The day's start was quite slow as i have launched from Cochrane Depot and directed my venerable Scimitar to California. It - along with Texas - was completely empty, and no luck did accompany me there.
Through the pace of it changed fast as i have jumped to New York and jumped through the intersystem Anomaly - and caught an eye of a Core pilot traversing through in the direction of Zone-21; i have managed to close in the distance and proceed with both initial and indepth scans.
It carried general transponder used by Core, and had some unidentified weapon samples that match the records of some code weapons, and a standart armorement for all snubcraft; even through loosely affiliated with corporate hoodlums of Ageira, Deep Space Engineering and Interspace Commerce along with Independent Neural Net Division - it still tried to shoot me, showing himself a properly behaving lapdog, even worser than the Navy wretches alltogether. His petty chunk of metal it called a ship, however, suffered from a malfuntion so heavily that he was barely capable of anything but shooting empty space ahead of him. I've left him to be stuck in his misery and moved along.
Callsign: (LF)John-D. Approximate combat threat level: low.
[12.04.2018 13:00:35] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "What the."
[12.04.2018 13:01:42] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "So, what is it here?..."
[12.04.2018 13:02:06] (LF)John-D: Nothing for you too worry about
[12.04.2018 13:02:34] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "Oh, yes? I beg to differ."
[12.04.2018 13:03:12] (LF)John-D: Beg all you like but differ i'm afraid it is!!
[12.04.2018 13:03:57] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "And how can you confirm this, huh?"
As the routine flight advanced - i have stumbled into quite a sight - Hellfire Legion wretch peacefully chatting to Naval lapdog; there's not so much difference between the two of those, i should tell.
Hellfire wretch immediately turned his attention to me, apparently holding a hope of convincing me that my choice was a gravely mistake, petty close-minded fool. I've directed my ship into the badlands, seeing the chance of properly extracting all the saved data in reaching Buffalo Base. As we've delved deeper into the Badlands - an LSF agent joined the party, and it was surprising enough to see him, along with Ageira lackey from Primary Navy standing and watching while Hellfire wretch have started to entertain himself with shooting rocks floating around in large numbebrs. I have made it safely to Buffalo, and decided to call it a day. Guncam shots for each vessel and Neural Net logs will be attached below.
Update: All of the lapdogs listed below possess standart armor upgrades and vessels fully equipped for combat.
[12.04.2018 14:22:46] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "Mhm."
[12.04.2018 14:23:04] [LN]-Nazawo.Ayato: Well, simple question, could you betray your parents for a moral conflict?
[12.04.2018 14:23:23] [LN]-Nazawo.Ayato: Because the one that raised me was a Navy guy. That's all I know, all I grew with.
[12.04.2018 14:23:39] [LN]-Nazawo.Ayato: So yeah, it's hard to make me change my mind.
[12.04.2018 14:24:46] [HF]-Orionis: Long way from home, Hacker.
[12.04.2018 14:25:14] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "Maybe. Still, i see no reason for you to behave the way you do."
[12.04.2018 14:25:24] [HF]-Orionis: Your bosses aren't nice people.
[12.04.2018 14:25:40] [LN]-Nazawo.Ayato: Can confirm.
[12.04.2018 14:26:01] [HF]-Orionis: Hold still.
[12.04.2018 14:26:12] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "Why, even?"
[12.04.2018 14:26:29] [HF]-Orionis: So I can explain how you've made a huge mistake.
[12.04.2018 14:26:49] Death: Kruger|KMS-Schlagbolzen has died
[12.04.2018 14:27:01] [HF]-Orionis: If you won't stop.
[12.04.2018 14:27:06] [HF]-Orionis: I'll have to make you.
[12.04.2018 14:27:12] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "Nothing will actually change."
[12.04.2018 14:27:24] [HF]-Orionis: You're wrong.
[12.04.2018 14:27:32] [HF]-Orionis: Change is a part of life.
[12.04.2018 14:27:33] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "Your half-brained wretches are only capable of shooting."
[12.04.2018 14:27:56] [LN]-Nazawo.Ayato: Bad point. We spent ten minutes talking between reds.
[12.04.2018 14:28:22] [HF]-Orionis: I haven't fired just yet.
[12.04.2018 14:28:22] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "I suggest getting off those gunboats."
[12.04.2018 14:28:56] LH~Felicity.Willing: F:"Just yet. But you always do. Since that's everything you are capable of."
[12.04.2018 14:29:10] [LN]-Nazawo.Ayato: I could say the same for you.
[12.04.2018 14:29:22] [HF]-Orionis: This is getting more petty than substantial.
[12.04.2018 14:29:29] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "The thing is only you are wrong."
[12.04.2018 14:29:40] [HF]-Orionis: I'm trying to help you.
[12.04.2018 14:30:00] [LN]-Nazawo.Ayato: Well, tell me that again next time I get out of a fight only to see one of your kind jumping on me like a hyena.
[12.04.2018 14:30:06] [HF]-Orionis: You've been thrown out, same as all of us, but you're trusting the wrong people.
[12.04.2018 14:30:07] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "What?... Are you capable of helping someone?..."
[12.04.2018 14:30:51] [HF]-Orionis: I've helped a Hacker find a new home before.
[12.04.2018 14:30:55] [HF]-Orionis: She's fine where she is now.
[12.04.2018 14:31:13] [HF]-Orionis: The Republic is rotten from the root, but the Hackers.. they're a different kind of rot.
[12.04.2018 14:31:15] [HF]-Orionis: Arguably worse.
[12.04.2018 14:31:21] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "Let me pull out a guess - you did so with your guns."
[12.04.2018 14:31:26] [HF]-Orionis: No.
[12.04.2018 14:31:42] [HF]-Orionis: I offered her safe-harbour, a home.
[12.04.2018 14:31:52] [HF]-Orionis: She could leave and go find herself new opportunities whenever she wanted.
[12.04.2018 14:31:54] [HF]-Orionis: She stayed.
[12.04.2018 14:32:42] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "What is that you've told her that she would fall to your conditions?..."
[12.04.2018 14:32:46] [HF]-Orionis: Ayato..
[12.04.2018 14:33:10] [LN]-Nazawo.Ayato: Stand down LSF. It's relatively safe for now.
[12.04.2018 14:33:17] [HF]-Orionis: I'm afraid, manipulation's a Hacker speciality, Miss Willing.
[12.04.2018 14:33:20] ONS|Mason.Chandler: Relatively safe.
[12.04.2018 14:33:23] [HF]-Orionis: I'm far too direct to control people.
[12.04.2018 14:33:41] [LN]-Nazawo.Ayato: Well, no one is shooting, and no insults have been shot either, so yeah, safe.
[12.04.2018 14:33:56] ONS|Mason.Chandler: Mr. Ayato, you're not getting distracted from your service by these two dangerous individuals, are you?
[12.04.2018 14:34:00] [HF]-Orionis: He's an Agent, Ayato. That's not how they work.
[12.04.2018 14:34:08] [HF]-Orionis: They've already bought off his conscience.
[12.04.2018 14:34:13] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "Through, i assume you have more important matters to attend. So am i."
[12.04.2018 14:34:34] [LN]-Nazawo.Ayato: And I could ask the same question for your likes handling prohibited weapons withen concern for the public safety.
[12.04.2018 14:34:48] [LN]-Nazawo.Ayato: //Without*
[12.04.2018 14:35:01] ONS|Mason.Chandler: Mr. Ayato, everytime we see a Navy soldier talking to criminals within areas like these we have to be concerned.
[12.04.2018 14:35:31] [LN]-Nazawo.Ayato: And last time I saw LSF trying to do morale to me he ended up in the Harmony side.
[12.04.2018 14:35:48] [HF]-Orionis: I can't show you why you've made a grave mistake following the Hackers unless you try listening.
[12.04.2018 14:35:55] ONS|Mason.Chandler: You don't have to adress me about LSF issues, the ONS does not work like the rest of this institution.
[12.04.2018 14:36:21] ONS|Mason.Chandler: I will watch this situation, Mr. Ayato, no matter if you like it or not.
[12.04.2018 14:36:37] [HF]-Orionis: It's not too late to be free of this.
[12.04.2018 14:36:45] [HF]-Orionis: I can give you a clean slate to do what you want with your life.
[12.04.2018 14:36:50] [HF]-Orionis: But trust me.. this isn't worth it.
[12.04.2018 14:36:55] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "No matter if i listen or not - it is going to end in only one way. You will point your guns at me. As your kind always does
[12.04.2018 14:37:10] [LN]-Nazawo.Ayato: *Sigh* does he even listen ?
[12.04.2018 14:37:16] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "Hence you're too short-minded to understand."
[12.04.2018 14:37:50] [HF]-Orionis: Don't do this.
[12.04.2018 14:38:12] [HF]-Orionis: I'm sorry..
[12.04.2018 14:38:14] [HF]-Orionis: I truly am.
[12.04.2018 14:38:20] [LN]-Nazawo.Ayato: Seems like Hackers are a lost cause.
[12.04.2018 14:38:58] ONS|Mason.Chandler: This Hacker is still an initiate, you can see that by inferior tactics and ship choice.
[12.04.2018 14:41:13] [HF]-Orionis: Don't let them do this to you.
On a side note - i've had an encounter with Freelancer who i've encountered along with Interruptor Maximillian Largo, and who we mistook for an Ageira lackey, have sticked to his word and indeed fixed his transponder to properly display his affiliation.
[12.04.2018 13:33:03] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "It looks like you stick to your word."
[12.04.2018 13:33:33] Corwin.Bowman: Why would i lie anyway?
[12.04.2018 13:33:53] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "I assume you have no reason for this."
[12.04.2018 13:34:20] LH~Felicity.Willing: F: "However, this will be remarked, Freelancer. Farewell."