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--CommID: LPI Captain Jack Bauer--
-Location: Fort Bush, New York-
I believe that the LPI has no reason to endorse this bounty. If there is a Zoner committing a crime, report it to the LPI. Any person/s trying to claim this bounty in Liberty space will be arrested for attempted murder. Be warned, the penalty of attempted murder is death.
Quote:[*]Assault, Attempted murder and/or Murder; Defined as the unlawful attacking of one individual or individuals by another individual or individuals with intent to Unsuccessfully/successfully damage or terminate said person or persons. Most commonly applied to one vessel attacking another with intend to cause harm. Penalty is death.
Interspace, I highly suggest you remove this bounty.
Signed,
Captain Bauer
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[10:10:28 AM] Josh (Dejavu): Bauer is legendary to the LPI, I joined because I wanted to be that epic.
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Comm ID: Aurelia Silvan
Recipient(s): Ian Collard
"No evidence will be publicly displayed, because we are in the process of gathering more." Sounds a lot like you don't have enough to fill a thimble and are disparately trying to detain Zoners in an attempt to find something legitimate. I fail to see how the murder/kidnapping law is pointless at all in this situation. You are committing those crimes by making this bounty on innocent civilians. I will continue to accuse you until you provide that 'dirt.'
I keep repeating myself because there are several things you fail to understand. No evidence will be publicly displayed, because we are in the process of gathering more. Private investigators have been hired, but that is just not enough. And stop quoting the murder / kidnapping law, it's pointless. Unless you openly side with the black market dealers, pirate arms dealers, terrorist financial supporters and suppliers and a variety of contraband smugglers. We just need to have a word with some of them, then they get released within a few hours, unlike the LPI that sometimes hold people on their prison ships for a period that's over the limit.
Before we start to accuse each other, maybe it would be a good time to rethink your strategy before we start pulling out the dirt.
There is nothing we "fail to understand", Squire Collard.
We understand quite well, and we welcome the opportunity to demonstrate.
While it was "jolly good" of you to submit to public outcry and exclude the Temporary Autonomous Zoners from your little "pogrom", you are hereby on notice that as members of the Council of Zoners, the TAZ will stand shoulder to shoulder with its Zoner brethren against this "witch hunt".
You want to detain sombunall Zoners for "interrogation", do you?
Give us a time and a place sir, and odds are that you will have more Zoners show up clamoring for their turn to be interrogated than you can shake a bloody stick at!
What this bounty is supposed to achieve is to find out who the real Zoners are. The lot of them criminal elements is using your ID codes as a disguise. Pperhaps if you have done something about that yourself using your council, this could have been avoided? If you claim coherence of the entire Zoner faction, then act on it. But I believe you won't, since a lot of the Zoners care for themselves, and they often cross the clearly defined line of legality in Liberty while doing it.
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Comm ID: Doc Holliday
To: Mr. Ian Collard
You are still grossly misguided. You said:
Quote:The lot of them criminal elements is using your ID codes as a disguise.
I don't suppose you ever heard of the GST? They once flew the Zoner ID until they were caught and we distanced ourselves from them. They were caught and dealt with.
You say we only care for ourselves. If we were so selfish, why are we allowing settlements of war refugees from the conflict between Bretonia and Kusari on Erie? Yes, I know, it was annexed by Liberty but we were there first. We also settle a lot of them elsewhere, giving transport to them. Still think we're selfish?
You keep bringing up legality. Furnish your proof and put the subject to rest. I think you have a personal vendetta against Zoners and this is your way of settling it.
Incoming Transmission Comm ID: Sgt. Aiden Maggard Source: Ft Bush, New York
I would like to echo Captain Bauer. If any person is caught firing on a Zoner vessel, that isn't breaking any laws, they will be dealt with accordingly. This bounty is no different than hauling someone in because their grandmother's cousin was a Xeno. It goes against the very freedom that we in Liberty fight to protect.
**Incoming Message**
From: Phyrus Emperor - Gran Canaria, Omega 49
To: Mr. Ian Collard
' Wrote:I keep repeating myself because there are several things you fail to understand. No evidence will be publicly displayed, because we are in the process of gathering more.
What you saying here sir is that you have openly issued a bounty on our people withOUT completing an investigation? If the evidence you have is really enough to issue a bounty, why not share that evidence with us?
If that is not the case, which means you are looking for more evidence to indeed proof us 'guilty', what gives you the right or power to issue such a bounty on an entire community?
Most (and I'm talking about 95%) of the Zoners are good and hard working folk, who doesn't just support the well being of our own, but also keeps YOUR and all the other houses' economy going by making sure the trading keeps flowing between us and the houses, while they blast their money away on their wars.
If you, my good sir, so much as think to start taking in Zoners at their expense, they will start to avoid trading with Liberty altogether.
And sooner or later you are going to feel the pinch when you one day can't find any sugar for your coffee or spare parts for your ships, or with the prices so high that you probably would have to go without.
And when that happens, my good sir, YOUR government will come looking for you and hang you out to dry for damaging both sides with this ridiculous and unlawful bounty which you cannot even yet proof!
You have opened up a pandora's box here, my good sir, and I suggest you close it quickly before hell breaks loose .
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Comm ID: [TAZ]Doc Holliday
To: Collard; His BHG Help Mr. Martin O'Reilly, Penetrator and Adrian Shepard
*slams desk in rage*
Maybe it's time for some Klingon brand of diplomacy! I will say this once, Collard, you're illegal bounty activities will cease immediately. I have no more patience for you. You have no grounds to interrogate anyone in one of these "Interspace parties."
As for you Bounty Hunters who aid him, check your ID's. You support lawfulness, not this sham that Collard is dragging you into. Mr. O'Reilly, you threaten another Zoner with a throat cutting and I'll see to it personally you never land on another one our bases again. There was no call for that!. If ANYONE continues supporting Collard's lie, they too will get the same fate. LPI and the LN have already declared this bounty illegal so I think that's where it ends!
You know, I can complain, too. but it's just way below my standards. get your capital ships out of Liberty, they just don't belong there.
And if you don't know what we're on about, it has something to do with one or more Zoner ID'd weapon dealers in Liberty supporting highly bountied criminals.
Also, this bounty gives the Zoners an actual reason to seek out the remote systems as they should, not be hugging the Liberty Navy and bribing the LPI. Consider it a favour to you all.
Also your lack of self-control might be the lead to your real intentions.
We do have enough to to prove our accusations, however that would serve no purpose, it would be dealt with and swept under the carpet. What we found we believe is just the tip of an iceberg. Tell me which investigatorwith a tiny bit of senseinhishead immediately informs the potential criminals ofthe progress? Some of you who are being so adamant here might just be found guilty in the end. Who knows.
If you don't want to answer our questions, live happily ever after ourside the places where you can cause harm to Liberty Commerce by supporting the criminals with your dirty machinations. Have you heard of insurance rates running high lately? Oh wait, you didn't, because it's "none of your business", right? In all your neutrality you can't evenafford to getyour cargo insured, becausewe would trackthe criminals to their nest,which you are tryingto prevent, I suppose. Proofof that being two corsair shipstoday, resupplying at Ames research station, thathave been later on spotted in Colorado, Ontario and California. I guess you're all happy providingthem with all the supplies so they can later on kill innocents in house space to satisfy their greed.