Incoming Transmission to: Arbiter James Trenton; Subj: Firestalker.Drones

[sindroms]

Hey there, you mad bastard. Guess who?!

I just had the chance to open up the first batch of my experimental drones to see how the lil' buggers were doing around in Liberty and I was glad to see that your vessels were not on the execution protocol list. Even more nice to see that your boys actually found them useful.

So let's talk business! Want some?

I just finished patching them up so they don't try to shoot my own face off after some 'tard decided to hire them the moment I lumped them out of our cargo bay. I am still patching the old girl up after that encounter, but at least I know that the damn things do their job done. Might be a bit careful around them 'tho.

Think about the offer, because it seems that the admiralty are not all that amused about them and I need to get them out of Liberty as fast as possible. Yeah...

Though as I said, I wouldn't like them to go to waste, and I know that someone always needs to be shot for your side of the deal, so....interested?

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[JunkerTown]

Hello again Prosper.
I thought I made it clear that you were not going to contact me here.
All of our 'talks' were to be done ship to ship or face to face.
I seem to remember having this conversation with you at the bar on Manhatten.
Even though this is a private frequency and a secured comm.. I can't be too careful.
Oh well what's done is done so I digress.
You finally got the lil buggers operational eh?
Good to see the credits, blueprints and components were put to good use.
Never thought you could actually pull this off but seeing them in action I must say.... impressive.
Several organizations have been making waves in our little pool.
It would be nice to have these drones around to serve as "lifeguards".
So yes I am highly interested.. please tell me more?

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[sindroms]

Ah, cut the shit, man.
If I had contacted you via the ways you told me, I'd be like the others and waiting for weeks on you.
Nothing sparks a swifter answer than the eagerness to tell someone that they are doing it wrong.

Anyway, I will keep this short and sweet. The project was pretty damn succesful, the holes in the Long Range Justice are proof of that. I was first sort of doubtful to mix in a few Arrastra frames in the fold, but in the end they did the job just as well. Sadly, their core is not enough to power more powerful anti-snub weapons. Will have to use G8 ones instead.

Anyway, your guys at Rochester were nice and quick to manufacture the first ten drones, out of which five now remain active. A 50% success rate on such a raw project is more than I was willing to hope for, man.

After that, I added the software and...well, so far so good. Sadly we physically need to detain them to update the programming for any bugs we find, since the software tries to mimic AI thought processes and at least try to give them some basic autonomy. Very, VERY basic, mind.

The drones are currently equipped with both anti-snub and anti-cap loadouts, most of them rigged with nova torpedoes or Supernova Antcannons. Lookie what we dug out from the memory banks, heh.

Anyway, I think they have passed the initial test, we have them tied down and are performing the latest updates to the software. Shall we put them to good work then?

What did you have in mind?

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[JunkerTown]

Ya well I am very busy these days and sometimes get delayed.
Still seems you have not learned to be patient but anyway..
The first order of business is to get these things out of Liberty.
Since the crew at Rochester is rather nervous about having them there.
Plus quite frankly we have no use for them in Liberty but rather in Bretonia.
We will send a ship equipped with docking bays to safely transport them to Leeds.

I have contacted Rayburn already about their impending arrival.
The dockmaster has been instructed to make preparations to store them.

I will be there to input the appropriate amount of data creds.
Should be more than enough to get the operation started.

We are refitting the transport's docking bays to hold the drones for travel.
As soon as that is done it will proceed to Rochester.
Stand by for further instructions.

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