Hombres, mujeres... My beloved Iberians!
Things have been quiet in our lands for a while, now that we have grown stronger and better! El Rey approved all incursions into Rheinland, Bretonia and the Sigmas. It's time to gather all the equipment and resources we can, to take it all! and if not, to burn it all down to ashes!
I have ordered some of my most trusted pilots to storm some crucial systems in the Omegas region. Feel free to join them anytime.
Zone of operations: Omega's / Rheinland / Bretonia
* Ship: Sota de Bastos / Pilot: M. Arriaga.
* Ship: Tres de Bastos / Pilot: J. Pedraza.
*Ship: Siete de Oro / Pilot: N. Gaitan.
The orders are simple: If the pilot in the other ship isn't from Crete or an allied of the Empire, loot them! and if not, try the neutron blasters psychology, that should do the trick.
Additional rewards will be given to those who report evidence of what happened.
I'll be stationed at Barcelona, things are getting messy now that the anomaly in Theta is stable, Outcast ships has been spotted in the area more frequently.
A bretonian BMF large train was found in the lanes between the O-7 Jump hole and the Planet Breisgau.
As always... Bretonians lives are cheap, he sacrified himself and his crew for 15 million credits... una lastima.
Reporte.
>Departure: Torshavn Space Port.
>AO: Cambridge System, Bretonia.
The first one was found in the lanes between the freeport and the Cambridge gate in the Omega-3 system. He was to slow to comprehend that he was being robbed. Honestamente, I don't have time for a cheap talk, you all know how dangerous is to sit still in the lanes, bretonians and another forms of garbage are waiting behind every asteroid.
Code:
Loot: Some Argentum Silver
The second was a really big fish, but he kindly delivered some of his cargo to me. Im gonna share it with the Gaians for let me stay hidden in their base.
A relay transmission from Petra gave the hint on a libertonian transport in the area, they were right. I managed to intercept the libertonian tanker near the Rho Jump Hole.
Recently in my travels I came across a merchant flying a vessel I had not seen before. My men and I were quick to relieve him of it and show him to the nearest airlock before beginning our inspection of the vessel. The documentation on board showed that it was recently purchased from a ship dealer in Edinburgh and manufactured by some "Ceres Innovations" a shipmaker unknown to me.
The vessel was brought back to Crete and combed over and refitted for our purposes before being taken out to serve the Empire.
It so far maneuvers adequately and gives enough room to store pirsoners and loot so that shall suffice. Christened "Fantasma del Mar" appropriately befitting her new purpose, I decided to put her through her paces.
Tonight with this new vessel I was able to stop several merchants in the Sigmas, Omicrons and Omegas, relieving them of some loose change and spreading the good news that the Iberian Empire was coming to a system near them and they should notify their bosses.
A rather mouthy slave of the Planetform company irritated me a little bit but once he opened his pocket book to pay his tax to the Empire, it mattered little.
After concluding business in the Omegas, we took our enterprises up to New London and managed to scrap a DSE transport and not wanting their floating Niobium to go to waste, we sold it to a merchant aboard Trafalgar.
The Fantasma will continue hitting the trade arteries of Bretonia for a bit I think before we look for some new fun elsewhere.
Sagarra! Amigo, glad to see you are alive and doing well. Congratulations for your new acquisition, I never saw one of those, looks promising. Maybe I should take a look at it with my own eyes ... And by the way we could indulge ourselves.
My men are already informed and they will join you pretty soon.
Reporte.
>Departure: Petra Outpost.
>AO: Sigma-15.
Estimados,
I have bad news, the Rho-Gate Construction Site in Sigma-15 is active again. Seems that the gauls from EFL are working on it, and it seems they want to finish the job.
I managed to stop a EFL Heavy Transport, the crew inside doesn't have a clue of what's going on in the system, so I gave them a message, hopefully it will be delivered to someone important within the gaul company.
[08.12.2021 18:07:22] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": Gaul.
[08.12.2021 18:07:24] EFL~La.Antoinette: Gaspar: Greetings
[08.12.2021 18:07:26] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": Cease your engines.
[08.12.2021 18:07:33] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": We need to talk.
[08.12.2021 18:07:39] EFL~La.Antoinette: ::: Very well
[08.12.2021 18:07:50] Death: Koliber was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[08.12.2021 18:07:51] EFL~La.Antoinette: What can I do for you today
[08.12.2021 18:08:00] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": So, as far as I know
[08.12.2021 18:08:23] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": I understand that your company is finishing the construction of the Rho gate.
[08.12.2021 18:08:25] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": Is that correct?
[08.12.2021 18:08:37] EFL~La.Antoinette: Yes monsieur it is
[08.12.2021 18:08:45] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": Entendido.
[08.12.2021 18:08:56] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": I have a message for your superiors.
[08.12.2021 18:09:00] EFL~La.Antoinette: The good quality egineering of EFL is a marvel to behold
[08.12.2021 18:09:16] EFL~La.Antoinette: oh?
[08.12.2021 18:09:22] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": For sure it is, I have no doubt on it, but the gate cannot be finished.
[08.12.2021 18:09:32] EFL~La.Antoinette: what?
[08.12.2021 18:09:35] EFL~La.Antoinette: but why?
[08.12.2021 18:09:46] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": Tell your bossman, that we sorry, but the gate construction must be canceled.
[08.12.2021 18:09:58] EFL~La.Antoinette: Its going to be a beautiful gate though mon ami
[08.12.2021 18:10:04] Death: Breaker was put out of action by =LSF=Bobcat (Gun).
[08.12.2021 18:10:09] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": Because is a direct connection to the Core system. And those lunatics won't have easy from us.
[08.12.2021 18:10:42] EFL~La.Antoinette: :: umm, I see. Your people do not care for the omicron imperials?
[08.12.2021 18:11:01] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": Asi que, our command is on alert, all ships carrying supplies to the gate construction site will be engaged.
[08.12.2021 18:11:16] EFL~La.Antoinette: but wait monsieur
[08.12.2021 18:11:25] EFL~La.Antoinette: Let me get this straight
[08.12.2021 18:11:36] EFL~La.Antoinette: Your people of Crete do not care for the Core bastards no?
[08.12.2021 18:11:55] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": Mostly not, but they're declared enemies of Crete.
[08.12.2021 18:12:09] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": We cannot permit such a construction that will benefit them.
[08.12.2021 18:13:43] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": Let me clarify this for you.
[08.12.2021 18:13:46] EFL~La.Antoinette: But I can convey your message
[08.12.2021 18:13:51] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": We're at war with them.
[08.12.2021 18:14:14] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": Sorry your company is in the middle of this.
[08.12.2021 18:14:20] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": But it is what it is.
[08.12.2021 18:14:31] EFL~La.Antoinette: Very well
[08.12.2021 18:14:32] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": The gate construction must be cancelled, or at least delayed.
[08.12.2021 18:14:44] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": You're free to go Gaul, Gracias for listening.
[08.12.2021 18:14:53] IE|"Sota.de.Bastos": Have a good journey.
[08.12.2021 18:14:55] EFL~La.Antoinette: Au Revoir monsieur
In close fly by the construction gate, I saw several people working on it.
And in my honest opinion we need to get ready for the worst.
Greetings to you all.
Frankfurt trade-lanes have been busy, according to Penitence intel, convoys were sighted coming from Dresden and New Berlin.
I caught two transports in the lanes between the NB gate and the blue gas giant they call "Heidelberg".
The other, for my surprise was a bretonian transport from their Merchant Navy... I had some fun with the captain of the ship, this bretonian really like to gamble "Double or nothing" he said, and we rolled those dices. I should give them a crate of cigarettes... Anyway la suerte was on my side, he paid double.