DSE) Debriefing Channel

[Harus]

FROM: Chesterfield, New York
SUBJECT: Inagural Escort Flight
TO: Internal Comms
From: Harus Burke

Today the DSE)C-64.Norseman and I departed to Gallia with a load of Premium Scrap. I took this as a good first long-distance flight to test out my new acquisition from the Liberty Government. The flight out of Liberty space was fairly uneventful as we had only met other traders, some zoners and an Orbital Spa and Cruise vessel. Even through Kusari, it was relatively uneventful.

We were almost to Lorraine when suddenly we had a red pip on the scanner. An individual named "Himbeergeist" identifying as a member of the Hackers. We were prepping to jump through the Tau-53 to Lorraine jump gate, and this individual was there waiting. The Norseman proceeded to jump, and the Hacker jumped after it, cutting off my jump sequence. When i entered Lorraine, the Norseman was at the trade lane, being held up by this individual. He started to threaten us, and I kindly suggested he go back to where he came from, as he was very out of place. I placed my ship between him, and the Norseman which also blocked access to the trade lanes. Once they activated, I advised the Norseman jump and make their way to the destination, I would keep the pirate at pay.

We successfully moved to the next weigh point, and the Hacker continued to follow, being shot at by the locale already in place. After some more empty threats, the Hacker buggered off, realizing he could not win the fight. After a small union break whilst sitting at Roanne, we continued back toward Planet Erie. Once we re-entered New Tokyo, we came across an Orbital Spa and Cruise vessel, that was heading toward Hamburg through Liberty. We advised the vessel would be permitted to follow us, but it seemed to stop and have a chat with a Naval Officer near Tokyo, so we went about our own business.

It was quiet till we got to Colorado when we learned about a large Lane Hacker raid in New York, and we where advised to take shelter as the Navy has not yet been able to get a handle on the situation. We instead took the Colorado to New York jump hole and proceeded to Manhatten. Once we got close, we came across the Navy fleet prepping to locate the Hacker incursion, and they moved out toward Ft. Bush.

At this point, I jumped ahead to West point, and then the Pennsylvania gate respectively. The lanes where clear, so I advised the Norseman to take the lane. We successfully made it without any issues. We then proceeded to take a second, but shorter union break. We headed to Kansas after to acquire some Copper Ore to take to Honshu. As we navigated the field to the Kansas jump hole, we noticed we where being followed by a small transport. We attempted to encourage the pilot to follow us if he wanted to make some credits, but we lost communications with him once we got to Kansas. We proceeded with caution again through New York, away from the threats.

Again Kusari was relatively quiet. We had made it to Honshu safety. On our return trip back, we came across a 3rd party DSE contractor in a small transport, that continued to cut us off as we made our way back to New York. We figured we would let Corporate know, that if we hire these 3rd party contractors, that they would be told to show us a little more respect! When we reached the end of Kepler, this pilot then came running back toward us because a hostile showed up on Radar. This "hostile" just happened to be a Zoner, and we cleared our way to Colorado, with both the 3rd party contractor and Zoner in tow.

We again took the jump hole to be safe, and made it to Erie, and back to Chesterfield, where Mrs. Doe bought us a round for our long days worth of work. Overall profits where made, and the first long flight of the DSE)M16.Hellcat was succesful.

Harus Burke
DSE Pilot

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