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Greetings, this is Jack Henderson speaking.
I think it's high time to solve that issue that has come up. I am, as you might know, IMG Dublin Mission Coordinator and even though I am talking to you from the medical section, I can assure you that I am the person who you can solve this issue with. I regret not having checked the convoy settings, but the doctors would not allow me to do routine work yet. My aides didn't regard that convoy setup as potentially hazardous to our diplomatic relations.
Perhaps you should know that the incident has been thoroughly investigated from our end. All pilots involved were questioned and the picture seems rather clear to me. I'll give it to you, so you can compare it with what information you have on the incident.
A rather inexperienced convoy was started from Hood. The only IMG Core member, Julia Morrow, has done according to IMG boards, 4 trade runs total. She is to be considered as new as can be. There was another IMG hauler, callsign VEK, and the Interspace vessel commanded by Miranda Melliot. That's the pilot and ship that this is all about. The ships were led by a contracted, non-IMG affiliated Merc, Anna McCarthy, who had been hired in Dublin. She was the only experienced convoy pilot. Another IMG Defence member Alice Fox came into the scene later, she is non-Core IMG Defence. They are met by your pilot, Chaser callsigned.
So, these are the actors of the drama.
What happened is easily said: The Hacker let the IMG pass as is our common policy. He stopped the Interspace who claimed to be with IMG and in support of IMG, which is true but pretty unwise, diplomatically. IMG policies say that "If you want to be left alone by Hackers, don't let other corporation ships tag along". This convoy principle was neglected, mainly I was told because the pilot Ms. Melliot has very close connections with pilots of IMG and you know the story. It was not clever. Your bomber attacks the Interspace Trader.
So the next part of the drama: The Merc jumps into the system and assists the trader. There was another motivation in that because your ship was bountied by Liberty, so the Merc sought actively for the confrontation which was neither what IMG wanted nor what they advised.
IMG Core Julia Morrow advised Miranda to stand down and pay your Hacker, and she told IMG Defence not to attack. Both pieces of advice remained unheard, likely to the missing experience of said IMG Core pilot and the chaos of the situation.
So the Hacker bomber fights the transport, the transport runs and docks in Leeds and the Merc attacks your ship. Some more IMG vessels arrive, see the fight, ask if assistance is needed, join it and callsign Chaser has to retreat. He is - luckily - unhurt, as are all other participants of this incident. So with only material losses, the damage can be contained rather easily, I hope.
Okay... that's the situation how i gleaned it from the IMG perspective and it's rather a solid picture.
Now, your Hacker started threatening the inexperienced IMG Core Hauler with rather, let's say, exagerated actions like attacks and the wipeout of Freeport 4, collective agression against IMG passing Magellan, and other things. I assume that this was said in the heat of the moment and I'll keep it at that. Please just make sure that no dumb things happen that both sides would only regret in a few day's time.
After that, some Hackers flew to Hood, but there were no reports of confrontation, nor of any real progress. Neither party had something close to a diplomat with them.
Let's just make sure that now - after the heat is taken out of the situation - the correct things are done:
Ms. Miranda Melliot understood the trouble and she is flying from today under IMG transponders. The changes have already been made.
She is sorry for the trouble she caused for Hackers and IMG.
IMG Dublin Defence Core and present IMG non-core have been instructed about the "mixed convoy" issues.
IMG Dublin Core Defence have been reminded how to deal with incidents with Hackers, namely to deescalate and not engage in blue-in-blue combat situations.
Your Hacker wanted the Interspace to drop the cargo, which was 5000 units if Mining Machinery. Give us an account to transfer the money to, so the pilot can be compensated for loss of profit and ship repairs.
I hope you can see that I am not interested in the slightest deterioration of our relation.
I hope we can close that case that was caused by the unlucky combination of inexperience and missing leadership due to my injury in combat.
Thank you for your time.
Jack Henderson
IMG Dublin Operations Coordinator
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