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Shipmaster's Log - Warren Belch, SS Golden Hind

Capt. Henry Morgan

08-29-2018, 02:38 AM, (This post was last modified: 08-29-2018, 05:51 PM by Capt. Henry Morgan.)

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Warren E. Belch, Shipmaster

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Captain's Log, August 28th, 825 AS

We had another unfortunate encounter with Bretonians today. They've objected violently in the past to our humanitarian mission, no doubt at the prompting of Maltese agents. What other reason could they have for not allowing us to free slaves and get them to freedom? My heart breaks for the unfortunate people we were forced to turn over to them last time we got caught. I pray that someone else managed to free them before they ended up on a ship to Malta.

Today, however, was something different. We weren't carrying escaped slaves at all, but were still forced to stop. Two of their pilots, a Commodore Dagon and a Lieutenant Steiner, brought up the past encounter with the military and threatened us if we didn't turn over our engines and turrets. Given the precariousness of the situation, I had no choice but to comply with their demands. I was moving to comply when a Maltese fighter piloted by Eliza Valdez entered the area. Of course the military pilots were working for Malta. Their agents are everywhere.

I did the only thing I could do, and gave the order to ready weapons and run. We got through the gate into Manchester unopposed, but before we could get clear, all three enemy ships came through the gate. We were forced into a fight with the Maltese ship. We failed to run them off or escape, but fortunately we made enough of a public scene that the military pilots rethought their plans to turn us over to the Maltese.

We were ordered to proceed to Birmingham Station and dock to allow Bretonian technicians to remove our turrets and Coalition-made engines. Fortunately, they allowed us to purchase a Bretonian-made replacement engine at full cost. Once we were permitted to undock from the station, we were required to turn over five million credits as a "fine". No doubt to line the Lieutenant and Commodore's pockets.

All together, this encounter cost us nearly twenty million credits. It's nice to know that Bretonia is as welcoming as ever... We'll have to pick up whatever work we can find to make up the shortfall. Hopefully it'll be a while before the next time some useless limey gets it in his empty head to shake us down again.

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