Message to : ZA members
Comm ID: Charles M. Burns, (]c[)
Location: Freeport 15, Omicron 74
Topic: FP9 NFZ violation
Hey mates,
minutes ago i met some strange guys, RBT-00 and RBT-82. Flying the famous eagle, having a junker transponder but their identification software shows they definetly are pirates. Due to their weapons loadout i think they have maybe some good relations to the outcasts.
What is really confusing, these two pretent do be some AI. In fact they attacked Freeport 9's biodomes. I've ordered them out of the NFZ. But like some real defect toasters would behave, they refused to listen and fighted a corsair who's been in the NFZ too. So our patience was over and we engaged them, soon they retreated. Thanks to Johann Boll for his assistance.
Due to their behaviour i revoked their docking rights for Freeport 9. Nobody who attacks it intentionally, deserves them ! I hereby advise all ZTC pilots to encounter them with extreme prejudice. These guys are dangerous, and from my point of view they are mental too.
Keep them out of O74 and prevent them from docking, in case the Freeport doesnt recognize they have no docking rights. Use your weapons only in self defense. I would prefer we give these two pityful individuals some medicine and escort them to Cambridge. The asylum there is already aware of the situation, they will keep two places free in case we bring them.
I hope all ZA members support my stance regarding these two pilots. Please be careful if you meet them somewhere.
Cheers,
Charles M. Burns
Zoners Trading Consortium, Head of Security
Message to : to whom it may concern
Comm ID: Charles M. Burns, (]c[)
Location: Freeport 15, Omicron 74
Topic: FP11 NFZ violation
Heya,
I just met some strange pilots at Freeport 11. While undocking, i was engaged by Aslann001 in a vhf. I had no choice but to destroy his vessel. If you encounter this pilot, be careful .. seems he doesnt know what he is doing. Mercer and DF-Death opened fire in the NFZ too, but only on some rocks. I warned them and seems DF-Death wont do again. Mercer opened fire again, but docked immediately with the Freeport. We should keep an eye on him too.
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*incoming transmission*
Comm ID: [TAZ]Doc Holliday
To: Mr. John Bess
Greetings, Mr. Bess,
One of my pilots informed me that you had told him that you were pirated in our home system of Baffin. This is two days in a row that this has happened to someone. Do you have names, Sir? I do believe someone needs to learn that Baffin is a NFZ and a no-tax system.
Mr. Bess, I'm sorry this happened to you. If you require compensation, we will do so.
I fear that was a misunderstanding.
I greeted your pilot and for some reason my com console was emitting 'Bhoy'.
As you can imagine i was a bit surprised and mentioned that probably some pirate stole me my 'A' ...
Message to : ZA members
Comm ID: Charles M. Burns, (]c[)
Location: Freeport 15, Omicron 74
Topic: intruder
You all know, nobody can keep all policies in mind. So if anybody violates the restricted areas not on purpose and is cooperative ... we dont have to worry or even use any force on him. But there are those, who should know it better.
Like the corsair bravoso (Corsair ID, KNF IFF, Titan). He approached Livadia and was stopped. I explained the Zoners policies to him, he tried to negotiate but then agreed and left this area. I continued my patrol trough O74 and when returning at Livadia, i saw him undocking there. In addition, he refused to answer after undocking and to explain his behaviour.
As you can imagine, i am not amused at all. I told him, he isnt welcome to 74 any longer. No idea if he heard my message, but if he enters 74 again, i bet he'll understand it. He tried to fool me, so that's what he earns.
Regards,
Charles M. Burns, Head of Security
Zoners Trading Consortium
Here is a list of escorts and defenders of Leonardo today. Congratulations to us all on this remarkable success so far, depite our run in with the largest Nomad battlegroup I have ever seen! Also, I have marked which escorts that require payments, and how much they will be paid. We owe a total of 24 million to these brave folks. I recommend we also do something special for the Kusari as they were exceedingly hospitable. We owe them for the disturbance, and bringing keepers to their doorstep! Three cheers for the fine job of the scout team and holding off the Keepers while the Leonardo made a run for Theta. We had a 'confirmed' unofficial total of participants and defenders of 43 (//And 57 total participants counting nomads/wilde).
TAZ
[TAZ]Moonstone - Mr. and Mrs. Holiday - Hathor - Present (2 Million to the Holidays)
OSI
One of a million Duke family members - Duct_tape - Repair Ship - Present (4 Million to the Dukes)
OSI-Victor Cross - Eagle Very Heavy fighter - Present (3 Million)
OSI-James.Fletcher - Eagle - Present (3 Million)
First the Colonial Republic moved the Leonardo from their system to Tau-23. Unfortunately they could not go much further, as they had to deal with Outcasts. We then started by moving to Kyushu where we met up with the Kusari task force for a heavy escort through their space. What a wonderful view that Kusari battleship was! Anyways, we continued and recieved reports of Keepers while we were moving through New Tokyo.. thanks to the advance scout teams. As we made it to the Sigma-19 Jumpgate, we decided to turn the main group around and head to Sigma-13 while the scout group engaged the Nomad forces as a diversion in Sigma-19. We then took a very slender path between two stars in Sigma-13 in order to avoid explosive gas pockets on the way to the Sigma-17 Jumphole. All was clear for us up to this poing... and then as soon as we jumped into Sigma-17, the Nomads had found our main group. Fortunately!!!! The Leonardo and a number of escorts were able to escape from within 5k of the Nomad forces and head to the Theta Jumphole while the Order bravely held the Nomads back. I'm not totally certain what happened with the forces left to fight the Nomads, it seems only a couple were lost. So, Leonardo passed through to Omicron Minor completely free of Nomad forces thanks to the brave folks that remained behind. We also passed a number of lazy BHG that didn't want anything to do with helping us... Well, when we were aligning the Leonardo with the 100 jumphole, Keepers showed up on short range scanners again. Damn, they move fast! The Leonardo jumped in and floored-it to Evora Shipyard. It mananged to make it there and moore safely about 1 minute before the Keepers showed up. At this point, The Order and Zoner forces made our stand to defend the Shipyard at all costs, to counter the Nomad forces. An extremely large battle broke out and wow!! I thought we were finished. We lost quite a few ships in the conflict, but hopefully for the 'greater' good. We can always build new ones. I even was priviledged enough to take out one of the Keeper vessels... shame they don't actually die. Let's get this armor upgrade done and go poke some squishies with our scientific instruments!!! Excellent work today folks. You really exceeded my expectations in performance today!
P.S.
I've uploaded a few images of the action today.