"Mayday Mayday! This is Emeric Orsini going do.."
The Jaguar noir was destroyed and Emeric was drifting around in his escape pod.
"Joel here,don't worry dad, I got you in!"
After tractoring his father's pod, Joel returned to Montelimar base. His father had grave injuries, and he had only few hours left. Somehow, he gathered all his strength, and began talking to his son.
"Joel, my son, I want you to know the story of your family...the one that I did never told you.
It all started on a outpost in Lorraine. Our grand parents used to work there, until one day they found a "short cut" to get easy money. They stole a transport and sold the goods on the black market..."
Emeric was interrupted by his son: "We need to get you to medical now! You are bleeding way too much dad!"
"No! You must here the story first!...ah...after they sold the goods the police somehow found out and arrested them.
However they gave them two choices. The first was to go to prison for 5 years.
The second choice was more...complicated...your great grand father had to assassinate a high ranked officer and make it look like a suicide...
Your great grand mother's task was to lure the said officer. They somehow finished the task and the police dropped the charges.
However the young couple continued to act as unlawfuls.."
Joel interrupted his father again:
"But while are you telling me this?!"
"Let me finish..." His father said
"I think the Gallic Royal Navy found out about our little...business with the police. They are after us now..."
This time Joel directly took his father to medical, not willing to hear the whole story.
His father survived, but he never flew a ship again. Two weeks after this incident, the Gallic Royal Navy captured Joel's fianc?e.
The Royal Navy had somehow found out about the "Business" between the Corse and the Police.
It's believed the navy has began a massive operation of taking the whole Corse down.
Corse fighters were attacked by the Royalist many times.
The Godfather of the Corse, Emeric Montelimar ,unable to handle the situation, retreated and choose his son as the new Godfather.
Since then, Joel's prime goal is to return the Corse to it's former glory.
Chapter II
Joel had a sleepless night again, he was trying to hack in the Naval database.
Recent patrols captured a high ranked naval officer who was willing to talk.
He told Joel how to enter the database. But something was wrong:
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Welcome to GRN database. Please enter your username and password:
Username: Benjamin Edmond
Password:*************** [Access Denied]
After 3 hours of attempts to hack in, Joel finally made it. The first thing he did was to search for his own name.
He found two files.
The first was his dossier.
The second was called Operation "Huit Rouge", however, the file was locked with a password.
"Operation Eight Red...what is this blasted thing...and what it has to do with me?"
Joel browsed the database for 2 more hours but he didn't find any info about "Operation Eight-Red"
He went to Bourbon base to question a naval officer that was captured earlier that day. At the beginning the officer was rock-solid, and he was 100% sure he don't know what is "Operation Eight Red"
However, after Joel used more "sadistic" ways, the officer said he actually was send to kill someone named Claude Orsini
Joel returned to Montelimar base, and entered the GRN Database.
This time he searched for any info related to Claude.
"8-Red" popped up again.
Amazed, Joel searched for his daughter's name. The results were the same, her dossier and that mysterious operation again.
"Hmm, if they are after us they must know about our deals with police"-He thought
"If this thing is related to us then let me try this..."
The Godfather typed the name of a high ranked police officer, who did some "Business" with the Corse not long ago.
"Interesting..."
Operation "8 Red" popped up again.
Joel figured the Royalists are after the deals between the police and the Unione Corse.
He informed Don Lefevre immediately, and they arranged a family meeting.
Chapter III
Montelimar Base's bar, Dauphine system.
Joel, Claude and Sophie were drinking wine while waiting for Don Lefevre and his hitman to arrive.
Meanwhile, Lefevre's group jumped from Burgundy to Dauphine.
Upon entering the system the Corse ships were attacked by unknown Gallic ships.
A distress call was send to Montelimar base and reinforcement were sent immediately but by the time they arrived the last man standing was Zacharie,the head of the Lefevre family.
Amazingly, he managed to tractor everyone's escape pods.
-After 30 Minutes-
Joel: "Zacharie are you ok?" Lefevre: "Don't worry about me, how are the boys?" Joel: "They are being taken care of now, care to explain me why there are 4 Royal Navy escape pods in your hold? Lefevre: "What Naval pilots? I only tractored the attackers. . .oh. . ." Joel: "Go find Jason,and tell him to go and ask our Royal friends couple a questions...now!"
-After 2 minutes- Jason: "Well hello there,mon ami.Be so kind and tell me,who send you?!" Pilot: "Im not authorized to tell you!"
-Jason pulls out his blaster and shots the pilot in the head- Jason: "Aw,what a waste.Now...the next one.You! Answer! Now!"
-Another shot is heard- Joel: "Now don't go silent one me...Lefevre?I thought you said there were four pilots?" Lefevre: "One of them died, his escape pod was somehow hit by a Missile" Jason: "Figures...now, the last one."
-The last pilot was actually a girl,20-22 years old. She had blue eyes and blonde hair: Jason: "Sweetheart, what's your name?" "Lilianne" Jason: "Lilianne, would you be so kind and tell me who the heck send you?" Lilianne: "Ok ok...just don't shoot...please...I was send to eliminate Lefevre ." Jason: "Who send you?" Lilianne: "I don't know...I was ordered to scramble my IFF and proceed to the coordinates...please...don't kill me..." Jason: "All I wanted to hear. get her to medical, I want two armed guards protecting her." Lefevre: "I have a bad feeling about this..." Jason: "Indeed, my friend.Now I'll go and tell Joel what we've learned." Lefevre: "Oui,Jason."
Chapter IV
A month has passed, and there were no sign of Royalist. Everything was quiet around Bourbon, way too quiet.
The only sound that can be heard was chatter between the patrols:
"I think my girl is cheating me..."
"Why?"
"I don't know...maybe because I found her sleeping with other man...but he said he got the wrong room."
"Oh brother..."
Don Lefevre was fixing something on his Jaguar Noir when he was interrupted by a emergency message from his hitman. "Sir, I managed to get that data you send me for...but I have red contacts on my six.
They are trying to take me down."
Zacharie: "Just get here in one piece..." "Aye aye!"
-After 20 minutes- "This is Gaston Lefevre,open docking port 2!Coming in hot, repeat coming in hot!"
After nearly crashing his ship in the docking port Gaston gave a small hard drive to his Don. "This is the data." Zacharie: "Excellent my boy, now go to the bar and get drunk, get very drunk, it will help you relax. And don't worry, I'm going to pay your bill."
Gaston:"Thank you Don Leferve!"
5 Minutes later, the Don was already heading to Montelimar base to give the data to the Godfather.
-2 Hours later-
Sophie: "Dad, I decoded the data file, you may want to see this..."
Joel started reading the file. It was about "Eliminating corrupting factors". The Crown has found out about the Royal Police's dealing with the Corse.
They somehow decided to do something to stop this corruption. They didn't had any hard evidence nor suspect, so they decided to assassinate or capture a number of high ranked corse members. The operation was supposed to be covert,but it was considered as "Failure" two weeks ago, due to the 4 compromised pilots.
However, Joel also found out that his wife is still alive and held as prisoner in a top secret facility. He also found out that she is being transferred in 2 weeks.
Joel Smiled and laughed. He yelled in the comms: "This is your Godfather speaking, I want you all in the bar,now!!"
-One hour later- Joel: "Alright, listen up, I want everyone to be prepared. I want every single ships in this base to be ready for combat 24/7 or even more! We are going on a special..."Trip" after two weeks. If we manage to complete our task, you all will have so much money, that you will be able to buy a whole transport with wine and tobacco!"
Chapter V
The day had come, 2 weeks passed since Joel briefed his men. They had chosen a nebula, so they could benefit from it's radar blocking abilities to ambush the convoy.
Joel, Sophie, Claude,Zacharie and Leonard were waiting for the convoy. Orsini's flag ship was waiting on the other side of the jump hole, ready to back them up.
After about 10 minutes of radio silence six contacts appeared on their radars. One of those contacts was a royal Freighter, his cargo showed 50 Prisoners.
The corse veterans took out the escorts and disabled the freighter's engines. Then the gunboat jumped in and took the prisoners onboard. Joel: "Let's hope they didn't send a distress ca...."
He didn't managed to finish his word, because upon leaving the cloud's cover, he faced two royal gunboats, assisted by two fighter wings. Joel: "Get back in the clo...*Static*...now!"
An explosion was heard, amazingly ,Joel's voice was on the comms after this. Joel: "What in my home's name is this?! The gunboats are going down! It's the Brigands! It....my fianc?e?!"
Joel's was nearly shot down while staring at the radars...It was clearly showing: Emma Orsini. Joel: "But....wait...how.. what?!" Emma: "Shut up and fight already! I'm getting my behinds kicked here." Joel: "Right...all fighters...engage....keep the "Hammer" in the cloud."
The Royal Fighters and bombers were quickly "Silenced". Joel: "Good work everyone! Good work...Emma...we must finish that wedding ceremony..." Emma: "We should have married 20 years ago, Joel. Actually even before Sophie was born..." Joel: "Now's a good time too..."
-The next day-
The wedding ceremony has began:
"You Emma Orsini do you take Jo..."
He was interrupted by Joel: "Yes she does! Yes I do! I've waited 20 blasted years for this moment!"
And he kissed Emma.
Joel: "Now, ladies and gentlemen, let's celebrate!"
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