Officer Marcus Wright reporting in, Captain of the Edge series.
My usual ship the VPS-Edge is currently out of comission due to problems with the Zoners, which will be cleared up one way or the other. I currently fly the the Edge III, a Havoc bomber.
Upon returning to Bretonia from a mission to the freeports in Omicron I encounted a Corsair |Sails pirate who recounted an interesting story about an engagement with some VPS earlier that day. I seems that you made an impression (after you were destroyed) as he suggested that a shoot on sight policy might be used with the VPS. After leaving without incident I come back here to say to my fellow VPS that we are a SECURITY group, not some random thugs for hire, so please be a little careful with our targets before WE become a target. I would hate a bounty on us from the Corsair Council.
Now to those in the VPS I currently hold the VPS-Fund, queries to matters of money can be made to me if our CO is unavailable.
I also put together the VPS fleet, the Dodge, Hammer and Strike. If want to use these ships then you can contact me for information about access codes and software. If you have any requests for a ship type to be added then I'll look into that.
ah, sorry about that then, you see i was doing an escort job for the BAF, and the Corsairs came in hostility. i then engaged with the BAF (as part of the escort,) we were also outnumbered, so when Scout told me if he needed anything, i gave him my location and he engaged with me, but we (I(dont know what happened after i got knocked out)) didn't make it anyway.
so let me get this clear so i don't mess anything up again. Are we ONLY to assist non faction members? from my understanding we take any lawful job that we can get, (including pirate to pirate). if we engage a group, or an individual, it is likely that we will get a bounty on our heads anyway...
if we assist the corsairs in attacking mollys or some other local group, we might get listed on a bounty as well!
but perhaps my actions were overboard, i will be more careful in my decisions from now on.
- Leroy Lance
p.s. if im doing a long term patrol, how do you suggest i make it clear that I'm not a default hostile?
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This is Garrick,
I feel we were in the right engaging the Corsair forces in Dublin system. On both occasions I engaged, the Corsairs were already in a fight with the BAF. Any other time I have encountered the Corsairs we have not engaged one another. Reason's being first, I didn't witness any pirate activities.. they was just flying about. Second, I am almost always outnumbered. Without witnessing any pirate activities I wouldn't engage any hostiles, unless there's a bounty on them and I feel I could take them 1 on 1.
In these situations, the Corsairs where the hostile forces and we were just doing our jobs.. Look at the gun cams from my last report, and my report on this coming Friday will have the battle from yesterday you mentioned. Unless you request a report as soon as possible so I can show the gun cam footage from it as evidence. Yes both of us VPS pilots were spaced.. the odds were probably 3 vs. 1 and the HMS-Royal.Sovergn wasn't cleared to engage, so we didnt have the support of the Battleship. They picked us apart 1 at a time.
Here's the current bounty board.. I do not see the |sails on it though.. Maybe they should be but that's not my decision. We obiously need some clarity on this situation. Once again, I did not engage these hostiles for the bounty.. I engaged them because they were in a fight with BAF and BPA.
Section 1 - General Bounties
Bounties Available on:
Within Sovereign Space of the United Kingdom of Bretonia + Magellan, Cortez and Omega3:
•Official vessels of the Gaian organisation "Nature's Last Hope" [NLH]
•Official vessels of the criminal organisation the "Lane Hackers": [LH]
•Official vessels of the terrorist organisation "Sirius Coalition Revolutionary Army": SCRA|
•Vessels of the pirate gang the "Bretonian Buccaneers": Buc|
Within Sovereign Space of the United Kingdom of Bretonia, all bordering systems (Omega3, Magellan, Cortez, Omega49, Omega50, Omega5) and all of Taus:
•Corsairs of the Benitez, TBH and HAF clans ONLY
•ANY identifiable and hostile Kusarians (KNF/KSP/Hogosha/FA/Samura/Kishiro)
Officer Garrick |Sails was informing us of that there might be a Corsair Shoot On Sight order on use in the Future. So your concern is not full.
Thank you Edge for this IMPORTANT information that you have gathered.
In notice I wish that you all keep operating as you are. As the Corsairs are bountied by Bretionia they are a target and most likely to end up with bounties on our heads from them. If they do enforce that on us we will respond with bounties on them internally.
If this current Politics goes the way it is going with the Corsairs we may end up getting more backing from Bretionia.
I will be also be noting that due to the recent information that any new recruit that is not skilled nor exprienced in combat, is not to be stationed in Dublin Nor Bretionia if we do find ourselves on Shoot on Sight orders from the Corsairs it will also be extended to the rest of Bretionia. This is to Minimise new ship costs and casualties. Only those that are either skilled or expreinced in combat will operate in those areas.
I would like to say I would like to see at least 2 recruits by the weekend in fighters or bombers. Any one who recruits some one will be payed a bonus of 2 Million Sirius Credits from our funds.
Also I have got another message from Lucrative.Inc who have said that they have payed there full amount of 100 Million Credits Now.
Edge can you confirm this for me please.
If it is Confirmed we will be escorting Lucrative'Inc on demand. If you start an escort for them please provide guncam shots of the time you start escorting, also saying "escorting Lucrative.Inc" On a open Comm.
Take guncams for every hole you take along with time, and when you end, another guncam with "Ending Lucrative.Inc Escort". Then send those guncams to me or Edge and we can the send payment for you. (Private note: it will be safer to go to Edge, and may be quicker, as it does take time to gather funds via myself due to the fact that I am very busy)
Also we still have 1 Million Credits from No_Mass I think that is right. Please if you see him/her out in flight please contact them about it. The credits have been placed in VPS-Fund for safety. I hope we can return the credits or do something for this pilot soon. I have not managed to find his/her neural net either, as you can imagine there are to manner Nueral nets to go thought one by one.
I see no fault on your part lads, I act on what I heard. Looks like we're going to have a bit of trouble from the Corsairs, but I guess that means we're making an impression, good work there. Anyone who wants some extra training against any ship class (up to gunboat) can arrange a time with me. For note I can be around 20:00-22:00 SMT if people need me to but 2 hours advance wrning would be good since thats an odd time for me. My usual patrol times are sometime between 5:00-13:00 SMT.
A report on my lastest patrol, I escorted a miner (Name 'Quenrecq' I think, a bit hard to remember) and encounted a [4K] corsair gunboat, after disrupting him to allow my employer to escape he attacked me. After a short fight an outcast fighter jumped in to the aid of the corsair, I retreated safely to the Essex. While my employer was readying himself for the run to Munich I engaged in a dual with the corsair (the outcast had left due to the essex). Unfortunately my skills as a bomber pilot are nill, the result was obvious. After a quick repair I escorted the miner to Munich without incident.
A quick message to VPS pilots, we have a new member currently going by the name VPS-The_Hone_Ranger, though he might be using other ships as well. I'm sure he'll introduce himself soon.
On a side note, there have been several battles in Dublin between pirates and the BAF, I've joined the BAF in helping drive off the pirates. As a update on my ships, the Edge II and III are now Kursari Explores, I found that bombers are not my thing.
Also LucrativeTransport.Inc has paid 100 Million creadit to the Fund, please give him your full and free support. Contact me for payment for escorting him, pilots who get good reports from him will get a bounus so be nice.
I have realised that I have not stated Officer pay packages. Standard Officers are payed 55% of contracts, this excludes Bonus Contracts and other Bonuses. Edge is on a pay package of 60% due to the fact he is charge of much more. Fleet ships and Bank Details.
I am on myself a pay of 70% this is to help make sure, that it is fair that i send credits to VPS-Fund. Please keep in mind one of reports from Edge about incomes to the Bank that a large amount from the past week given from Edge's report I believe if I remember Rightly was only sending 30% from my profits from contracts.
In relation to that I believe that Leroy should be starting to make payments after this weekend. Officer Garrick is except from VPS tax till the following weekend.
Our new recruit will be except from company tax for 2 weeks from this date. This is to allow him to get up to speed.
Edge please send any help to our recruit in the way of credits after a few days.
We are still waiting to do a shipment of gold for ourselves with our Support ship. And I would like to be able to find two support miners that will gain a wage of around 5 to 10 000 000 per shipment. Though this is not decided yet. (input will be good before we advertise these positions)
Please note I have heard a rumour that gold ore prices in Rheinland have fallen to just over 2 000 per unit. if this is the case then we need confirmation that this is true. If it is please sell this information to any miner that you see heading to rheinland for 100 000 SC unless they hire us then give it to them for free. I hope this has become the case that Rheinland is over flowing with gold ore.
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To all pilots.
I will not tolerate anyone who fires on a superior Officer unless the specifically ask you to train with them. Due to the following actions last night the following actions a being taken.
Officer Leroy Lance you are hear by stripped of your rank. You are demoted to Crewman. Please also adjust your pay and pay a fine of one million Sirius Credits to VPS-Fund.
Officer Marcus Wright for following unsound orders, and having a better knowledge of what I am like. And not acting on your best instincts you are hearby ordered to pay a fine of five hundred thousand Sirius Credits.
You both know what you did, so please do not argue.
That is all for now.
Commander Davis Williams.
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Due to the amount of paperwork that I have been doing I have not been in flight much lately.
I have only tuesday to report really as nothing else really happened of note. Except for last night which is not included in my report.
OnTuesday I went out in to Dublin and found it was empty, so I thought I would head of to Liberty. Got to California and had an interesting chat with a Liberty Navy repersentative. Headed in to New York and went around advertising for recruitment. After a while the LN that I spoke with calls me for help. So I go to him to find a Lane Hacker and a Liberty Rogue handing over pilots. They shot one of the pilots but LN ignored it. Soon the area was filling up with more ships, joining sides with each side. I just waited for LN to give the order to open fire. Soon after that I opened fire after watching someone start shooting, then my contractor started firing then all hell broke loose. There must have been 5 pilots on the illegal side with an unkown number on the side of the law. We managed to destory the two main threats the Lane Hacker and freelancer in a Kusari Explorer who both did not last long. After that several duels began, with the battle becomeing very widespread. Trying to assist was a nightmare on this large scale. There was also more inbound targets but if the opened engagement I do not know. eventually I ended up duelling a freelancer who had barely any supplies left. After about what seemed two hows and both of us getting nowhere. My target (NeonKnight)fled the battle.