To: IMG Guildmasters

[Karst]

To you miners;

Hello, my name's Elise. You might know me as "that freelancer that defended our mining operation recently and nothing happened".
Anyway, you mine copper, obviously? That's your operation that I was defending, very successfully.
Now, how aware are you of other rival operations which may possibly threaten your copper trade, and if there was say, a rival corporate base that was doing that business, would you like to know about it?

~ Elise

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[Nodoka Hanamura]

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¤ LOCATION: Falkland Base, Tau-44

¤ COMM-ID: Guildmistress Asuna Akibara

¤ TARGET-ID: Elise Pennybrooke, Bluefin

¤ SUBJECT: Corpos

¤ ENCRYPTION: IMG A.L.L.O.Y Code

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Ms. Pennybrooke

Thank you for assisting us earlier.

I am Guildmistress Asuna Akibara, who was flag commander of the Ikenai Supertransport, and Guildmistress for Falkland Base. Now that the formalities are out of the way, on to the topic of your message:

To my knowledge there's not much in the way of competing interests in the Coronado Copper field, as much of a goldmine as it tends to be. Other than seeing those StarCat guys roll up and load their Whale to the brim with Copper when I'm staying on the base in Inverness on overnights, Aside from them and the occasional DSE teams trying to get funny ideas, I've not the foggiest.

That being said... I am interested. Please, tell me more about these corpos playing hard to get with us.

Asuna Akibara
Guildmistress, Falkland Base

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[Karst]

Guildmistress;

Alright, let's get down to business then. I was hanging out with a friend in Inverness, and stumbled upon a supplier that I followed to what appears to be a Deep Space Engineering mining station. I'm hoping here for a reward situation to reveal the location. Ideally before you send your own scouts out, because you'll probably find it on your own. Wasn't that hard.

~ Elise

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¤ LOCATION: Falkland Base, Tau-44

¤ COMM-ID: Guildmistress Asuna Akibara

¤ TARGET-ID: Elise Pennybrooke, Bluefin

¤ SUBJECT: Corpos

¤ ENCRYPTION: IMG A.L.L.O.Y Code

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Ms. Pennybrooke

Would this ship in question happen to be the CMC Ship Copperland? We are aware of that ship, but not where exactly it's been heading. That being said, I'm authorized to award you a bounty payout for intelligence on the transport and base upon verification of the info you're providing us.

Asuna Akibara
Guildmistress, Falkland Base

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[Karst]

Guildmistress;

Nope, but it's the same association we're talking about.
It was quite the impressive beast, a gargantuan supertanker under sketchy Spa and Cruise colours. Didn't get much out of them, just that they were contracted by this CMC. Anyway, here's your shots.

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You can wire my service fees to Bluefin, or Yellowfin. Pleasure doing business.

~ Elise

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