I took out a loan to go to Kostof University on Venus, one of the top schools in the system. I figured I’d get a gig no problem. But that was back during the land rush, before wormhole travel got so expensive, you know? Everybody and their nibling wanted to work in the new cities. There was no way I was going to pay off my college debt. I was lucky to get slaved under pretty decent terms. Some of my cohort wound up—well, let’s just say they aren’t partying in a fresh city on a pretty planet like this.”
