We delivery happy news, as our part of deal almost comes to an end. All requested locations have been surveyed and we begin transmitting data regarding it. Once we receive the rest of the payment, all data packets would be finished transfering to you.
Best regards, Raul Golden, administrator of Interstellar Beacon.
Data transfer begins.... status 50% of data has been transfered
Data transfer continues.... status: 100% of data has been transferred... Complete.
Thank you for the words of appreciation. It was an interesting deal to say the least. During it we made full crash test of the strategy we applied to this course of our service, the received results were stretched beyond anticipated values in some parts, but were able to stay within designated limits in average. Though barely, quite barely. The most precise scanning certainly takes time.
New contacts and widening of client sphere is welcome also. We look forward to have new dealings.
Best regards, Raul Golden, administrator of Interstellar Beacon.
Planet Quillan, Languedoc system
18th August, 743 AGS
Sender: Capitaine Antoine Delacroix, Les Ferrailleurs Gaulois Recipient: Interstellar Beacon Subject: Hotfix
Bonjour, Raul. Long time no see.
My benefactors are interested in refreshing one of the stellar coordinates, we surveyed before. ID number is 196617, location 5E has to be replaced with a 4D, MK3 accuracy.
Our ship shall provide you with the fuel you need for this operation but since there are military actions nearby we have to everything quick and leave before being noticed by any of the participants.
Good day Captain Delacroix, I would not say exactly it was a long time, considering our recent affairs.
We apologize for the delay in answering, we were too much lost in having an internal hackathon in regards to an interesting field we did not touch intensively before. Once we were able to sleep through the post sequences of the event, we noticed your communication.
If your contract offer is still standing, we are ready to launch our vessel for a meeting at the mentioned location. We would expect the time for the meeting to be sent.
Best regards, Raul Golden, administrator of Interstellar Beacon.
Sender: Capitaine Antoine Delacroix, Les Ferrailleurs Gaulois Recipient: Interstellar Beacon Subject: October, 743/827
Monsieur Golden,
This month is coming to its end – soon we will need your service again. However, it seems like this time, my benefactors are interested in the most accurate coordinates. If you are still interested in work with us – I will send you the full list separately if you don't mind.
Oh, you make harder conditions. From our past experience, we can say that the providence of the most accurate coordinates was quite bothersome for you. We were not planning that fuel can be had only in hours instead of immediately. Less accurate coordinates ordered by you were compensating it.
As long as fuel will be provided in a quick time, we would not mind continuing business with you on the same conditions. Otherwise, we would look for some penalty to compensate for our ship maintenance and crew overworked hours. And we don't even mention that last time we were barely in time to get away from a pirate that wished to open fire on us, disrupting our work and possibly threatening lives. I hope you or your acquaintances will be able to provide better security than before.
If that's acceptable conditions, we would gladly take an order from you...
"while we still have time to accept it" quite whispered to himself Raul, before cutting the video link off.
An image of Raul Golden appears with burn type of skin injures, covered by medical tapes.
Good day, Mr. Delacroix. Probably good day.
I hope you are satisfied with our performance which time is it already monthly dealings? Third or something. Were your benefactors satisfied with our work? You told us during our work before, that we can be not afraid of their interference, and that what was so when we were near Issodun shipyard and in other sensitive locations.
Nevertheless. Your benefactors look to forget any past dealings and fine our ships like any else during some chance in a long time for mining operations in an unstable area. More than that, for some reason when I tried to reason with them trying to point who is their sole hyper coordinates provider, my ships were charged twice more than other ships, 10 million credits per time, with considering mining fee 10 mils, we were paying 20mils credits per time.
Perhaps it is not a big loss of money, perhaps it is. In any way, it causes this place to be not more profitable than any other place for us, which leads to billions of credits lost due to lack of ability to operate there efficiently. Considering also it is being very short window opportunity, once it is over it would cause irreversible damage.
We file note of protest and would be not doing any more business beneficial to your benefactors if they look so upon us. If that would be changed while the unstable connection is still there with enough time to operate there before its closing, it would be fine, otherwise, there would be nothing to correct it.
An image of Raul Golden with some sort of device attached to nearby terminal, lines of console messages appear running through screen.
That could be a problem. It looks like the black box device was damaged by a pirate encountered after the incident. We tried the whole night recovering something from it but were unsuccessful so far. One of my engineers tries to restore messages through imprints left in the wave-receiver, but it would take some time to get results. Considering that you want something immediately, we will send what we have right now.
Thankfully there was made some evidence besides black box recordings. Transmitting records from first encounter. So far we were fined 35 million credits in four encounters. We tried to speak through a private channel with MdG/-Sentinelle as the first attempt during the second encounter after which we had fine doubled, and with \*/~ signature ship. Both times we were refused with the words "It is irrelevant to the current situation". More evidence can be provided if we will be able to decode happened messages from imprints left in the wave receiver.
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