Today i managed to do a full smuggling run earning some profit. After returning pocket full and happy in Magellan, Mactan Base, i saw on the comm channel LucyLawless, i consider a new recruit, who was stating about someone attacking her. I decided to grease the ego of my light fighter and went to see what is going on and who is attacking out new recruits.
However, i didn't see an enemy at all, what i saw was a fleeing trader going to Manchester. I immediately reacted and since Jack.Spang was close-by i took him as an extra wing, which proved to be a good decision later on. We grouped and followed the trader in Manchester where we caught up at Planet Wight. I told him how things go by in Lane Hacker's territory, he was carrying 1800 units of Gate/Lane parts. Too bad we didn't have any freighter close-by... After i stated 800,000 credits for the cargo he was a bit reluctant at first, but after "encouraging" him a bit, he finally agreed to pay. Because he did some damage to us, he couldn't just get away with it so i asked for 1,3 mil credits to fix our ships. He definitely didn't like it, but he had no choice, but to pay.
A few minutes later on the way back to Magellan, we encountered another police affiliated trader at Shefield, though he had no cargo i still couldn't just let him go deliver his filthy stocks. We managed to get 350,000 credits from that one as well.
A good day for pirating i would say. Quite adequate profit and a nice teamplay with fast reactions. We headed back to Mactan.
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