotion to an On-Board Engineering Specialist. Monitoring a ship\u2019s critical systems to make sure that everything was working properly and being on-hand to resolve any issue if they weren\u2019t, she began touring the UEE aboard the same transports she had been maintaining.\n\n\u201cI loved it. I really did.\u201d Cara sat silently for a moment at her kitchen table, an outsized piece of furniture clearly intended for a larger space. \u201cI used to bore my friends to death talking about it, but it had everything: great people, challenging work \u2026 everything.\u201d\n\nUnfortunately, it wouldn\u2019t last.\n\nAfter a tumultuous battle in the Senate, Article 416 passed. Derisively called the Hemorrhage Act by the opposition, A416 called for a line-by-line assessment of current operating fund allocations by a group of Senate subcommittees to see where cuts could be made.\n\nSSA was one of the hardest hit divisions as the Senate subcommittee decided it was more cost effective to outsource hauling needs to private contractors rather than own and maintain an internal structure.\n\nSo, after seven years at the SSA, Cara was let go.\n\n\u201cThe severance they offered was offensive. A standardized package across the board, it didn\u2019t matter if you had been there a month or thirty years. We all got the same scraps before getting kicked out the door.\u201d\n\nAs Cara would come to find out, there was more to A416 outside of the lack of financial compensation:\n\n\u201cI found out that A416 only applied to infrastructure; the military and the Synthworld program were exempt from having to make cuts. Look, my brother is in the Marines, I got a cousin in the Army, so I totally appreciate and understand how incredibly important our military is, but, honestly, I feel like everybody should have to make sacrifices.\u201d\n\nCara was forced to move to her current apartment in an effort to save money. It\u2019s been nearly impossible to find a job aboard a cargo ship of the same class that she was trained on, so Cara\u2019s started salvaging to try and generate some credits. Cara took her small severance package and managed to purchase some second-hand gear to outfit her ship to make salvage jobs easier. Unfortunately, that means that she constantly needs to be out there.\n\n\u201cIf I\u2019m home, I\u2019m possibly missing out on something of value. I\u2019m learning you have to move fast. Even when the scrap hasn\u2019t been picked up by another salvage op, the longer it\u2019s on the drift, the less of a chance you can save anything but the base metal.\u201d\n\nHence the stacks of still-packed boxes, the exhaustion and the moments where our conversation drifts into silence.\n\n\u201cIt messes with your head, living like this. If I stop to think about what I\u2019m going to do a month from now, it\u2019s almost overwhelming. There\u2019s this crushing weight on my chest. I don\u2019t know.\u201d\n\nDespite her situation, Cara isn\u2019t resentful.\n\n\u201cSomething will turn up, I hope. I just need to keep busy, keep my head above water until it does,\u201d she said, forcing a smile before drifting off into silence again."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":79,"created_at":"2014-03-12T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"12 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-15 00:46:03","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":13626,"next_id":13628}}