COMM ID: Matrim Cauthon (Freelance Trading Convoy Leader, And Unofficial Gateway Member)
Hello,
As you may already know, one of the ships in my convoy was shot down earlier today, outside Oceana Shipping Platform. This ship was on a routine trading mission from Freistadt base, hauling 4,900 units of silver, and was destroyed shortly after attempting to dock. The shipment was destroyed as well. It is in our best interests to keep your bases supplied, and I do realize that I should have contacted you before sending a shipment, but destroying an innocent trader whilst he was defending your base from pirates is unacceptable. If this was an malfunction of your installation's defense platforms, please fix them immediately. However, if you intentionally shot our transport down, I will have to report you to the authorities, and have your base removed from the system. Or at the very least, given a very bad reputation.
Please reply with haste.
-Matrim-
***TRANSMISSION LOST***
I am not the administrator of the base, but as a Gateway member I know that Oceana is not ready to accept shipments yet. We are just setting her up and completing some modules.
We appreciate the effort and I personally am sorry to hear what happened to your ship.
I assure you that no one in Gateway had anything to do with what happened to your ship. I was not aware and doubt that anyone else was either.
In the future please contact the company before attempting to dock at Oceana. For one thing, you need to be given docking rights. The other problem is that even if you had successfully docked, someone needs to set the base up to receive your shipment.
In addition, the base defenses are temperamental so do not fire near it, not even at NPCs. I have never encountered problems with the base in my Gateway vessels, but I have seen it turn hostile to Junkers, Freelancers and other randoms that wandered near.
So we would love to start commerce between our factions and will soon be set up to buy and sell ore, but please call before you come-- don't just stop over out of the blue!
