Looks like these Cartel guys are not giving us peace. The defense units were alerted last evening when one of our Niobium Ore transports tried to move to Kyushu. The Cartel were there, waiting for our transport to move away from Java so they could jump on it and blow it. But our trader decided to return to Java and they were stupid enough to follow him. Two more Outcast Tridentes and a Sabre join the Cartel bombers. I think they had too much cardamine because they decided to attack Java even if this was very well secured. We had some transports, some gunboats and a few fighters and bombers. There was no way they could have won... which they didn't *laughs* We first took out one of the Gunships, the Arrogance, then the Singularity. After we dealt with these two gunships, we continued to shoot down the remaining flies... I mean bombers, fighters... whatever. That Niko guy took out two of our gunboats, the Amethyst and the Omar Small. I don't know how but the crew of the Arrogance managed to escape to Cali and returned with a new gunship. How many do they have there? We destroyed the Arrogance... again and then the Cartel scums retreated and left a sniffer behind. This Mephistophiles was destroyed due to the two Cartel chickens that dragged it in this fight. Brainless...

Today I had a nice day. I started by sending the A.I.001 auto miner to the mining site then, in the morning, nothing compares with a nice patrol over Tau-23. After checking all the systems of my Pytho, I scanned the communication channels and I found out there was a fight somewhere near the Kyushu jump hole. I headed that way and I found a small wing of colonial and IMG fighters under attack by an Outcast destroyer. I engaged the Storta and results were notable. It went down in less than 10 minutes. After this patrol, I guarded our miner a bit then I took out my advanced train because the miner reached maximum cargo capacity. After the miner filled my train, I decided to go to New Berlin alone since no one was available at that hour. Not even a mercenary or a freelancer. But everything went alright and I unloaded the 4987 units of niobium ore at New Berlin for a nice amount of credits. After that I filled my cargo with MOX and went back to Orkney, to unload it at Dounby. I returned to Tau-23 to check the miner only to find out he had another load for me. I was a bit tired so I deactivated it and I stored all that ore on my transport. I will take it to Rheinland some other time.