A quick rundown of the situation. By the Silver Sun Directive O-77, I've been stationed in the Liberty star cluster to observe and relay any worthwhile information, and to keep an eye out on our assets in the area. As I was making my way to Buffalo to meet one of my contacts, a bounty hunter intercepted me. I was able to play to his greed, while simultaneously provoking a group of unaffiliated civilian pilots into attacking him. As I was getting him to agree to a bribe, one of the civilians attacked him, and I managed to slip away while they were busy. One other unaffiliated pilot followed me from this point forward. I had given a quick thought to terminating him, but I decided to speak with him first, see if I could learn anything worthwhile. Blackbox recordings are being streamed with this transmission.
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[27.03.2017 11:33:07] ''Gordian.Knot'': I have bigger fish to fry right now.
[27.03.2017 11:33:10] "Tante.Ju": Mary: Where ?
[27.03.2017 11:33:12] ''Gordian.Knot'': I'll see you later.
[27.03.2017 11:33:24] Frank.McCready: What fish?
[27.03.2017 11:33:25] ''Gordian.Knot'': Well well well.
[27.03.2017 11:33:33] (C~Beholder-1: Well well.
[27.03.2017 11:33:35] ''Gordian.Knot'': A Commune.
[27.03.2017 11:33:45] (C~Beholder-1: What's a Commune?
[27.03.2017 11:33:55] ''Gordian.Knot'': Your disgusting kind.
[27.03.2017 11:34:06] (C~Beholder-1: I don't think we've met.
[27.03.2017 11:34:13] ''Gordian.Knot'': Now we do, pal.
[27.03.2017 11:34:16] Frank.McCready: Hello Commune!
[27.03.2017 11:34:31] ''Gordian.Knot'': Drop that Bounty Hunter.
[27.03.2017 11:34:33] (C~Beholder-1: Looks like you've gathered quite an assortment of boyscouts for little old me.
[27.03.2017 11:34:57] (C~Beholder-1: The bounty hunter? My pleasure.
[27.03.2017 11:35:01] ''Gordian.Knot'': These guys? Nah, they are civilians floatin' around, they are about to loot your stuff mate.
[27.03.2017 11:35:11] (C~Beholder-1: Sounds freaky.
[27.03.2017 11:35:22] Frank.McCready: Im no civilian!
[27.03.2017 11:35:29] Frank.McCready: I am a retiered pirate.
[27.03.2017 11:35:35] 2017-03-27 11:35:35 SMT Traffic control alert: "Tante.Ju" has requested to dock
[27.03.2017 11:35:40] (C~Beholder-1: I see you're a bounty hunter.
[27.03.2017 11:35:41] Frank.McCready: That makes me on your side outcast.
[27.03.2017 11:35:41] ''Gordian.Knot'': Here's the real deal now.
[27.03.2017 11:35:59] (C~Beholder-1: Well, that's interesting.
[27.03.2017 11:36:13] Frank.McCready: This retirement made me soft...
[27.03.2017 11:36:22] ''Gordian.Knot'': How about paying me a small loan of 5 Million credits, and no authorithies will be warned of your presence.
[27.03.2017 11:36:39] Frank.McCready: Shoo navy.
[27.03.2017 11:36:42] (C~Beholder-1: How about this. I'll pay you exactly two millions, and you're going to leave.
[27.03.2017 11:36:54] ''Gordian.Knot'': Me? No, I don't think so.
[27.03.2017 11:36:54] Frank.McCready: Yea as he said!
[27.03.2017 11:37:02] ''Gordian.Knot'': I'm not gonna go anywhere, pal.
[27.03.2017 11:37:05] Frank.McCready: You can count cant you?
[27.03.2017 11:37:11] (C~Beholder-1: This is a fine offfer, think about it.
[27.03.2017 11:37:26] (C~Beholder-1: Free cash. You're in it for the cash, aren't you?
[27.03.2017 11:37:29] "Tante.Ju": Mary: You guys are weird.
[27.03.2017 11:37:30] ''Gordian.Knot'': How about you are going to pay me those 2 millions, and you are going to scram the fook out of here.
[27.03.2017 11:37:40] (C~Beholder-1: I was going to, until you stopped me.
[27.03.2017 11:37:54] ''Gordian.Knot'': Oh, were you running from someone?
[27.03.2017 11:38:07] (C~Beholder-1: Not exactly.
[27.03.2017 11:38:19] (C~Beholder-1: But look, I'm always open to non-violent solutions.
[27.03.2017 11:38:32] ''Gordian.Knot'': Oh, i'm sorry.
[27.03.2017 11:38:33] (C~Beholder-1: I'll give you the two million, and we part ways.
[27.03.2017 11:38:40] ''Gordian.Knot'': Did i've breaked your concentration.
[27.03.2017 11:38:41] (C~Beholder-1: No hard feelings.
[27.03.2017 11:38:45] Frank.McCready: OK by me. *grins
[27.03.2017 11:38:50] ''Gordian.Knot'': Oh, well then.
[27.03.2017 11:39:09] (C~Beholder-1: Is that a yes?
[27.03.2017 11:39:13] ''Gordian.Knot'': You have just said ''Non-violent solutions''.
[27.03.2017 11:39:41] ''Gordian.Knot'': How do you explain all the souls you've reaped in New York?
[27.03.2017 11:39:55] (C~Beholder-1: I haven't been in New York for years.
[27.03.2017 11:40:04] ''Gordian.Knot'': You just jumped from there, you liar.
[27.03.2017 11:40:13] Frank.McCready: Ive been last week! *smiles*
[27.03.2017 11:40:14] (C~Beholder-1: No, I'm coming from Rheinland.
[27.03.2017 11:40:27] ''Gordian.Knot'': What the hell are you doing?!
[27.03.2017 11:40:31] ''Gordian.Knot'': Quit it!
[27.03.2017 11:40:38] (C~Beholder-1: Wonderful place, Rheinland.
[27.03.2017 11:41:07] ''Gordian.Knot'': Yes, the place where you can gather and steal Classified Rheinland Military Data.
[27.03.2017 11:41:14] ''Gordian.Knot'': And smuggle it somewhere else.
[27.03.2017 11:41:23] Frank.McCready: Like thats your concern..
[27.03.2017 11:41:31] (C~Beholder-1: Mhm, that hadn't occured to me. I'll make sure to look into it next time. *he winks*
[27.03.2017 11:41:32] ''Gordian.Knot'': You see, i'm not really a Bounty Hunter.
[27.03.2017 11:41:46] (C~Beholder-1: Oh, this should be good.
[27.03.2017 11:41:49] Frank.McCready: You must be a balerina then...
[27.03.2017 11:42:10] ''Gordian.Knot'': Bump me one more time and you'll regret it.
[27.03.2017 11:42:26] (C~Beholder-1: Oh, that sounded like a dare.
[27.03.2017 11:42:35] ''Gordian.Knot'': Die!
[27.03.2017 11:42:48] (C~Beholder-1: So much hostility. Well, been nice knowing you.
[27.03.2017 11:43:02] ''Gordian.Knot'': Same. You sound like a nice guy, after all.
[27.03.2017 11:43:11] Frank.McCready: Wait commune!
[27.03.2017 11:43:15] (C~Beholder-1: I get that all the time, you wouldn't believe it.
[27.03.2017 11:43:23] Frank.McCready: Take me with ya!
We arrived at Beaumont shortly after. We chatted for a while, the usual "What are you all about" questions, my vague answers, et cetera. However, shortly into the conversation, the bounty hunter from earlier, who apparently survived his encounter with the hostile Freelancer that jumped him, was offering me a deal over a secure channel, in exchange for ratting out the pilot I was conversing with. I wasn't impressed at first, however, at the mention of Ossari, our missing asset, I decided to entertain him. So I simultaneously spoke with both of them over different channels for a while, extracting information from the hunter, and keeping the unaffiliated pilot busy along the way. Having finally extracted the information, I thought it prudent to offer the pilot a tip that a bounty hunter is now coming to get him. A merciful, if somewhat unprofessional gesture. Needless to say, he wasn't happy, no good deed goes unpunished.
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[27.03.2017 11:45:23] Frank.McCready: Allrite, a chat!
[27.03.2017 11:45:31] ''Gordian.Knot'': That Frank guy is in for a beating.
[27.03.2017 11:45:39] Frank.McCready: With a good old outcash!
[27.03.2017 11:45:41] ''Gordian.Knot'': There's a bounty on his head.
[27.03.2017 11:45:44] Frank.McCready: I ment outcast!
[27.03.2017 11:45:56] Frank.McCready: So Whats the catch with ya commune?
[27.03.2017 11:45:57] (C~Beholder-1: Well, what can I help you with.
[27.03.2017 11:46:20] (C~Beholder-1: That seems like a bounty hunter problem.
[27.03.2017 11:46:33] (C~Beholder-1: Catch? Not much catch, we do good for the betterment of mankind.
[27.03.2017 11:46:36] ''Gordian.Knot'': This is why I'm hiring you to give me his location.
[27.03.2017 11:46:52] Frank.McCready: I keep seeing you guys allower the place nowdays.
[27.03.2017 11:46:58] ''Gordian.Knot'': Weed smugglers are to be shot on sight.
[27.03.2017 11:47:01] Frank.McCready: So you are some kind of good samaritans
[27.03.2017 11:47:08] (C~Beholder-1: I'm not for hire. Not without a very good price, anyway. Better make your offer good.
[27.03.2017 11:47:10] Frank.McCready: Wrong uniform though.
[27.03.2017 11:47:28] ''Gordian.Knot'': 5 'emmies and a fine Liberty Ale.
[27.03.2017 11:47:28] (C~Beholder-1: Well, you could say that. Though its not an exact description.
[27.03.2017 11:48:09] (C~Beholder-1: Charming. But not exactly what I had in mind. Better come up with something concrete, something I could use. Credits I have in-
[27.03.2017 11:48:11] (C~Beholder-1: abundance.
[27.03.2017 11:48:19] Frank.McCready: Betterment of humankind...
[27.03.2017 11:48:20] (C~Beholder-1: We are ready to do what it takes.
[27.03.2017 11:48:25] Frank.McCready: That sounts little too good.
[27.03.2017 11:48:35] ''Gordian.Knot'': I bet you can't deny this offer.
[27.03.2017 11:48:40] ''Gordian.Knot'': Ossari's Location.
[27.03.2017 11:48:49] ''Gordian.Knot'': Intriested?
[27.03.2017 11:48:56] (C~Beholder-1: I'm listening.
[27.03.2017 11:49:11] ''Gordian.Knot'': Agreed.
[27.03.2017 11:49:30] (C~Beholder-1: Look, Frank, I'm about to give away your location for some intel. It's nothing personal, but, I'm giving you a head start to
[27.03.2017 11:49:33] (C~Beholder-1: clear out.
[27.03.2017 11:49:37] ''Gordian.Knot'': I will give you Ossari's Location. And you will pin that Frank guy.
[27.03.2017 11:49:43] (C~Beholder-1: Very well.
[27.03.2017 11:49:50] Frank.McCready: That sounds like a personal attack on my likeness.
[27.03.2017 11:50:01] (C~Beholder-1: Oh it's going to be, the hunter is looking for you.
[27.03.2017 11:50:09] Frank.McCready: Too bad i cant allow it
[27.03.2017 11:50:10] (C~Beholder-1: And he's going to give me some info I could use.
[27.03.2017 11:50:11] ''Gordian.Knot'': Last time i've seen him, he got chased from the Cops.
[27.03.2017 11:50:18] ''Gordian.Knot'': T'was pretty bad out there.
[27.03.2017 11:50:27] Frank.McCready: Traitor.
[27.03.2017 11:50:28] ''Gordian.Knot'': I doubt he's ok.
[27.03.2017 11:50:33] (C~Beholder-1: So you'd best clear out now, I'll sic him in the wrong direction.
[27.03.2017 11:50:41] (C~Beholder-1: *he winks*
[27.03.2017 11:50:45] ''Gordian.Knot'': New York, Rochester Base.
[27.03.2017 11:50:50] Frank.McCready: Howabout i kill you'?
[27.03.2017 11:50:56] ''Gordian.Knot'': He's out there.
[27.03.2017 11:51:01] (C~Beholder-1: That's the thanks I get?
[27.03.2017 11:51:09] (C~Beholder-1: For warning you?
[27.03.2017 11:51:11] ''Gordian.Knot'': Now, return your favour.
[27.03.2017 11:51:19] Frank.McCready: You sold me out creep!
[27.03.2017 11:51:20] (C~Beholder-1: He's at Beaumont.
[27.03.2017 11:51:25] Dante: Hi fellas
[27.03.2017 11:51:32] ''Gordian.Knot'': Copy that, i'm on the run.
[27.03.2017 11:51:33] (C~Beholder-1: Reconsider, Frank.
[27.03.2017 11:51:55] Dante: Guns for hire?
[27.03.2017 11:52:01] Frank.McCready: What is your name and rank, i am goint to complain to your boss!!
[27.03.2017 11:52:18] (C~Beholder-1: I am the Beholder.
[27.03.2017 11:52:25] Frank.McCready: Ah yes, hello junker!
[27.03.2017 11:52:39] Frank.McCready: Nah who is the person flying that beholder
[27.03.2017 11:52:48] (C~Beholder-1: I am the Beholder, Number One.
[27.03.2017 11:53:05] Dante: Mr McCready what is your asking price?
[27.03.2017 11:53:18] Frank.McCready: Your name i need your name to complain to Nomak about trecherous ways of his crew.
[27.03.2017 11:53:30] (C~Beholder-1: The Beholder, of whom the number is one.
[27.03.2017 11:53:50] Frank.McCready: Lemme check what is this junker interested in.
[27.03.2017 11:54:12] Frank.McCready: Hello there, you were saying?
[27.03.2017 11:54:38] Dante: What would it take for you to protect me?
[27.03.2017 11:54:43] Death: Hugh_Tacoman suffered a self-inflicted catastrophic decompression.
[27.03.2017 11:54:57] Frank.McCready: Depends what are you doinf and where are you headdin'..
[27.03.2017 11:55:17] (C~Beholder-1: Excuse me, for a moment.
As his attention was drawn by the Junker, I used the chance to slip away and head for New York, where I did a fair bit of sweeping over the system. Looking for an Ossari-sized needle in a New York sized haystack. However, a signal interrupted my routine as I was passing by Buffalo. I tracked the signal, cracked some firewalls, and voila - Ossari's distress call originating from Fort Bush. I made my way there, as fast as possible, and it wasn't long before I found Ossari floating around in a crippled ship. I sacrificed some of my nanobots to get his ship to a working condition, and he was eventually able to engage his engines and fly towards Rochester, stop for a quick repair, and onwards for a Cardamine fix on Cochrane. He was in a dazed, shocked state, and herding him in the right direction proved a bit challenging. Not too much, though.
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[27.03.2017 11:57:53] (C~Beholder-1: [He attempts to pinpoint the signal location]
[27.03.2017 11:58:26] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [Access denied. Destination is hostile.]
[27.03.2017 11:59:48] (C~Beholder-1: [Deploying trojans, firewall cracking in process]
[27.03.2017 12:01:05] (C~Beholder-1: [Complete. Homing on location]
[27.03.2017 12:03:17] Acadian: ello outcast
[27.03.2017 12:03:23] (C~Beholder-1: Hello, Junker.
[27.03.2017 12:03:35] (C~Beholder-1: is it a unioner?
[27.03.2017 12:03:35] Acadian: how do you do?
[27.03.2017 12:03:49] (C~Beholder-1: Very well if I might say so. And how are you?
[27.03.2017 12:04:30] Acadian: no to shaby me self getting my cofee hehe
[27.03.2017 12:04:47] (C~Beholder-1: A bit of caffeine to start the day, eh? I understand.
[27.03.2017 12:04:59] (C~Beholder-1: Well, looks like I can't stay and chat. Farewell.
[27.03.2017 12:05:06] Acadian: hehe take care
[27.03.2017 12:05:47] (C~Beholder-1: [Signal tracked to Sector Eta-3] *he scratches his head*
[27.03.2017 12:07:31] (C~Filippo.Ossari: ##%%.tx--shields are failing!
[27.03.2017 12:07:40] (C~Beholder-1: Uhh, Ossari? Come in, Ossari.
[27.03.2017 12:07:53] (C~Filippo.Ossari: (Static noise.)
[27.03.2017 12:08:07] (C~Beholder-1: I am approximately sixty klicks away from you, hold on in there and get ready for extraction.
[27.03.2017 12:08:18] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [***]...quencies! You ha[***]
[27.03.2017 12:08:26] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [***]
[27.03.2017 12:08:46] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [***]...ush! Move out!
[27.03.2017 12:09:01] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [***]...peat, Fort Bu[***]
[27.03.2017 12:09:17] (C~Beholder-1: What's that? Fort Bush? Destination locked.
[27.03.2017 12:09:50] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [Antenna Jigglying noises]
[27.03.2017 12:10:53] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [***]...lp!
[27.03.2017 12:10:56] (C~Beholder-1: I got ya.
[27.03.2017 12:11:03] (C~Beholder-1: Move out!
[27.03.2017 12:11:38] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [***]...gines are not starting!
[27.03.2017 12:11:46] (C~Beholder-1: Thrust then! Get out.
[27.03.2017 12:11:58] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [***]...ay then!
[27.03.2017 12:12:16] (C~Beholder-1: This is a real mess you got yourself into.
[27.03.2017 12:12:31] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [***]...ey trapped me! And chased me!
[27.03.2017 12:12:35] CONSOLE: Possible cheating detected: RNS-Sacre_Bleu
[27.03.2017 12:12:39] (C~Beholder-1: I'm jettisoning a set of batteries.
[27.03.2017 12:12:45] (C~Beholder-1: And nanobots.
[27.03.2017 12:12:57] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [***]...hanks man. I need some [***]
[27.03.2017 12:13:13] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [***]...'ve been like this for a week man!
[27.03.2017 12:14:07] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [***]...ghtly better. Now I can ta[***]
[27.03.2017 12:14:08] (C~Beholder-1: Set course for Rochester. We'll organize an extraction from there.
[27.03.2017 12:15:01] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Where's Nomak?
[27.03.2017 12:15:21] (C~Beholder-1: He's been organizing his Raider squadron.
[27.03.2017 12:15:29] (C~Beholder-1: The last I heard of him, that is.
[27.03.2017 12:15:39] (C~Beholder-1: What the hell have you been doing all this time?
[27.03.2017 12:15:53] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Oh well.
[27.03.2017 12:16:04] (C~Filippo.Ossari: I got chased by the navy and lost the Black Box.
[27.03.2017 12:16:18] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Only the navy has that accuracy.
[27.03.2017 12:16:43] (C~Beholder-1: You're lucky to be alilve, and even better, uncaptured.
[27.03.2017 12:17:14] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [***]...'ve escaped the navy actually.
[27.03.2017 12:17:26] (C~Beholder-1: *he sighs* Had to sell out some poor pirate lowlife to get intel on you. How the hell did a bounty hunter know where I could
[27.03.2017 12:17:30] (C~Beholder-1: find you?
[27.03.2017 12:18:20] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [***]...! Do I look like I have an answer for this?
[27.03.2017 12:18:29] (C~Filippo.Ossari: I've ran out of Cardamine.
[27.03.2017 12:18:46] (C~Beholder-1: I guess not. Get on Rochester and get both yourself and your ship a fix.
[27.03.2017 12:18:53] (C~Filippo.Ossari: The Pressured chamber is out of Oxygen, and the Cardamine is totally gone.
[27.03.2017 12:19:00] (C~Beholder-1: You'll feel better with the Orange running through your veins again.
[27.03.2017 12:19:06] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Starting to freat ou[***]
[27.03.2017 12:19:31] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [***]...ure, hope they can fix this th-[***]
[27.03.2017 12:19:39] (C~Beholder-1: I'll wire you some credits for a Cardamine fix.
[27.03.2017 12:19:47] (C~Filippo.Ossari: [***]...hanks.
[27.03.2017 12:23:52] (C~Beholder-1: All better now?
[27.03.2017 12:24:17] (C~Filippo.Ossari: (Breaths heavily.) They ran out of the Orange.
[27.03.2017 12:24:24] (C~Filippo.Ossari: I'm freaking out.
[27.03.2017 12:24:34] (C~Beholder-1: Oh by the Light.
[27.03.2017 12:24:48] (C~Beholder-1: Let's get to Shikoku.
[27.03.2017 12:24:57] (C~Beholder-1: Think you can make it?
[27.03.2017 12:25:00] (C~Filippo.Ossari: S-Sure. Tell Nomak I'm alive.
[27.03.2017 12:25:13] (C~Beholder-1: Yeah, I will.
[27.03.2017 12:25:24] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Let's go then.
[27.03.2017 12:25:39] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Tha-that was pretty bad out there.
[27.03.2017 12:25:43] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Thanks.
[27.03.2017 12:25:47] (C~Filippo.Ossari: I owe you man.
[27.03.2017 12:25:57] (C~Beholder-1: It's my job. You don't owe me anything.
[27.03.2017 12:26:47] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Here's the Shikoku Jump Hole.
[27.03.2017 12:27:33] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Wait, this isn't Shikoku.
[27.03.2017 12:27:44] (C~Beholder-1: Of course not, Shikoku is still ways off.
[27.03.2017 12:27:48] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Oh, It's Galileo. My bad.
[27.03.2017 12:29:26] (C~Beholder-1: We'll get your orange problem fixed as soon as we get to the Rogues.
[27.03.2017 12:29:38] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Those Junker fixed my Hull, but I still have this iron sheet on my leg, I can't even feel it now.
[27.03.2017 12:29:47] (C~Filippo.Ossari: My ship's a complete wreck.
[27.03.2017 12:29:59] (C~Beholder-1: So, a medical bill too? Great, I'll put in the requisition.
[27.03.2017 12:30:37] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Is that a Libertonian Battleship?
[27.03.2017 12:30:43] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Right over there.
[27.03.2017 12:30:45] (C~Beholder-1: Wait, might be better to get to Ontario.
[27.03.2017 12:30:56] (C~Beholder-1: Yeah, might be.
[27.03.2017 12:32:13] (C~Beholder-1: If there's something the Hackers are never in shortage of, then its Cardamine.
[27.03.2017 12:32:32] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Agr-agr-...si.
[27.03.2017 12:32:41] Death: Kotegawa.trading was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[27.03.2017 12:32:55] (C~Filippo.Ossari: (Coughs.)
[27.03.2017 12:33:04] (C~Beholder-1: And here we are, Cochrane.
[27.03.2017 12:33:20] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Oh alright. I'm docking in Malta.
[27.03.2017 12:33:29] (C~Beholder-1: Yes buddy...Malta.
[27.03.2017 12:33:36] (C~Filippo.Ossari: Gh.ghh....
After that, we made contact with Overlord Nomak and Mister Hamilton, and they met with us in Coronado. I handed Ossari over to them and they left for Malta. I headed for the Barrier Gate, where I am located right now.
That concludes my report, Beholder - Number One, signing out. Hail Commune!
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