Evangeline Anastasia McDowell

[Bazza]

Entry#: 148
Date: 23 - 05 - 819 AS @ 19:26 SUT
Title: Untitled.

I heard across the grapevine that my most preferred antagonist Jack Crow has seen fit to issue another bounty on poor old me. A grand sum of 20,000,000cr.

Now that is just the icing on the cake. He's obviously upset about something - not that we stole his stuff; rather that we made a complete fool of him in front of us.

Now I find myself contemplating where I want to go with a reply. I could either not care and mind my own business or I could take steps to make their lives miserable again.

On one side I have sympathisers in the Congress I'd rather not see die by my hand but on the other they're now trying to claim my life. I've already had to terminate one of their pilots and put some big holes in one of their gunboats to avoid being ambushed.

Whatever semblance of a truce there may have been has now been dissolved by Crow's petty ego getting in the way of his judgement. It's really quite pathetic looking at it from a sideliners' point of view however I need to seriously consider the fact I'm going to be hunted again.

The idea of acting upon Crow's previous accusations I was trying to take over his place as the "leader" of the Junkers is looking more and more appealing as a plan of attack. Despite his insistance up to this point it's been no concern of me how and by whom the Congress is run. That is going to change.

If his subordinates realise how incompetent he is as a leader through continued bad decision making, poorly-thought out operations and petty, egotistical, passive-aggressive politics, the door will open up for a more suitable overlord. The cogs of this change have already begun turning on their own. Now it is time to give them power.

Of course, I can dream that throne will be mine but in reality I'd be happy seeing someone with half a brain in the seat of power. Preferably someone who sees having the McDowell Company as an ally more agreeable than having it as an enemy.

I did some calculating earlier and currently the total of the outstanding unclaimed bounties issued against either me personally or an asset of the company is in excess of 150 million credits.

With that said however I wonder how many of them are still active. The Ronald McDonald tryout failure describing himself as The Joker, for example, had a large bounty issued on me but far as I'm aware he's dead now or at least re-enrolled into clown college and being a good boy. Besides that there are also a few other historical bounties I'm aware of which I doubt would still have active sponsors.

I dunno... should I be boasting about this? The fact I've managed to evade being sniped says a lot about either my luck or my divine influence.


Regardless of what is keeping me alive... so long as it does so I will continue working towards my goal.

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