To: LR- || Freelancer ID 19-0731A-5896T

[Karelin]

(A visibly frustrated and heavily intoxicated Nikolai appears onscreen.)

Transmission Classification: [Non-Classified]
Transmission Encryption: [Medium]
Transmission Subject: [None]
Transmission Signature: b1YVWOnMemxgb2J

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[Freelancer ID 19-0731A-5896T.]

Hello, my friends. It has been a while, yes?

It seems like just yesterday that the war with the Gallics ended. I've been monitoring traffic around the Pennysylvalia JG in the New York system so I know you're out there.

Look, I didn't patch this transmission through to you people to rant. Although we may have had our differences in the past, truth is, freelancing just isn't what it used to be, at least not with the major corporations running the show into the uncharted regions. Can't even make a few credits without running into you folk - and if it ain't you, it's Xenos, or one of the Sigma or Tau rings waiting to pounce on the trade lanes as soon as a freighter comes through. So - I want in. I know you gentlemen have been making a fat load of credits off of all those superfreighters coming in from Rheinland and Bretonnia.

Of course, it will not be as simple as buying a new ship. Thing is, my ID's registered on every docking ring my Hegemon's ever been granted clearance to, so if I suddenly disappeared it might tip off the Liberty Police - or worse, the LSF. There's also the issue of my creditors - of course if the ship where lost and if I were to be reported MIA, that'd all be taken care of by the paperwork.

I'm offering 1,000,000 credits for it. What do you think?

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