Message: After my ship was damaged almost beyond repair in the dublin system...I managed to make it back to Freeport 4,albeit with a leaking engine core...After my ship`s repairs were completed i thought it best to seek out a less hostile system for mineral collection...I opened up my nav map...and found a rather incomplete reference to a jumphole leading to the kansas system...albeit with no information on the kansas system availible...I had to search around the eastern part of magellan for several days before i found the jumphole leading to the kansas system...so i engaged the jupmhole and arrived in the kansas system,spying a massive reddish-tinted nebula in the distance....my scanners couldnt penetrate the cloud...and on a hunch i proceeded towards the cloud at cruise velocity...When i arrived on the inside of the cloud,my scanners detected immense quantitys of iridium ore in the floating debris surrounding me...so i started blasting the floating rocks with my gunboat turrets..Only to find that the iridium was...forgive me for saying this...oozing out of the small floating space rocks...
But after i was filled up and decided to head back to the magellan system...My ship`s subspace radio began to crackle abit...Figuring it was just ordinary static,but having a hunch as well...I upped the acceptable-frequency-bandwith to receive more of the signal...still much of it was garbled..But i managed to make out a garbled designation "NTF" then the rest was illegible.....I Inqueryed my ship`s computer as to what NTF stood for...And it brought up several files related to the neo terran front
Seeing this...i was abit worried about possibly trespassing on a faction`s territory...So i would say that this transmission is to formally request permission to mine safely within the confines of your system..
I would also like..if possible..to support the reconstruction of junction base by offering a trade tarrif per load of iridium mined...i also think it would be a good idea to place such a terrif on others that might mine iridium...but i only speak for myself of course
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' Wrote:Dropping from the 3rd-story dorm room I'm in would be painful.
The standard fee for mining rights in Kansas for a ship of your size (a Junker Salvager if this information is up to date) is 1.6 million per trip.
However, if you want, you can reduce this to 533,000 per trip if you directly bring us supplies to repair Junction. Right now we're very much in need of Ship Hull Panels, Optronics, Robotic Components and/or some form of fuel (MOX, H-Fuel or Deuterium will do).
In either case, the credits are payable to our primary bank, ]NTF[-Ammo.Dump.01. If you choose to bring supplies, just drop them off about 5K away from the base (//screenshot this, please) and one of our ships will bring it in.
And thanks for being willing to help the Neo-Terran cause; far too many dismiss our goals out of hand, but we try to live up to the ideals of the utopia we plan to create. No matter what the LSF says about us.
Captain Alan Gresham of the Front, here. If you want to haul us supplies, we have a dedicated frequency for recording all of your shipping to us. If you could drop an occasional report here, we can offer you a trustworthy discount.