Jay's other path

Where:- Englands south coast, Earth
When:- February 2105
The wind whipping through his hair, he ploughed along the coastline on his
motorcycle. Dodging between cars and low altitude hover vehicles he
throttled his bike accelerating to its maximum speed. A bug splattered
against his sunglasses, but he flicked it off and continued to thunder along
the coast line.
The climate on earth was warmer than it used to be, and even on a february
day like this the sun was beating down, Many parts of the south coast of
England had, in the last 100 years or so become a tropical paradise, while
other parts of the same strip of land were several feet underwater. Jay was
at the moment hurtling along a coastline that had created itself about 50
years back, wiping the harbour town of Poole off the map, and giving
Bournemouth and extra 7 miles of golden sands.
Life was fairly good.
He's left his last posting on the SCV Ulysees, the military ship on which he
had been a fighter pilot, he was due to transfer to the Blue Dwarf, the
transfer date being set a few months after the ship was due to launch.
It wasn't a career choice most would make but he did it for personal
reasons. He'd learned through one of the Space Corp's many grapevines that
this ship wasn't set to embark on the normal mining missions that Dwarfstar
class ship's would normally engage in. Instead it was to hunt down the Red
Dwarf. The first ship Jay served on as a ship-to-surface shuttle pilot.
Ferrying mining crews backwards and forwards to Jupiter. Not much variation,
although there was the time he was assinged a job piloting a ferry-ship,
picking up crew on shore leave, and typically he got the ONE ship on which
some idiot smuggled a cat aboard. That was his last mission for the Red
Dwarf, the next day he shipped off the the Ulysee's along with his friend
Kara McGellen.
As soon as he heard about the Blue Dwarf's mission he applied for a position
on it, ok so he'd be going back to routine ferry missions, no more combat
flying, no chance of promotion, no chasnce of being anymore than a pilot,
certianly never getting the Chief Navigation Officer job, which was where
the money was, but he had to find his friends.
Four years ago however, the Blue Dwarf was destroyed in Space Dock by a
terrorist before it's construction could be completed, and now Jay found
himself back on earth working as a flight instructor for the Space Corp.
It was a good job, it paid well. But it lacked adventure, and Jay would
sometimes regret leaving the Ulysee's.
Still, the Ulysee's didnt have views like this, he thought as he gazed
across the bay at the Isle of Wight.
Jay cursed himself as a speed camera flashed behind him, one thing with the
advance of technology was that Speed Cameras could actually catch him on the
road, although he smirked when he thought how if he were in sky, no speed
control system to date was fast enough to catch the Phoenix. Being flashed
didn't make him slow down however, he was already late to meet his sister,
Vanessa, for lunch....
"Quit yo Jibba Jabba Sucka!"