Character Log: Penn Nolen (#1)

I've never really done something like this before but Old Ruuto says it might be a good idea to log my time here on Batuu since I'm 'so desperate to fly away'. I don't mean to show it, but apparently it's pretty obvious I'm getting antsy. Though, Ruuto is awfully nosey.

I can't remember how long it's been -- I'd say at least half a year -- but I'm not really one to keep track of time anymore. The First Order life was...dark, soul-crushing; the days blurred into weeks up there. Now that I think about it, I don't really know how long I was there either. Maybe that's for the best.

I'd say a few days after I crash landed on Batuu, I found a rundown apartment above Savi's Workshop. It's any wonder why they haven't bought out the apartments up here for extra store space. It's also any wonder why someone hasn't kicked me out yet. I think a lot of the apartments in Black Spire Outpost are pretty dumpy anyway so no one seems to care too much. Which is great for me. I like watching off-worlders leaving Savi's with big bright smiles on their faces, even if they've been sold some knockoff lightsabers. 

Speaking of off-worlders, they are crawling all over this rock! Everywhere I look they're huddling around the milk carts (especially the blue milk...which sucks for me cause I can't stand green milk). They wear the strangest clothes like big round ears and colour-splattered shirts. I don't know where in the galaxy they go to find these things.

Someone went ahead and made a replica of the Millennium Falcon recently (locals went snarlok-crazy when they found out it had been here) and off-worlders crowd around it like it's an ancient relic, which, I guess it kinda is. I don't know why I tease off-worlders since I basically am one. 

No. No, I am Batuuan.

Those bucket-heads are scattered all over this place, it feels like they followed me. I wouldn't be surprised if they've tracked me somehow. It's kind of hard to rewrite my origins if my past continues to stalk me. All the more reason to get outta here. I think they set up camp over at Docking Bay 9 so needless to say, I've been trying to avoid that area. From time to time, those metal zombies wander a little too far out of their region. I saw Tylik and Jaay today... I wonder if they'd recognize me. 

Right now I'm in desperate need of a job. I need to save up some credits so I can blackmail a pilot into letting me leave with them. I'm gonna try for this place called Dok Ondar's and hope this Dok guy is flexible with his hiring allowances. It's nothing against Batuu I just...need to find my true place. I need to get out of here, especially with the growing First Order presence.

Wait...I think those bucket-heads captured a droid!