Evangeline Anastasia McDowell

[Bazza]

Entry#: 025
Date: 10 - 10 - 817 AS @ 18:30 SUT
Title: More dumb Liberties.

We all know the LSF is short on pilots, but I dare say they should not be lowering their standards to the level the captain of the Huragan.

It was yet another case of being too stupid to interpret his scanner results correctly. The scan would have shown fuel, oxygen tanks, food containers, water canisters, myself, Misaka and a few piles of junk. Two people and some crates. Yet somehow he got the idea I had an extra two people on board, and as I was leaving Manhattan orbit he disrupted the ship's cruise engines and demanded I hand them over.

How he figured out I was a kidnapping terrorist using only the scan results was beyond me, but I simply wasn't in the mood for handling idiots.

I explained to the man via comms. that there were only two people on board and suggested he either fix his scanner or learn how to use it.

Didn't go down well at all. It served only to enrage the intellectually-disadvantaged captain and cause him to open fire on us.

Trenton's radio tower had been listening in on the entire conversation, and I vaguely know the headmaster of the station through the occasional fuel purchase. So I made haste and got the ship into the no-fire zone of the station. Luckily the Huragan's captain was smart enough to figure out pursuing me any further would only result in a lot of hurt on his part.

I contacted the guys on Trenton, hid the ship inside the docks for a few hours and once my "little birdies" declared the area clear I cheesed it back to the Jersey debris field. I was quite fortunate to leave when I did, because the same "little birdies" alerted me to an armada of Navy gunships entering Manhattan orbit within minutes of my leaving.

All that because some guy thought I wasn't me.

But! On the plus side, I've found a good method of increasing my goodwill amongst other factions. I buy captured pilots off of independent traders and return them to their base. I didn't think it would work at first but I was surprised by how easily non-affiliated traders will sell their captured pirates. Perhaps it's because I offer many times what LPI pays for criminals.

Often times the rewards I get immediately don't quite make up the cost of getting them on my ship, but the extra connections I open up will easily pay for them in the future. Got a tank full of fuel for nothing from a Hacker, some interesting information regarding the location of a wrecked Rogue capital ship (which I will be investigating) and the location of a secret jumphole in Colorado.

Let's not go forgetting the two fine young Golden Chrysanthemums who I recently rescued from an Interspace Camara. 20,000cr each and it's already proven worth it. They seem mighty pleased that I came along, two vulnerable Kusarian girls being surrendered to the LPI... would not be very pretty.

Misaka, however, is not happy nor pleased that I have acquired my own personal harem of Kusari girls. Time for another trip to the biodome project I think.

Two weeks in space, two girls and only one spare bed. I hope they're friendly.

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