Message Class: Textual
Encryption: Low
To: Bretonian Armed Forces Merchant Navy
From: Deckman Gilberto Salazar
Glentemen:
These days have been very good for my transport and by extension, to Bretonia, I've managed to secure a few contracts to haul gold ore to Rheinland and Liberty in exchange for much needed and more valuable ores, like platinum and silver, which are boosting the war efforts, sadly I haven't been lucky to escape the pirate menace, yesterday, in my return to Bretonia, near Aland Shipyard (Omega-3) I was alerted by a passing by trader from ALG that a "Corsair Cruiser" was aware of my route and was awaiting for me in the jump gate to Cambridge, so I decided to ask for backups, sadly, the only one available to respond my calls for help was Deckman Kaleb Minston with a VHF Eagle, knowing we wouldn't be able to fight a cruiser on our own, I decided to send him as scout before my transport, with good results, as we didn't found the cruiser, and there's where I made my mistake, arriving to New London I dropped my guard and continued my route alone, just to be ambushed by the pirate, lucky me he was flying a Corsair battle transport, so after warning him that this was a BAF convoy he was attacking, we traded shots, and with the help of Deckman Kaleb Minston we managed to take down the pirate.
Also, I would like to report a small incident that occurred in Rheinland space, where a Rheinland Military Battlecruiser fired warning shots and the proceeded to disrupt the trade lanes, to do an inspection of my cargo, looks like he was unaware that there's a treaty as he was asking what I was doing in Rheinland space, after explaining to him that we are allowed to be there and everything is done legally he proceeded to let me go.
As we speak, my Shire is being upgraded, the capital armor V is being replaced with a capital armor VI and the weapons systems are changed with Charons and Pulse weapons, this to better combat against heavily armoured opponents, as those are most likely to be a problem to my ship.
Thought for the day: Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
Gilberto Salazar
Deckman
Bretonian Armed Forces Merchant Navy