• Recipient: Publiquement
• Sender: Intermédiaire Édouard René "Blanc-Rouge" Blanqui
• Source: La Joliette, Marseille
• Subject: Current situation
Bonu dopu meziornu,
Missed me?
So, good news and bad news. I'll start with the bad news - no one's gonna get lynched today, seems like I've managed to convince Commission to postpone the punishment. Good news - we gonna' start doin' some stuff.
So, first of all, Sarti, eh? Ya' tick me off, but ya' learnin', how's the stuff goin' 'round here, so that's good. Also, good catch with the Kusarians. These fellas are slippery, we had little chit-chat outside of Orkney Gate in Tee-Three-One. Claimed to be gun-for-hires, but they notion was clearly glowy a bit, I am sure they're Kusarian spooks. Yet, they seem open to the dialogue, so I'll be workin' with them directly.
In short, plan for Kusari is very simple. Right now, we need to clear out the Tee-corridor, spefically, Tee-Two-Three. That's a direct connection with Kusari, so we'll need to hold this turf firmly. Right now, Maltese and their girlfriends from Golden Chrysa-somethin' are holdin' it tight, so plan's simple. We have some pieces down in Tee-Two-Three, those will be used for quick reaction and for pinnin' down. Wing in Tee-Three-Seven will be used for cuttin' off reinforcements and harrassin' Maltese supply chain, and wing in Tee-Three-One will be used as a reinforcement for Tee-Two-Three. Basically, clamp down on the cardi' run in Taus, I'll try to get Kusari spooks on our side to shaft Maltese scum hard. Quite possibly, that after this is done, they'll be more cooperative, and we'll have free pass to Kusari. Might need to get in touch with Hogosha as well, yet, I am not sure, what's the situation with cardi' is on their side. Maybe we can try to be a good samaritans, and replace cardi with Nox on their market. But for now, thats nothing more than just idea - so stick with the plan and be ready to blast off. Gonna' attach audio logs of conversation for future use here:
[11.11.2021 14:15:20] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Ah-h, messieurs, messieurs. Bonsoir.
[11.11.2021 14:15:28] =KUI=Chokuto: Konnichiwa.
[11.11.2021 14:15:29] UC/-Campionatore: Here is he, Blanqui - these people have assistet against an Outcast gunboat in Tau-23
[11.11.2021 14:15:32] UC/-Campionatore: Rather, I have assisted tgem
[11.11.2021 14:15:34] UC/-Campionatore: them rather
[11.11.2021 14:15:52] =KUI=Azuri: Konnichiwa
[11.11.2021 14:15:54] UC/-Campionatore: This is all we have discussed, I will let you explain what Corse is to them and our view of Kusarian people
[11.11.2021 14:16:18] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Yes-yes, now, be kind, and close your hatchway and let me deal with this.
[11.11.2021 14:16:25] UC/-Campionatore: Si
[11.11.2021 14:16:29] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Hope this slugger didn't cause any trouble? Sorry, if he did.
[11.11.2021 14:16:38] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Anyway! With whom am I having honour talking with?
[11.11.2021 14:16:43] =KUI=Azuri: Not really.
[11.11.2021 14:17:08] =KUI=Azuri: Azuri simply.
[11.11.2021 14:17:15] =KUI=Azuri: And you ?
[11.11.2021 14:17:41] =KUI=Chokuto: We're not allowed to disclose our names due to the protocol given to us. I'd simply be Chokuto.
[11.11.2021 14:17:46] UC/-Campionatore: we are red to Kusari police and navy and can't dock anywhere - they might be our way in
[11.11.2021 14:18:06] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Azuri, mhm-m? Like, Cote d'Azur? What a name! Im'ma Edouard Rene Blanqui, also known as Blanc-Rouge. I am Intermediraire of
[11.11.2021 14:18:14] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Corsican families, basically, mouthpiece of bosses.
[11.11.2021 14:18:40] =KUI=Chokuto: Hai, a pleasure to meet you.
[11.11.2021 14:18:47] =KUI=Chokuto: It seems like another guest has just arrived.
[11.11.2021 14:19:08] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Consider me... well, man who's in charge. And what a pleasure to me! Ya' know, I expected your people to eventually show up.
[11.11.2021 14:19:11] UC/-Campionatore: Saluti
[11.11.2021 14:19:16] {S}Flora': "Guest" is probably a bit of a misrepresentation of things.
[11.11.2021 14:19:57] =KUI=Chokuto: What else would you be? Not an acquaintance of the two gentlemen with us?
[11.11.2021 14:20:08] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Nuh-uh, first time seeing that fella'.
[11.11.2021 14:20:15] UC/-Campionatore: never had contact with Gaians afaik in this faction
[11.11.2021 14:20:34] {S}Flora': Nevermind.
[11.11.2021 14:20:39] {S}Flora': I'd rather not sour the mood.
[11.11.2021 14:20:42] {S}Flora': Did I interrupt?
[11.11.2021 14:20:57] =KUI=Azuri: Not really, You are welcome.
[11.11.2021 14:21:15] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: E-eh, let's say that- well, ye, welcome to our little tea party.
[11.11.2021 14:21:32] UC/-Campionatore: Si
[11.11.2021 14:22:21] A $201.600 credit bounty has been added to your reward pool.
[11.11.2021 14:22:24] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Ngmh. Alright. So, let's be on a more serious note, ya' know. I might be very dull in interplanetary politics, but I do recogni
[11.11.2021 14:22:49] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: ze those I-F-Fs of yours, and I had heard some snippets about ya' people helpin' my sluggers. So, black-ops of sorts?
[11.11.2021 14:23:10] =KUI=Chokuto: Just mercenaries.
[11.11.2021 14:23:19] =KUI=Chokuto: Nothing fancy.
[11.11.2021 14:24:06] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Ye'? Well, hired guns always welcome. How's Kusari doin'? Heard Kyushu's havin' great weather this time of the year.
[11.11.2021 14:24:37] =KUI=Chokuto: Haven't been there in a while.
[11.11.2021 14:25:20] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: What 'bout you, 'Zuri?
[11.11.2021 14:25:29] =KUI=Chokuto: I recall I've asked you a question previously, Corsican.
[11.11.2021 14:25:38] UC/-Campionatore: Oui, they asked us who we are
[11.11.2021 14:25:47] UC/-Campionatore: I waited for you to answer Blanqui if you do not mind
[11.11.2021 14:25:51] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Ah-h... Now, that's a question for me, not for that fella.
[11.11.2021 14:26:00] Rules Tip: Pirates need to keep their demands reasonable. Cargo and Monetary demands that exceed the maximum profit of a trader are viewed as unreasonable. ''Empty'' traders are not excempt from piracy, but the demands asked from them should reflect this.
[11.11.2021 14:26:09] =KUI=Chokuto: I've asked you about your opinion on the people from Kusari.
[11.11.2021 14:26:20] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: You should have told me directly, not ping-pongin' 'round. We're Unione Corse, we're family of sorts. And Kusarians? Well, they
[11.11.2021 14:26:57] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: 're people, humans, like we are. So, we don't have any... global idea about Kusari. Yer' drinks are dull, food is strange, but
[11.11.2021 14:27:10] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: ya' got beautiful women, and that's all what matters to me.
[11.11.2021 14:27:28] =KUI=Chokuto: I'm not sure whether I should feel honored or offended.
[11.11.2021 14:27:56] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: He-he-he, ya' know, you should feel honoured, we, Corsicans, see the real beauty in things, we're not pompous wanna-be aristocr
[11.11.2021 14:28:02] =KUI=Azuri: What women ? The terrorist group ?
[11.11.2021 14:28:10] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: ats from New Paris or somethin'.
[11.11.2021 14:28:18] =KUI=Chokuto: Oh..right. Forgot about those already, Azuri.
[11.11.2021 14:28:25] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Terrorist group? Which?
[11.11.2021 14:28:28] =KUI=Chokuto: Are they beautiful though?
[11.11.2021 14:28:30] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Oh, wait-wait, those?
[11.11.2021 14:28:33] =KUI=Chokuto: The Chrysanthemum.
[11.11.2021 14:29:09] =KUI=Azuri: Beautiful ?
[11.11.2021 14:29:10] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Ave Maria, they're horrid. Crazy s*uts are inhalin' orange poison of theirs, and this s*it splices their DNA. I bet they got ta
[11.11.2021 14:29:12] =KUI=Azuri: No.
[11.11.2021 14:29:14] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: ils or somethin'.
[11.11.2021 14:30:04] =KUI=Chokuto: Can't say I've personally seen one that wasn't drawn out of their cockpit after I shot holes in it.
[11.11.2021 14:30:04] =KUI=Azuri: The Cardamine you mean ?
[11.11.2021 14:30:06] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: I am talkin' 'bout real women, those cute, hard-working, loyal and with their eyes, full of curiosity. Well, kinda'.
[11.11.2021 14:30:18] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Well, cardamine, ye'. Freaky stuff.
[11.11.2021 14:30:55] UC/-Campionatore: We have Catturatu their concoction, the Shige-a-kiki if I am not wrong after taking down their transports some time back
[11.11.2021 14:31:08] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Have I given you permission to speak?
[11.11.2021 14:31:22] UC/-Campionatore: Please, go ahead, I am sure you know all about it!
[11.11.2021 14:31:45] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Grazie.
[11.11.2021 14:32:05] =KUI=Azuri: Flora don't speak a lot.
[11.11.2021 14:32:06] =KUI=Chokuto: Poor guy. Glad our boss isn't as strict as you are, Corsican.
[11.11.2021 14:32:15] =KUI=Chokuto: Flora indeed hasn't said a word.
[11.11.2021 14:32:21] {S}Flora': I have nothing to add to this truly enlightening conversation.
[11.11.2021 14:32:35] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Kids are outta hands, lost generation. Need to teach them some manners. Anyway.
[11.11.2021 14:32:50] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Kusari. I, personally, don't have anythin' against you. Those flower girls?
[11.11.2021 14:32:59] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Aren't they firmly in bed with Maltese?
[11.11.2021 14:33:07] =KUI=Chokuto: That's what we think too.
[11.11.2021 14:33:23] {S}Flora': "Think"? Isn't it obvious enough?
[11.11.2021 14:33:24] A $201.600 credit bounty has been added to your reward pool.
[11.11.2021 14:33:37] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: That's logical, they need stable stream of cardi', and that stuff should' be goin' through Taus.
[11.11.2021 14:34:10] =KUI=Chokuto: Obvious? The only thing that is obvious is that you shouldn't immediatly tell someone you've just met everything you know about
[11.11.2021 14:34:17] =KUI=Chokuto: a dangerous group of criminals, isn't that so?
[11.11.2021 14:34:33] =KUI=Chokuto: So yes. We *think*.
[11.11.2021 14:34:45] {S}Flora': ...right.
[11.11.2021 14:35:05] =KUI=Chokuto: Perfect!
[11.11.2021 14:35:16] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Ehe-he, I mean, trust and name-exchanges are one way to forge friendship, 'eh?
[11.11.2021 14:35:32] =KUI=Azuri: Maybe Flora can enlighten us.
[11.11.2021 14:35:51] {S}Flora': About?
[11.11.2021 14:35:52] =KUI=Chokuto: They are indeed. But would I empty my entire hand of playing cards immediatly? No, probably not.
[11.11.2021 14:36:08] =KUI=Chokuto: That's right, Azuri! About the Chrysanthemum of course, Flora.
[11.11.2021 14:36:15] =KUI=Chokuto: I totally forgot that we could just ask.
[11.11.2021 14:36:42] {S}Flora': I find it hard to believe I'd be able to contribute anything you don't already know.
[11.11.2021 14:36:50] {S}Flora': Excuse me, 'think'.
[11.11.2021 14:37:08] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Does context actually matter? I 'ean, they whole organization is just loyal w*orehouse of Maltese, that's not a news and not a
[11.11.2021 14:37:08] =KUI=Chokuto: Who knows.
[11.11.2021 14:37:10] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: secret.
[11.11.2021 14:37:38] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Even I, who whole my life lived underwater, knows about them.
[11.11.2021 14:37:41] {S}Flora': That's... Kind of my point, yeah.
[11.11.2021 14:37:45] =KUI=Chokuto: Seems like we're truly not doing good enough of a job to keep our criminals in check, Azuri.
[11.11.2021 14:37:49] =KUI=Chokuto: Even the Gauls seem to know.
[11.11.2021 14:37:58] =KUI=Chokuto: That's just horrible of us.
[11.11.2021 14:37:59] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Na-nah, Corsican.
[11.11.2021 14:38:01] {S}Flora': No purpose in pretending you just 'think' something when everyone and their mother knows about it.
[11.11.2021 14:38:08] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: And we know little bit more.
[11.11.2021 14:38:25] =KUI=Chokuto: Corsican, Gallic, isn't it pretty much the same? I'm not vell versed in geography.
[11.11.2021 14:38:49] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Neh. I mean, same sector, ye', but traditions, language and so on is totally different.
[11.11.2021 14:39:00] =KUI=Chokuto: I see.
[11.11.2021 14:39:09] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: We're loyal to ourselves as well, so don't be 'fraid to communicate with us.
[11.11.2021 14:39:15] =KUI=Azuri: Hmmm.... weird.
[11.11.2021 14:39:35] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: But ye', flower girls? Too bad, but they're on our hit list, because of their little love affair with Maltese. Hate to hurt wom
[11.11.2021 14:39:36] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: en.
[11.11.2021 14:39:54] {S}Flora': Such a gentleman.
[11.11.2021 14:40:02] =KUI=Azuri: affair ? like Cardamine ?
[11.11.2021 14:40:16] =KUI=Chokuto: *Sighs audibily* Well, looks like everyone truly knows about the Chrysanthemum.
[11.11.2021 14:40:31] =KUI=Chokuto: That's truly not good. I'm terribly sorry if they've caused you any inconveniences.
[11.11.2021 14:41:05] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Yie. Let's just say, there's several sides to why we truly hate Maltese, and cardamine is one of them.
[11.11.2021 14:41:43] =KUI=Chokuto: So they have in fact troubled you previously?
[11.11.2021 14:41:44] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: And, hey, Im'ma not a frequent visitor to Kusari, after that recent... uh... Are ya' okay with me talkin' bout recent war?
[11.11.2021 14:42:17] =KUI=Chokuto: My patriot heart is bleeding, but go on.
[11.11.2021 14:42:59] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Ehe-he. But, ye'. Anyway. My people didn't have that much troble with flowers, but that's a fact that as soon as we see each ot
[11.11.2021 14:43:18] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: her - we'll try to tear each others throats. By association from both sides.
[11.11.2021 14:43:41] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: They're Maltese pets, and Maltese are enroaching on our turf, so - we blast Maltese, Maltese pets blast us.
[11.11.2021 14:44:21] =KUI=Chokuto: That's terribly violent. Love it, though.
[11.11.2021 14:44:28] =KUI=Chokuto: I'd do the same, probably.
[11.11.2021 14:44:48] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: So, speakin' in a business-oriented language, as our interest in blastin' Maltese from Taus directly interferes with flowers in
[11.11.2021 14:45:00] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: terests - that means, flowers are also hinderance.
[11.11.2021 14:45:33] =KUI=Chokuto: Just a matter of putting a price tag on a terrorists head then?
[11.11.2021 14:45:44] =KUI=Chokuto: Kill them, but only if they are a nuisance in your business.
[11.11.2021 14:46:39] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Ah-ha. 'Kinda. That really depends, on what's flowers will be doing in Taus, though. I am unsure 'bout logistic routes of them,
[11.11.2021 14:46:43] =KUI=Chokuto: In any case. I'll have to depart for now, be safe.
[11.11.2021 14:46:57] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Alrighty. Azur', ya'll stay with us?
[11.11.2021 14:47:06] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: You, guys, are pleasure to talk with.
[11.11.2021 14:47:14] =KUI=Chokuto: Likewise.
[11.11.2021 14:47:47] =KUI=Azuri: Well....i have some thing to do.
[11.11.2021 14:47:51] Death: VonHessian suffered a self-administered loadout error (Missile/Torpedo).
[11.11.2021 14:48:01] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Before ya' go, is it okay if I get in touch with ya' via NeuralNet thing?
[11.11.2021 14:48:29] =KUI=Azuri: Well, you can.
[11.11.2021 14:48:41] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Since ya' callin' flowers terrorists, that means that ya' don't like them. So we can conduct some business, ya' know, fruitful
[11.11.2021 14:48:43] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: cooperation?
[11.11.2021 14:48:55] =KUI=Azuri: I am sure we will meet again.
[11.11.2021 14:48:59] =KUI=Azuri: Maybe.
[11.11.2021 14:49:38] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: That's right, now that's the spirit of conductin' biz'. Anyway, I have no rights to hinder you further. Grazie, grazie!
[11.11.2021 14:50:01] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: A bona ghjurnata, mon ami!
[11.11.2021 14:50:02] =KUI=Azuri: Have a good day Corsican.
Before I start explainin' 'bout recent chat with Gaian, Flora, I'll also address one of the last messages here. Acolyte, Sarti, right? What a silly name for a henchman. Those Insurgency-fellas you've met and had plans about? What a f*ckingly moronic idea. I've checked with locals, got some contacts, and what I saw and what I have been told - those Insurgency are bunch of local freaks, freedom fighters, just like our Maqi'. And I am sure, that these clowns have no access to any kind of under-the-table market of Liberty, so that's an useless endevaour, cut it short. Liberty are tolerating Corsicans, at least me, so let's not lose our clearance, visas and papers over stupid ideas, capiscia?
I hope that's clear. So, Flora, Gaians. Nice fella', gonna' get in touch with 'dem and I'll be outlinin' plans on Bretonia. Basically, from what I recollect, Brets' are pretty dry on substances and even Maltese are steering clear off, so it's either very f*cking bad there, or Maltese are just not able to diversify that much. So, I'll be workin' on Edinburgh Connection plan. We'll try to secure trade route to Bretonia through Edinburgh, and I'll be workin' with Gaians and other local less-desirable marginals there. Middlemen gonna' get a cut, but for now, that's a thing. Gonna drop logs of our chat with Gaian as well, but don't put your nose into this 'biz for now, I'll deal with it.
[11.11.2021 14:50:58] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: So, Flora, 'right?
[11.11.2021 14:51:07] {S}Flora': That's what it says, I hope?
[11.11.2021 14:51:29] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Ah-ha. Ya' just never know, is that a callsign, ship's name or are ya' actually named Flora.
[11.11.2021 14:51:49] {S}Flora': A little bit of both option one and option three.
[11.11.2021 14:52:10] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: I see, I see. So, ya' treehug-, ahem, I mean, ecologist, righto?
[11.11.2021 14:52:25] {S}Flora': Yup.
[11.11.2021 14:52:51] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Also heard some rumours 'bout your breed. Can't say, that I truly agree with your views, but, 'ey, Im'ma businessman.
[11.11.2021 14:53:02] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Not really up to ideology.
[11.11.2021 14:53:18] {S}Flora': I guess you are not from Amiens, then.
[11.11.2021 14:53:56] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Amiens? Nah-nah, Im'ma Corsican, not sumb*tch with blue blood. We're hailin' from Marseille.
[11.11.2021 14:54:12] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: But, I know, what you mean. Ye', Amiens nowadays is very... uh... musky.
[11.11.2021 14:54:39] {S}Flora': Are you implying Corse is... A nationality, of sorts?
[11.11.2021 14:54:54] {S}Flora': It's not exactly what I was told in my dealings with your predecessors.
[11.11.2021 14:55:37] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Yes. At least I am, pure breed, not a month from Marseilly dampy depths. And that's ve-e-ery long story, ehe-he.
[11.11.2021 14:55:41] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: For another time, 'course.
[11.11.2021 14:55:59] {S}Flora': Right.
[11.11.2021 14:56:05] {S}Flora': Well, I'm not going to argue.
[11.11.2021 14:56:23] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: No worries, we're suspicious breed. Anyway, ya' managed to clear off that green jewel of the planet?
[11.11.2021 14:56:36] {S}Flora': No, not yet.
[11.11.2021 14:56:41] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Not sure, how's called in your parts, we used to callin' it Bordeaux, m'bad.
[11.11.2021 14:56:42] {S}Flora': Your fellows left quite the mess there.
[11.11.2021 14:56:51] {S}Flora': It will take some time to clean it up properly.
[11.11.2021 14:57:27] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: This was, probably, stupidest idea monarchists had, but past is the fact, so can't do anythin' 'bout this. At least, it's a
[11.11.2021 14:57:38] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: free zone for all of sorts.
[11.11.2021 14:57:49] {S}Flora': Shame indeed.
[11.11.2021 14:58:10] {S}Flora': But it'll be dealt with in due time.
[11.11.2021 14:58:41] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Ah-ha. Hope's you not gonna close the orbital terminal? That's very useful and convenient place, good view as well.
[11.11.2021 14:59:11] {S}Flora': Personally? Blowing that thing out of the sky would be the first thing I'd do.
[11.11.2021 14:59:24] {S}Flora': But pestering it with torpedoes from a single bomber isn't going to do much.
[11.11.2021 14:59:28] {S}Flora': So an eyesore it'll stay.
[11.11.2021 15:00:24] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: At least towed lil' bit farther away, eh? It does have a good position, close to Brets', close to Gallic sector. I do have some
[11.11.2021 15:00:28] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: plans utilizing that route.
[11.11.2021 15:00:40] {S}Flora': Then hook up with the Providence crew.
[11.11.2021 15:01:03] {S}Flora': The planet's not for business. If you want to stay on our good side, at least.
[11.11.2021 15:01:08] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Providence? Neva' heard 'bout this.
[11.11.2021 15:01:18] {S}Flora': Then I guess they don't trust you lot yet.
[11.11.2021 15:01:41] {S}Flora': I'm sure you can ask around Halifax.
[11.11.2021 15:01:49] {S}Flora': Maybe they'll take you in
[11.11.2021 15:02:20] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Truth-truth. Ah, Halifax. Place stinks like my grandmas' crypt, but can't ask for much more. Thing with Halifax is that it's
[11.11.2021 15:02:48] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: little bit more on the 'on-the-screen' side, I feel. Edin' is a little bit more secluded.
[11.11.2021 15:03:51] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: But basically, need to take a better look, what's under-the-table market looks like in Brets'.
[11.11.2021 15:04:29] {S}Flora': It's not the easiest one to get into with no contacts, but good luck.
[11.11.2021 15:04:45] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Don't ya' worry, I have talent in forging friendships.
[11.11.2021 15:04:56] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: But, 'ey, what's your organization is nowadays?
[11.11.2021 15:05:01] {S}Flora': I've witnessed as much not so long ago.
[11.11.2021 15:05:12] {S}Flora': I'm not sure I understand?
[11.11.2021 15:05:49] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Well, last I heard 'bout Gaian movement, you were tearing into Brets' government throat. Have somethin' changed?
[11.11.2021 15:06:05] {S}Flora': No.
[11.11.2021 15:06:11] {S}Flora': All is as it used to be.
[11.11.2021 15:06:28] {S}Flora': The good old times, before your mad king came kicking down the door.
[11.11.2021 15:06:45] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Ah-ha. And what 'bout black market? If I go to New Londons' slums, what's movin' 'round nowadays?
[11.11.2021 15:07:12] {S}Flora': Guns, synth.
[11.11.2021 15:07:22] {S}Flora': Not much of a market for Cardamine as of late.
[11.11.2021 15:07:51] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Maltese are steerin' clear from Brets', huh? Interesting. I heard Junkers are holdin' strong grip on these kinds of things.
[11.11.2021 15:08:11] {S}Flora': If you want to sell to the impoverished masses, sure.
[11.11.2021 15:08:22] {S}Flora': If you want to hit the elite market, the Junkers aren't going to help you much.
[11.11.2021 15:09:07] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: So, vacuum is there, huh? Might be good to look 'round. Is it 'lright to call ya' people on NeuralNet, maybe, discuss these thi
[11.11.2021 15:09:15] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: ngs further? Maybe'll find common ground.
[11.11.2021 15:09:34] {S}Flora': No vacuum to speak of. Just not as much of a Junker monopoly as you'd expect from Liberty.
[11.11.2021 15:09:48] {S}Flora': Gotta make business with more than one party.
[11.11.2021 15:09:58] {S}Flora': And sure, call me up. Maybe we can work something beneficial for both sides.
[11.11.2021 15:10:33] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Now, that's just great. OH, DUH! I forgot to introduce myself, didn't I?
[11.11.2021 15:10:55] {S}Flora': I can read the ID code fine enough.
[11.11.2021 15:10:59] {S}Flora': But go ahead, if you're so inclined.
[11.11.2021 15:11:11] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Just pardon me for this. Name's Edouard Rene Blanqui, Rene for ya', mon ami.
[11.11.2021 15:11:28] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Workin' directly with Marseille families.
[11.11.2021 15:11:58] {S}Flora': Pleased to meet you, Rene. I go by the callsign, so you can just call me Flora.
[11.11.2021 15:12:35] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Flora, now that's now a real pleasure to meet ya'. I'll get in touch in you 'via NeuralNet, after I'll take a good look at the
[11.11.2021 15:12:37] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: spatial maps.
[11.11.2021 15:12:52] {S}Flora': I'll keep an eye out.
[11.11.2021 15:13:34] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Grazie-grazie. Anyway, I and that slugger will be movin' out, stale air in the cockpit makes me feel funny, want some of that
[11.11.2021 15:13:40] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Marseille processed air.
[11.11.2021 15:13:45] UC/-Campionatore: Avvedeci, Gaian!
[11.11.2021 15:13:51] {S}Flora': I'm not going to hold you.
[11.11.2021 15:13:55] {S}Flora': Goodbye, and take care.
[11.11.2021 15:14:02] UC/-Campionatore: Addiu vechju, sghignazza
[11.11.2021 15:14:03] UC/-Edouard.Blanqui: Bona ghjurnata, Flora, see you soon.
On other topics for today. Marseille will be workin' more directly with you people, so that means - you'll be gettin' budget and some legitimacy. Commission wants to diversify and to breathe free in Union, so that means - listen carefully to what they say. Don't touch local corpos'. Don't fine them, don't extort from them, don't touch them, or even breathe on them, or even look at them. Let Marseille families and Commission do their thing. You'll be their arm extension with a piece - and that piece is currently directed in the Sirians direction. Union's also feelin' mad about whole Sirian stuff, so if we pretend that we care about what Union wants and make it look like we're hurtin' Sirius - and that's not for kush but for ideals, then we'll be on a good side of Union. Marseille'll be able to expand their operations in Gallia, so you better f*cking care about that, because don't forget, who's your family.
U MESSAGGIU INIZIA
• Recipient: Corse Principal
• Sender: ✻ | Capitaine Paoli Angeli
• Source: Planet Marseilles, Provence
• Subject: Tracii's Idle Hands
Saluti,
After my daughter Tracii's last 50000000 credit clothing and partying bill in the New York system. I have concluded that she needs something constructive to blow her allowance on. I suggest constructing a base platform orbtitng Marseilles for commerce purposes. That should keep her occupied and out of my wallet.
• Recipient: Unione Corse Command
• Sender: Conseiller Charles Simon
• Source: Planet Marseille, Provence
• Subject: What the f*ck is "Juggernaut"
Simon's here, gonna be brief. Who in the tarnation thought that naming the biggest vessel we posses, a Sirian "Bustard" Carrier, "Juggernaut" is a good idea? Once I reached this documentation I literally facepalmed myself to bruises.
So, here's the plan, we pick a pretty name for it and asking very nicely the Naval Command for sharing some weaponry with us, then we replacing its powercore and propulsion with CNO-based and primitive guns from the Edge Worlds market with our, great and superior Gallic ones... of course if pricks from Command share with us, otherwise we ask our "friends" from the Maquis for Council ones and don't use this ship in front of the law-upholders unless we want it turn a bright star really quick.
Any complains, proposals for improvement, offers for random murder, Nox overdose, etc?
• Recipient: Publiquement
• Sender: Intermédiaire Édouard René "Blanc-Rouge" Blanqui
• Source: La Joliette, Marseille
• Subject: Current situation update
Bonu dopu meziornu,
Missed me, ladies?
Don't worry, I am here with more business-oriented news, nothing to be afraid of at the moment.
Anyway, Time for a yearly financial report! Best day in the year.
In short, profits are slightly up - three point one percent increase in the Nox and derivatives profits, one point six percent increase in profits from security firms and such and we've also had a surge in demand for second-hand arms - that's, like, the twenty-two percent increase in profits from selling refurbished firearms. This poses a problem at the moment since our inventory stock for military-grade weaponry is drying out pretty quickly - and there is no increased demand for civilian-grade stuff, so we would need to quickly react to this upcoming deficit.
This is basically because of the Bordeaux stuff going on, County there requested our help in transporting mercenaries and these mercenaries are buying our stuff. I am not sure, for how long they'll be staying there but I hope for as long as it's possible. Thus, I think that capitalizing a little bit more on Bourdeaux is a good idea in the long run - too good of a position near Bretonia to ignore it. And so, we need to get flamethrowers, napalm ordinance, and some heavy machinery down there to secure the area. Oh - and biohazard-resistant military equipment - because gaians went totally haywire and genocidal. Our plans on gaian movement to be used as proxies for Nox distribution network in Bretonia went up in smokes, because who knew, that expecting terrorists to be reasonably good partners in business is very naive thinking? We'll check markets and bazaars in Sirius, what kind of merch they are selling there. So far, continue selling our stuff at the same rate - it works.
Also! Whoever is stationed on Quillan - they have put out a huge warehouse complex in Ginoles les Bains area there - go get it, we'll compensate you afterward. I want to stash some heavy guns up there.
You're free to cooperate with any party to clear out an area of operations against treelunatics - yes, even Bretonian forces. I'll work something out for the alternatives but so far - just make sure that area is clear, or approach from another corridors to not get caught, because 'gaia will not bleed' is their mantra and all they care about. Geez, I think, they would choke and butcher their own mothers, if they would have idea to have a vacation on Bordeaux - these people are criminally insane.
Also, make sure to root out any gaian ideology sympathizers in Amiens, Metz, Quillan and other shitholes we have in Gallia, I dunno', hang them on the trees - don't need that here.
For the past week I have been engaged with fulfilling the Gaia's self proclaimed Count's contract, and if you ask me - he has been severely underpaying us for our efforts and we might ask ourselves just how useful and influential he really is.
I have taken my usual approach of masquerading under the guise of a common trader.
Some of these combative Gaians that seem to frequent the area have seen me as just that:
[11.01.2022 15:08:13] Grim.Gaian: Cut your engines or you know what happens.
[11.01.2022 15:08:18] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: Sure
[11.01.2022 15:08:20] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: what's up
[11.01.2022 15:08:59] Grim.Gaian: You're trafficking ordnance and ferrying mercenaries to Gaia. Your ships have also been seen robbing Gaia of its natural
[11.01.2022 15:09:05] Grim.Gaian: Animal life.
[11.01.2022 15:09:07] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: what are you talking about
[11.01.2022 15:09:11] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: I am flying empty here pal
[11.01.2022 15:09:17] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: Just a friendly food Hauler
[11.01.2022 15:09:27] Grim.Gaian: You are, your people don't.
[11.01.2022 15:09:33] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: Woah woah
[11.01.2022 15:09:50] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: "your people"
[11.01.2022 15:09:53] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: YOUR PEOPLE?
[11.01.2022 15:10:04] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: Monsieur, I do not condone racism
[11.01.2022 15:10:12] Grim.Gaian: Silence or I'll put you in a special grave.
[11.01.2022 15:10:33] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: tick tock
[11.01.2022 15:10:36] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: what do you want
[11.01.2022 15:10:40] Grim.Gaian: You'll stay here as long as I tell you to.
[11.01.2022 15:10:47] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: We have starving children
[11.01.2022 15:10:52] Grim.Gaian: That's not my problem.
[11.01.2022 15:11:04] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: State your demand pirate
[11.01.2022 15:11:08] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: what does your heart desire
[11.01.2022 15:11:18] Grim.Gaian: I told you to shut your loose trap.
[11.01.2022 15:11:22] Grim.Gaian: So do it, and quit interrupting me.
[11.01.2022 15:11:26] Grim.Gaian: And you'll get your damn demand.
[11.01.2022 15:11:41] Grim.Gaian: Do not, speak, unless spoken to, or I will kill you.
[11.01.2022 15:11:56] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: :smirks:
[11.01.2022 15:12:01] Grim.Gaian: Enlighten me as to why your people rob the wildlife from planet Gaia.
[11.01.2022 15:12:27] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: Not sure what you are talking about, us Corsicans are but humble traders
[11.01.2022 15:12:36] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: Must have been some sort of a mistake
[11.01.2022 15:12:45] Grim.Gaian: We have evidence of multiple accounts otherwise, your ships filled to the brim with wildlife.
[11.01.2022 15:12:54] Grim.Gaian: Now answer my question. Why.
[11.01.2022 15:13:11] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: Well damn! Seems like there must have been some clerical error!
[11.01.2022 15:13:19] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: Have you tried contacting Marseille?
[11.01.2022 15:13:37] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: Like I said, us corsicans are nothing but law abiding traders
[11.01.2022 15:13:40] Grim.Gaian: I'm not interested in diplomacy with those who defile Gaia.
[11.01.2022 15:13:46] N|-Cat.Dapperling: Tom: Marsielle has made it fairly clear how they feel about our movement.
[11.01.2022 15:14:00] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: Not sure what this Gaia told you or which bordello she met me in
[11.01.2022 15:14:05] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: but I am a gentleman
[11.01.2022 15:14:12] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: I would never defile a lady unless I had consent
[11.01.2022 15:14:33] N|-Cat.Dapperling: Tom: *Chuckles* Credit where it's do, that was a good one.
[11.01.2022 15:14:48] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: Anyways - seems like some strange missunderstanding
[11.01.2022 15:14:49] Grim.Gaian: I'm sure your loose holes are quite experienced with that sort of thing, gallic.
[11.01.2022 15:15:00] N|-Cat.Dapperling: Tom: *spits*
[11.01.2022 15:15:01] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: Us corsicans would never do anything illegal
[11.01.2022 15:15:30] Grim.Gaian: What are the Mercenaries and Ordnance your people carry.
[11.01.2022 15:15:35] Grim.Gaian: Where are they going, what are they doing.
[11.01.2022 15:15:54] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: Mercenaries? Well Some corsicans have been known to fulfill a contract or two, sure
[11.01.2022 15:16:17] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: I am sure if you have better offer they would provide their services to you as well
[11.01.2022 15:16:28] Grim.Gaian: Gaia is our fight, and our fight alone.
[11.01.2022 15:16:34] Grim.Gaian: We do not need your filthy hands to do our work.
[11.01.2022 15:16:42] Grim.Gaian: Now piss off, you return here, you will die.
[11.01.2022 15:16:59] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: Hey woah woah, just because I whore around and do dr, not to drugs doesn't mean we are dirty
[11.01.2022 15:17:10] Grim.Gaian: Shut your hole, and fuck off.
[11.01.2022 15:17:13] Grim.Gaian: You have ten seconds.
[11.01.2022 15:17:18] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: Sure thing partner
[11.01.2022 15:17:25] UC/-Eroe.Lecite: strange missunderstandings these days !
And some just attacked without warning - likely seeing through my disguise due to the heat signature the Mercenaries on board gave off at times. Perhaps it is time to look at my smuggling vessels' sensor shielding.
New Attraction
Since we have been severely underpaid by the Count I have decided to supplement our gains from the operation by moving hundreds of thousands of tonnes worth of Gaian Wildlife onto Marseille
These little creatures will no doubt prove to be a great tourist attraction at Marseille's ZOOs, might enhance the Planet's Fauna and perhaps some of them might prove as highly profitable exotic delicacies for the more affluent visitors of Marseille.
Closing words
I honestly do not care what happens to the Count and his underpaying ass. I care even less for many of the Gaians that make even the most zealous blindsighted black and white thinking simpleton Maquisards look like sane people.
I am glad we made some cash and found a way to boost our profits from tourism in Provence, and now onto the next project.
Looks like madness keeps spreading these days. This MdG Royalist claims Provence belongs to them, that they answer to King Charles now and he wanted to extort us under dubious pretenses. Oh the irony.
Well as all the deluded men with their arbitrary causes are - he wasn't very skilled and after calling a Navy battleship for cover fire I just casually returned to Marseille when I realized I am simply better off fending for myself rather than moving with the Navy.
P.S. Even this Royalist had no idea who the Count on Gaia is - it just makes me suspect he is a nobody we should just take money from and leave him to his own ends when we get it.
Code:
[14.01.2022 14:17:19] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Saluti
[14.01.2022 14:17:28] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Corsican.
[14.01.2022 14:17:39] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Cut the engines.
[14.01.2022 14:17:50] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Good.
[14.01.2022 14:17:59] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: There is a matter that needs to be discussed.
[14.01.2022 14:18:16] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Matter of your man not paying us enough? *laughs*
[14.01.2022 14:18:21] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Our man?
[14.01.2022 14:18:37] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Do not engage me with nonsense, Corsican.
[14.01.2022 14:18:47] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: That Royalist Count or what have you
[14.01.2022 14:19:04] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: What Count?
[14.01.2022 14:19:18] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Do I look like I know? *laughs*
[14.01.2022 14:19:27] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: All I know is some Royalist on Gaia is paying us to deliver these
[14.01.2022 14:19:35] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Paying very badly I might add
[14.01.2022 14:19:49] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: All Royalist elements withdrew from Bordeaux.
[14.01.2022 14:20:13] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Guest we have been seeing badly paying ghosts *laughs*
[14.01.2022 14:20:24] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Or you've been lied to.
[14.01.2022 14:21:14] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Not easy to fool us, if my big wigs tell me there is a Royalist Count on Gaia, ther is one
[14.01.2022 14:21:30] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: You can tag along if you want
[14.01.2022 14:21:35] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Not easy?
[14.01.2022 14:21:36] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: I'm sure he'd be eager to meet you
[14.01.2022 14:22:04] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Then why is Marseille and Provence currently aligned with the Union?
[14.01.2022 14:22:07] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: God knows it isn't easy around those parts
[14.01.2022 14:22:23] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Did you fail to notice that the Union is composed of traitors and cowards?
[14.01.2022 14:22:36] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Were you born yesterday Royalist?
[14.01.2022 14:22:42] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Who do you think you are talking to *laughs*
[14.01.2022 14:23:06] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: The Union controls This system and us no less than your Count
[14.01.2022 14:23:15] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: And no more
[14.01.2022 14:23:25] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: We leave ideologies to you and the other mad men
[14.01.2022 14:23:28] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: So then you are in the employ of the Union?
[14.01.2022 14:23:35] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: No?
[14.01.2022 14:23:43] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: *scratches head*
[14.01.2022 14:24:06] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: You claim the Union has equal influence to this supposed Count.
[14.01.2022 14:24:13] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: When did I say that?
[14.01.2022 14:24:27] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Your count pays us, we deliver, full stop
[14.01.2022 14:24:36] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: I let you care about the ideology
[14.01.2022 14:24:37] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: This alledged count is not with us.
[14.01.2022 14:24:58] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Well again - what's it to me
[14.01.2022 14:25:01] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: If he were, he would not have remained on Bordeaux.
[14.01.2022 14:25:06] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: He's been saying he is a Royalist
[14.01.2022 14:25:20] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: And he pays...something
[14.01.2022 14:25:24] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: maybe take it up with him
[14.01.2022 14:25:30] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: He may say what he wishes, but he is acting on his own behalf in Bordeaux.
[14.01.2022 14:25:45] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: And thus we care not for the current situation.
[14.01.2022 14:25:47] Rules Tip: Pirates need to keep their demands reasonable. Cargo and Monetary demands that exceed the maximum profit of a trader are viewed as unreasonable. ''Empty'' traders are not excempt from piracy, but the demands asked from them should reflect this.
[14.01.2022 14:26:04] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: lucky for you, that place is a mess
[14.01.2022 14:26:41] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Well whichever Royalist you are - Give us a call if you want. If you can keep it on the down low that is.
[14.01.2022 14:27:06] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: First, a test of loyalty.
[14.01.2022 14:27:12] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: loyalty?
[14.01.2022 14:27:15] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: *laughs*
[14.01.2022 14:27:27] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: You REALLY have no clue who you are talking to do you
[14.01.2022 14:27:35] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: It would appear Marseille has fallen behind on the tax it owes the crown.
[14.01.2022 14:27:39] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Loyalty is a worthless concept
[14.01.2022 14:27:59] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: A sum of four million credits is in order.
[14.01.2022 14:28:01] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Marseille owed nothing to anybody
[14.01.2022 14:28:17] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Ah, but there is where you are wrong.
[14.01.2022 14:28:42] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Please - indulge me
[14.01.2022 14:28:58] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: How can Marseille owe you?
[14.01.2022 14:29:12] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Because it failed to pay the kings tax.
[14.01.2022 14:29:20] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: What "King" ?
[14.01.2022 14:29:39] \*/~GNS-Carnot: Nicolas Sauveterra on the line, Gallic Defence Authority. Corse captain, what is the status?
[14.01.2022 14:29:43] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Are you delirious stranger? What king are you talking about
[14.01.2022 14:29:49] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Status is I am confused
[14.01.2022 14:29:55] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: You know well.
[14.01.2022 14:29:57] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Fine.
[14.01.2022 14:30:05] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: If you do not wish to pay the tax.
[14.01.2022 14:30:06] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: What King?
[14.01.2022 14:30:12] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: I will pay if you explain
[14.01.2022 14:30:13] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: You shall be destroyed.
[14.01.2022 14:30:18] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: King Charles.
[14.01.2022 14:30:27] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: That man is dead surely?
[14.01.2022 14:30:37] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: But not his kingdom.
[14.01.2022 14:30:45] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: We still serve, and the tax is still owed.
[14.01.2022 14:30:46] \*/~GNS-Carnot: Nicolas: That one we did not expect. Send the crew to stations.
[14.01.2022 14:30:55] \*/~GNS-Bonne.Naissance: Brice: Bonjour.
[14.01.2022 14:31:02] RNS-Charente: La'Row: Now this is something one wouldn't expect.
[14.01.2022 14:31:07] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Now, will you pay the sum owed?
[14.01.2022 14:31:08] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: What now?
[14.01.2022 14:31:20] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Or will we have to resolve this matter the hard way?
[14.01.2022 14:31:22] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Owed to whom?
[14.01.2022 14:31:34] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: The crown.
[14.01.2022 14:31:42] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: So the King is alive?
[14.01.2022 14:31:42] \*/~GNS-Carnot: Nicolas: Idiots, there a far big matter here. Brice, form on our flank.
[14.01.2022 14:31:48] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: And in this case, the official who is collecting.
[14.01.2022 14:31:49] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: And you represent Charles?
[14.01.2022 14:32:02] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: You can be attended to next traitor.
[14.01.2022 14:32:13] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Now, ten seconds Corsican.
[14.01.2022 14:32:20] \*/~GNS-Carnot: CIC: Torpedo batteries to full power.
[14.01.2022 14:32:20] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Decide your next course of action.
[14.01.2022 14:32:28] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: You are making no sense, and we both know I can't pay you a tax in Provence
[14.01.2022 14:32:33] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Yes you can.
[14.01.2022 14:32:38] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Eight.
[14.01.2022 14:32:47] \*/~GNS-Carnot: CIC: Fire at will. Forward gunnery to engage.
[14.01.2022 14:32:48] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: So be it.
[14.01.2022 14:32:51] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: requesting assistance
[14.01.2022 14:33:07] RNS-Charente: La'Row: Well, maybe next time. I guess.
[14.01.2022 14:33:18] \*/~GNS-Bonne.Naissance: Brice: I'll let you handle capitaine.
[14.01.2022 14:33:28] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: requesting assistance
[14.01.2022 14:33:30] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: we are under fire
[14.01.2022 14:34:01] \*/~GNS-Bonne.Naissance: Brice: Marc get away from that ship!
[14.01.2022 14:34:20] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: we are taking heavy fire
[14.01.2022 14:34:22] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: requesting assistance
[14.01.2022 14:34:24] MdG/-Marc.Toure:: Negative.
[14.01.2022 14:34:29] \*/~GNS-Bonne.Naissance: Brice: Gunnery open fire.
[14.01.2022 14:36:01] \*/~GNS-Bonne.Naissance: Brice: Corse vessel come close to me!
[14.01.2022 14:36:08] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: attempting to dock
[14.01.2022 14:36:12] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: please move in
[14.01.2022 14:36:50] 2022-01-14 14:36:56 SMT Traffic control alert: UC/-Vacca.Grassa has requested to dock
As the business with the Count on Gaia is over - god rest his soul as that place seems overrun with angry Gaians - I have looked for new profit avenues. Seems like my past Corsair connection has gone cold. The Taurus people seem all but gone.
I have stumbled upon some DTR Fellows and they have clearly replaced the old guard, engaging in massive Artifact excavation operations when I met them.
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[14.01.2022 21:45:57] DTR-Deliberation: Contact
[14.01.2022 21:46:07] Wavefront: greetings
[14.01.2022 21:46:08] DTR-CCS>Megisti.Anesi: Corella: Hola
[14.01.2022 21:46:08] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: What strange place this is!
[14.01.2022 21:46:24] DTR-CCS>Megisti.Anesi: Corella: You're far away from home, kid
[14.01.2022 21:46:25] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: Saluti Corsairs
[14.01.2022 21:46:28] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: Dad?
[14.01.2022 21:46:33] DTR-Havelock: Serrano: Hola.
[14.01.2022 21:46:37] DTR-CCS>Megisti.Anesi: Corella: Mom.
[14.01.2022 21:46:42] DTR-Deliberation: What brings you here?
[14.01.2022 21:46:45] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: You said you left for wine 20 years ago - is that you?
[14.01.2022 21:46:55] DTR-Havelock: Serrano: You seem terribly off course, Corse.
[14.01.2022 21:46:55] DTR-Deliberation: Story of my life.
[14.01.2022 21:47:13] DTR-CCS>Megisti.Anesi: Corella: Son? Is that you?
[14.01.2022 21:47:17] Changing screen mode=windowed
[14.01.2022 21:47:29] DTR-CCS>Megisti.Anesi: Corella: But Eros didn't... Wait... No...
[14.01.2022 21:47:56] DTR-Deliberation: I think someone has had too much whiskey.
[14.01.2022 21:47:58] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: Chi t'ha purtatu finu a qui? Induve si statu?
[14.01.2022 21:48:06] Changing screen mode=full
[14.01.2022 21:48:22] DTR-CCS>Megisti.Anesi: Corella: I don't speak french, sorry
[14.01.2022 21:48:33] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: French?
[14.01.2022 21:48:42] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: Hey you are not my family at all then
[14.01.2022 21:48:44] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: Oh anyways
[14.01.2022 21:49:03] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: It's been a while since I have joined you in battle Corsairs
[14.01.2022 21:49:15] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: What are you up to
[14.01.2022 21:49:20] DTR-CCS>Megisti.Anesi: Corella: Well, this is no battle
[14.01.2022 21:49:23] DTR-CSS>Topo: Marco: When WAS the last time, Senor?
[14.01.2022 21:49:35] DTR-CCS>Megisti.Anesi: Corella: It's an artifact excavation operation
[14.01.2022 21:49:48] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: Is this where you get them? *thinks*
[14.01.2022 21:50:00] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: You wouldn't mind sharing would you?
[14.01.2022 21:50:02] DTR-CCS>Megisti.Anesi: Corella: Can't say, it's a professional secret
[14.01.2022 21:50:14] Leipsanon: Oi, DTR's who's yer visitor?
[14.01.2022 21:50:26] DTR-CSS>Topo: Marco: We're figuring that out right now!
[14.01.2022 21:50:53] DTR-CSS>Topo: M: Well Senor, Our standard rate is 2.500 credits per cargo unit
[14.01.2022 21:51:08] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: I never got a reply from your kind sadly
[14.01.2022 21:51:16] Your cargo is now full.
[14.01.2022 21:51:31] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: I suppose it is past that point now since you have managed to get a licence apparently
[14.01.2022 21:52:12] Your cargo is now full.
[14.01.2022 21:52:49] DTR-CSS>Topo: M: A free sample free of charge
[14.01.2022 21:52:59] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: I was proposing exactly that
[14.01.2022 21:53:12] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: to the corsairs I have contacted all the way back *laughs*
[14.01.2022 21:53:27] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: Maybe you are the new kids on the block so to speak?
[14.01.2022 21:53:36] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: What happened to the . . . Taurus I believe
[14.01.2022 21:53:50] DTR-CSS>Topo: M: Taurus are still around, but greatly diminshed in numbers, Senor
[14.01.2022 21:55:15] Trade.Cart: Hola, amicos.
[14.01.2022 21:55:30] DTR-CSS>Topo: M: Hola!
[14.01.2022 21:55:30] DTR-CCS>Megisti.Anesi: Corella: Hola
[14.01.2022 21:55:33] Trade.Cart: Delos space control did announce a hefty party went ahead for the Knossos.
[14.01.2022 21:55:33] Wavefront: greetings
[14.01.2022 21:55:40] DTR-Havelock: Serrano: Hola, compadre.
[14.01.2022 21:55:40] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: I see
[14.01.2022 21:56:05] DTR-CSS>Topo: Marco: Si! We're refilling our ever growing stashes of Relics!
[14.01.2022 21:56:06] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: Are you off to move these artifacts afterwards?
[14.01.2022 21:56:10] Trade.Cart: Would you be so kind to offer your services to me as well? If that's not an issue.
[14.01.2022 21:56:27] DTR-CSS>Topo: Marco: Not right away Senor, but in near future!
[14.01.2022 21:56:45] Trade.Cart: Haha... by near future you mean in the nearing moments?
[14.01.2022 21:57:01] DTR-CSS>Topo: Marco: No senor, right now we're merely refilling our local depot.
[14.01.2022 21:57:17] DTR-CSS>Topo: Marco: Well, "Depot" might be an understatement given how much armor and guns that thing has.
[14.01.2022 21:57:30] Trade.Cart: You have a storage bay somewhere?
[14.01.2022 21:57:57] DTR-CSS>Topo: Marco: Si, please follow Megisti Anesi after we're done filling it in!
[14.01.2022 21:58:28] Trade.Cart: You have almost a thousand units of Relics floating in space, by the way.
[14.01.2022 21:58:46] DTR-CSS>Topo: M: Please pick them up
[14.01.2022 21:58:52] DTR-CSS>Topo: M: and follow me to the base!
[14.01.2022 21:58:59] Changing screen mode=windowed
[14.01.2022 21:59:13] UC/-Cacciadore-Noir: Tantu longu Corsari
[14.01.2022 21:59:21] Trade.Cart: Bien. Punching coordinates back to Xi.
[14.01.2022 21:59:35] DTR-Deliberation: Follow us.
[14.01.2022 21:59:36] DTR-CSS>Topo: M: Senor! It's below the horizontal plane!
[14.01.2022 22:00:04] Trade.Cart: Most intriguing.
[14.01.2022 22:03:25] DTR-CSS>Topo: Marco: We appreciate Gallic business Senor, feel free to come back for more!
The very persuasive Artifacts merchant on Crete was very adamant not to take the goods back to Provence with me, but rather that Planet Manhattan has a short term spike in demand for the Artifacts now.
I have indulged the stranger, and under the flag of our Ùn hè micca una Cumpagnia Frontale S.P.A. legal merchant front company went to smuggle the Artifacts to the planet.
And sure enough, the merchant was not lying - these are belli prufitti indeed!
I am not sure how long this demand will last, so if you want an easy job that pays way better than the nobody of a Count we just risked our lives for, I'd suggest you jump on the opportunity.
It would appear the new profitable endeavour isn't exactly a cake walk - blatantly racist =LSF= agents are floating around - and I believe the local Unione Corse - the self serving and corrupt corporation these Sirians call the LPI might have been bluffing and was trying to get a bribe out of me before the racist arrived.
To maintain my disguise I have been alternating with actual Consumer Goods deliveries as well
which allowed me not only to best not only these two - but avoid more LSF vessels and even a Bounty Hunter floating around New York without anyone managing to prove what I was up to.
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[15.01.2022 15:36:41] LPI-T:Roy[PO]: You sure are speedy.
[15.01.2022 15:36:47] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Saluti officer!
[15.01.2022 15:36:47] LPI-T:Roy[PO]: Too bad, I caught a glimpse.
[15.01.2022 15:37:07] LPI-T:Roy[PO]: Hold.
[15.01.2022 15:37:27] LPI-T:Roy[PO]: You realise I caught a glimpse of your Artifacts in your hold right?
[15.01.2022 15:37:36] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: That is strange officer
[15.01.2022 15:37:42] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: I don't see any artifacts?
[15.01.2022 15:37:47] LPI-T:Roy[PO]: Before you docked.
[15.01.2022 15:37:53] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: I am a humble food hauler
[15.01.2022 15:37:59] LPI-T:Roy[PO]: Yeah, sure.
[15.01.2022 15:38:18] LPI-T:Roy[PO]: Seeing as I didn't catch it on ship cam fast enough, you're free.
[15.01.2022 15:38:34] LPI-T:Roy[PO]: If I catch you again, you're going to be blown to pieces understood?
[15.01.2022 15:38:44] =LSF=Echo: Huh.
[15.01.2022 15:38:49] =LSF=Echo: Gauls acting up?
[15.01.2022 15:38:54] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Not sure what you are talking about - why would one threaten a humble Consumer goods hauler?
[15.01.2022 15:39:04] LPI-T:Roy[PO]: Yeah, cut the act.
[15.01.2022 15:39:12] LPI-T:Roy[PO]: And go.
[15.01.2022 15:40:07] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Now what are goods you would recommend to take back to Provence for a humble hauler like me?
[15.01.2022 15:40:27] =LSF=Echo: Take your wothless Gaul ass and keep it there.
[15.01.2022 15:41:13] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Our Merchant corporations happens to haul from Marseille, which you might consider predominantly Corsican actually
[15.01.2022 15:41:28] =LSF=Echo: I don't recall asking.
[15.01.2022 15:41:30] LPI-T:Roy[PO]: Be on your way.
[15.01.2022 15:41:41] LPI-T:Roy[PO]: Before I change my mind.
[15.01.2022 15:41:46] UC/-Vacca.Grassa: Very well
• Recipient: Haut Commandement Unione Corse.
• Sender: Équipier Tracii Draco.
• Source: Monte Cinto Station, Provence.
• Subject: Monte Cinto Station Status.
Saluti,
Now that Monte Cinto station is fully active. what plans do the high command for it's use? We have the capability to produce jump drives, but is that profitable? I have a contact for a Junker miner out of Liner Brixton who offered Military Salvage at à prix réduit.
Équipier Tracii Draco has been hard at work with Monte Cinto. The base is now important for our smuggling activities, and is becoming the most important structure of Marseille orbit itself.
It is my belief that we need to bolster and expand the base, so that it is worthy of it's location and stature.
We have begun using the Junkers who albeit have hidden well could not escape the Corse's gaze in Languedoc.
Their liner is ready to purchase Nox for a solid price, and we have been getting Sirian Reinforced Alloy in return, to combine with ourHull Segments and make the base stronger. I think we should be able to count with their discretion and even if they start to flap their mouth about our Nox activities it shouldn't be too hard to wipe them out by leaking their location to the authorities, who shouldn't believe a word they say anyways because of their criminal status in Gallia.