20 years ago omega 41, sirius....
Paco loradez punches the afterburner and sends the titan hurtling towards the  jumphole to gamma. Gripping his controls he and his wife braced themselves for the impact of fast docking, but the missile was faster. The titan exploded in a huge fireball until finally consumed by the hungry particles of omega 47's unforgiving vastness. ......
    He saw the small pod hurtling away from the explosion at about the same time as the mysterious black ship disappeared into the jump hole. He tractored in the pod and turned and headed for home.
    They nurtured and brought up the child as if he was there own, taught him their ways and how to fly. At the time of his initiation they named him shadow lynx- shadow because of the darkness of omega they plucked him from, lynx because of his predatory skills in the dark depths of space.Â
     They presented him with a dusty old book with ornate gold bindings and told him it contained his past his present and maybe even his destiny, the book that accompanied him in his pod on that fateful day.
    My story begins here. I was left with enough credits to buy a small craft from rheinland and now i must make my own way in sirius. I have set myself goals which i aim to achieve but first i must be patient. Here i find money is a necessity, i can already feel it pulling my psyche and driving me on for more.
       I have read the first few chapters of the dusty old book. I cried for 3 days solid when i read the people who i had thought my parents were not. It may have explained why they wept so much when i left. But i love them and when i am ready i will return to them and repay there devotion and kindness.
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My first days of trading went quite well, kusari has a passion for light arms and the route was uneventful but reasonably profitable. My only drama having to flee a couple of falcons in honshu which was nothing difficult. But i have this desire which burns for adventure so that trade route quickly became boring. i took my craft much further out into outcast territory and successfully managed to smuggle cardomine into manhatton. that was more like it! Adrenaline pumping past every police station. I dunno what that stuff does but it sure doesnt beat the buzz of carting it around haha.
The book is disturbing me deeply i feel i now have torn loyalties having found out my father is a corsair. My head is in a daze wondering where i really belong In sirius.
I need to get myself a ship worthy of defending myself as the loss of 200 silver taught me well that sirius is a dangerous place.I have much work to do.
Its been a week since i left my foster parents in omega 15. I have accumulated 3 million credits which though may sound a lot is not enough to set me on the quest to discover who killed my real parents. I was born a corsair on planet crete that much i do know so i am not the zoner i thought i was. I guess it kinda explains why i was taught spanish from an early age and encouraged to pay more attention to the history of gamma a little more than other places . This brings me to the conclusion that my foster parents must have read the entire contents of this book and there must be a reason for not telling me when i was younger where i came from. I think they were protecting me from something. I m desperate to know of anyone who knew my father Paco Loradez and have rigged this channel to enable it to be broadcast on corsair frequencys.
For now i remain a civilian and my goal remains credits to get better eqpmt and of course to read more of the dusty old book to see if it unveils further clues.
The business side of things is going well, i set myself up as a freelancer and raised enough credits to buy an armoured transport providing greater income. Today i took a large contingent of vips to a meeting in manhatten, it must have been important judging by the credits they paid me. I overheard the word rheinland on more than one occasion. The war doesnt se to be going well for bretonia, people are fleeing in there thousands and i managed to get some refugees to safety in frankfurt. The urge to return to gamma is getting stronger, today i took food to crete but still havent found anyone who knew my father. I am a corsair i have corsair blood and i feel i must fight for there cause. Soon i will return to gamma to make it home and forfill my rightful place among the corsairs.
I picked up the book and read on....
"The page started:- march 12th 797as paco has not been home for 4 weeks i pray he hasnt been caught. He decided some months ago we needed more credits so we could move to gran canaria from gamma and live more luxoriously. He came home one night and said he had met with a man at the bar who had a proposition for him which if he was successful would make him a very rich man. Paco took this as fate and accepted. At first he was given no details except to take his titan fully armed to a jump hole in cambridge and await further instructions. At the jump hole he was given an encrypted laser disc with his mission details. He was to fly to yukon and meet a man known only as "x" at the bar in freeport 14, there he would be given a package and further instructions."
Tbe chapter was written by my mother slowly unravelling the mystery of my parents, i read on filled with anticipation dread and excitement...
A week later, 5 weeks after he had left for cambridge pacos wife recieved a message on there personal communications channel. She decoded it...
Hola my beautiful wife, i dont have lot time so i get straight to point, pack everything you can carry and take you and marcos to the hotel we stayed in for our honeymoon. I will meet you there in a few days. Things have gone badly wrong. What was supposed to be a simple delivery of a parcel turned out to be a trap. A man i knew only as "x" gave me a parcel to deliver to baden baden and told me i would be paid 100,000,000 credits if i got it there in one piece. It turns out i was tricked. As soon as i left the bar i was shouted to stop by a liberty security officer who was waiting outside. I fled and managed to take off with only a monor graze to my shoulder from the laser he fired at me and i escaped to bretonia managing to reach omega 3. I had time to take a breather inthe bar and was horrified to see my face on the news channel. Liberty has a death warrant out for me for stealing computer software that could have compromised libertys military security and was even more shocked to find out i had apparently killed 4 LSF officers in the raid. They will hunt me everywhere till they find me, we wont be safe anywhere. I have arranged for you and marcos to live with some zoner friends i have. They will meet us at planet crete in 1 weeks time and then i will hand myself in with the parcel and pray i can convince them i was set up. Its my only chance to try to clear my name. Be ready to travel quickly we wont have much time. Im so sorry this has gone wrong i thought it was our ticket to a better life, all my love Paco.
The next few chapters in the diary were it seems not written by my mother....
Paco contacted me a few days later when he had reached gran canaria. He said he was waiting for his wife to arrive and then would travel to crete as planned. At around 9pm the voice intercom buzzed into life- "A message has been left for you on your personal room encryption device(PRED). "PRED on- CODE 7465-1 activate" paco said , activating the device. Paco told me the message was a voice that was cold and chilled his very bones, he said the accent was distinctly rheinland and it said "you vill leave ze package in hotel security box no 274-4, zen you vill leave ze hotel and go back to gamma, failure to do zis will terminate the existence of your wife and son-you have one hour mr loradez"
I quickly scrambled to the launch pad and took off for omega 49, as i entered omega 41 paco communicated with me through our own security network. He had collected his wife and son and made a run for it to crete. As there was only one escape pod he and his wife decided marcos would have it. On departing gran canaria a strange black craft gave chase. It had no id markings but was very fast. The counter measures did there job until omega41 when to pacos horror the mechanism jammed. Pacos only hope was too fight although he was so close to the jump hole he could reach out and touch it. But he was an able pilot who had fought many times in the wars with the outcasts and more recently the hessians. He spun the titan round to face the enemy and fight.
I saw the titan turn but i couldnt see any other ship. In what seemed a flash the shield was destroyed and a second later the almight boom of the titan itself. A single tractor beam appeared out of what at first i thought was nowhere but then the sleek silhouette of a craft i have never seen before turned and disappeared into the blackness of omega space.
I saw the escape pod on my scanner and quickly brought it in before tearfully turning for home.