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RE: =IT= Trip Log Entries - Interstellar Transit - 02-08-2025

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Trip Log submission by:
Captain Dawn Richardson, =IT=Concordia		 Date:
Feb 2, 835 AS
Brief summary of trip:

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I've been so busy lately - unfortunately the time for reporting is often put off while handling operational questions during the Boss' Theta Medical Training. He can have the high level planning - I'm just happy running these routes and seeing the sector!

We left Provence with full cargo of mostly Cigars, but also some Consumer Goods from Avignon from our favorite dockhand. I don't know where he gets his connections - but the bonuses involved are worth hauling such usually routine cargo for his clients!

Again we flew the shortcut jump hole he provided to Hamburg in Cologne so our trip to Planet Hamburg was more direct, albeit across much more open space!



The rest of the flight, picking up High Temp Alloys from New Berlin for shipping to Mecachrome in Provence was pretty unremarkable. We may need to switch it up a bit after the next run to keep the crew alert with new stimulating routes and systems.

After some downtime on the station, we again headed to Avignon, but just picked up Cigars for Planet New Berlin for this run - that usual contact was nowhere in sight this time, maybe for the best, least he be looking for a tip or higher price for those wares.


This trip was much more eventful - first we came across a Freelancer at the Cologne Jump Gate in Zurich. We had a surprising longer chat about his long haul deliveries, currently on Iridium from Omicron Delta, and he even mentioned aliens! I personally think he's been out on the fringes too long, but the boss is always reinforcing our 'Freelancer Network' angle, so I mentioned the Contract Board and we parted ways. Aliens!


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A bit further into the journey, we came across a convoy on a course parallel with our own near Freiburg in Stuttgart - BMF from New London headed to New Berlin! As well as their Freelancer escort pilot!

We tagged along and got to know them as well as their recent popular routes out of Bretonia - seems they are a busy port at Isle of Skye!

Once we reached New Berlin, I thought about that 'change of route' mentioned earlier in this journal and we offered our assistance on their hauling requirements. I sold our Cigars on the Planet, and landed at The Ring in orbit to collect some Ablative Armor Plating. With that, I joined their convoy and we provided back to their New London home station with our valuable cargo.








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Surprisingly, the trip across the Omega systems didn't present any unusual dangers - it's possible our timing worked well, possibly between patrols or perhaps pirates had their fill from other unfortunate souls early in the day. Either way, we made it safely to the BMF station without much fuss.

I made sure to acknowledge our docking clearance and land as slowly as possible as I admired the beauty of the rather unique station amongst the backdrop of the Bretonian starscape. It's quite a spectacle!

Given they were headed back again to Rheinland, and we still had Gallia contracts to attend to, we bought some Gold on station destined for Sigma-15's Wichter Station.









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As it turned out, Corsairs decided to rear their aggressive heads on the way out of system, cutting the first lane going towards the Cambridge jumpgate. They turned their attention on a Rheinland Shipping Train going by the name 'Blauberen'.

They had a pair of Tiger Shark escorts, but it didn't feel right seeing that transport convoy under attack without some conduct on our part. We engaged the pair of Corsairs, to their surprise, and the group of us were able to down one hostile almost immediately. The second pulled away from the convoy and while I engaged it, the Rheinlanders were able to escape using the now enable trade lane. We took a bit of damage handling the second hostile, but were able to disable it before too long. We proceeded to Cambridge to meet up with our BMF counterpart that had left earlier, missing this conflict.










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We were still quite alert from our Bretonia encounter, but it appears we were due for even more excitement when passing through Stuttgart.

Our sensors went off when passing just outside of the orbit of the Planet Stuttgart, and visuals confirmed that there were ships that had impacted the planet, seemly missing their line up to the Mooring points. We would have turned back to help, as we had in New Berlin, but with the Battleship and other orbitals already scrambling rescue craft, we could see we would just get in the way. It was still very sad, seeing such needless tragedy.










Eventually we managed through Rheinland, into Sigma-15, and rounded Planet Baltrum to come to ALG's distant Wichter Station. They gladly paid us well for our Gold, and provided well priced High Temperature Alloys so we could return to our currently active contract.

We continued to run the route with BMF until our paths diverged as we veered off towards the Alsace Passage, and bid them farewell.


Our normal run back to Provence, met with little traffic, save one contact upon entering the Provence system itself.

There was a GNI agent monitoring the area just around the Jump Gate to IDF - while the female pilot kept her cards close to her chest, as expected, we did engage in a lovely moment discussing racing - what else in Provence?


Afterwards we arrived at Mecachrome Engine Supply, dropping off our newest load of High Temperature Alloys for the station's operations. They seemed quite happy to receive it.

This third and fourth load of 3600 units out of 50,000 requested - 14,400 total delivered thus far.



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RE: =IT= Trip Log Entries - Interstellar Transit - 02-16-2025

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Trip Log submission by:
Captain Jeff Simpson, =IT=Independence		 Date:
Feb 11, 835 AS
Brief summary of trip:

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My first report for the new group - thanks for having me aboard! It's a pleasure to be riding with Freelancers that respect the lifestyle and pursuit of profit, wherever the path takes us!

Nostalgic for earlier years, and seeking a trustworthy vessel for lane trades through house space, I've been using my Retrofit Transport lately as the sturdy support for my trading adventures. It's a bit tough on the corners at times, and often it's handy to have a bit of alloy to weld onto stressed sections when necessary, but it's reliable. Older and mature like myself, but moving forward, bumps, bruises and all!

After leaving discussions with Jake on Manhattan, I started some trade on our contracts - choosing to buy some Deuterium from Bristol's Cleveland Station in Pennsylvania. I noted some old contracts of mine had established business in system - I'll have to get in touch with Nebula Technologies on behalf of our organization to get some contracts underway!

Leaving with Deuterium in hand, I headed through Kusari to the Sigmas, to find an appropriate buyer for these wares. The office had mentioned that Breuninger, suggested by Bristol originally, wasn't always going to be receptive of this cargo, but that's never stopped me from finding interested parties for goods before!









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Kusari space was fairly peaceful, save for one startling incident near Kishiro's Shinagawa Station in New Tokyo.

Sensors picked up a disturbance near the gas giant Planet Fuji. As I turned a visual to it, I was unfortunate enough to watch first hand as some vessels were pulled into its atmosphere, torn apart, and finally exploded. The emergency lights on Shinagawa had already activated by this point, and crews were on scene to survey the accident for a report - I'm not sure what kind of survivors could come away from that kind of tragedy.

In the first Sigma system I happened into, Sigma-13, I visited Iejima Station, thinking the GMG would be happy to accept my shipment to assist with their operations in H-Fuel production. However, the station turned away my goods, and there was no indication that they accepted outside sources for their supply.

Undeterred, we set course for another Sigma, this time Sigma-15, having to travel through Rheinland space of the Frankfurt system to get there. We did see a bit of hostile activity as we neared the gate to Sigma-15, but the locals seemed to have it under control and the conflict didn't follow us through the gate.

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In Sigma-15, our quest resumed, contacted and arriving at base after base to discover that while Deuterium is critical to many Kruger H-Fuel related secondary operations, there were logistics issues that drove external providers away. Breuninger Depot was overstocked to the point where it wouldn't need resupply for some time. Miningfactory Neuss was offering a ridiculously low payment for the lengthy delivery of this product from Pennsylvania. Other bases such as Norderney Refinery and Eupen Handelsplatz had no interest in the product at all.

Thankfully, the facility clear across the opposite side of the system near Planet Baltrum, ALG's Wichter Station, glady accepted the cargo with at a rate we could appreciate. Having secured that sale, we bid them good day and proceeded to view our data acquired from nearby station communications to find a departed load of cargo and another trade route.

Despite the dismissal of their earlier posted prices for Deuterium, we had to admit that Miningfactory Neuss did have reasonably priced products in the way of Propulsion systems for export. The market showed that demand was still intense for these products, and we gladly procured some stock onboard and headed out towards the gate to Frankfurt.

As if to show us on parting how industrialized this system was, we encountered a barge full of Ablative Armor Plating, inbound from Frankfurt. The captain didn't pay us much heed when greeted, but I expect as much with these Barge crews - those ships are trying at the best of times! My assumption would be these parts were destined for use with ship superstructures, or possibly some weapons manufacture. However without confirmation from the captain, we missed an opportunity to find out which base was needing this much supply. It could have been a nice contract!

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The trip back to Liberty through Rheinland was routine with not much to report. We arrived at our destined port of Susquehanna Station with the Propulsions and earned ourselves a nice profit doing so.

At this point, another of our team, Captain Thomas Smith of the =IT=Njord, contacted us and we concluded a goods convoy would be in our best interested in terms of coordination of assets and protection. His ship was just finishing up a run to Vespucci - we have been making efforts to ensure all of our clients are kept happy and the Freelancer base of Tijuana Freeport has been receiving a steady supply of Basic Alloys on his watch! I maintained position near Planet Curacao and reviewed the nearby markets to plot our next contract trade.

When Captain Smith arrived, I had determined that mining operations did not seem to be selling much product out of Cortez on this day, so we proceeded to the safe bet of heading to Scottsdale Refinery in Coronado. They would have copper - we both filled our holds and directed our course to another DSE asset in need of supply - Red Rock Refinery in Colorado.

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These convoys are always much more interesting and entertaining for me than just running these routes as a sole ship alone. New blood and all, communications lit up as Freelancers are discussing all their latest stories and accomplishments! It's part of the reason why I stay independent and free of the corporate life! This convoy was no exception - Captain Smith had a lot of trade experience lately with the organization, and he was becoming somewhat of an expert at tying contracts together in exceptional ways for maximum profit!

As we continued back through Liberty, we made brief contact with a capital armed forces ship from the 1st group, around the orbit of Planet Manhattan. We were allowed to proceed and made great time to our Colorado destination of Red Rock - Captain Smith's nimble Serenity making it to the base ahead of my own.

Red Rock's product of Interiors had a surplus for sale - an opportunity we couldn't pass up given the market in Shikoku was especially hot for many ship components on most days. Still, before purchase, we confirmed this on the live markets, secured their stock to our cargo holds, and we were then headed to Shikoku.
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Beginning what was probably my shortest trade trip since joining, one trade lane later, we arrived in Galileo and headed towards the Shikoku gate. As we discussed different issues in the markets, I was also analyzing available of stock on bases in the region so we knew where our next direction would be, and product.

Arriving in Shikoku, we were given clearance to dock on Ionic Laboratories, where our Interior systems were offloaded very efficiently.

They had a limited stock of Avionics at very affordable prices on station. Once again confirming the dockmaster on Susquehanna would receive these goods, we bought out the station's remaining product but still had free cargo remaining. A dockhand mentioned nearby associated base of Ionic Industries had supply, so we headed there - and bought them out too!

Still not full but lacking Shikoku suppliers, it was decided to head out with stock on hand.

However, this would not be the end of the Avionics story - it turns out a small supply was available on Bristol's Arcetri base in Galileo. Since we passed it on our route anyhow, Captain Smith pulled his Serenity over to collect this affordable addition. Now both ships had respectable quantities to best justify a return to Cortez.






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Returning through New York, in diligent duty to Liberty, the capital ship from the 1st asked us to hold for while scanning for hostiles and contraband. We passed the test and were about to depart, when a Liberty Rogue in a destroyer-class vessel began to approach the Navy ship - very aggressively! Given our prior inspection was complete, we vacated the area so we didn't become casualties of that interaction.

A short time later, with no further incidents, we arrived at Susquehanna Station in Cortez and sold our Avionics at a sizeable profit.

We bid Captain Smith's ship and crew farewell as we took some brief time off on Planet Curacao after several long days off trade routes.




Note: I will post on the Freelancer Contract Board our routes today so reporting is satisfied and proper payouts to myself and the crew can be issued for time on contract. A small price to pay for the bonuses received for such routine trade!




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RE: =IT= Trip Log Entries - Fogabest - 02-22-2025

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From: Thomas Smith, Interstellar Transit

To: Jeff Simpson, Interstellar Transit

Subject: Business Oportunity!


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Thomas Smith, =IT=Njord		 Date:
Feb 22, 835 AS
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How are you doing Jeff!

These last few days have been a rush! But I'm not complaining; on the contrary, I'm pleased to see that we have a lot of work to do. However, I won't report the details of the deliveries here. This is already duly recorded in the files of our cargo delivery section. What I would like to report here is what happened on one of the deliveries that left Sigma-15 and was destined for Provence.

Well, the route was very calm and that's exactly why when I was in Kyushu I decided to shorten the route and take the jump hole to Tau-23 and from there pass through the restricted access gate to Languedoc, since =IT= has authorization to do so. I confess that I always feel a bit tense when I sail through TAU-23. That system seems like a perfect place for pirates to ambush merchants. But everything was going so well that I felt confident enough to take this shortcut.

As soon as my ship left the jump hole and I found myself on Tau-23, I set the navigation systems to the coordinates of the gate to Languedoc and sat up straight in my chair, trying to focus all my attention on the onboard computers and the view I could get of the outside. I know that the corridors in the middle of the asteroid fields are quite safe to navigate. But I usually take a straight line from the Java station to the gate to Languedoc, which means that in this part of the route, instead of using the corridor, I navigate between the asteroids. So all my concentration is necessary.

It didn't take long after passing the Java station and entering the asteroid field towards the gate to Languedoc to feel an old and pleasant sensation: piloting the Serenity using its maneuverability to position myself on the paths I could find among the asteroids. How I love this ship!

I was focused and entertained with the navigation when I began to visualize, still in the distance, the shape of the gate that was my destination. I was calculating where I would turn left to get out of the minefield and use the corridor for the last few kilometers of the trajectory when I noticed a contact on the scanner and almost immediately a request for me to stop and turn off the engines.

What I immediately thought was that my intuition, or overconfidence, had deceived me. I began to mentally calculate what would be feasible to pay as a fee to the pirate who was approaching, preparing myself for a negotiation.

To my surprise, before I had finished doing the calculations, the pilot seemed friendly. In fact, he was patrolling the area. He belongs to the Unione Corse faction and the name of his ship is "Bastia". He offered me the favor of escorting my ship to its destination and then to the limits of TAU-23 again, which I gladly accepted. We talked for the rest of the journey and, finally, this conversation might lead to a business opportunity.

It turns out that his faction is interested in developing projects for the construction of some kind of modular facility in Provence. And since our partners in this region are also partners of his faction, we thought that perhaps we could extend this partnership to a joint effort. He agreed to talk to his boss and I to mine. And here I am reporting this to =IT=.

I have attached below the details of the conversation taken from the black box communication log. I hope this bears fruit!

Safe travels!

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Thomas Smith
Captain, =IT=Njord
Interstellar Transit


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RE: =IT= Trip Log Entries - Interstellar Transit - 03-02-2025

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Trip Log submission by:
Captain Dawn Richardson, =IT=Concordia		 Date:
Feb 27, 835 AS
Brief summary of trip:

Freed, however briefly, from the needs of Mr. Simpson's new station project in Hudson, the crew and I decided to attend to our new contract in Ile de France, providing copper for OS&C's projects on station.

For the first leg of the trip, we picked up some Xenobiotic Filters at Cold Bay for a good price, and proceeded through Liberty to sell them to Susquehanna Station in Cortez. They were more than happy to pay us well for the product - I guess manufacturing is still in full swing onsite.

A quick survey of base economic data in the region showed that copper was in short supply, so off to the source to Coronado to find other sale points.

We chose Crayter's Timor-Leste Bazaar as it had resources onhand - with the side show of a nearby comet to briefly break up our trip with some sightseeing. However, that adventure didn't do wonders for our exterior when we ventured slightly closer than safety regulations suggested...

However, we now had our copper product, and headed through the local jumphole to Baffin in the Barrier Ice Field and towards the Tau systems.

Our quick trip through Baffin was scenic - although I'm certain I spied a base near Hodge and Podge and an established one at that... it must be scientists logging data on that environment.

Movement to the Taus, now back on the trade lanes, was quick - hopped through Tau-31 past Holman, and followed a group of traders to the Tau-23 gate.

Carefully traversing what was left of the Tau-23 lane infrastructure, we proceeded through the minefield protecting the Languedoc gate access, transmitted our credentials to the Gallic Navy standing by and were allowed to proceed into Gallia.

Finally we reached Planet New Paris and we scouted the base - not a quick find even though we were told it's location area. It seems OS&C were going for scenic views from higher orbits around the nearby moon of the planet, and sensors guided us to the base eventually, where our cargo was promptly off-loaded by pleasant docking staff.


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RE: =IT= Trip Log Entries - Interstellar Transit - 03-05-2025

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Trip Log submission by:
Captain Dawn Richardson, =IT=Concordia		 Date:
Mar 3, 835 AS
Brief summary of trip:

After the run to IDF for OS&C with copper, we needed a return run to keep us earning. We found that in Niobium for 75 from Biacris, Tau-23. We loaded up on station and headed out immediately.

An OSI Zoner we found upon entering Tau-31 was emitting some crazy light waves - sensors couldn't make sense of it - I kinda wish they responded to hails so I could ask them more, but we just passed in the gate area too quickly.

A short trip later, we sold most of Niobium to Cortez Miner Tavern for 210, although they reached their quota and refused to take the full load.
It was decided just to head to Cordova Shipping Platform and filled the hold up again with Super Alloys for 65. This way both products could be sold on Emerson Supply in Hudson, as they were always in demand there.

We landed on Emerson and no sooner than had we sold our product, the base administration asked for a supply run of Ablative Armor Plating as a favor to them from Hamburg's Alster Shipyard. It seems it's a product of high demand these days and they wanted to have some in stock to entice traders to visit. This delivery was short and sweet, but we still had a contract to fulfill - it was back to another run to IDF.

We grabbed another load of Xenobiotic Filters from Cold Bay and headed out to Susquehanna Station for the first leg.

Once delivery to the Deep Space Engineering station was completed, Coronado was our objective, again in search of copper.
Scottsdale Refinery had their usual volume in supply, and we filled our hold to the brim with our desired resource of the day.

On our way towards the Baffin jump hole, we had another glimpse of the local comet - a welcome wonder amongst our long route!

In Baffin itself, our curiosity almost got the better of us when the crew and myself decided to check out that visual contact out by Hodge and Podge we'd seen on that prior trip through the system. As we closed in, entering the Chao field nearest to Planet Podge, we finally received further readings on the station. It appeared to be heavily neglected or only partial constructed, but it wasn't broadcasting any identification and our threat response lit it up as we closed within 10k. We veered off back towards our course - still finding it mysterious but none of us
would jeopardize the safety of the ship just to get conclusive answers when the potential for combat is involved.

The Taus were quiet and we saw few ships once we went off-lane in Tau-23 on approach to Gallia's heavily guarded Languedoc gate. We were cleared as routine as the last trip but this time we ran into a Unione Corse Border Patrol agent in Languedoc near Briancon Station. We complied and they offered up an escort for our Gallic travels, which also involved a brief stop-over at Provence's raceway, discussion about local politics, and finally a full escort right up to our destination in Liberty with our return cargo!

I've included the transcript in this log, and they did acknowledge receiving our communication after Thomas Smith's conversation with their agents in the field.

Our arrival in Provence coincided with a Corsair freighter hauling a product called 'Azurite Gas' through the region. The Unione Corse agent had no problems with their group, The Brotherhood, as the UC pilot called them. This 'exotic' material was explained as available in the 'deep Omicrons'. It might be an opportunity to look into, as I know I've never come across the substance myself, so it must be rare!

On our return trip through Kusari, we stopped by yet another busy raceway at the Golden Dragon in Shikoku. The turns and loops involved in this one would definitely take some practice to master!

Finally, we reached Colorado and Planet Denver, where my escort Unione Corse agent and I parted ways. I must say that this particular individual seemed well suited to promotion - it almost makes me want to look towards setting up a place of residence on Marseille for my vacation time away!


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RE: =IT= Trip Log Entries - Interstellar Transit - 03-12-2025

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Trip Log submission by:
Captain Jake Donovan, =IT=Mercury		 Date:
Mar 12, 835 AS
Brief summary of trip:

With the OS&C routes between Manhattan, Curacao, and New Tokyo going so well, it only made sense to obtain another ship to maximize our performance and show OS&C we are putting in the true effort for their customers.

A Regent class luxury yacht was purchased - managed to find one in decent shape from the local dealers on Manhattan - it didn't take much for our crews to whip it up into fit-for-duty shape.

The passenger routes have been fairly routine - I can't say we've had any difficulties in terms of hostiles or ship troubles during these last few weeks. I'm sure that has helped our ratings with customers, as I haven't had to respond to as many negative feedback incidents lately.

As for the rest of operations, Dawn and Thomas have been doing great taking care of contracts while Jeff has been busy setting up the new Hudson venture - getting our trading and transfer station established to build a better presence towards Rheinland and Gallia via Alsace Passage.

There have been quite a few communications flowing - business is looking up, new contacts and contracts getting established - if we were publicly traded, I'd like to think our stock price would be through the roof!

Great job team!



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