Comm ID: Zetsumai
Origin: Morioka Base, Tau-65
Recipient: All Smugglers
My Kiretsu Squadron will be pirating any smugglers that are not under the Blue Lotus Syndicate's protection if they venture into Kusari. The Blue Lotus Syndicate provides us pure cardamine at a reduced cost directly from their plantations, and these independent smugglers do nothing than aggravate the rightful cardamine producers and reduce the profits the Outcast families make from their distribution. Half of all the profits made from pirated cardamine smugglers will be transfered to the Syndicate.
Comm ID : Oniros
Subject : Independant smugglers under control
My dearest friends of the Blue Lotus Syndicate,
I am a bit paranoid, sometimes, not all the time and not now. Allow me to be perfectly clear. You are talking about buying. I'm talking about selling and not smuggling as we, Junkers, are not regular smugglers. We are the people who have always make the cardamine trade easier for the Outcasts. So allow me to ask you a simple question : will you treat a Junker(ID) as you will with an independant Smuggler(ID) ?
Back to the point, you were talking about negociation with factions. I don't care to negociate the right to smuggle as i don't do that anymore. I care about negociatethe price of the selling. If you prefer droping your cardamine in a LR our LH base. Perfect, I let you do your math.
But if you intend to sell in a junker base, then we will appreciate if you share a small part of your increased benefits with those who are close to the customers and have always helped the unlawfuls.
Can i ask to every BLS that will come, after a diversion in NY, to sell drugs at Beaumont or Rochester a small cut ? let say 100 units of cardamine for myself or anything you want. It is what I call a deal, a negociation, a business.
Who am i to ask such a thing ? A poor single Junker, belonging to a poor faction without organization, a puppet, a moron, an insect you can crush. However, if you can control your own house, remember that inside the lawful Houses, you're not the master of the whole universe.
Keep your threats and let's be friend. A business is in stake, yours, not mine.
And now, the truth... I really don't give a s..t of the rules, rights and blablabla. I'm just using this opportunity to bring this "line of thought": be a little bit less centered around yourself and your own faction. It is a smart move to try to recruit more smugglers by force but, it would be nice, if you really want the support of theses loosers call Junkers, to think about their own needs as partners not as masters and slaves. Do it with the Liberty Rogues if you want, but not with us, and certainly not with me.
Best regards,
The paranoid unknow now known.
PS : As you see i'm a rattlesnake. I can make a lousy sound. But as i can sometime foresee my future, i'm already aware of the consequences : none. Because you're right : what i'm doing is ridiculous.
"Perfection, honesty, devotion" "Immortality is our subconscious main concern" "To change the system, you have to be inside the system and play by the rules"
Quote:And "Irioth" ((people, supply your in-game names or at least an "unknown"!)), if 5 million is a lot to you, you're obviously a bad smuggler, and we don't want your services anyways.
Thanks for that. And for the record, my ship ID and name are going to remain unknown. Spreading that information can be dangerous.
Back on point, allow me to elaborate a bit. I am not a full time smuggler. I do the lawful routes as often as the unlawful ones, so I do occasionally wander up to Omicron Alpha and take a load of cardamine to New York or Texas since the profit for that route is (was, rather) worth the occasional trouble. I've been hauling cardamine, off and on, for months now. I know the routes, and I've never been caught. Not once. Even getting close enough for law enforcement to get a good scan is rare. Perhaps watch your tongue next time, no?
So you expect me to pay you fools 5 million a week for the rights to carry cardamine once or twice a week? And in exchange I get an escort that will do nothing more than draw attention to me? You do know what happens when the sirens go off in Liberty, don't you? In a matter of seconds lawful ships are swarming you. No escort will keep me alive through that. It's discretion that is key. Five million for a useless escort is not worth it in my book, especially when I'll only need this 'escort' twice a week tops.
I certainly hope you greedy fools of the BLS come to your senses soon. Until then, I'll be finding new routes that don't include Outcast space. I wouldn't be surprised if others decide to do the same thing. There are a lot of smugglers out there that prefer to be independent and keep their profit to themselves who won't take kindly to your... plans.
So you'd rather hurt the overall cardamine shipping capability of the Outcasts to further your own plans? Some of those independent smugglers are good at what they do, they just don't want to be part of any organization. Turning them away is a foolish thing for you to do.
OOC: I'd just like to make sure you know the whole fool thing is strictly in character. I'm not insulting you in any way, just a dispute between our respective characters. I'm definitely not trying to make jabs are you, Zapp.
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** Comm ID: Blue Lotus Syndicate **
** Member ID: Alekzander **
From what I know and think we are not turning down other Cardamine smugglers, we are giving them a choice of either paying us or joining us. In reality even if a lot of the current smugglers stop buying/selling the orange dream that makes more profit for us as the cardamine will become more expensive and looked for. As for hurting the overall cardamine shipping capability of the Outcasts to further our own plans. I think the answer to that would be - yes. I really don't care if a large portion of the smugglers stop smuggling there will always be those who would smuggle cardamine.
It is up to said smugglers to make a choice, fly safe and godspeed.
' Wrote:So you'd rather hurt the overall cardamine shipping capability of the Outcasts to further your own plans? Some of those independent smugglers are good at what they do, they just don't want to be part of any organization. Turning them away is a foolish thing for you to do.
I'm speaking First as a proud Malta Citizen; an Outcast! and second as an equally proud member of the Blue Lotus Syndicate. Denying you (and i mean you as in independent smugglers) access to our Cardamine will not hurt our economy one bit or hinder the spread of the Orange Dream through out Sirius. You come here and buy Cardamine dirt cheap then you go sell it where ever and keep all the profit to your self. Now how does that help us? Help our people? Not one bit. So just letting you trade oh so freely will actually hurt us more. That is why we have you pay our requested sum or join our ranks cause that way Malta and her people are guaranteed to be taken care of.
Now if you want to continue being an independent 'trader' with our product then by all means do so, but you must give us a percentage of the profits(before you leave...we don't take IOUs). And if you choose not to pay, things will become very hard for you.
[BLS]-B.Orlov out......
(To my superiors, I'm aware of my rank and i hope i didn't speak above it)
Why should you make me pay for the right to smuggle Cardmine. I would much rather donate my hard earned credits to some who had the manners to say please.
If any of your pilots find me then I will be quite happy to pay em 5 mill. BUT only if they find me. If not then I will be keeping my credits. I consider my self a supporter of the outcasts and I would much rather use my money to help a new pilot get of the pad.
You lot are as corrupted as Liberty, trying to make us smugglers buy from only YOUR fields. In this regard I will say GO TO HELL!!!! I will buy Cardimine from any field on Malta I want.
Ok so finally what do the other Outcasts say about your monopolization on the Cardimine trade.
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** Comm ID: Blue Lotus Syndicate **
** Member ID: B.Orlov **
** Subject: Smuggling Rights **
I have convinced and received payment from the smugglers SpaceTrader and Solarzs. Both payed 20 million for the 1 month Cardamine Smuggling License. I relinquished the first 20mil to [BLS]-Miranu and i will await transfer of second 20mil to whoever I need to. And i taxed =Cowboy_Bebop00101= the regular 2mil for one shipment of Cardamine.
Pheew, what a busy day.
EDIT: the trader Nwolf00101 had payed the 5mil for the 1 week smuggling pass.
All in all, 47mil in profits today.
' Wrote:Five million a week is a bit much... As a smuggler, I follow profits, so I may just have to offer my services to other factions.
// It isnt so much who you're offering 'services' to. The blue lotus syndicate are outcasts, and for the most part they keep in the omicrons. You're forced to land on THEIR planet to get cardamine, and if you try to without paying them, you get destroyed.