Today's been busy to say the least. After spending the early portions of the day baiting Bounty Hunters with Ms. Mai, I linked up with the bosses for some group havoc in California. Going off sketchy memory, I recall LH~Payback, Phate, Mr.Sanguinetti, Eric.Knox, Brutus.Clay and Konstantine.Romanos being present (not to mention the various pick-up transports that scooped up looted goods). Later on we also picked up an Outcast called E-Charos.
The day started well, with a few traders being extorted in Magellan before I turned up. When I joined the fun on the California Minor to Magellan trade lane, we caught a smuggler called Charos-X1. He was full to the brim with Artifacts, so Brutus told him to empty his bay. This command was not obeyed, so his bay was forcibly vacated instead. While Brutus and Payback awaited a transport pickup, I went to look for mercenary-magnet Phaos, who had been broadcasting on system comms. During this time, an IND transport gave the previous group the slip, and an Outcast shot up and destroyed all the floating cargo we'd just liberated.
Given I was ahead of the others moving towards Planet Mojave, I headed the IND trader off (who as it happens, was also a smuggler). It was a Whale of some description, full of Blood Diamonds. Comm transcription below (with most of the group comms and background static cut out).
[20.11.2010 21:58:50] LH~Dialectius: Well well, ain't you a slippery one [20.11.2010 21:59:00] [IND]Invisible.Hand: close one, but hey
[20.11.2010 21:59:06] [IND]Invisible.Hand: had to try, eh [20.11.2010 21:59:12] LH~Dialectius: I know, I know.
[20.11.2010 21:59:16] LH~Dialectius: Was some good sport. [20.11.2010 21:59:21] [IND]Invisible.Hand: yes, but fair is fair
[20.11.2010 21:59:25] [IND]Invisible.Hand: price? [20.11.2010 21:59:36] LH~Dialectius: But you lost at the end o' the day. Teamwork trumps greedy corporates, ey? [20.11.2010 21:59:40] [IND]Invisible.Hand: true
[20.11.2010 21:59:54] [IND]Invisible.Hand: now then [20.11.2010 21:59:55] LH~Dialectius: And my friends here will be naming the terms. Not my place to do so. [20.11.2010 22:00:03] [IND]Invisible.Hand: let me get my cheque book [20.11.2010 22:00:09] LH~Dialectius: So, your life lies in their hands, so to speak. [20.11.2010 22:00:27] [IND]Invisible.Hand: well in my pen stroke and my bank account, to be technical
[20.11.2010 22:00:36] [IND]Invisible.Hand: tea gentlemen?
[20.11.2010 22:00:42] Eric.Knox:..: Good day [20.11.2010 22:00:49] LH~Dialectius: I'd rather not. Not without a tester anyway.
[20.11.2010 22:00:54] Eric.Knox:..: Is your escape pod ready, flunky? [20.11.2010 22:00:56] [IND]Invisible.Hand: *drinks tea* [20.11.2010 22:01:00] LH~Dialectius: I wouldn't trust you not to put cyanide in it
[20.11.2010 22:01:18] LH~Dialectius: As a matter of a fact, I wouldn't trust you as far as I could throw your ship, unassisted.
[20.11.2010 22:01:23] Eric.Knox:..: I'm here to do a favour to Liberty Rogues [20.11.2010 22:01:29] [IND]Invisible.Hand: well now, I am more than happy to help you throw it
[20.11.2010 22:01:34] Konstantine.Romanos.: allright, let's collect [20.11.2010 22:01:39] LH~Dialectius: Bounty, ey? [20.11.2010 22:01:45] [IND]Invisible.Hand: price?
[20.11.2010 22:01:58] [IND]Invisible.Hand: And how much will this cost me, gentlemen?
[20.11.2010 22:02:30] Eric.Knox:..: Let's send him to his cargo pod
[20.11.2010 22:02:38] Konstantine.Romanos.: allright, fire! [20.11.2010 22:02:40] Death: [IND]Invisible.Hand was put out of action by Konstantine.Romanos. (Gun).
After it was ruptured by Romanos and Knox, a pick-up transport flew by and tractored the goods. Turned out a Navy kill-team had been stalking us though, and butchered Payback while we were away. Following fight went back, quickly and a general retreat was called. All of our people (save Payback) got away safely. The Outcast managed to get himself cut off however, after a Navy gunboat blocked the gate. I chose to jump back and guide him to the Cortez jump hole and then to Montezuma. The sniffer got shot up at the Cortez jump hole and exploded. I burned it back to base as quick as possible.
On returning home, I wrote a sabotage script and fed it into all the proxy servers I set up yesterday. They're now bombarding the neural-net home site of a Brayden B. Babcock with Rhienlandic 419 scams, inappropriate images and relentless spam. All in a days work really. Just havin' a bit of fun.