[Channel: HIGHLY ENCRYPTED]
[Connecting.... success]
[From: William Scott (ID: Liberty Security Force)]
[Source: Security Force Cruiser ''Santa Fe'', Omicron Kappa]
[Object: LSF Prisoner]
I WANT MY PILOT BACK!
You got my hands tied down here. I will have to cooperate if I ever wish to see her alive, I realize it. I wish to start negotations right now, and possibly develop a peaceful solution. I would like to know: What is your price?
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- Recipient : LSF vessel Santa Fee, Omicrons -
Commander Scott,
As I told you previous to our encounter, if you just had stayed outside scanner range, nothing would have happened. That transmission was a courtesy, for the services rendered to the Guild in the past.
You insisted on moving into scanner range, whereby my crew reported your cargo of several nomadic entities, including Nomad brains of varying sizes. That left me no other option than to demand that cargo, under the mandate of the Guild Core. You declined, launched fighters, and left the area for a safe port.
Again, as a professional courtesy, we refrained from killing your pilots, and managed to disable and capture your fighter squadron leader, Ms. Jane Moriarty. She is currently residing at our secret facilty in the Omicrons. She has not been harmed at all, and has been provided with access to the basic necessisties.
*background voices : Miller: Vance, Basic necessities should cover a toilet bucket, old newspapers for sanitarian use, and 1 meal a day, right ?*
Now if you will surrender your load of nomadic entities to the Guild, we are ready to transfer Ms. Moriarty back to your vessel. Although, please remove any feathery material from her view, if/when she returns. She seems to have developed a phobia towards birds.
If you do not wish to surrender your load, but instead continue to barter for Ms. Moriarty's return, then you need to direct your communications to Guildmaster Max DeVirgo, who has the ultimate say over the Guild Core.
Cpt. Miller, of the BHG|Core vessel Miller's Draft.
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Out of bats, Out of bots, Out of torps - Down to harsh language...
[Connecting.... success]
[From: William Scott (ID: Liberty Security Force)]
[Source: SFC ''Santa Fe'', Omicron Kappa]
Yesterday, I was cornered in Omicron Kappa by two of your guildmen, including the Bushmaster and the Miller's Lagger. I was forced to retreat, as they asked for the Nomad remains onboard. I pulled back my pilot, Jane Moriarty, but she was intercepted by the two Core vessels. I suspect her to now be imprisoned for my acts, and possibly on Daboru.
Sadly, I just can't resign to give so many Nomads to the Core, as they are the LSF's property, and I don't... trust your bunch. But at least, in Generic situations, you're probably the only ones that won't open fire on me.
George, I'll see what this fuss and muss is all about.
Hmmm, let's see now - we have an LSF ship operating in Omicron Kappa. Liberty Security Force... Did I miss a memo or something here? Since when does Liberty claim Omicron Kappa?
Alaska - yeah, according to my maps that's theirs, with us having basic passage rights through there. Minor - yeah, the LSF fights in Minor against the Order, good for them and all that stuff. MAYBE an oddball retreat into Delta from Minor, to re-fuel and re-arm at Freeport 11 - but either way, at that point, the LSF isn't operating in THEIR territory, they're operating in something between no mans land and nomads land.
Kappa - welcome to toaster land - and so far out of your area that pretty much anything that happens is either plausibly deniable or actually someone else's fault.
Now, Captain Scott, here's what I envisage as happening: You're out doing some kind of mission. Chances are that your people at home didn't bother to coordinate with my office - especially when you're out in territory that we fight in and over frequently. If they had, you would have known that if you encounter any BHG|Core members, we're going to want your Nomad specimens for our secure facilities. And under our previous agreements with the LSF, you're going to hand them over to us, since you're in 'our' territory, as it were.
We obviously have an excellent relationship with the LSF. I'll make sure that your pilot is returned physically unharmed. Just - make sure that you realize that if you're in 'our' territory, we would expect you to follow our rules as we follow laws when we're in Liberty space.
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(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.
[Connection... success]
[From: William Scott (LSF)]
[From: ??? (Signal traced: Planet Primus)]
The nomads are, in the mean time, stocked in a top secret area. Until we strike a deal, I won't see my pilot, and you won't see my nomads. What I can propose you in the mean time is to assist the Core whenever I can against the Apocalypse, without anything in return, just so we can keep contact. Would it seem fine?
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--- Max DeVirgo, Guildmaster ---
--- BHG|Core-Athena, Omega-15 ---
Strike a deal? Did I not say we would return your pilot? The obvious place for this would be, to simply assuage your own fears for operating so far from your regular support points, at Freeport 11. Simply either meet Captain Miller or Commander Harold Mudd of the BHG|Core-Cerberus there, and this will all be expedited.
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(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.