TO: IMG RECRUITMENT OFFICE
SENDER:Roy Clark
SUBJECT: MINER OR EXPLORER APPLICATION
GREETINGS, I AM A FORMER LIBERTY POLICE PILOT, TRYING TO LOOK FOR SOME JOB FREEDOM AND EARN MORE CASH. I WOULD GIVE MY EXPERIENCE AS I WISH TO LEARN MORE AND MORE. I HEARD ABOUT YOUR STEADY AND UPRISING GUILD FROM A FRIEND LOCATED IN COLORADO, DENVER PLANET. IM VERY INTERESTED IN YOUR PROGRAMS OF YOUR EXPLORATION FOR MORE NATURAL RESOURCES AS WELL AS MINING PROGRAMS. WHICH I LIKE FOR THE FREEDOM OF JOB OFFERS, I WILL TAKE ANY IF THE GUILD NEEDS THE HELP, HISTORY SHOWS THE TOUGH TIMES THE IMG HAS GONE THOUGH, ITS TIME WHEN THE SUPRESSED RISE UNITED AND FREE TO BECOME A STRONG ARM IN THE SIRIUS SECTOR. NO MORE EXPLOITATION! THAT IS ONE OF THE MANY REASONS I WISH TO JOIN YOUR GUILD SIR.
TO: IMG RECRUITMENT OFFICE
SENDER:Roy Clark
SUBJECT: MINER OR EXPLORER APPLICATION
GREETINGS, I AM A FORMER LIBERTY POLICE PILOT, TRYING TO LOOK FOR SOME JOB FREEDOM AND EARN MORE CASH. I WOULD GIVE MY EXPERIENCE AS I WISH TO LEARN MORE AND MORE. I HEARD ABOUT YOUR STEADY AND UPRISING GUILD FROM A FRIEND LOCATED IN COLORADO, DENVER PLANET. IM VERY INTERESTED IN YOUR PROGRAMS OF YOUR EXPLORATION FOR MORE NATURAL RESOURCES AS WELL AS MINING PROGRAMS. WHICH I LIKE FOR THE FREEDOM OF JOB OFFERS, I WILL TAKE ANY IF THE GUILD NEEDS THE HELP, HISTORY SHOWS THE TOUGH TIMES THE IMG HAS GONE THOUGH, ITS TIME WHEN THE SUPRESSED RISE UNITED AND FREE TO BECOME A STRONG ARM IN THE SIRIUS SECTOR. NO MORE EXPLOITATION! THAT IS ONE OF THE MANY REASONS I WISH TO JOIN YOUR GUILD SIR.
About me: Hello there, my name is Gary Walker and I'm from Planet New London, I used to be an independent trades man, but after a while the goods i hauled within my father trade route had their prices lowered and i became a very poor man, my crew quit and found another trading vessel to work on, but myself as the captain of the ship i used to fly, i just couldn't believe what happened to us, so i sold my ship, and have bought the cheapest ship i could find so i can fly around sirius and look for a new job, and one day i saw some miners in Dublin docked on Battleship Hood, so i asked them, how much their making, the sum they told me they make was too big to believe, so i thought if i could even give them escorting i would make enough for a normal living, then i asked them who they work for and if i could come along, they said they work for the IMG and that they would like to help any poor man rebuild his life, and then they gave me this frequency for the IMG Recruitment Center, and here i am, that is my story, i wish i will be accepted into this wonderful guild, but not that only i get helped, but that i help you people as well in any way i can.
*** Incoming Transmission *** From: Johnathan Sanders, IMG Director of R&D
Location: Holman Outpost relay, Tau 31
To: Prospective recruits
Mister Roy Clark.
Your comm ID is all I can make out from your message. I suspect you had an equipment failure at the time of transmission. Our diagnostics suggest a faulty C.A.P.S. locking setting. Please correct and retransmit. If you are unable to permanently correct this, your chances of communicating, or joining with us will be slim.
Mister Gary Walker.
Am I to understand that you wish to provide escort for those who mine gold, based out of the Hood? Not the easiest of jobs, considering the amount of piracy in the system, but if you feel up to the challenge I for one would welcome you there. Be aware that our guild's defense fleet is concentrated mostly around Java station, in order to fend off Outcast attacks, which have become quite numerous of late.
Be aware that the Mollies can legally exact a 1 million mining tax within the system - we try to stay on friendly terms with them, and work with them and the Bretonian lawful forces to root out pirates, especially Corsairs. And lastly, despite attempts to remedy this, BMM transponders still read hostile on our scanners, and ours hostile to theirs. They may be corporate lapdogs, and their bosses greedy bastards who were rightfully booted from the Taus, but that does not mean we shoot at their workers, who are just doing their jobs. Many of us once were BMM, until we decided we had enough.
*** Transmission end ***
Wide awake in a world that sleeps, enduring thoughts, enduring scenes. The knowledge of what is yet to come.
From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.
Mostly retired Discovery member. May still visit from time to time.
---Transmission Established---
From: Gary Walker
To: Johnathan Sanders
I understand sir, but i wish to help the guild wherever they need help not just in the Dublin system and the miners there, that is just the location i met them for the very first time, so i shall go adjust my ship at once.
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From: Godric Edmund
To: IMG Recruitment Office
Hello my name is Godric Edmund i come from Rheinland planet New Berlin as a kid i was very poor, i lost my parents in a terrorist attack and my grandmother was taking care of me until she died, she was always envying the IMG so in her respect i decided to join them, i applied once but i was put down, because of my health problems, i have trained for 5 years on Battleship Hood and have met a lot of IMG traders and miners, they said with my expertise it would be good to have me in the Defense Division and that is my story, i wish that the IMG can help me and in return i will also help the IMG in any way i can.
--Godric Edmund signing out--
---Transmission Ends---
Good day sir
My name is Anthony Michael I am 39 years old I was born on planet new London where both of my parents served in the BAF. we lived in a defence married Quarter on BAF station Harford so growing up for me was one of a military life, not surprisingly at the age of 18 I enlisted into the BAF. For fifteen years I moved my way up thru the non commissioned ranks to warrant officer until five years ago was offered a Queens commission. I am currently serving as a Flight Lieutenant in Bretonia Armed Forces, my role is that of a Movements Officer moving military personnel/ammunitions and payload on to cargo vessels for the war with Kusari.
The reason for my application is that I have grown very weary of this war. I feel that there are bigger and better thing out there and as I have a young wife and child their happiness is paramount to me.
In my time in the BAF I have come into contact with IMG pilots who have informed me, that working as pilots/miner for your company would financially be a large step up from my current position, they also informed me that your organisation is one that is very family orientated, this suits my requirements so I hope that you consider my application.
Thank you for your time sir
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT
Anthony Michael
Bretonian Armed Force's
Logistics division
From: Jack Henderson
Location: Dublin System, Battleship Hood
Honourable Ladies and Gentlemen,
my name is Jack Henderson (32) and the purpose of this transmission is my decision to apply with the Independent Mining Guild. I'm a legal Bretonian citizen with roots in Dublin as well as New London.
I worked for BMM for 8 years until it became clear that there was no future for me in a company that restricted my skills to the very limited field of hauling cargo between well-protected systems. After being charged for breaking company conduct rules by engaging in lawful firefights or changing trading routes, I decided to quit a job that only paid the bill but held no thrill.
Two years ago, I founded a small company named "Risk & Success" together with my former BMM copilot Jonathan Myamat who had also quit BMM employment by then. The company consisting of us two has provided services for miners who work outside BMM in Bretonian territory for the last two years.
Our offered services include: forward scouting of routes, unknown route reconnaisance, risk assessment and managment, conflict prevention, convoy protection as well as legal preemptive assaults against unlawful threats to our clients' interests.
In the wake of rising tensions in our main area of operation around Dublin, increased pressure by BMM and ample opportunities with IMG to do what we love to do, we decided to give up our complete independence to join IMG.
In my opinion IMG is the best possible solution because it stays out of exactly the kind of politics that devastated my home system and rendered it an insecure and economically as well as politically instable home to separatists, rouges, criminals and terrorists. As a Dubliner loyal to the Crown operating outside BMM it proved to be hard to find a party of support which I could turn to without betraying at least one part of oneself. I want to stay in the mining business. I want to stay in Bretonia. IMG is a way of accomplishing both.
If you accept my application, my skills and equipment would be used for the common good of the Guild. Especially in unstable systems IMG miners need to be prepared to show strength and not back away easily in order to succeed financially. Increasingly, Molly fractions treat IMG members as hostiles, restricting access to independent Dublin mining areas or charging illegal mining fees, not to mention a rising number of acts of piracy or outright deliberate killings. If there shall be a future for independent miners in the Dublin sector, a position of strength and committment must be taken. We - myself and my business partner - can assist efforts to maintain IMG interests in Dublin.
Not backing away easily, but taking calculated risks is a lesson learnt the hard way while working as freelancers in the Dublin system. I can be a part of the Guild's effort to strengthen our presence in dangerous sectors and difficult times.