To: Zoner heads -CC: Liberty Officials, Universal Shipping

[Arioch]

Evening everyone,

I'll try and make this quick. As you know, the Colonial movers are seen throughout most of Sirius, and as such we get to see all sorts of people and activities. Generally it's rather nice! We of course though, are also accustomed to running into pirates along our routes. Some are patient and compromising, some are not. Today though, is a first for me...

Earlier today, during one of my routes, I was stopped in the California system right outside the Ontario jumpgate tradelane by a pirate. No shocker, as I was warned ahead of time that I may run into one from a "LNS-Justice". Justice informed me that the pirate was in a rather strange ship considering, but I wasn't about to let that stop me from fulfilling my contract. I had an escort with me, callsign "Hunter_one" who went ahead to scout. Cali was clear, so he went ahead to Cortez. Within moments of entering Cortez, he was fired upon and his ship destroyed. I barely got my ship turned around before the pirate jumped into Cali. His ship name was "Ka-Bar". One of my gun cams here captured him stopping me: -Access to file 1- The punk demanded from me 17 million credits unfortunately, as recorded here: -Access to file 2- What I found strange is one, and this is why I am addressing this comm to the Zoners, is that he is flying a Zoner "Corvo" class cruiser, as shown here: -Access to file 3- I would have thought ships of this class were exploration ships, not ships to be converted for pirating.

Secondly, if you notice in the previous images, he is broadcasting "Universal Shipping" authority. Curious. Third, he is affiliated and tagged as one of them Outcasts, as indicated here: -Access to File 4- Luckily, made off without losing my cargo, and from what I later heard, the Liberty Navy delivered a deadly blow to his ship.

Regardless, I know we will be looking into this further, but it's something I thought I would pass along to all of you, since this is on your and our doorstep. We know the Outcasts are... unique, but this is something truly strange and worrisome to see, even for the likes of us movers. Please let us know what you make of all this.

Safe flying,
Lou Marcus

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