To: Captain John Riley, Bowex Chamberlain
CC: Bowex Personnel
From: Sup.Com. Mudslinger, White Tigers Leader
Subject: Greetings and Salutations.
Dear Sirs,
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as the leader of the White Tigers, a Mercenary Faction based in Cambridge. We are a purely lawful faction, interested in the protection of the Bretonian economic hegemony rather than the collection of bounties.
We regularly fly escort & patrol wings across Sirius; should you or yours require use of our services, please do not hesitate to contact a [WT]-tagged ship. In recognition of your sterling work supporting the economy of Bretonia, such escot work would be at preferential rates.
Furthermore, we are pleased to announce that we have designated our relationship as 'Esteemed Colleagues', which is to say allies in all but name.
Should you have any queries, a message via private communications or in our message dump will receive a quick reply.
From: Richard Farbridge, security group
Source: Planet new london,new london System, Bretonia
To: Bowex management
Re: situational report
Why hello old chaps. A quick report of my first day of work for the company. Started out with my trusty cavalier doing some jobs for the bowex mission commision, took out a few criminals here and there. Whilst on a mission against some gaians in leeds I was taken out by a gaian who was not in my objectives list, a heavily armoured Raven Talon with the callsign nasturtium. Luckily I was picked up by a BAF patrol that secured the area shortly afther, they dropped me off on durham from where I was able to hitch a ride with a colleague towards Glasgow outpost.
Thank god for spare ships! At the end of the day I joined a convoy of transports on a run to manhattan with luxury foods. Fairly safe run, no one spilled their tea luckily even though there was some tension within manhattan because of high xenos terrorist activity.
Hope this informs you enough of my first day
Cheerio!
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Comm ID: Richard Farbridge
Target: Bowex InfoNet
Right lads!
Afther my promotion to full employeey yesterday I proceeded to get my new shiny eagle, unfortunatly the dealer doesnt make house deliveries so I had to pick it up myself at Freeport 9! Blimey what a flight, especially in a cavalier. I left this mornin from planet New London where I put her down yesterday afther the run from Liberty.
The start of the flight was easy, no real troubles before the omega 3 gate, afther the jump I had a bunch of hessian muppets in daggers on my tail and the rest of the omegas where pretty similar with more muppets trying to shoot my behind off.
Rheinland was pretty much the same, more falcons and hawks shooting my behind though, luckily Bonn station helped me patch up. Berlin, frankfurt, M?nchen, sigma 17 and then theta. I was glad when I finnaly got to put my old trusty cavalier down on Freeport 9, was so badly hit that they only wanted her as scrap metal! Those zoners dont see the quality of bretonian engineering apparently.
Anyways, an uneventfull run back this time via rheinland and Liberty, was able to get some basic gear at Leeds but I will need some heavier equiptment if you want me to start escorting the high risk routes. We got any equiptmentdealer that delivers us good deals?
cheerio!
Richard Farbridge
security wing
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Ho hum, last night was rather eventful. I suppose I had best start with the positive, then the negitive, then the downright confusing.
I started my shift with the Bowex)Attlee and the marvellous new security man Bowex|Richard.Farbridge. We proceeded to ship Luxury Food from New London and Cambridge to Manhattan and Luxury Consumer Goods from there back to New London again.
There were no interruptions (other than a few minor incidents with lane-breaks, but Mr. Farbridge dealt with them marvellously) which allowed us to make fast progress and turn a quick profit. Soon after, I was forced to moor with the Thames Station due to my port engine overheating.
As a side note, if a Libertonian offers you coffee, don't accept. The damn stuff has been disagreeing with me all day!
Anyway, once the engine had been fixed, I resumed trading, this time shipping Engine Components from Rhienland to our space in order to support the war effort. After a short while Mr. Dock appeared at the helm of the Bowex)Tennant. We met up on Planet Leeds, where we managed to rope some Passengers into embarking for an adventure.
I took the Tennant for a sightseeing tour of Newcastle, eventually dropping the Passengers off on Scarbourgh Station in order for them to participate in our latest initiative - the Scarbourgh Shipyard Experience! We're allowing tours of the shipyard so that regular people might see how a modern shipyard operates.
After that, the Tennant and Mr. Dock were held up by a particularly stubborn old man who did not wish to pay his fare. He asked that I depart without him, so I proceeded back to Planet Leeds with a supply of Diamonds where I bumped into the Bowex)Nightingale.
As chance had it, he had not seen the Newcastle system and it's many treasures either, so I took him for a sightseeing trip too, after managing to persuade more Passengers to come aboard. We took a look around the system, with me introducing such bases as the Lancaster Trade Station.
Again we dropped the Passengers off at Scarbourgh for the SSE, and proceeded back to Leeds with a load of Diamonds. Unfortunately, at this point I was forced to retire for the night.
Now for the negative - during one of my shipments of H Fuel to Graves station, I was cornered by two of those Molly scoundrels, one from the '[MR]' and the other unaligned. After a short while one of those wonderful BAF showed up and gave them a good what-for, allowing me to pass through Dublin with a shipment of Gold unmolested.
And now for the down-right odd. A pilot going by the name of Mordrom contacted me other private comms, talking of a social experiment. He was demanding money from traders, the scoundrel! He then told me he was attempting to gather this illicit money politely! He claimed he needed another million credits before he would call the experiment to an end, so I decided it was time for me to partake in my civic duty and pay the fiend off so that other's might be spared.
Of course, I made the transfer traceable, so I have no doubt the appropriate authorities are closing on the scallywag as we speak!
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----From: Dock aboard the Tennant
----To: BOWEX Staff
-- This is Dock just checking in with everyone. How y'all doing? I have completed my 5 hours of training time in a Clydesdale. So I'm wondering what else needs to be done about promotion, taking on a spot as a full-time employee.
-- I'm also requesting to apply for double duties; partaking in escort missions and defensive detail. I'm requesting a list of approved fighters. I was told that I could use all Civilian class ships? Does this include the Arrow(1) and the Stinger(2)?
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**From: Johnny Enfield
**To: BOWEX InfoNet
Greetings everyone, today Mr. Farbridge and Mr. Maloney invited me as an escort for a trade operation, everything went smothly until we reached the Omega 7 system, as soon as we jumped from the stuttgard gate we were ambushed by a large group of Hessians, unfortunatly my ship was hurt pretty bad and I suffered a blow to my head, so I can't really remebber anything that happened in between, sorry.
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+++Source locked, relaying+++ To: Bowex InfoNet Comm ID: Andrew Maloney
Firstly to Mr. Dock - I'm afraid neither Arrow or the Stinger is on our ship listings. If I recall correctly, the Arrow is made by a Libertonian company who tailors to the needs of a very specific client-base. So far as I know, they have chosen not to include our company in that specific client-base. As for the Stinger, I don't particularly know much about it.
Isn't it developed by those Kusari devils, the GMG? If it is, then that's doubly no, after all, I've heard dark rumours about GMG owned prisoner of war camps...
Here is a list of space-craft insured for Employees:
Quote:Griffin LF
Falcon HF
Eagle VHF
As for Mr. Enfield, he performed admirably in the defence of the convoy, but unfortunately was pounced on by a mob of Hessians as we jumped into Omega 7, who made a good attempt to tear his ship apart. I'm rather afraid they were partially successful, seeing as he was forced to eject and suffered a mild concussion.
Mr. Farbridge also accompanied us during the convoy, and was responsible for single handed beating away the Hessian raiders and securing young Johnny's escape pod.
I have nothing but highest praise to both these fine escort pilots.
Outgoing Memo: Wilde Activites in Omegas
From: Section Supervisor Christopher Wren
To: Bowex Transporters
Message Begins:
Gentlemen, Ladies, the Wilde activity in the omegas, particularly Omega 3, has risen drastically. They seem to be searching for some stolen artifact. We don't have any information regarding this object. Nevertheless, the Wilde are a Class 1 threat, and under the authorization of Director Andrew Maloney, I would like to pass on the reccomendation that all ships which regularly traverse the Omega Systems do so under escort, else the Bowex Corporation will not assume any losses incurred therein.
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**From: Ronald Farbridge
**To: BOWEX security coordinators office
Bloody hell, only put the fastest escorts on escort duty for the underbridge! That pilot is just fast!
Well, we started out at LD-14 with a shipment for that one destination we do not talk about. He started running at the tau 31-leeds gate, tau side, was able to catch up just before tau 37.
Finally formed on the bugger... he pulled me into the sun corona, thankfully he was able to tractor me in before my escape pod exploded.
Passed out once I was on board....
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Internal memo from Richard Farbridge division director of security and exploration to all bowex employees
Right lads, I just finished negotiating with Jupiterguild Counsil member Dalilama, their escort coordinator. And we were able to get a deal together!
Jupiterguild will escort any ship within sirius on both the main routes as the backroads, Will however not go more north then tau 37 and sigma 19(outcast territory).
Pay is:
200k per run of less then 3 systems
500k per run of 3-5 systems
800k per run of more then 5 systems
Run= cargo shipment from one location to the other.
(Note that anything you personally agree with the Jupiterguild operative escorting you is also valid. )
All escorts with a Jupiterguild escort must be logged on our reporting channels.
Kind Regards,
Richard Farbridge
Bowex Security and exploration division director
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