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Sender: Petrucci, John
To: Council of Dons
Subject: Request for an Exchange
Greetings,
This is Petrucci of the VR. Today, I come to you with a proposition.
I have been conducting considerable research on these Outcast weapons of yours known as "Inferno Pulse Cannons". I have heard, and seen what they can do in the right hands. From experience and intelligence reports that we have gathered, I have determined that if the Vagrant Raiders were allowed to come into possession of a few of these pulse cannons, several problems could be solved for us, and in return, we may be able to assist you with some of your own.
Several sources of mine has told me of a problem that you have been having, and that is of per say, "Rogue" Outcasts squandaring Outcast resources, by taking Tridente-class Gunships into Liberty, away from the Warzone, and using them for personal gain. In return for allowing us to use several Infernos, we are willing to scout for you in Liberty. We can provide you with the names, identification cards, and loadouts of these unauthorized gunboats in Liberty.
One of our main problems is of a tactical nature. In response to the growing amounts of Tridente gunships in Liberty, the lawful forces have been creating more and more Gunboat class vessels, and the Bounty Hunters Guild has been deploying increasing numbers of Bottlenose and Orca class vessels. This is most troubling, as not all VR own Broadsword-class bombers, they mainly fly Sabres and Bayonets. These Gunships have been tearing lone, or paired VR Fighters to pieces. However, if they were armed with Inferno pulse cannons, they could be given at least a fighting chance against the Gunboats.
In addition to identifying the astray gunboats, we are also willing to offer intelligence of the following kind:
Any intelligence that can be gathered on the growing movement of Corsair ships in Liberty.
Positioning of Anti-Slaver/Cardamine hostiles along the escorting routes from Liberty to Omicron Alpha
Any significant or unusual mobilization of Liberty Security Force or Liberty Navy forces
As sort of a down payment on our promise, I have a report of an Anti-Slaver group in the Sigma-13 system. Information from the Junker involved in the incident is sketchy, as it takes hours at a time for him to arouse from his unstable mental state, but he remembers seeing three ships, a Raven's Talon, and Civillian Roc Bombers. The Junker captain said he was ambushed near the Sigma 13 to Frankfurt Jump Hole. The Civillian Rocs had two Supernova Anti-matter cannons between them, and the Raven's Talon was heavily outfitted, with GOLDEN BLADE Codenamed-weapons. That was all the pilot could tell us, before he had to be restrained in his padded white cell. We recommend that all Slave ships headed for that area are informed of the situation, and have a heavy escort, which of course, we are still willing to provide.
As an additional token of out intent, I relay this information concerning the Corsairs to you: After escorting a Junker Slaver vessel into the Border Worlds, I encountered a Corsair cruiser in Bering. I quickly shrouded myself in the nearby asteroid field where I noticed the presence of an unaffiliated fighter, escorting the cruiser. Before they left sensor range I scanned the Cruiser, and from the quantities of ammunition, nanobots, small arms, and nuclear devices aboard, I would say it was ready for battle. Needless to say, the presence of the unaffiliated escort is concerning. The Corsairs do indeed have people sympathetic to their cause in Liberty. We must find them, before they can do real damage to both of our operations.
As a small side note, just prior to this message, I sent out my Head of Intelligence on a fact-finding mission. He should be able to report here within the next few days on his findings.
I hope this arrangement is fair, the information and the credits necessary to construct the Inferno Pulse Cannons, for the Cannons themselves. This is a large matter to consider, and we thank you for your consideration and await a timely response.
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Ehem, I ain't no Don or anything, but I'm one of them so called "rogue outcast" I fly a Tridente, and i hang around Liberty a lot. That part, you got correct. But squandering outcast's resources?? No sir, that's not me. *lights cigar* Will you excuse me for a moment? *walks away* Damnit i told you to get me one made in malta! *walks back* Where was I... Ah! I don't waist valuable resources... In fact, before I even obtained this fine ship their weren't many Tridentes outside of outcast space. Another thing, I don't use this ship for my own selfish gain. When i pirate, it's for the glory of Malta. And with that money i earn from doing so, I buy goods and such from the outcasts and our allies. Maybe others do as you have said, but I don't. So before you go "Investigating" about who "Rogue outcasts" are, better make sure you know what you're doing.
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[ComID: Giovanni Leoni]
[Source: Omicron Alpha]
"Death Runner" next time you intercept a transmission directed to the Don's I will see to it personally that your head is served on a plater to Pittsburgh Sand Worms.
Mr. Petrucci, we would first like to thank you for your assistance in several matters, including the Cardamine shipment fiasco of recent weeks.
Now to business, while we would quite happily allow you access to our tech, in exchange for information and your assistance tracking down our spoiled little gunship captains. We need numbers, we cannot simply allow you to take as many as you want. Come back with a number and if we have that number we will shall make the arrangements.
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Sender: Petrucci, John
To: Council of Dons
Subject: Inferno Numbers
I apologize for the breach in the frequency. If my communications officer doesn't get this problem fixed.. well, heh. Also a message to you intruder - hijack any VR/Council of Dons frequency again and I will personally hunt you down and kill you myself. Or worse, I'll let Mr. Fierceshot kill you, and you really, really wouldn't want that.
I have consulted with my advisers, and we have decided that five Inferno Pulse cannons would suit our needs quite nicely for the time being, if that is an acceptable number. Perhaps later, after further exchanges of information, and the growth of VR, we may be able to assist you financially in the construction of more of these weapons.
Please get back to me if five is an acceptable number.
SENDER: Alexander Novak TO: Related Parties SUBJECT: Communications
Greetings, gentlemen. This is Alexander Novak, lead intel officer of the VR.
I've been notified of our current communications problem, and I and the team are working to get it fixed. Seems a few snoopy underlings thought it would be fun to disable encryption for a short while.. They will be handled with.
Until then, I'm manually changing the communication's frequency to be picked up only on port 1994, and I'll be forwarding instructions to you on howto change your outgoing frequency.
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Sender: Petrucci, John
Target:
Greetings.
I have obtained some details on the status of the Navy's fleet, based on bits of information I have obtained.
It seems the Navy has many excess resources at hand, as they were able to deploy an Assault Carrier to blast my Bomber out of the sky... if they have the resources to fuel one of those monsters for short, pointless operations such as that, they may be more powerful than we originally deemed. There was also a gathering of other Liberty Navy fighters and bombers in New York.
They later deployed the same Assault Carrier to Mojave. It is my suspicion that they are looking for Cardamine transports. Either way, when we got there to investigate more fully, the ship had vanished without a trace.
Hopefully you, and/or the SOB and the 101st can take this into account when moving forces into Liberty.
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Sender: Petrucci, John
Target: Council of Dons
Greetings,
I have gathered intelligence on a Rogue Outcast Tridente in Liberty. This one had the call sign of Krull. After talking to him for a while, he seemed quite content for the rest of the Outcast fleet to fight and die against the Corsairs while he had fun in Liberty. When asked why he has an Outcast Warship in Liberty, he said he likes the firepower, and likes to "Pop some Liberty Navy with it".
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Sender: Petrucci, John
Target: Council of Dons
Greetings Council of Dons.
Just an update with some more ships sighted in Liberty.
The Outcast Storta SeaEagle was trying to "dock" with Mactan. I quickly told him to "moor" with the station, and demanded to know where he was going. He said he was going to Buffalo base to visit the Rogues.. I doubt they would enjoy having a Storta drawing attention there.
And another Storta by the name of Exorius , seemingly sitting outside of Manhattan unscathed. Perhaps he has some kind of jamming device so the automated defenses did not turn him into molten slag? I have no idea.
Hopefully your 101st squads might find this useful
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