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Comm ID: Captain Scythmore, SFT-Eclipse

Whilst moving cargo from Cambridge to New Berlin we were intercepted in Stuttgart by a Hessian, just one.
Do these pirates honestly think they can scare me with one fighter? Bah! When we ran his blockade he lay chase, all the way to the jumpgate, which was around 2k. Someone needs to teach these boys how to pirate properly. Like those Corsairs, or Junkers, take a leaf out of their book.

Unfortunately the auto-dock sequence failed once again, at the wrong time. It sent us hurtling into the jumpgate, dislodging a few panels on the side of the gate and crumpling several decks in the front of my ship. The decks sealed themselves off but we lost our galley, long range communications array and most of the crew quarters. Lt. Jason at the helm managed to pull us off the gate, and bring us hard to port to re-align for the jump. His evasive maneuvers also caused several of the Hessians shots to miss.

Once we'd jumped to New Berlin a clear run to the planet was made, strategic lane disruption landed the Hessian a few minutes behind us on arrival to the planet.

Bottom line is we made it to the destination, delivered all of the cargo intact, and are now awaiting for the Eclipse to be repaired before setting off again. I know its only a short leap back to Cambridge but those darn regulations stop us from being able to launch without long range communications. I swear they've made laws simply to compensate for the overall incompetence of the population, why in my day...

//Transmission Cut - Comm Officer

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