Moving On I walked strait into Aumon's office, I'd sent an info pulse from the ship to tell him I was on my way, he was waiting for me, a big grin on his face. Aumon's an imposing looking man, intimidating even. I remember the first time I met him, only a few months ago. I seemed to be getting nowhere fast running courier missions for Caldari Constructions, my agent was giving me the runaround, a tiny package here to go nine or ten systems away for a handful of iskies and almost no increases in my standings. I had bucked up the courage to try another agent, I flew across the Kusomonmon system and knocked on Aumon Fukkiainen's door. His office is just off the main Corporate Police docks, cargo drones sped past me carrying goods to and from pilot's hangers as I waited, and waited, for an answer. Eventually he let me in, I stood nervously just inside the door, trying not to fidget. He was a tall man, even sitting down, a Caldari Civire, and I'm Gallente Intaki so that was going to make things difficult from the start. He didn't even glance over at me, just kept working at his convo unit. I waited. "A turncoat," he grunted. "So what do you want ?". A turncoat, that hurt. I'm a Reborn Intaki, we think a lot and try to take the long view of things, there are quite a few of us over here in Caldari space, not exactly working against the Gallente Empire, but definately not working for it. I'd had some contact with Mordu's Legion Command, and had some friends there in the mercenary group which was almost entirely Intaki capsuleers led by Caldari commanders. "I want some work," I said, trying and failing to keep a faint tremor out of my voice. Aumon pushed a convo tablet at me across the desk. "Think you're up to this ?". I looked at the screen of the tablet, the mission looked simple enough, fly to Suroken, locate a rogue drone silo, take out the drones who had begun to harass local traders. "I'm up to it," I said a little more firmly. "You can count on me." Aumon ran his fingers over the tablet and pointed at the bottom of the screen. "When the drones spread your worthless carcass all over the system, I get to keep to the ten thou' you're gonna deposit to take the mission, understand ?" This was the first time he had looked me in the eyes, he had dark eyes, and I tried to hold his gaze and not let my attention be caught by the Caldaru light tattoos that shone and glowed on his shaved head. "I'll be back for my reward and my deposit," I replied. That's how it went for the next few months, when I wasn't trading or mining or running missions for my Corporation friends in Nakama, I'd be standing nervously in Aumon's office as he pointed at the convo screen and indicated how much money he would make when I took a mission too far. Gradually though our relationship changed, he began to smile when I arrived, he stopped making dire predictions about my imminent demise, and once, when I set off to investigate a Gursitas pirate blockade, he even called me soldier and told meto take care. This time I walked right in, and placed my convo tab right in front of him, the screen lit up with the words "Mission completed". I'd had a hard time of it, even in Iron Council II, my gunned up Vexor cruiser, but I had fought my way through the pirates and destroyed their narcotics warehouse. "My reward ?" I said, smiling broadly. Aumon grinned back and pushed a button on his convo, iskies by the thousand went from his account into mine. "Thanks." I turned to go, and surreptitiously tried to look at my convo screen without Aumon seein what I was doing. Well, the numbers were all there, I turned around again. "Look, Aumon". He cut me off. "China," and he pointed to his own screen where my personnel file was already loaded. "It's time for you to move on, you've done well for me, you've completed every mission I've thrown your way. Now you should take a step up". I was relieved, I knew this last mission was going to push up my ranking with the Corporate Police Force, but I felt almost as nervous about telling Aumon I was leaving for another agent as I had when I first took a mission from him. Truth be told, I had already made tentative contact with a Level 2 agent over in Juunigaishi. "Go and see Uvornarkka Makkanto over in Juunigaishi, she'll see you right." He knew, well of course he knew, it was his job as station security boss to know what was going on with his capsuleers. He reached into his desk and came up with a bottle of spiced wine. "I'm closing the office early today China, join me for a drink ?" The next morning I was flying a Brutix Battlecruiser, with a hangover. Aumon spent half the night with me, filling me with wine and advice and best wishes, he's not a bad old sod, for a Caldari.