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*** ID: Richard Moore ***
*** Subject: Contract proposal ***

Greetings, Colonials

You may not know me yet, I havent spent much time up there in Taus, so its okay, my fault.

I have seen your fighter design named Nyx though, and I was interested in buying it. Sadly, there is no way to just buy it, as both your and IMG people dont want to share those much.

So Im proposing to give my services to you for a period of time almost for free. Only thing I want is a legally acquired Nyx fighter.

My services would include

-Assassinating enemies of Colonial Remnant
-Escorting Colonial transports trough dangerous areas
-Assisting in fights with Colonial enemies
-Various other tasks you want me to do

My current ship is an old Eagle, equipped with Train Cruise Disruptor - very versatile and perfect both for escorting and fighting if you ask me.

The lenght of the period for which I will be working for you is up to you to decide, but I imagined something ranging from 2 weeks to 1 month at maximum.

After the period ends, I'll hopefully receive my Nyx, and keep working for you, but for money.

I await your response

Freelancer Richard Moore

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Alright, let's see. This is a secure channel, so this is between us, and do not go around revealing the details of your contract.

We have many people not unlike yourself trying to acquire our hardware.
As always, yes, you need to prove yourself.
I can accept your offer of free services, and you have my word that if you prove yourself over a period of time, assisting us when needed, performing tasks for us, and working on your own initiative, you may be granted a Nyx fighter.

For now, let your duties consist of what you said up there, plus, and this is a bit sensitive, you should try to hinder Outcast activity throughout your zone of operations, and also interdict any cardamine or slaves you may see.
You'd do the job we cannot do for the time being because of certain diplomatical hitches.

Feel free to report here with whatever you do that we would like.

And keep your mouth shut about this, to be blunt.

Lieutenant Commander Swift

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*** ID: Richard Moore ***

I understand what you mean. I will try to do my best and inform you about my actions on this channel.

I look forward to working with you

Richard Moore

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// I hope the FL ID doesnt restrict me in these actions though, will need to look at it closely
Topic name will be changed, so it doesnt confuse anyone as this will become place for my reports

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*** ID: Richard Moore ***
*** Subject: Today's report ***

My first report of action today!

I was patrolling around Tau 23, along with some Highland Security ships. Im not sure who hired them but they share the same goals so I suppose they can serve as tools for my work sometimes.

Anyway, what I wanted was the first slave liner I encountered today, named Yerucham.



Scanned his cargo, obviously a cardamine smuggler




Unfortunately, he docked on Java. Yeah you read right, Java. He somehow bypassed the security scanners and they have let him docked.

After this incident, I was doing more patrols, only thing I found was a damned Outcast gunship, which destroyed one of my HS wingmates and made the other one run. I was left alone, but the Outcast said he is "amused" by me and has let me flee. Mistake, I will get him later for sure.

Second Slave liner today, full of cardamine, caught near Cali. His name is on the guncam footage, I cant be bothered trying to spell it sorry.




I had a talk with him, offering him that he drops the Cardi and I will maybe let him go. He was arguing about that stuff a lot and even tried to bribe me with one million credits. One million. Pathetic. He sent the money though, nice donation but I insisted on dropping the cargo, which made him even more angry. In the end when I found out he is calling his friend, I had no other chance than destroy him and his cargo by force.

After a long, really long fight he finally exploded along with his load of cardamine. Some of it survived but I quickly destroyed it.



The Sabre he called came a bit late, just to watch the explosion. I was damaged a lot and after trying to fight him, I just fled to Java. The important thing was destroying the cargo right?



That should be everything. You may have noticed I switched to Ravens Talon. The old Eagle was a bit rusty and started malfunctioning.

Talon is getting repaired, so that should be everything for today,

Richard Moore

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All that is fine and well, just one piece of advice. Do inform them that you have an employer. You are indeed not the police, you can't claim it's illegal, because it in fact is not.
So ask them to drop it because you have orders from your employer.

In short, be a bit more talkative. Our aim is suppression, not destruction.

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*** ID: Richard Moore ***

Dont worry, I have spent a lot of time talking with the second one. I told him its my job, when you tell people "My employer wants to..." it usually raises questions about who is the employer. Im trying to "keep my mouth shut" about that as you told me.

The conversation with the first liner was quite short for obvious reasons. HS tried to shoot first and ask questions later which made him run before I could really do something. And then he docked.

Most of the smugglers are stubborn like hell however, which makes trying to persuade them to stop their activities useless. I will do my best and try. Be assured I would prefer talking over shooting, since the damned liners are not really easy to shoot alone in a fighter.

I will try to record more stuff next time

Richard Moore

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Today wasnt very successfull day from my view. I tried my best, but seems the Outcast are really willing to waste a lot of resources to keep the smuggling route safe. You will see yourself what I mean soon...

First smuggler, a junker with Bretonian Shire. Very odd, but he had Slaves onboard which was enough for me.




When I finally stopped him, we had a little talk. I even made a quite good offer to him.



Soon, I found myself in big trouble. That dude called capital ships after me. Nasty stuff.



I managed to cause some damage to the transport, but he made it to Alpha. I was left with a battleship, destroyer, and one Sabre which was staying back and enjoying the show.



I had no other choice than to escape.

In 23 I was lucky to find another slaver. Now in Rheinland train. Those guys have really weird choses in their ships.




Unfortunately... the 101st came started doing trouble...



Thanks to him, Iceman ran, and 101st followed him back to Alpha. I swear that Outcast is going down one day.

Iceman contacted me on secure channel later, which was quite a surprise to me. I think I persuaded him to get more legal work. I will need some trade route recommendations though, preferably something for CR right?



Thats all for today I believe. I hope I will meet less stubborn smugglers next time, this is madness.

Richard Moore


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Nothing much to report, mostly because of my gun camera malfunctioning and other problems I lack good evidence of certain things. I will show you regardless, you will have to believe me what Im saying.

A few days ago, I accompanied your forces in Leeds in interdicting Bretonian trade. Nothing much else to say, I helped where I could, and possibly prevented a unneccessary conflict between you and local Buccaneers. I had a thought, that they might be useful to do the dirty work for you sometimes, yeah?



They are obviously money-hungry. Pay them and they will do anything you want it seems.

The other day, I joined your forces in Leeds again. Today, BAF showed up. Most of my fight guncam shots were damaged or destroyed. I lost my Ravens Talon in the fight, along with most of the evidence. This is a photo before the fight started, everything else has been lost.



I got myself a Kusarian Wasupu instead of the destroyed Talon. Seems like a reliable craft to me. We will see how it performs later.

Today, I found an IMG Pytho, piloted by Mr. Ian Davies. He was patrolling the area for smugglers, as I did, so I joined him. Soon, we had a company. Outcast Switchblade came and started his long talk about cardamine. You know what I mean. In the end, he wanted to kill Davies, or at least destroy his ship.



Together, we jumped on him and soon he exploded to his own missiles. I was piloting my new bomber that time, the Kaichou, and I think it will be good enough to get rid of smugglers quickly.

Anyway, later on patrol with Davies, we found a Zoner whale full of Cardamine.




We had a talk with him. He was claiming that he is hired by Zoners which share his profit of smuggling. He even threatened us by bounty from the Zoners. Here are short parts of the conversation. Some parts are missing, they are marked by the red lines.



As he obviously wasnt going to comply, and even continued on talking that Zoner rubbish, we opened fire. He turned around to Tau 23. Then the most weird thing I have ever seen happened. He just disappeared right in front of the hole. Poof! Nothing!

Might it be that smugglers are using cloaking devices? God knows.

That should be all, if you are doubting my words, just ask the people involved, some of them should know.

Your loyal hired gun,

Richard Moore


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Tau 23
Near Tau 37 jump hole
1810 hours SMT

Colonial squadron was forming up near Tau 37 jump hole. The leader was giving orders to his men. They were waiting. They were waiting for Outcast force incoming.

Richard was in his new Kaichou bomber, waiting with them. He lighted a cigarette and leaned back to the seat. Colonial ships were flying around, forming into a formation around the hole. There were some Highland Security ships too. Everyone was waiting for the moment when Outcasts jump in.



Soon, Richard's scanner went crazy.

"Contact!", shouted one of the Colonials.

Scanners were reading a bunch of Outcast fighters. Much less than they expected. The bomber was a bit useless, they expected capital ships, but now it was too late.

"Break formation and attack!"

Richard set engines to maximum speed and targeted the nearest Outcast. The space was soon filled by shots from various weapons.

He got on his tail with his bomber, and opened fire. His debilitators were draining his shield quickly, but the Sabre started dodging. Soon, the quick Sabre got off his sight. Then he noticed something else.

One of the Outcasts had Raven's Talon, an IMG ship. Richard had no time to wonder how he got it, but he turned his ship against him, and opened fire. The Raven's Talon was shooting at one of the HS, so he didnt even notice Richard behind him.

The Talon's shields dropped, and Richard sent a missile towards him. It missed and hit one asteroid. The Talon started drifting... he drifted for too long. Richard inhaled, held his breath, and pressed the button which sent a blue chunk of antimatter towards the enemy.



The fighter vanished in a large blue explosion.

"Bang!", laughed Richard.

He returned to his previous target, the Sabre. He was chasing it around for a while, when he saw another explosion.



One of the Colonials scored a hit.

Outcasts suddenly started turning around to the direction of the Tau 37 jump hole. They started fleeing.

"Dont let them escape!"

But it was too late. They started jumping.

"Dont go after them Colonials, it can be a trap!"

Colonial ships stopped the chase. But Richard didnt need to obey their orders.

"Sorry guys, but Im going to finish my work."

"You are crazy!", replied one of the Colonials

"Yeah"

He jumped.

The Outcasts were nowhere around.

"Not so cocky now eh?"

He started cruise and went searching for them. As soon as he flied out of the cloud, he saw a lonely Outcast. He was flying an Eagle. They must have been running out of Sabres.

"Bring it sniffer"

The Outcast moved towards Richard.

"You are going to die, freelancer."

They started firing at each other.

The eagle was easily avoiding Richards shots. Kaichou was pretty slow to keep up, but soaked the damaged quite well. The eagle was flying circles around, shooting everything he had at him. Richard flied directly towards him, and dropped a mine in the pass. The bomber shaked a bit, which meant explosion. The eagle ate it. Richard turned around. Eagle was shieldless. Richard aimed his Supernova and shot... but missed.

They were fighting for few more minutes. Jousted, turned around. Jousted, turned around. No one couldnt strike the final blow. Until the Outcast made a mistake.



"Bang! Score!", laughed Richard.

Another supernova hit.

He turned his damaged bomber around and set course for the Tau 23 hole. Soon he jumped trough. Colonials were on the other side.

"You have returned just in time. We have whole fleet coming there. I think you just escaped them.", said one of them.

"Just great..."



Tau 23
Near the Tau 37 jump hole
1910 hours SMT

Richard was silently sitting in his Wasupu fighter. Squadron of Colonial Remnant Nyxes was assembling into a formation. It was more than clear that this is open war with Outcasts again. The truce was declared null and void.

The leader was shouting commands over comms. Everyone else was quiet.



This time, they were not waiting for Outcasts to come. This was a counterattack. A slap over the face for Outcasts.

"Right, lets give them hell. On my wing"

Everyone formed up on the leader, including Richard. They were moving towards the Tau 37 jump hole. There was no stepping back now.

They jumped.

As soon as they got out of the wormhole, scanners started freaking out.

"About ten hostile contacts sir!"

"Break the formation, engage those bastards!" replied the commanding officer.

Richard noticed something huge on the scanners. He scanned it closely, stopped his breath for a while and said "Guys, there is a whole damned fleet. They must be pretty serious."

Outcast force was composed of tons of small craft and gunships. Colonial force had no bombers this time.

"Just shoot them! We can make it!", said the Colonial leader. Despite the words, his voice sounded slightly doubtfull.

The real hell began afterwards. In the nebula, it was hard to see how much the Outcasts really have. Their ships just kept appearing from it.



The fight was endless. Colonials scored a few deadly hits, but Outcasts kept coming. Richard was flying around in his Wasupu, helping where he could with his guns.

"Target that damned Tridente!", shouted one of the pilots.

The deadly gunship was on his back, throwing all its firepower at him. Everyone changed target to save the man. Richard opened fire, his Vampires were hitting it easily, but with little effect. When everyone did the same thing, the gunship started burning on a few places, and was obviously going down.

"Clear off!"

Gunship started exploding from inside slowly. In the end it was totally destroyed in a huge explosion. Cheering of the pilots could be heard over comms.

There was a few Outcast fighters left. They started running, their odds were too bad and they knew it.

Leader started a short speech, "Let the sniffers run. Let them tell others the Colonial remnant is back. For those we left behind!"

"For those we left behind!"

Richard smiled at cheering Colonials. We fight was over.



They returned to Tau 23. Colonials headed to Tau 44, their home system. Richard headed to Java.

The long day was over. The war just began. Again.


// Having too much free time sucks :P something a little different from the stereotypical transmissions, its a bit more colourful than the reality was though :)

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Great victory over the slavers today!

I intercepted a well-known smuggler Jarek in his Firefly.

He was carrying 3495 Slaves onboard that small craft. I stopped him immediately, and tried to persuade him to free the poor people. Here is the footage:




Yes, you read right. I managed to make him free ALL the slaves on Java. Highland security was a bit confused and tried to stop him when I was escorting him there, but we solved that matter quickly without any issues.

Here I am escorting him to Java


He docked on Java afterwards, and freed all the slaves. I believe IMG will have a whole lot of work to do now, they should arrange some transport convoys and ship them back to the houses.

After that, Jarek left Java empty and continued on his way. HS provided him escort it seems, hopefully they escorted him somewhere else than Alpha, heh.



I hope more slavers will do this more often.

Anyway, I would be interested in some feedback on my actions done so far. If you are satisfied or not, et cetera.

Your hired gun,

Richard Moore


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