While going through the days paperwork, I came across your application. I see that you are a "self-made man". Which is rare these days. This has piqued my interest. I can tell you that after careful consideration and discussion, we have concluded that you would make a great addition to the IND family. To that end, please make your way to Wall Street Station where we can formalize the paperwork on non-disclosure clauses that will need signing.
Welcome Aboard,
Jonathon Winchester III
Procurement Officer
Independent Neuralnet Division
From: Miyuki Ikeda
To: IND
Subject: Application for your company Full bio
Like the water flows
and business whirls around me
I sink in money
Konnichiwa gentlemen,
My name is Miyuki Ikeda but maybe I am known a bit more through my nickname, The Kitsune.
I have left Kusari after my husband was jailed and committed seppuku and I refused to follow his example. Why should I, that's what I asked myself. Life is too sweet when you have money and I have it. I have moved myself and my fortune to Liberty because here a woman like me, can continue to do what she knows best. Making even more money.
I come from a noble family, born in year 794 A.S., Planet Honshu. Married to Lord Kihara when I was young. While my husband thought I am just his sweet housewife I was crashing his business empire for seven years building my own on its ruins. How "unfortunate" that he ended up jailed a year ago. Well for him at least.
Your organization highly peeked my interest and I would be most glad to join your ranks.
Yours sincerely,
The Kitsune
PS: Chopping a tree with herring is like a business. It takes time and patience, and if you do not succeed, you will decide for more drastic measures. An axe. I guess I have cut a lot of trees like that.
*From: Hone*
*Subject: IND Application*
*Encryption: Piggyback*
Hello IND! I am interested in the great job prospects of joining your illustrious corporation. Allow me to express my enthusiasm in Haiku form:
IND
I want to join you
Cash!
I'm sure, that even though you encounter more interesting people than me on a daily basis in your line of work, you will wish to know a little more about me, so here goes:
I started out my space-born career working as an escort for silver miners in pennsylvania. It's funny really, all I had was an army surplus Defender, that I got for running jobs for the Navy. If we'd come across anyone serious, I'd have been a smear on the side of the nearest asteroid. All I could do was scout. My employers realised this, and as their miner was currently unable to move due to the volume of ore surrounding it, they fronted me the money for a Bumblebee kusari transport, which I would pay back by hauling their ore.
And so, with an actual cargo ship that didnt leave commodity dealers laughing, and pointing at the pawn shop, and some fresh cash from the surplus on the ore sale, I took to the stars, and my odessey began! I toured the furthest reaches of sirius space, mapping the entire sector by hand, as an entrepreneur freelancer. Making deals, carrying cargo, (most of it legal - at least in one of the houses) buying low, and selling high.
I upgraded to a Percheron when I earned enough, but I had my eye on a certain ship. The Kujira. God I love that ship, unarmed, but sleek, agile, and huge. Besides, any transport captain worth a fart in a vacuum knows you dont try to fight the pirate yourself! You hire a goddamn escort! My goodness it makes me sick to hear about all these transports that were destroyed flying COMPLETELY UNESCORTED just to save a few credits! Speaking of which, does IND have it's own escort wing?
Oh excuse me, anyway, Enamoured with the Kujira I purchased a franchise with the GMG, the ship itself, and the real money began. I expanded my exploration, but the most vital part, were the contacts I made in Dublin. When the Pennsylvania fields were stripped bare, the Dublin Gold Rush began, and I was poised to take advantage. Learning a lesson from my original employers, I purchased a Hegemon for an aspiring mining crew, placed reserve orders with my contacts, and set cruise engines for profit!
Times were good with the GMG, though their mining was at that point fully automated, so no niche for a captain like me, but at least transporting ore fitted the Mining part of Gas Mining Guild! The Kujira's brilliant agility for it's size allowed my exploration to reach new hights, I wont bore you with the details (or reveal anything incriminating) but lets just say that Alaska and Gallia are beautiful, and when Gallia was closed off, there was much less traffic. At least, that's what I hear! I dont tend to deal over the Net - preferring to look a supplier in the face, when I decide if his goods will net my next million, or turn out to have fallen off the back of a truck - however I'm looking foward to doing more of it with the iNd, and I did try to help out when needed.
Making money hand over goldfinger, I was soon able to afford that ultimate status symbol of the trader, the 5K Train. Bidding a fond farewell to my lovely Kujira, I moved to the top of the foodchain, in my new Shetland behemoth. Five minutes later I sold it at a loss of 115 million credits, and got back in my kujira. I dont regret it for a second. I deserved it for abandoning my Kujira for one of the pieces of garbage toted on the net as the ultimate transport, in reality fit only for target practise!
I continued on basking in the money shower that is sirius to a investigative business man, flying under the nuetral colours of the GMG. Until of course, the event that brought me to you:
The GMG went to war with Kusari. Despite the fact that I was a registered franchisee, I had to learn of this watching the CNS! After immediately selling my franchise, I took on temporary employment with the IMG, but when THEY went to war with Rhienland, I parked up my ship on Curacao in disgust, and have spent mot of the intervening time, enjoying myself in imaginative manners.
Hearing IND was recruiting has made me start eyeing the stars, and Sirius markets once again, so please give this old dog a reason to fly again!
Oh and by the way I didnt chop down the tallest tree in the forest, I paid someone else to do it for me. Of course I also sold him the equipment he used to do it, as well as the logging rights for the entire county, giving me a net profit, and a free tree. where would you like it?
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Apologies for the tardy replies ladies and gentlemen, I am at present checking over some of our other concerns
in Sirius at this time, and am unable to get into the office so I'll make this as brief as possible.
Madam Ikeda, or should I address by your Shinto name Kitsune ? One which I am a little more familiar with. No
matter, I'll get down to the brass tacks. The Cut of your particular cloth looks quite fine and dandy to me maam
so any time you are passing our Wall Street Offices, please pop in in and we'll do the necessary paperwork and
financial details. Looking forward to you bringing your particular talents to our expanding business.
Mr Hone is it ? Not quite clear on the name I'm afraid. Sadly your Curriculum Vitae doesn't currently meet the
executive standards required for company indenture at this time. Thank you for your enquiry though, keep in
touch, things may change in the future. Probably see you around Sirius sir.
*From: Hone*
*Subject: IND Application*
*Encryption: Piggyback*
Ah, that would be Mr Edmonds, first Name "Hone". Yeah I just registered my first ship to my name, as you'll recall I started out in a Defender, and well, I never saw the need to change my registration details when buying new ships - fearfully expensive, 2 Million credits for a ship re-registration! - so the old transmission system would have just pinged it as being sent from "Hone".
Sorry to hear my... ah... "CV" doesnt match your needs, mind telling me why? You dont have anything against "Self Made Men" and only allow in purebred Lords do you? Because I'm sure i could purchase myself a peerage from somewhere!
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FM Sevenofeight
TO IND recruitment
SUBJ Application
BT Name: Rick "Sevenofeight" Sevenacht Date of birth: 2/14/785 A.S. Born: Philadelphia Station, Pennsylvania
Previous occupations:
Junior station technician, Philadelphia station, Pennsylvania
Freelance trader, self employed, Sirius system
Current occupation:
Subcontractor for Interspace Commerce, Sirius system
Specialties:
Human cargo transportation (VIP's, refugees, passengers and prisoners)
Hazardous cargo
Combat life support (battlefield supplier)
Preferred transportation:
Stork CT-73 Civillian Advanced Train
Anki Civillian Freighter
Biography:
My name is Rick "SevenOfEight" Sevenacht. I'm 34 years old and was born on a refugee transport in the Pennsylvania system. My parents were colonial settlers before trying their luck on Philadelphia Station. Following in my fathers footsteps I became a junior tech onboard the many Sirius dwelling transport ships. During this time I learned a lot and saved enough money to buy my own ship. Now, several years later, I own a fine Stork which I have named Lulubelle. Even though I was trained as a technician, trading seems to be my better side and Sirius credits make my eyes sparkle and my heart beat faster.
I am a man who does what he says and says what he does. I am loyal, straightforward and I support my fellow comrades. I am convinced I can be an asset to the IND and welcome the chance to prove it.
That said, I also think it looks good on my resume.
Sincerely,
Rick Sevenacht (Sevenofeight)
Universally
trading through shredded space
profits await me
Ps.: To chop wood with a herring would be a waste of a perfectly good fish'¦
ET
The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it's still on the list...
COMMUNICATION IDENT: Jay Simon
ACCESS IDENT: CEO IND
LOCATION: Wall Street Station
DESTINATION: Mr. R. Sevenacht
Mr. Sevenacht, a quick perusal of your resume looks promising, unfortunately a further deep search
on your character by our professional investigators has unearthed no tangible results.
Could I suggest at this time that you hook up with any of our ships in space for an informal chat, and Sirius tour.
Jay Simon
COMMUNCATION ENDS:
Some say he is a proud member of: "The most paranoid group of people in the Community."
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FM Sevenofeight
TO Mr. Jay Simon
SUBJ Regarding your last transmission
BT
Dear Mr. Simon,
Thank you for your reply.
I will follow your advise and will rendezvous with some IND ships travelling in Sirius space. I must admit it has been a while since I last seen and IND vessel although I have been doing more 'grocery' runs as opposed to the real deep-space transport assignments. Nevertheless I do look forward to the opportunity to meet with, what Sir Harrison so nicely calls, '1%'.
Looking forward to hear from you again,
Sincerely
Rick Sevenacht (Sevenofeight)
ET
The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it's still on the list...
Konichiwa noble sailors of the cloud! Word has finally reached me on how to contact you. I have been busy with some things but my Geisha will always carry the dream of joining the IND. This is a goal I have been aiming for since I entered the business, and as soon as I heard of your legend.
Good evening. I am to say interested in becoming part of the IND. I am currently doing work for the Bretonian Goverment getting refuges away from Leeds and supplying them with some fuel from where ever I can find , me and long side with my Renzy Liner.
About myself. Well there is not much to it, I am from Bretonia born and raised on New London by a nobble family. I am 29 years old and in the trade business for 5 years now. But I did limit my operation in Bretonia due to the fact that Bretonia is in Dire need. I did manage to open a nice space cruise line back in my younger days but that was very hard to maintain with the ongoing wars its was just not profiteering enough. So I started to trade with Fuel and all sorts of Military Materials. War is good for business or so they say.
I started as a small merc escorting trade ships in a normal eagle. But had to upgrade to a Osprey witch I managed to get without problems from the Zoners on Freeport 15. When I managed to gather the money I decided to try trading myself as a gull Captain. Profits weren't high enough but were better then a escort pilot. Then after gathering enough funds I managed to get a small Luxury yacht to start a small business till eventually it did not work out. So I managed to get a loan to get a Renzu Liner I managed to repay that quite fast due to the fact the Renzu liner was a excellent investment and been doing some good runs for quite some time. So in short that my life. If you are interested please contact me.
And about this Haiku I don't know,but I always say " Profit dictates out style,Style is dictated by Fashion,Fashion and profit is above all"
The Skype can be found at this Nural net personal information(//profile info)
Goodwin out .
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