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Alster Unioners

The pilot appears to be using the backseat operations terminal to send the transmission. There's nobody other than the autonav VI flying the fighter.

The good thing about an antimatter-initiated fission-fusion smasher is you can get real confident that drive failure isn't going to bust your source of propulsion gas.

So, um, yeah. In about twenty-four hours from now, or longer, it depends on a few variables, we're sending a couple of wings a-swinging down beyond the oort cloud to what is basically as close to celestial background as you can get. There is -nothing- out here. Nice, real fancy antics with taking my men around zones a certain number of kilo out. I'm going to appropriate that trick as pirates must.

We're going to do some snooping, and if that Diamond-in-the-blackhearted-rough is what we think it is, we're going to blow it up. So, yeah, I think this is somethin' the good ol' always-busted Boorman Treaty calls an 'Attack Declaration'. I'm declaring that we, the Pacifica Unioners, are about to attack you. Real declamatory, like I'm busting out a sonnet.

Anyway, it's dockable - not falling for that trap, so I'm going to head on down with a few dozen toughs and take a little peek, all nice and safe outside the hull, to figure out what the IFF codes are. The benefit of the doubt and all.

Direct all offers of surrendering down this channel.

Alster Unioners

The voice comes through irritated, estranged.

You've built an inflatable modular structure with a Lane Hacker IFF Ident after lying over its purpose to the whole tanner belt. You want us to shoot it and we're going to call your bluff, because it's thin. You want to start the Bore-war of he-said-she cassius belli gut-busting bellicoseness, we won't play ball. Two flagged Lane Hackers already shot at us without provocation, so you've already got your damn war and you can quote me on that however you like - I'll be happy to provide the context for your intransigence.

Fact, is fact. You built this thing so far out into the black it's got no use to anyone. Calling it an 'asset' is a mean misuse of yer' credibility, not that I'd buy stock in it judging by its credit value. It's bait. A good fish doesn't ignore the bait - it drags the fishermen into the water behind them.