Convoy Participants:

• BES Johnson, Shire - Andrew Peterson.
  
• BES Hawking, Shire - Mark Sanders.
  
• BES Raleigh, Shire - Chris Jacobs
  
• BES Stobart, Percheron - Eddie Stobart
  
• ExSec Jan Peters

Convoy Information:
Initially, the group consisted of myself, and the BES Hawking, Raleigh and Stobart. We all picked up a freshly mined cargo of Beryllium Ore from King's Cross - so fresh that we actually encountered the BMM mining crew heading home in the opposite direction.

I flicked the fellows a small tip as a token of appreciation, just to show some jolly good fraternal enthusiasm. After reaching Rheinland, we picked up Alluminium Ore. Mr Sanders and Jacobs returned home, myself and Mr Stobart following suit later in the evening.

Convoy Incidents:
The way to Rheinland was squeaky clean - suspiciously so. I almost can't remember such a smooth trip through Rheinland's tumultuous core systems. After mooring to Krupp, I departed from the Johnson for the early evening to look for a Daumann acquaintance and check up on some contract details.

When I resumed the journey home, I had a ten minute or so head start on the BES Stobart. In light of this, I was able to warn him of a Corsair gunboat that was waiting out in Stuttgart. I managed to nimbly side-step him, at which point it gave up and departed the system. Mr Stobart didn't see anything on the way through, so I rather presume that's what happened.

In Omega 3, I had two run ins with members of the criminal underworld that could be best characterised by the proverb, "thicker than two short planks." The first was the Pirate Spatial Dart_Crane, who gave me the choice of "full stop now or die!!!". I elected to choose die, and opened fire on him. Fast forward three minutes and he was fleeing on fire, with my trusty Shire retaining shield integrity throughout.

I chased the bugger all the way to Freeport 1, at which point he docked. There's a report for the Zoners to chew on. Approximately seven seconds later, another ship undocked. This one was the Hessian bomber, FreeRheinland. This cheeky chappie flew to the next trade lane ring (on the way to Cambridge), before shooting it down and demanding a million credits.

Severely unimpressed, I prepared for the worst. My cynicism rewarded, the git fired a barrage of novas at me. Irritated, I charged my turrets and gave him a jolly good thrashing, probably invoking memories of the time he had asked his mother why she never loved him. After a few minutes of said Hessian fleeing in circles, wailing in abject terror, Jan Peters arrived to watch the festivities.

The Hessian crash docked on Freeport One without much more prompting. Strike two for the Zoners - I hope this won't become a frequent occurrence. From there, Jan scouted through to Stokes, where we moored and successfully offloaded cargo. Good shout there, sah.

Other Notes:

Assorted cretins have been added to the BBQ for flame-grilling. You chaps in ExSec - remember - the management likes it rare, so make your kills bloody.

All bonuses for the previous month have been paid out. This includes all bonus claims made between 1st February 820 and 28th February 820.

Bonus Recipients:

• Bowex)Woodford, Eileen Porter, Supervisor - $ 2,500,000 received.
  
• Bowex)Biggs, Hans Arthur Liljefors, Employee - $ 2,000,000 received.
  
• Bowex)Hawking, Mark Sanders, Supervisor - $ 2,500,000 received.
  

February Bonus Statistics:

• The total value of the bonuses claimed this month was $ 7,000,000.
  
• The highest earning employees were Eileen Porter and Mark Sanders accruing $2,500,000.
  
• The most frequently claimed bonus was #1 - the InfoNet report bonus.
  

Congratulations to all recipients on their well-earned bonuses. Keep up the good work.

~ Kelly Porter

All bonuses for the previous month have been paid out. This includes all bonus claims made between 1st March 820 and 31st March 820.

Bonus Recipients:

• Bowex)Montfort, Roy Stinger, Supervisor - $ 1,000,000 received.
  
• Bowex)Biggs, Hans Arthur Liljefors, Employee - $ 4,000,000 received.
  

March Bonus Statistics:

• The total value of the bonuses claimed this month was $ 5,000,000.
  
• The highest earning employee was Hans Arthur Liljefors accuring $4,000,000.
  
• The most frequently claimed bonus was #1 - the InfoNet report bonus.
  

Congratulations to all recipients on their well-earned bonuses. Keep up the good work.

~ Kelly Porter

Convoy Participants:

• BES Enfield, Percheron - Kevin Cameron
  
• BES Johnson, Shire - Andrew Peterson
  
• ExSec Kiriko Hidamari

Convoy Information:
Originally intended to meet in New London, outside Canterbury however Mr Peterson was somewhat engaged in conversation with a new pilot, so myself and Miss Hadamari headed to Cambridge to pick up some luxury food, I tried some before leaving, it was a bit too rich for my liking however those Libertonians like it so we continued to take it to Curacao in Cortex and exchanged it for Tea, Though I am a coffee person myself and to my amazement found out the Miss Hadamari only drinks decaf with 12 spoons of sugar! We regrouped with Mr Johnson and proceeded on our journey to the Munich system on our way we encountered some IMG and tried to coerce them to get a real job with the BMM instead, but the lazy bums refused and so we continued our journey via the Omega systems, upon arriving in Munich we sold our tea and brought back some expensive cigars, myself and Mr Peterson decided to light one up upon our arrival back home in New London on a job well done.

Convoy Incidents:
The Omega systems were fairly quiet, a few rookies and a Bounty Hunter Gun Boat but nothing that our escort, Miss Hidamari, could not handle. I did have one moment where my auto piloting system was having difficulties with the Rheinland gates but after disabling it, all went well, we changed our formation from me being at the back to being in the middle since I was now on Manual I was docking the lanes a lot faster.

Other Notes:

I would like to thank both Andrew Peterson and Kiriko Midami for taking me on my first convey and that I look forward to flying with them again soon