For today, I first ran with AlecTrevelyan to Colorado. We chased down a trader carrying luxury food when I saw a very peculiar evasion tactic. This particular trader would go straight up until he was out of range of all scanners on the trade lane and planet level, then drop down towards his docking target. He also would avoid all asteroid and ice fields. I have yet to test whether this works with radiation. Could be useful. We chases this trader to Ontario then to Colorado when we stopped him and taxed for 2 million credits.
After that event, we went into the silver fields and met a miner with two CSVs. Attracting a lot of attention when we requested for credits, a Xeno and a police showed up. The police destroyed my Dagger while Alec was demanding credits from the miner. Alec later forced the police to flee and the Xeno engaged him. They fought for a long time until a ceasefire was met. Alec later had a mine misfire which atomized his ship. The Xeno hauled in his pod.
A few hours later, Elliot, the Spang brothers, and me were disrupting traffic in Magellan. At first it was very slow work with all of the traders escaping or docking until we caught a lucky break on the California-Freeport 4 lane with 3 traders coming all at once. All of them payed their taxed.
We were contacted by a man who claimed to be a former Lane Hacker, along the name of Albert. When a luxury liner came into the system, he knew the IFF of it even before it came into scanner range. That ship was carrying 480 food rations. Since it refused to pay, we chased it to Manchester, killing it about 15K from Sheffield Station. Oddly however, he paid each of us 1 million each, for a total of 4 million which was our demand in the first place.
That sums up my day. Obanno Out.
...encryption.in.progress...hack.terminated...
Jim.HawkinsIndependent Lane Hacker(Sabre/Bactrian) LuxannaIndependent Trader(Mammoth)