We started looking for corporate villains with Mr. Sangunetti and a mercenary callsigned Damnation in California. Mr. Sanguinetti took position near the New York gate along the trade lane, Damnation was watching the traffic at the Magellan gate, though that was unecessary, and I was watching the Ontario gate. With this setup we were monitoring most of the traffic in the system, but even so our only catches were a small Ageira mining ship near Mojave, which we had to disengage because of a nearby Navy cruiser patrol, and an independent trader with little cargo. The rest were an Outcast slaver, a Zoner smuggling counterfeit software and a Junker smuggling cardamine (he offered to fill my hold with it before I could even ask).
We noticed a group of Liberty Rgoues operating in the system, so we moved to Colorado before we would draw the Navy's attention.
Segment of communication while in California here.
In Colorado we took position near the trade lanes on both sides and the mercenary was monitoring incoming traffic at the NY gate. Tha basic idea was to him following the target in the trade lane and warning us to distrupt it, since the traders dont know he is working for us, wont start running back to NY when they see him at the gate. Later an Outcast gunboat (Levi) and a Hacker gunship (The Barbaric Fortune) joined our team. With them we had enough ships to watch the Ontario jump hole too. Mr. Sanguinetti was at the NY-Pueblo lane, Levi at the NY-Denver lane, The Barbaric Fortune was watching the Ontario hole and Damnation was still at the NY gate. I was ready to move to either location to assist when needed, but in the meantime I was trying to locate a miner in the silver field, but with no luck (he was somewhere above the plane, always cruising away when I was 12K away). Since the decreased traffic in Liberty we only got two transports worth anything, but no one got past our blockade. After Mr. Sanguinetti's departure we considered to pay a visit in NY, but before regrouping at the gate, the mercenary informed us about incoming LSF and Navy ships, so we decided retreating to Ontario. I still need to practice communication while evading corporate lackeys in an asteroid field, though.
Segment of communication while in Colorado here.