Firstly, I have continued to transport food to Planet Crete, along with helping the
Corsairs in other matters. Yesterday (As of this transmission), I answered two
Corsair distress calls. Both of them were rather urgent. Once I had assisted a pilot
by the callsign of Ryu - at great risk to my own ship and crew - I received a second
Mayday signal. Both Ryu and myself rushed to the scene to save a third pilot from
a swarm of bounty hunters.
Today (Again, as of this transmission) Reuben and myself ran into a bit of a problem
in Magellan, Leeds, and Cambridge. A ship with the callsign of Barbarian had begun
requesting a cargo transfer, He wanted to swap hull panels for the superconductors
we were bringing to Crete. This went on for some time, until we arrived in Cambridge.
At that point, Barbarian had begun making aggressive maneuvers, and had trained
his guns on my ship. I ordered my gun crews to target him and standby to fire, as
did Reuben. At that point Barbarian opened fire on me, and Reuben and I had no
other options. We returned fire, damaging and eventually destroying his very heavily
armored pirate transport. He informed us from his escape pod that we were now
blacklisted, and that he planned to have us for trophies, to which I responded
"Good luck with that."
As second in command of the Deep Trading Consortium, I am authorizing the use
of deadly force against Barbarian and any of his compatriots. If he impedes us in any
way he is to be destroyed. I am ordering that all convoys for the next two weeks have
full bomber escort, and that our flagships are present at all times to deter, and if need
be annihilate any opposition we may encounter.
If I may make a request of Kara Wall. I would like you to download and install
a neural-net protocol called "S-KYP3." The DTC uses it very heavily for communication.
I will send the handles of Jules and myself in a private channel.
:::TRANSMISSION INCOMING:::
:::COMM ID: Deep Viper: Leon:::
:::BEGIN TRANSMISSION:::
:::VIDEO UPLINK ID VALID:::
:::BEGIN VIDEO UPLINK:::
Leon, escort pilot reporting.
As Captain Reuben stated, we got some experience in fighting capitals earlier, and the Viper is broken in properly. She'll be combat capable as soon as the engineers have fitted a new engine, the cruiser blew out the starboard ramjets.
Nothing else to report.
Leon, signing out.
:::SIGNAL LOST:::
:::TRANSMISSION END:::
If nothing is worth fighting for, then why are you fighting?
Are you brave?
Stupid?
Or do you simply fight because you have nothing better to do?
Reuben, Say what!
A nomad battleship, that is a dangerous foe.
You are lucky to be alive.
So this "Barbarian" attempted in trading with you and he opened fire.
He should keep some business to him self,.
But my sister seems to prefers to stay neutral with factions or groups.
There probably was no other option but still, I can see her more diplomatic side bitch about this.
I will take your suggestion to Julie.
On a other note, good job with your communication array, it's up and running and it's broadcasting efficient.
Alex, it's good that you give the Corsair a helping hand.
Your Order is understood.
I'm not sure how wise it is, but I will follow it.
Kara Wall, I'm also looking forward to escorting you.
Leon, you will get Viper up and running again, I will need you with escorting.
Galactic Communication Aray Transmission
Encryption: Public Viewing.
From: Deep_blue: Jules
.:Incoming Video Transmission:.
We have received a donation for the big sum ahead.
Give me a cheer and a thank to the anonymous donator.
Now.
Members of the DTC
A sudden jolt of Jules her hands starts up the encryption program. 0100011110001110000011100
1000100111000010100000101
1001001001111000011000010
1100001000111000101001010
0001010001000010000110001
Decrypting Message
Decryption Complete
"We will need to obtain 500.000.000 Credits.
We will need to have more members, we will need more communications on the Communication Channel.
We will need to have more fun." Jules screams out
"Let us grow in size and in wealth!!" She clutches her hand up high at the thought of profit.
Picked up a shipment of synth' weed today from that Cryer station out in the Sigmas.
Kara out. Took it though Kusari, right under their noses *chuckles*. Sold it all on the Lancaster Trade Center in Newcastle to a bunch of kids, you won't believe how much them potheads will pay for a bar of weed.
It seemed we lost contact with you Krill and we assumed the worst.
You gave us quite the scare.
You might want to get out of that radio active field, before well, we lose you for good.
Contact me or Alex in the ship Deep_Cyan to take some steps to the Medium Echelon rank.
Well the potheads do pay well.
It might have been a bit risky going through Kusari without escorts.
How did it go?, did you find anything of value?
I hope you earned a bit of profit.
Kusari isn't that dangerous these days so long as you stay out of the trade lanes, seems anyone who'd have a problem with us is to distracted by wars or piracy. I didn't find anything interesting, just the odd station here and there, that's been placed out of the way, but nothing we could use. I do believe I may have found a new route for our trade. In Newcastle, where I dropped off the herb, Super Alloys can be picked up relativity cheap, then can be shipped to Munich, the system next door to the Sigma star cluster.