{"data":{"id":15315,"title":"Far From Home","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/15315-Far-From-Home","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/15315","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/15315","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":3371,"name":"FarFromHomeFI4.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/v1r8ntealvi5ar\/source\/FarFromHomeFI4.jpg","alt":"","size":786852,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2015-05-26T23:42:19+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/3371","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/3371\/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":"Greetings, fellow drifters! Welcome to my little spot on the Spectrum. For those tracking my travels, Shana and I just exited atmo above Asura. Got lucky and left when pollution levels were low, which gave me a good look planetside while burning into open space. Got to really see all the scars inflicted on Asura from centuries of mining. It\u2019s strangely beautiful, actually. Too bad those mines left the world in such terrible shape otherwise.\n\nStifling pollution in the skies, and on the ground, criminals around every corner. Ok, that may be a bit of a stretch, but let\u2019s just say Tram\u2019s no place to get caught out alone at night. In fact, I planned my planetside excursion so I could get my business done and be off-world before nightfall.\n\nFor those of you wondering what business was worth all the trouble, well, this trip was more about civic duty than creds. As I\u2019m sure some of you know, Asura is so unsafe because of the planetwide police strike. Now, part of the reason these hard-working, honest folks walked off the job is because the police don\u2019t have enough firepower to keep the criminals in check.\n\nSo Kastak Arms has been stepping up where the local and UEE governments have fallen down. They\u2019ve been donating weapons to law enforcement in the hopes that updated armaments will encourage the good guys to return to work. That means every once in a while Kastak is looking for haulers to do pro bono deliveries to the system. Now, I\u2019d done the run once before, and figured I was due for another one to help these folks out.\n\nSometimes it\u2019s important to remind yourself there are more problems out there than your own. But I\u2019ve learned that knowing about a problem is only half the battle; you also have to do something about it. That\u2019s why every few months I like to replace the normal goods I haul with the greater good. I\u2019ve taken to calling these little charitable excursions \u201caltourism.\u201d Makes me take stock of what\u2019s going on in the \u2019verse and figure out a way to make a difference. Even in only a small way.\n\nIt\u2019s a little something I started doing around 20 or so years ago. By then I\u2019d been all over the \u2019verse and seen enough stuff for a few lifetimes. Guess some would call it living hard and fast, but honestly, boredom was what really drove me. It\u2019s why, after I left home, I never settled down. Just drank, drifted and dreamed. Always wondering if that next world would be the perfect one for me.\n\nGuess you could say I was a little slow to realize that there\u2019s no such thing as a perfect place in the \u2019verse. Everywhere has its own issues, whether it\u2019s hunger in Hyperion or pirate havens in Nexus. The more trouble I saw, and the more I learned about what caused it, the higher I\u2019d climb on my soapbox, complaining about how the government wasn\u2019t doing enough to stop it.\n\nAfter one rant, an ArcCorp hauler who was sick of hearing about it while he was trying to enjoy his drink finally said, \u201cIf only you\u2019d put half of that energy into fixing problems instead of bitchin\u2019 about \u2019em, then we\u2019d all live in a better world.\u201d Well, I told that guy off good, but after a few hours in the drift, chewing it over, I realized he was right. Here I was beholden to nothing and no one; screaming for a better \u2019verse but not willing to do anything about it. That was the moment I realized I had to put up or shut up.\n\nLittle while after, I did my first charity run, delivering donated replacement pumps to water farms outside Nedila after it was ravaged by a series of particularly nasty sandstorms. I\u2019ll never forget how thankful those folks were for my help. I mean, all I did was deliver the stuff, but for the first time, I felt connected to the wider \u2019verse.\n\nAfter doing a few more, I learned that just because an action is small doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s insignificant. This lonely drifter, who never felt comfortable anywhere, finally felt a part of something bigger than himself. That\u2019s when I read up on the requirements to become a UEE Citizen, because I\u2019d come to realize my voice, my opinion, my influence on the Empire was being lost by not voting.\n\nNow when I was younger, I never saw the sense in voting. It felt like screaming into space. More a reminder of my insignificance than anything else. But my so-called altourism had shown me that if enough people cared enough to scream at the same time, someone was bound to hear.\n\nFinally, I worked up the brin to drop my Citizenship application on my birth planet of Vann. I hadn\u2019t been there in a few years so, of course, the first question asked at my Citizenship hearing was why I wanted to become a Citizen of a planet I don\u2019t live on. Well, I don\u2019t remember my answer, exactly, except that I just shot it to \u2019em straight. I was born on Vann, and my kin still call it home. Just because I don\u2019t spend every day there doesn\u2019t mean I don\u2019t care about it or want to make it a better place. Guess my answer worked because my application was approved. I\u2019ve proudly voted in every election since.\n\nShoot \u2026 that ramble really took the scenic route to get where I was going. See, the entire reason I swung through Ferron on that run was because I\u2019m now on my way to Croshaw. If I can, every election I cast my vote via Spectrum from my home system. It\u2019s a little thing I do to remind me I\u2019m a part of something bigger, but that this is the place my vote matters most. That maybe, in some small way, my choice will benefit some distant family member or long lost acquaintance on Vann. Of course, it doesn\u2019t hurt that the visit gives me a chance to pick up some Angeli-aged whiskey to stow aboard Shana and savor on special occasions.\n\nGuess what I\u2019m trying to say is that I hope all you Citizens listening cast your vote come May 3rd. Come scream into space with me so our voices can be heard.\n\nI\u2019m not here to sell you on a candidate or a political party; only reminding you of the importance of it all. Citizenship is not a right, it\u2019s a privilege. Realize there are plenty of folks out there whose lives will be affected by the results, so the only way your vote would ever be insignificant is when it\u2019s not cast at all.\n\nWell, it\u2019s been a long one, and I\u2019m ready to rest my eyes. Until next time, this is Old Jegger signing off.","de_DE":"Seid gegr\u00fc\u00dft, liebe Drifter! Willkommen an meinem kleinen Platz auf dem Spectrum. F\u00fcr diejenigen, die meine Reisen verfolgen, haben Shana und ich gerade die Atmo \u00fcber Asura verlassen. Ich hatte Gl\u00fcck und ging, als die Verschmutzung gering war, was mir einen guten Blick auf den Planeten gab, w\u00e4hrend ich in den offenen Raum brannte. Ich musste wirklich all die Narben sehen, die Asura durch den jahrhundertelangen Bergbau zugef\u00fcgt wurden. Es ist eigentlich seltsam sch\u00f6n. Schade, dass diese Minen sonst die Welt in so schrecklicher Verfassung verlassen haben.\n\nUnterdr\u00fcckung der Umweltverschmutzung am Himmel und am Boden, Kriminelle an jeder Ecke. Ok, das mag ein bisschen weit hergeholt sein, aber sagen wir einfach, dass die Stra\u00dfenbahn kein Ort ist, um nachts alleine erwischt zu werden. Tats\u00e4chlich habe ich meinen Planetenausflug geplant, damit ich mein Gesch\u00e4ft erledigen und vor Einbruch der Dunkelheit von der Welt weg sein konnte.\n\nF\u00fcr diejenigen von euch, die sich fragen, was das Gesch\u00e4ft all die M\u00fche wert war, nun, diese Reise war mehr eine Frage der B\u00fcrgerpflicht als der Glaubensbekenntnisse. Wie ich sicher bin, wissen einige von euch, dass Asura wegen des weltweiten Polizeistreiks so unsicher ist. Nun, ein Teil des Grundes, warum diese hart arbeitenden, ehrlichen Leute den Job aufgegeben haben, ist, weil die Polizei nicht genug Feuerkraft hat, um die Kriminellen in Schach zu halten.\n\nKastak Arms hat sich also dort verst\u00e4rkt, wo die lokale und die UEE-Regierung gescheitert sind. Sie haben Waffen an die Strafverfolgungsbeh\u00f6rden gespendet in der Hoffnung, dass aktualisierte R\u00fcstungen die Guten ermutigen werden, zur Arbeit zur\u00fcckzukehren. Das bedeutet, dass Kastak ab und zu nach Schleppern sucht, die pro bono Lieferungen an das System durchf\u00fchren. Nun, ich hatte den Lauf schon einmal gemacht und dachte mir, dass ich einen anderen brauchen w\u00fcrde, um diesen Leuten zu helfen.\n\nManchmal ist es wichtig, sich daran zu erinnern, dass es mehr Probleme gibt als die eigenen. Aber ich habe gelernt, dass das Wissen um ein Problem nur die halbe Miete ist; man muss auch etwas dagegen tun. Deshalb ersetze ich alle paar Monate gerne die normalen G\u00fcter, die ich bef\u00f6rdere, durch das gr\u00f6\u00dfere Gut. Ich habe diese kleinen karitativen Exkursionen \"Altourismus\" genannt. L\u00e4sst mich eine Bestandsaufnahme des Geschehens im Vers machen und einen Weg finden, um etwas zu bewirken. Auch nur auf eine kleine Art und Weise.\n\nEs ist eine Kleinigkeit, mit der ich vor etwa 20 oder so Jahren angefangen habe. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt war ich \u00fcberall in der Strophe und hatte genug Zeug f\u00fcr ein paar Leben gesehen. Ich sch\u00e4tze, einige w\u00fcrden es als hart und schnell leben bezeichnen, aber ehrlich gesagt, war es die Langeweile, die mich wirklich antreibt. Deshalb habe ich mich, nachdem ich mein Zuhause verlassen habe, nie wieder niedergelassen. Ich trank einfach, trieb und tr\u00e4umte. Immer wieder fragend, ob die n\u00e4chste Welt die perfekte f\u00fcr mich w\u00e4re.\n\nIch sch\u00e4tze, man k\u00f6nnte sagen, ich war ein wenig langsam, um zu erkennen, dass es keinen perfekten Ort im Vers gibt. Jeder Ort hat seine eigenen Probleme, sei es der Hunger in Hyperion oder die Piratenh\u00e4fen in Nexus. Je mehr \u00c4rger ich sah und je mehr ich dar\u00fcber erfuhr, was es verursachte, desto h\u00f6her kletterte ich auf meine Seifenkiste und beschwerte mich dar\u00fcber, dass die Regierung nicht genug tat, um es zu stoppen.\n\nNach einem Schimpfwort sagte ein ArcCorp-Schlepper, der es satt hatte, davon zu h\u00f6ren, w\u00e4hrend er versuchte, seinen Drink zu genie\u00dfen, schlie\u00dflich: \"Wenn du nur die H\u00e4lfte dieser Energie in die L\u00f6sung von Problemen stecken w\u00fcrdest, anstatt \u00fcber sie zu meckern, dann w\u00fcrden wir alle in einer besseren Welt leben.\" Nun, ich habe dem Kerl gut gesagt, aber nach ein paar Stunden in der Drift, beim Kauen, wurde mir klar, dass er Recht hatte. Hier war ich nichts und niemandem verpflichtet; ich schrie nach einem besseren Vers, aber nicht bereit, etwas dagegen zu tun. Das war der Moment, in dem mir klar wurde, dass ich aufstehen oder die Klappe halten musste.\n\nWenig sp\u00e4ter machte ich meinen ersten Wohlt\u00e4tigkeitslauf und lieferte gespendete Ersatzpumpen an Wasserfarmen au\u00dferhalb von Nedila, nachdem sie von einer Reihe besonders b\u00f6ser Sandst\u00fcrme heimgesucht worden waren. Ich werde nie vergessen, wie dankbar diese Leute f\u00fcr meine Hilfe waren. Ich meine, alles, was ich tat, war, das Zeug zu liefern, aber zum ersten Mal f\u00fchlte ich mich mit dem breiteren Vers verbunden.\n\nNachdem ich noch ein paar mehr getan hatte, erfuhr ich, dass, nur weil eine Aktion klein ist, das nicht bedeutet, dass sie unbedeutend ist. Dieser einsame Landstreicher, der sich nirgendwo wohl f\u00fchlte, f\u00fchlte sich endlich Teil von etwas Gr\u00f6\u00dferem als sich selbst. Das ist, wenn ich \u00fcber die Anforderungen nachschlage, um ein UEE-B\u00fcrger zu werden, weil ich meine Stimme, meine Meinung, meinen Einfluss auf das Imperium durch Nichtabstimmung verloren habe.\n\nJetzt, als ich j\u00fcnger war, sah ich nie den Sinn des Abstimmens. Es f\u00fchlte sich an, als w\u00fcrde man in den Weltraum schreien. Mehr eine Erinnerung an meine Bedeutungslosigkeit als an alles andere. Aber mein sogenannter Altourismus hatte mir gezeigt, dass, wenn sich genug Menschen um sie k\u00fcmmerten, um gleichzeitig zu schreien, jemandem etwas zu h\u00f6ren sein musste.\n\nSchlie\u00dflich arbeitete ich mich in die Sole, um meinen Citizenship-Antrag auf meinem Geburtsplaneten Vann fallen zu lassen. Ich war seit einigen Jahren nicht mehr dort gewesen, also war nat\u00fcrlich die erste Frage, die bei meiner Anh\u00f6rung zur Staatsb\u00fcrgerschaft gestellt wurde, warum ich B\u00fcrger eines Planeten werden wollte, auf dem ich nicht lebe. Nun, ich erinnere mich nicht genau an meine Antwort, au\u00dfer, dass ich sie einfach direkt auf sie geschossen habe. Ich wurde auf Vann geboren, und meine Verwandten nennen es immer noch Zuhause. Nur weil ich nicht jeden Tag dort bin, bedeutet das nicht, dass es mir egal ist oder ich es zu einem besseren Ort machen will. Ich sch\u00e4tze, meine Antwort hat funktioniert, weil mein Antrag genehmigt wurde. Ich habe seitdem bei jeder Wahl stolz abgestimmt.\n\nSchie\u00df los.... diese Wanderung hat wirklich die malerische Route genommen, um dorthin zu gelangen, wo ich hin wollte. Siehst du, der Grund, warum ich bei diesem Lauf durch Ferron geschwommen bin, war, dass ich jetzt auf dem Weg nach Croshaw bin. Wenn ich kann, gebe ich bei jeder Wahl meine Stimme \u00fcber Spectrum aus meinem Heimsystem ab. Es ist eine Kleinigkeit, die ich tue, um mich daran zu erinnern, dass ich ein Teil von etwas Gr\u00f6\u00dferem bin, aber dass dies der Ort ist, an dem meine Stimme am wichtigsten ist. Dass vielleicht, in gewisser Weise, meine Wahl einem entfernten Familienmitglied oder einer l\u00e4ngst verlorenen Bekannten auf Vann zugute kommt. Nat\u00fcrlich schadet es nicht, dass der Besuch mir die M\u00f6glichkeit gibt, etwas Angeli-gealterten Whiskey mitzunehmen, um ihn an Bord von Shana zu verstauen und bei besonderen Anl\u00e4ssen zu genie\u00dfen.\n\nSch\u00e4tzen Sie, was ich versuche zu sagen, ist, dass ich hoffe, dass ihr alle, die ihr zuh\u00f6rt, am 3. Mai eure Stimme abgegeben habt. Kommt und schreit mit mir in den Raum, damit unsere Stimmen geh\u00f6rt werden k\u00f6nnen.\n\nIch bin nicht hier, um dich an einen Kandidaten oder eine politische Partei zu verkaufen, sondern nur, um dich an die Bedeutung von allem zu erinnern. Staatsb\u00fcrgerschaft ist kein Recht, sie ist ein Privileg. Erkennen Sie, dass es viele Leute gibt, deren Leben von den Ergebnissen beeinflusst wird, so dass der einzige Weg, wie Ihre Stimme jemals unbedeutend sein w\u00fcrde, ist, wenn sie \u00fcberhaupt nicht abgegeben wird.\n\nNun, es ist lange her, und ich bin bereit, meine Augen auszuruhen. Bis zum n\u00e4chsten Mal ist das Old Jegger, der sich abmeldet.","zh_CN":"Greetings, fellow drifters! Welcome to my little spot on the Spectrum. For those tracking my travels, Shana and I just exited atmo above Asura. Got lucky and left when pollution levels were low, which gave me a good look planetside while burning into open space. Got to really see all the scars inflicted on Asura from centuries of mining. It\u2019s strangely beautiful, actually. Too bad those mines left the world in such terrible shape otherwise.\n\nStifling pollution in the skies, and on the ground, criminals around every corner. Ok, that may be a bit of a stretch, but let\u2019s just say Tram\u2019s no place to get caught out alone at night. In fact, I planned my planetside excursion so I could get my business done and be off-world before nightfall.\n\nFor those of you wondering what business was worth all the trouble, well, this trip was more about civic duty than creds. As I\u2019m sure some of you know, Asura is so unsafe because of the planetwide police strike. Now, part of the reason these hard-working, honest folks walked off the job is because the police don\u2019t have enough firepower to keep the criminals in check.\n\nSo Kastak Arms has been stepping up where the local and UEE governments have fallen down. They\u2019ve been donating weapons to law enforcement in the hopes that updated armaments will encourage the good guys to return to work. That means every once in a while Kastak is looking for haulers to do pro bono deliveries to the system. Now, I\u2019d done the run once before, and figured I was due for another one to help these folks out.\n\nSometimes it\u2019s important to remind yourself there are more problems out there than your own. But I\u2019ve learned that knowing about a problem is only half the battle; you also have to do something about it. That\u2019s why every few months I like to replace the normal goods I haul with the greater good. I\u2019ve taken to calling these little charitable excursions \u201caltourism.\u201d Makes me take stock of what\u2019s going on in the \u2019verse and figure out a way to make a difference. Even in only a small way.\n\nIt\u2019s a little something I started doing around 20 or so years ago. By then I\u2019d been all over the \u2019verse and seen enough stuff for a few lifetimes. Guess some would call it living hard and fast, but honestly, boredom was what really drove me. It\u2019s why, after I left home, I never settled down. Just drank, drifted and dreamed. Always wondering if that next world would be the perfect one for me.\n\nGuess you could say I was a little slow to realize that there\u2019s no such thing as a perfect place in the \u2019verse. Everywhere has its own issues, whether it\u2019s hunger in Hyperion or pirate havens in Nexus. The more trouble I saw, and the more I learned about what caused it, the higher I\u2019d climb on my soapbox, complaining about how the government wasn\u2019t doing enough to stop it.\n\nAfter one rant, an ArcCorp hauler who was sick of hearing about it while he was trying to enjoy his drink finally said, \u201cIf only you\u2019d put half of that energy into fixing problems instead of bitchin\u2019 about \u2019em, then we\u2019d all live in a better world.\u201d Well, I told that guy off good, but after a few hours in the drift, chewing it over, I realized he was right. Here I was beholden to nothing and no one; screaming for a better \u2019verse but not willing to do anything about it. That was the moment I realized I had to put up or shut up.\n\nLittle while after, I did my first charity run, delivering donated replacement pumps to water farms outside Nedila after it was ravaged by a series of particularly nasty sandstorms. I\u2019ll never forget how thankful those folks were for my help. I mean, all I did was deliver the stuff, but for the first time, I felt connected to the wider \u2019verse.\n\nAfter doing a few more, I learned that just because an action is small doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s insignificant. This lonely drifter, who never felt comfortable anywhere, finally felt a part of something bigger than himself. That\u2019s when I read up on the requirements to become a UEE Citizen, because I\u2019d come to realize my voice, my opinion, my influence on the Empire was being lost by not voting.\n\nNow when I was younger, I never saw the sense in voting. It felt like screaming into space. More a reminder of my insignificance than anything else. But my so-called altourism had shown me that if enough people cared enough to scream at the same time, someone was bound to hear.\n\nFinally, I worked up the brin to drop my Citizenship application on my birth planet of Vann. I hadn\u2019t been there in a few years so, of course, the first question asked at my Citizenship hearing was why I wanted to become a Citizen of a planet I don\u2019t live on. Well, I don\u2019t remember my answer, exactly, except that I just shot it to \u2019em straight. I was born on Vann, and my kin still call it home. Just because I don\u2019t spend every day there doesn\u2019t mean I don\u2019t care about it or want to make it a better place. Guess my answer worked because my application was approved. I\u2019ve proudly voted in every election since.\n\nShoot \u2026 that ramble really took the scenic route to get where I was going. See, the entire reason I swung through Ferron on that run was because I\u2019m now on my way to Croshaw. If I can, every election I cast my vote via Spectrum from my home system. It\u2019s a little thing I do to remind me I\u2019m a part of something bigger, but that this is the place my vote matters most. That maybe, in some small way, my choice will benefit some distant family member or long lost acquaintance on Vann. Of course, it doesn\u2019t hurt that the visit gives me a chance to pick up some Angeli-aged whiskey to stow aboard Shana and savor on special occasions.\n\nGuess what I\u2019m trying to say is that I hope all you Citizens listening cast your vote come May 3rd. Come scream into space with me so our voices can be heard.\n\nI\u2019m not here to sell you on a candidate or a political party; only reminding you of the importance of it all. Citizenship is not a right, it\u2019s a privilege. Realize there are plenty of folks out there whose lives will be affected by the results, so the only way your vote would ever be insignificant is when it\u2019s not cast at all.\n\nWell, it\u2019s been a long one, and I\u2019m ready to rest my eyes. Until next time, this is Old Jegger signing off."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":56,"created_at":"2016-04-27T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"9 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-25 11:21:09","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":15313,"next_id":15316}}