I imagine you're a busy man, so I'll keep things brief, I'm Jack Frost, currently elected captain and representative of the Hel-class cruiser one of your pilots met today near Ramsey, we're part of the Zoner Freeport defense force in Liberty. I'm getting in touch for two things, the main one is to disclose black box recordings of the encounter I had several hours ago regarding a seemingly rogue installation in Ontario.
The second is a request, we would like to have your personal blessing to transit through Ontario when we're required to secure the routes between Freeport-14 and Ames.
We would also be more than willing to assist the Alliance against the LSF should you require an extra arm, multiple crew members come from Bethlehem and Milford and they're more than grateful to the Alliance for their aid against the Liberty authorities, we'd like to repay for that.
PS: One last thing, we've noticed as of late the move of multiple alien AI cruisers through the Independent Worlds, a few days ago we encountered three through Magellan, coming from Vespucci and headed towards Cortez, a PLF pilot was also present during that sighting, and during this encounter one of them was lurking from the distance in Ontario as I spoke with the technocrat.
[15.07.2024 02:13:38] INS-Tundra: Jack: Destination?
[15.07.2024 02:13:44] NOD]-CAT-Akatsuki: Ontario.
[15.07.2024 02:13:59] INS-Tundra: Jack: On whose behalf?
[15.07.2024 02:14:01] NOD]-CAT-Banba: What's it to you, friend?
[15.07.2024 02:14:05] NOD]-CAT-Akatsuki: Our own.
[15.07.2024 02:14:36] INS-Tundra: Jack: It is my problem since you visited the Freeport.
[15.07.2024 02:14:36] NOD]-CAT-Akatsuki: Didn't know Xenos could attack ships near Freeports.
[15.07.2024 02:14:44] NOD]-CAT-Akatsuki: How so?
[15.07.2024 02:15:11] NOD]-CAT-Banba: Since when does Xenos own Freeports? Did I miss something?
[15.07.2024 02:15:25] INS-Tundra: Jack: You did apparently.
[15.07.2024 02:15:37] NOD]-CAT-Akatsuki: So what's the news then?
[15.07.2024 02:16:00] INS-Tundra: Jack: I just wonder where are those supplies headed exactly.
[15.07.2024 02:16:16] NOD]-CAT-Akatsuki: It's near Thunder Bay.
[15.07.2024 02:16:24] INS-Tundra: Jack: Really?
[15.07.2024 02:16:40] INS-Tundra: Jack: Very well, let's head over there, then.
[15.07.2024 02:16:46] NOD]-CAT-Akatsuki: Let us then.
[15.07.2024 02:17:59] A bounty of $600 credits has been deposited into your account.
[15.07.2024 02:21:50] NOD]-CAT-Akatsuki: Disappointed I hope. *laughs*
[15.07.2024 02:21:57] 2024-07-15 01:25:13 SMT Traffic control alert: NOD]-CAT-Banba has docked
[15.07.2024 02:22:11] 2024-07-15 01:25:27 SMT Traffic control alert: NOD]-CAT-Akatsuki has docked
[15.07.2024 02:22:15] INS-Tundra: Jack: Disappointed you've lied.
[15.07.2024 02:27:42] Docking at this base is restricted
[15.07.2024 02:40:06] INS-Tundra: Jack: You're lost and you won't get help here.
[15.07.2024 02:49:15] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Damn. Took a while to find you.
[15.07.2024 02:49:37] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Xeno vessel you were seen violating Technocracy space. I take it you want a fight?
[15.07.2024 02:49:58] INS-Tundra: Jack: So many wild guesses and all of them wrong.
[15.07.2024 02:50:02] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper - Civilian Explorer
[15.07.2024 02:50:02] The Technocracy ID - The Technocracy
[15.07.2024 02:50:02] Finished bounty scan at 2024-07-15 01:53:18 SMT
[15.07.2024 02:50:08] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Nana: State your intentions then.
[15.07.2024 02:50:43] INS-Tundra: Jack: Why would I? Your group hasn't been honest so far.
[15.07.2024 02:50:54] INS-Tundra: Jack: Are you ready to explain yourself?
[15.07.2024 02:51:11] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Nana: Why would I? I owe you nothing and you are threatening my transports.
[15.07.2024 02:51:27] Tip: You can send cash to nearby players without needing to type their name by selecting their ship and using /givecasht or /gct command.
[15.07.2024 02:51:29] INS-Tundra: Jack: I simply asked them what are they supplying.
[15.07.2024 02:51:37] INS-Tundra: Jack: And they blatantly lied.
[15.07.2024 02:51:42] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Nana: Do they have to explain themselves to you?
[15.07.2024 02:51:56] INS-Tundra: Jack: So I assume you're working for the Republic of Liberty,
[15.07.2024 02:52:02] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Nana: Hardly.
[15.07.2024 02:52:08] INS-Tundra: Jack: Yes, they have to.
[15.07.2024 02:52:14] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Nana: On what grounds?
[15.07.2024 02:52:19] INS-Tundra: Jack: Because they're using our freeports.
[15.07.2024 02:52:43] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Nana: So it's a Xeno Freeport now.
[15.07.2024 02:52:53] INS-Tundra: Jack: I'm serving the Freeport defense force on Liberty.
[15.07.2024 02:53:11] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Nana: Haven't seen such a load of fertilizer waste in a while.
[15.07.2024 02:53:11] INS-Tundra: Jack: Xenos and Zoners are one stone away.
[15.07.2024 02:53:20] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Nana: So is Valravn.
[15.07.2024 02:53:47] INS-Tundra: Jack: Except the Zoners have way more in common with Xenos than that lot.
[15.07.2024 02:54:04] INS-Tundra: Jack: For one, the xenos do not impose any authority on zoners.
[15.07.2024 02:54:27] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Nana: If you impose no authority you have no authority at the Freeport. Your actions go against that.
[15.07.2024 02:54:40] INS-Tundra: Jack: You keep mixing us with them.
[15.07.2024 02:55:00] INS-Tundra: Jack: How many xenos have you seen flying a Hel-class before?
[15.07.2024 02:55:48] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Nana: You are just bullshitting me regardless. My transports do not support Liberty or go against your people. They are-
[15.07.2024 02:55:53] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: - Junkers on contract.
[15.07.2024 02:56:03] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: You have no right to prevent their work.
[15.07.2024 02:56:24] INS-Tundra: Jack: I didn't prevent anyone's work, I simply asked where they were headed, and they lied to me about it.
[15.07.2024 02:56:33] INS-Tundra: Jack: Just like you're doing right now.
[15.07.2024 02:56:38] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Nana: You have no authority to ask them the truth.
[15.07.2024 02:56:46] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Nana: Calling me a liar is also a lie.
[15.07.2024 02:57:06] INS-Tundra: Jack: If you're expecting a better treatment from the local xenos, you're surely not doing your job very well with zoners.
[15.07.2024 02:57:42] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: I'm not involved in local politics. Drop the bullshit or leave.
[15.07.2024 02:57:55] INS-Tundra: Jack: You have no authority to tell anyone here to leave.
[15.07.2024 02:58:14] INS-Tundra: Jack: Specially on Free Republic's space, where you're a guest at best, and a trespasser at worst.
[15.07.2024 02:58:26] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Oh? So we're at an impasse then.
[15.07.2024 02:58:43] INS-Tundra: Jack: Your only chance to solve this diplomatic mess is to be straightforward and honest with me.
[15.07.2024 02:59:18] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Very well then. I'm operating a private research organisation, and that over there is the hydroponics I have sponsored. It-
[15.07.2024 02:59:26] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Is unaffiliated with anybody except the Junkers working it.
[15.07.2024 02:59:29] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: And me.
[15.07.2024 02:59:35] INS-Tundra: Jack: Did the Alliance give you the green light?
[15.07.2024 02:59:48] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Is the Alliance even contactable at this point?
[15.07.2024 02:59:54] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: This place is a mess.
[15.07.2024 03:00:05] INS-Tundra: Jack: Sure is, there's Ramsey not very far away from here.
[15.07.2024 03:00:32] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: There's me, you, and a whole bunch of factions claiming they own these systems.
[15.07.2024 03:01:28] INS-Tundra: Jack: There's the Hackers, the Xenos and the LSF, one of those groups gets shot in sight.
[15.07.2024 03:01:42] Death: ARCHER1961 was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[15.07.2024 03:02:10] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Depending on whom you ask, it's any of them. I'm not with the LSF if that's your concern. Maybe try those Junker Congress?
[15.07.2024 03:02:17] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: They definitely want to cause trouble around here.
[15.07.2024 03:02:46] INS-Tundra: Jack: I haven't seen any Congress ships around here, but plenty of Technocrats.
[15.07.2024 03:02:49] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: My base's goal is to supply the region with food, water, and air. If that's a violation, then you might as well starve.
[15.07.2024 03:02:59] INS-Tundra: Jack: And also those AI cruisers.
[15.07.2024 03:02:59] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Of course, the Technocracy does live around here.
[15.07.2024 03:03:15] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Those have been active all over Sirius lately. It's quite intriguing.
[15.07.2024 03:03:15] INS-Tundra: Jack: Unless the junkers working under your flag are from the Congress.
[15.07.2024 03:03:28] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: No, they work independently. As do I.
[15.07.2024 03:03:44] INS-Tundra: Jack: Yeah, the problem here is to who does that food and water goes to.
[15.07.2024 03:03:51] INS-Tundra: Jack: Do you see the problem here?
[15.07.2024 03:04:07] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: I think we can both agree Liberty doesn't need more food.
[15.07.2024 03:04:20] INS-Tundra: Jack: No, but the LSF? Maybe does.
[15.07.2024 03:04:20] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: So that leaves the rest of us.
[15.07.2024 03:04:42] INS-Tundra: Jack: And depending on what the technocrats are up to, I wouldn't want them getting fed either.
[15.07.2024 03:05:03] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: I think the latter is none of your concern.
[15.07.2024 03:05:16] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: After all, I did grow up on synth food over there.
[15.07.2024 03:05:25] INS-Tundra: Jack: Well, we'll let the local Alliance decide that either way.
[15.07.2024 03:05:59] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: It's not your decision, yes. I'll wait for an official contact. Until then don't touch the transports.
[15.07.2024 03:06:15] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: You don't have the right to attack innocents.
[15.07.2024 03:06:24] INS-Tundra: Jack: Oh if Cobra gets in touch, it'll be with an eviction squadron at his back.
[15.07.2024 03:06:48] INS-Tundra: Jack: I wouldn't wait for them to find out and start making calls, that'd make you look bad. Worse than already is.
[15.07.2024 03:07:07] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Nana: Let's see what happens.
[15.07.2024 03:07:26] INS-Tundra: Jack: You're free to proceed, until you're proven to assist Liberty.
[15.07.2024 03:07:28] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Nana: And whom I end up allied with, after the dust settles.
[15.07.2024 03:07:50] INS-Tundra: Jack: But don't expect any courtesy from locals, we've seen your group pulling this move before on Inverness, not anymore.
[15.07.2024 03:08:02] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Pfft. We'll see each other again.
[15.07.2024 03:08:17] INS-Tundra: Jack: Whether in better terms or not is up to you.
[15.07.2024 03:08:31] INS-Tundra: Jack: Best of luck with the Xenos and Hackers.
[15.07.2024 03:08:42] NOD]-CEV-Threadripper: Nana: Have a nice day, Tundra.
And in that regard you've done our cause a service by revealing its location and information surrounding its construction. Despite boasting Junker IFF codes some form of Hacker and Technocrat task force proved an initial hurdle.
It appears as though they couldn't mount a consistent defense likely owing to a strained logistics situation back home in Inverness. A point of weakness I'll revisit in the future.
I'm getting in touch once again because we're currently conducting thorough investigation in a domestic group on the Independent Worlds known as the "Technocracy". The evidence we collected[1] gives us reasonable suspicion that they might be intending on de-stabilizing diplomatic and economic relations between Zoner groups on the periphery of Liberty and the LFR and to influence the community of Freeport Fourteen to favour their pseudo-state over any other domestic group and put the Freeport's neutrality and independence in jeopardy. So far we're relieved to know that their first move -if correct- has not been a success, but we have concerns that they are in fact, being more successful on the second hypothesis.
On July 19, our vessel was conducting security and guard duty within Freeport Fourteen's No-Fire-Zone when a Technocrat Hel-class destroyer approached the Freeport with intent of engaging our vessel if we did not vacate the system with threats of lethal force or arresting our crew, we had to conduct thorough repairs on the vessel after the incident.
Shortly after, the Technocracy contacted us over neural-net[2] only to further clarify their intents to remove us from Inverness and threaten us once more, I replied in kind.
I made the PLF aware of this skirmish but they refused to provide support given they got their hands full on Pennsylvania, and suggested that I get in contact with a Zoner founded logistic company known as "Omicron Supply Industries" to report the incident.
The OSI not only refused to acknowledge all the evidence we collected and presented about Technocracy's intent on only escalating hostilities with us, but blamed us for it and applauded Technocracy's initiative in breaching the NFZ to engage us.[3]This is what I have a problem with and this is why I believe that the Technocracy is being successful on influencing Freeport Fourteen to eventually assimilate it. This corporate group, based entirely on the Edge Worlds is making administrative claims over a Freeport community in the Independent Worlds, and refusing to enforce the No-Fire-Zone and issue punitive and exemplary justice to groups for breaking it, and the cherry on top is they're blaming a Zoner Freeport Defense vessel for an incident that the Technocracy escalated. I'll attach a read-only file copy of comms as form of evidence to the aforementioned sitrep with these two groups.
We're investigating them to determine who is this group and what their true motivations are beyond their baseless public relation statements of "saving humanity", their past incidents involving Zoner groups if there's any such documented instance, and hopefully predict their next move. We'll be grateful if you can provide any sort of intel on them or if you can point out another group that might be interested in assisting us.
This OSI company will also be investigated and put on thorough scrutiny after not fulfilling their duties, I don't take moles too kindly, specially when my own safety and my crew's on the line, I have personal motivations to ensure they're replaced with another administration if needed to ensure pseudo-house entities do not step over Fourteen for their political agendas ever again.
They cooperated with Bretonia during the attempted annexation of Canaria. What a time to be alive that was.
While I appreciate this update, it makes no difference for me and mine. Both OSI and these tyrants in Inverness are considered enemies of the cause.
Investigate to your heart's content, or at least until your need to satisfy morality or some other abstract concept is sated, and when it's time for action - call me.
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