Cheap Deep Space Tickets

Once upon a time there was a guy whose name was Bob.
Bob worked for a large mindless corporation riddled with rules and idiots.
It was named Cheap Deep Space Tickets.
Its headquarters covered a planet.
The walls of its headquarters building were made of thin plastic.
The planet was made out of cheese.
Bob was born and raised on the planet.
And unfortunately he hated cheese.
There was only one employer on the planet and he could not afford to move off of it.
So he had no choice but to work for CDST, if he wanted to work at all.
Susan also worked for CDST but for a different department and on a different floor from Bob.
One day Bob hatched a plan to escape from CDST and the planet.
Susan got tangled up in the execution of the plan and so she ended up escaping from CDST and the planet along with Bob.
This story is about Bob and Susan and their escape from CDST and that planet.

Their company, CDST, provided travel booking services for everyone in the galaxy.
They had thousands of employees spread across hundreds of planets, though most were at the central headquarters location on their home planet. The travel booking service was mostly software and it only took one person to create and maintain the software. One decent software engineer. Which was Bob. So he wasn't sure exactly why the rest of the employees were needed. It seemed like a big house of cards to him. Which made him like it even less. Because he hated waste, stupidity or inefficiency. All of which CDST seemed to have in abundance. But he drank the kool aid, and went along, because he needed the money and didn't have any other choice of employment on his planet. And, as has been mentioned before, he could not (yet) afford to leave it. But he planned to change that. Real soon now. Oh yes. So very soon. Starting this very afternoon. Or maybe starting tomorrow. Or next week. Because this week was pretty busy for him. Actually the whole month was bad.

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(to be continued)