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Sender: Personable Anarchist Recipient: Xeno Alliance Communications Subject: Sh$t the Liberty Navy Says
Heya.
Went roaming from Hudson today. Sorry not sorry, I didn't put in a day's notice, but I did come back at the end of the day, so y'can't really get that mad at me. Can't say I killed anyone in the name of the cause or whatever, but I did meet two people worth mentioning.
First of all was the Freelancer on the lane from Texas to New York. Knocked 'em outta lane, saw they were flying an Executioner of all f$cking things, but had a buncha our favorite enemies hanging out in the hold. Maybe I'm a bit soft to kill someone right off the bat for flying the wrong ship, but I put 'em on a different road. Told 'em about the military-industrial complex and suggested they pick up a different choice of bird if they wanted to stay outta my gunsights. Fair compromise, I'd say. Comms log attached.
[28.08.2021 06:45:50] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Heya.
[28.08.2021 06:45:53] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Slow down a second.
[28.08.2021 06:45:55] Kori: hey
[28.08.2021 06:46:14] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Whatcha doing flying around in an executioner, huh?
[28.08.2021 06:46:19] Kori: hm?
[28.08.2021 06:46:37] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Don't see too many freelancers flying Navy hardware.
[28.08.2021 06:47:49] XA-Personable:Anarchist: *She lets out an audible sigh.*
[28.08.2021 06:47:56] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Y'wanna do this the easy way, or the hard way?
[28.08.2021 06:48:06] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Easy way, y'answer my questions, don't waste my time. Hard way, well...
[28.08.2021 06:48:09] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Y'can prolly guess.
[28.08.2021 06:49:02] Kori: "no need for violence at all"
[28.08.2021 06:49:10] XA-Personable:Anarchist: I can respect that you're taking out the trash. But your choice of ship's a little suspect.
[28.08.2021 06:49:35] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Y'follow me there?
[28.08.2021 06:50:11] Kori: "yea i do what ship should i get then? "
[28.08.2021 06:50:37] XA-Personable:Anarchist: 's less about the ship and more about supporting an oppressive military-industrial complex, if y'get my drift.
[28.08.2021 06:51:02] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Some folks'd shoot you on sight for that kinda thing. I'm feeling a little more patient today, so I'm gonna give you a tip.
[28.08.2021 06:51:09] Kori: "never thought about it that way.."
[28.08.2021 06:51:36] XA-Personable:Anarchist: There's a ship company, they're called Ceres. And they make a little fighter called the Beetle.
[28.08.2021 06:51:53] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Can't remember where they sell 'em. But y'can find 'em somewhere in Colorado, I think.
[28.08.2021 06:52:15] XA-Personable:Anarchist: If y'don't have an executioner next time I see you, I'll forget I ever saw it.
[28.08.2021 06:52:19] Kori: "alright i will take your advice "
[28.08.2021 06:52:24] XA-Personable:Anarchist: But if y'-do-, then I ain't gonna be so kind with you, y'hear?
[28.08.2021 06:53:03] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Cool, now get outta here.
[28.08.2021 06:53:17] Kori: "i will aswell"
[28.08.2021 06:53:35] Kori: "system malfunction this thing is crap"
[28.08.2021 06:53:39] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Yeah it is.
Second, in New York. Ran across a pilot with the name of James Liberon flying from Manhattan to West Point. That one I woulda gladly shot, but he had me outgunned--Avenger against a Roc ain't a matchup I'm too keen on, 'specially not when I'm kitted for hunting bigger fish. So I get to talking instead. Tried to open his eyes to the reasons why Liberty sucks, but apparently he wasn't too interested in actually hearing them, despite him saying otherwise. One point for not shooting me down while he had the chance, minus one point for saying teenagers shouldn't be allowed to vote, minus fifteen billion points for being a willing cog in the gears of a military-industrial complex protecting the status quo of an awful corrupt police state.
[28.08.2021 07:10:54] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Nice.
[28.08.2021 07:11:01] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Y'here to shut me up or something?
[28.08.2021 07:11:16] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Nice? I wouldn't think you would find it nice to see a Navy Officer on patrol.
[28.08.2021 07:11:35] XA-Personable:Anarchist: That's just stereotyping.
[28.08.2021 07:11:59] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Y'don't seem too eager to come mess me up, I gotta say.
[28.08.2021 07:12:08] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: I mean, I am pretty sure that destroying you here is part of my job.
[28.08.2021 07:12:14] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Yeah, prolly.
[28.08.2021 07:12:18] XA-Personable:Anarchist: But how much do you actually care about it?
[28.08.2021 07:12:25] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Don't get me wrong, it's not like I'll not blow you up if you don't make a run for it now.
[28.08.2021 07:12:45] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Mmmm, hmm.
[28.08.2021 07:12:58] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Y'know, back in the day, they used to require probable cause for this sorta thing...
[28.08.2021 07:13:03] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Or well, I'd say I would take you in for interrogation but I've yet to see a member of the Alliance agree to anything like that
[28.08.2021 07:13:05] XA-Personable:Anarchist: But I guess I am flying a certain -flag-.
[28.08.2021 07:13:46] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Standard procedure is to eliminate you on the spot or take you in for interrogation, but you're already about 6 clicks out.
[28.08.2021 07:13:49] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: 9 now, even.
[28.08.2021 07:13:51] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Yeah we ain't big on that whole talking thing.
[28.08.2021 07:13:53] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: There's no way I'd catch up.
[28.08.2021 07:13:54] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Apparently.
[28.08.2021 07:14:17] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Sounds like y'don't really wanna try.
[28.08.2021 07:14:26] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Oh maybe you aren't, but I've seen other people under your flag talk for hours on end, just not about the stuff I'd want to hea
[28.08.2021 07:14:27] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: r.
[28.08.2021 07:14:37] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Yeah that's how it tends to be, doesn't it.
[28.08.2021 07:14:42] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: If you approach me like that then you realistically don't leave me a choice.
[28.08.2021 07:14:45] XA-Personable:Anarchist: We got lots to say, y'just don't wanna hear it.
[28.08.2021 07:14:59] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: If it would be more than the same old for once, I'd actually listen, you know.
[28.08.2021 07:15:10] XA-Personable:Anarchist: What d'you consider to be same old?
[28.08.2021 07:15:11] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: At this point we get it, you dislike Liberty.
[28.08.2021 07:15:25] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Isn't it like... time for something fresh?
[28.08.2021 07:15:45] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Y'know -why- we dislike Liberty, right?
[28.08.2021 07:16:14] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: I get the gist of it, but not that I agree or relate.
[28.08.2021 07:16:15] XA-Personable:Anarchist: But I will admit, the whole rhetoric tends to be a little bit...what would y'call it...
[28.08.2021 07:16:19] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Antagonistic, right?
[28.08.2021 07:16:42] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: To me? For sure. Probably not to the other Xeno's that believe they're being patriotic by destroying the ships that
[28.08.2021 07:16:49] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: protect civilian and coorperations alike.
[28.08.2021 07:17:09] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Well, y'gotta think about it this way.
[28.08.2021 07:17:35] XA-Personable:Anarchist: The house of Liberty is in a kinda...state of self-destruction.
[28.08.2021 07:17:52] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Is that because you've placed bombs on 'Hatten or something?
[28.08.2021 07:17:56] XA-Personable:Anarchist: What no.
[28.08.2021 07:17:56] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Don't tell me you did.
[28.08.2021 07:18:06] XA-Personable:Anarchist: No, f$ck's sake...
[28.08.2021 07:18:15] XA-Personable:Anarchist: That would be pointless, why would I do that?
[28.08.2021 07:18:28] XA-Personable:Anarchist: What message would that send other than "raaah I'm a f$ckin' bad girl!"
[28.08.2021 07:18:36] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Doesn't do anything for anyone.
[28.08.2021 07:18:44] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: I don't know, it would fit the terrorist agenda though.
[28.08.2021 07:18:50] Death: High_Lord_Tamigin was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[28.08.2021 07:19:10] Rules Tip: Pirates can issue only one cargo or monetary demand per encounter. Telling the trader to stop is not a demand, however, if they ignore the request, they can be shot down without issuing further demands.
[28.08.2021 07:19:31] XA-Personable:Anarchist: -Real- terrorism is trying to send a message. What you're talking about is called indiscriminate murder.
[28.08.2021 07:19:49] XA-Personable:Anarchist: I don't see the point in it, really, but then again I'm kinda new to this whole being a terrorist thing.
[28.08.2021 07:20:08] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: What message are you trying to send by literally destroying the people that protect Liberty, though?
[28.08.2021 07:20:15] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Ah, right! Yeah.
[28.08.2021 07:20:16] XA-Personable:Anarchist: So.
[28.08.2021 07:20:17] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Surely not that you care for the Republic or its people, right?
[28.08.2021 07:20:37] XA-Personable:Anarchist: The problem with the Navy is that it's protecting a system that's flawed.
[28.08.2021 07:20:49] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Flawed how exactly?
[28.08.2021 07:20:49] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Worse than flawed, it's actually -awful-.
[28.08.2021 07:20:55] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Now you're just being rude.
[28.08.2021 07:21:01] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Y'see, y'got this kinda...corporate police state thing going on.
[28.08.2021 07:21:09] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: You mean the LPI?
[28.08.2021 07:21:11] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Yep.
[28.08.2021 07:21:21] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Terrible bunch, hell yeah. But they get the job done.. sometimes, I guess.
[28.08.2021 07:21:23] XA-Personable:Anarchist: The LPI is basically legalized slavery.
[28.08.2021 07:21:31] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Or, really, they're -enforcing- it.
[28.08.2021 07:21:56] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: I am sure they're being paid, just not as much as they'd like.
[28.08.2021 07:22:00] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Ha.
[28.08.2021 07:22:10] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Everyone refers to themselves as slave these days just beause their salary doesnt suit them.
[28.08.2021 07:22:47] XA-Personable:Anarchist: 's slavery. Y'do something that people think is wrong, and then y'get to spend the rest of your life on board a station where -
[28.08.2021 07:23:06] XA-Personable:Anarchist: - the air doesn't work, the food's sh$t, and y'get paid less than minimum wage for the pleasure of getting your teeth kicked in
[28.08.2021 07:23:14] XA-Personable:Anarchist: I'd call that slavery.
[28.08.2021 07:23:38] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: That just sounds like the average Outcast childhood to me.
[28.08.2021 07:23:48] XA-Personable:Anarchist: So Liberty's as good as Outcasts now?
[28.08.2021 07:23:55] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Y'-want- Liberty to be like Malta?
[28.08.2021 07:24:07] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: I wish it would make these people as efficient pilots as the Outcasts are.
[28.08.2021 07:24:14] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Of course not, I wouldn't want to end up like that.
[28.08.2021 07:24:25] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Exactly. Nobody wants to live like that.
[28.08.2021 07:24:31] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: The people there are prisoners, they've commited every crime known to man.
[28.08.2021 07:24:45] XA-Personable:Anarchist: That's what people tell themselves so they can sleep at night, yeah.
[28.08.2021 07:24:54] XA-Personable:Anarchist: But they don't deserve that. Nobody does.
[28.08.2021 07:24:56] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: I'm sure their victims didn't want to be raped, killed, extorted.. the list goes on, either.
[28.08.2021 07:25:16] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: You can't just scream into a cave and not expect an echo to come back, you know.
[28.08.2021 07:25:16] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Yeah, so. Why do you think people do that kinda stuff?
[28.08.2021 07:25:28] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Cause its easier.
[28.08.2021 07:25:35] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Easier than what?
[28.08.2021 07:25:45] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Why take a Nine-to-Five when I can just rob someone of his money and live off of that.
[28.08.2021 07:25:58] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: They're bad people.
[28.08.2021 07:26:06] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Inherrently evil.
[28.08.2021 07:26:19] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Hmm.
[28.08.2021 07:26:29] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Never thought about it, maybe I'm just inherently evil, huh?
[28.08.2021 07:26:48] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Perhaps. You did join the Alliance, after all.
[28.08.2021 07:26:50] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Ha.
[28.08.2021 07:26:53] XA-Personable:Anarchist: No.
[28.08.2021 07:26:55] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Maybe you've just been mislead by that Moretti fellow, though.
[28.08.2021 07:27:15] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: The man can sugarcoat being a terrorist, I'll give him that.
[28.08.2021 07:27:27] XA-Personable:Anarchist: I joined 'cuz I see that they're trying to make something that actually makes -sense- with that Free Republic.
[28.08.2021 07:27:42] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: There is no place in Sirius better than Liberty.
[28.08.2021 07:28:00] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: You're trying to change something that works perfectly well for 99% of the population.
[28.08.2021 07:28:06] XA-Personable:Anarchist: That's a stretch.
[28.08.2021 07:28:21] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Which part of it?
[28.08.2021 07:28:36] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Y'think only one percent of the population joins the Rogues, the Xenos, the Hackers, hell even the -Junkers-?
[28.08.2021 07:28:56] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: There's many small movements on the planets surfaces too, but yeah I think that's about it.
[28.08.2021 07:29:34] XA-Personable:Anarchist: And how many more just ain't saying it 'cuz they think they don't got another choice?
[28.08.2021 07:29:38] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: I'm from New London, I don't believe there can be that many people being upset about life in Liberty.
[28.08.2021 07:29:55] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: These cannot be counted, and in the first place they don't have the guts to make a move, so they're not relevant.
[28.08.2021 07:29:59] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Wow.
[28.08.2021 07:30:08] XA-Personable:Anarchist: So they don't count just 'cuz they're not killing people.
[28.08.2021 07:30:21] XA-Personable:Anarchist: They're either compliant little drones or they're evil.
[28.08.2021 07:30:22] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: They don't count for this discussion, no.
[28.08.2021 07:30:38] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: The whole black and white mentality makes my job much easier, you see.
[28.08.2021 07:30:47] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Of course I'd think like this, don't you think it makes sense?
[28.08.2021 07:30:55] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Your perspective doesn't really do much for that whole idea that you're -not- just a cog in the gears of a -
[28.08.2021 07:31:10] XA-Personable:Anarchist: - military-industrial complex protecting the status quo of an awful corporate police state.
[28.08.2021 07:31:32] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: I've never said I'm more than a tiny gear in the giant machine that is Liberty now, did I?
[28.08.2021 07:31:39] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: I don't pretend to be someone of importance.
[28.08.2021 07:31:47] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: I'm but a mere Navy Pilot, doing their job.
[28.08.2021 07:31:48] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Nah. But I'm tryina give myself reasons -not- to shoot you, here.
[28.08.2021 07:32:04] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: You could run far enough away where I would be unable to destroy your ship, really.
[28.08.2021 07:32:05] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Y'ain't making it easy, I gotta admit.
[28.08.2021 07:32:08] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: That would be the best solution.
[28.08.2021 07:32:21] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Yeah but then the status quo goes unchallenged.
[28.08.2021 07:32:42] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: You can always challenge it another day.
[28.08.2021 07:33:08] XA-Personable:Anarchist: I'll admit I'm kitted more for military hardware than gnats like you.
[28.08.2021 07:33:15] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Oh, I can see that.
[28.08.2021 07:33:21] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: It would make me feel awful to shoot you down.
[28.08.2021 07:33:37] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Of course purely because of the equipment you've got with you, not because you're a nice person or anything.
[28.08.2021 07:33:45] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Hey, I'm being plenty nice.
[28.08.2021 07:33:57] XA-Personable:Anarchist: I didn't even shoot you on sight, doesn't that make me like, exceptional?
[28.08.2021 07:34:23] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: It makes you special indeed, if good or bad is left for your boss to decide I assume.
[28.08.2021 07:34:36] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Nah, my boss doesn't like making decisions like that. Tells me to make my own.
[28.08.2021 07:34:49] XA-Personable:Anarchist: That's why I like 'em more than you.
[28.08.2021 07:35:07] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: So he isn't really much of a boss
[28.08.2021 07:35:11] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Nah, not really.
[28.08.2021 07:35:19] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: What is he then, a political figurehead?
[28.08.2021 07:35:30] XA-Personable:Anarchist: A better leader than yours, I reckon.
[28.08.2021 07:35:30] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: The elite pilot of the Alliance? #1 Terrorist of Liberty, maybe?
[28.08.2021 07:35:40] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: A leader unable to make decisions is not a leader.
[28.08.2021 07:35:49] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: That is what we call a teenager.
[28.08.2021 07:36:03] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Wow, rude, all the teenagers out there better be listening closely.
[28.08.2021 07:36:22] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: They sure can, but knowing the teens these days they're already plenty mad about something else.
[28.08.2021 07:36:42] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Maybe y'should count 'em in the people who ain't happy with the system, then.
[28.08.2021 07:36:53] XA-Personable:Anarchist: I'll take a raincheck on that whole blowing you up thing, by the way.
[28.08.2021 07:37:01] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Maybe I'll come back with something better for it.
[28.08.2021 07:37:17] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Can you imagine a world in which teenagers actually get to have a say in politics?
[28.08.2021 07:37:23] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Now THAT would make me join your lot.
[28.08.2021 07:37:23] XA-Personable:Anarchist: I imagine it every day.
[28.08.2021 07:37:40] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Imagine how much more might get -done- if teenagers had a say.
[28.08.2021 07:37:41] 46th|James.Liberon[R]: Indecisive brats running a government, have mercy on my soul.
[28.08.2021 07:37:57] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Don't have to run it.
[28.08.2021 07:37:59] XA-Personable:Anarchist: Just gotta have a say.