After a short break I continued hunting in New York. Through the California JG, an IMG Transport, though not sporting an IMG IFF Tag, which made me sceptic about the captains affiliation with the guild, came in. I decided to treat him as a regular neutral. He was willing to pay a total sum of 4 million SC for his load of Gold Ore:
Since the New York-California lanes lacked suffiecient traffic for an effective piracy operation, I moved back to Magellan. Mr. Knox joined me on the Corporate Calamity and we began extorting at the Leeds JH. I catched an IC Mastodon, apparently the same captain I lately saw on the BMM Shire, a few questions made clear, that he changed the employer, because Agiera would pay better. I made clear Agiera flunkys pay us by leaving all of his Gold to me:
The Gold is now on the Silent Circuit and the Corporate Calamity.
I decided to relocate the piracy operation to Manchester, in order to intercept a possible corporate target. And only after a minute or two of waiting at the Cortez Gate lane the BMM Hegemon 'Plymouth' ran right into us. The talk was long, but the outcome was clear. The puny defences of that corporate joke weren't able to hinder us at the termination of his ship:
The Luxury Consumer Goods are now on the Corporate Calamity.
Back in California, solo again, I sat at the Cortez gate and waited fo my next target 'Kentucky'. It fell right into my trap. The captain was seemingly empley by the IC, but he was lacking the IC IFF. However, I demanded to drop all the synth paste he had, but the flunky wasn't able to understand even after the third time. I tought him, what that means for him:
On my way back to Rochester I came across a Junker ( Salavager ) with a full acrgo hold of Artifacts. I could swear seeing him smuggling those things already and I propose to keep an eye on him. I kept the intel: