Bowex InfoNet (inRP)

[Scott MacFarlane]

Incoming Transmission LS819 41240394V
Encryption Level: SECURED T145
CommID: MacFarlane: NL:DH 8764501
Message Target: Bowex Infonet
CC: Bretonian Trade and Transit Authority, BAF Admiralty (Commodore Piett), Liberty Navy COMOPS (Admiral Malrone)
Message Source: Trade Combine Offices, Lancaster Station, Newcastle
Subject: Bowex-lead Convoy reports

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Sahs!

The following is full reports for recent convoys up to the present date:

Convoy 819-7-28-A

The BES Bonny Lass, already on an independent trade mission in Liberty, was contacted by the BES Smith who was coming into Liberty at the time. I suggested that we merge and find escort for a round of hell raising, and the always on the bounce Mr. Mundi agreed. Of course, I was already in a bit of a spot, having already dodged that murderous fiend The Magician, and his absconded Orchid Bomber; three times. I had spotted him again near Rochester. Apparently the retch was not going to give up. However, things went from bad to spoiled fish worse for him. I had contacted our good friend Ozei about the inbred lout, and just as predicted, Ozei was having a little '€œchat'€ with the snake. Namely, about where it was he acquired his GC bomber. On that note sahs, I must report that our greatest fears have been realized on this issue, as per conversations three weeks ago on the subject.

Anyway, Ozei managed to keep the bastard busy as I slipped into Rochester and slipped out again, unchallenged. I haven'€™t seen much of The Magician since then. As Ozei has been tooling around Liberty quite a bit these days I think The Magician might be laying low.

I met up with Mr. Mundi in Liberty and we hired Ozei to escort for us. As soon as we dropped cargo at Fort Bush we spied a Kishiro Transport by the name of Kishiro|KTS-Mabuchi. Well after some words were exchanged the damn rodder took pop-shots at me. Needless to say I had Mr. Gordon bring round the guns and had Mr. Munro take the safeties off the mains. I gave the homosexual flap dragon one last warning to toss off, and then ordered a full barrage. Ozei also put a missile up his tailpipe as the scalawag did take to Lane to make his escape. Having more pressing matters, we let the middle-school dropout go.

No other occurrences for this run. We finally pulled into New London with cargo, and took a small break before another run.

Convoy 819-7-28-B

After a break on the 28th we prepared to set out again. This time, we were joined by that undisciplined ape Mr. Moreland, and his equally shoddy Shetland, the BES Wolfe
We loaded with Super Alloy from Scar, and almost immediately ran into trouble. Pirates? No. Mollies? No. Outcasts? No. Rookie BAF? Again no. The bloody trouble came from Mr. Moreland himself, who does not only refuse to listen to escorts, but can'€™t bloody drive his ship without running over everything in bloody sight. After ramming Mr. Mundi'€™s Smith he proceeded to insult my person after I criticized him on the matter. The slander! The gall! The utter nerve of the inbred, Zoner-sired lout! As if that was not enough, the bloody thug ran over me lovely Lass at the Cortez jumpgate. The insufferable hedge-pig is a danger to the space lanes! Well I had had enough, and as the senior man of the convoy decided to exercise some corporate discipline by painting Mr, Moreland'€™s shields with plasma in accordance with Article 7, Section 13, Sub-section 4.
Of course no actual damage was done and I managed to get the man'€™s attention in accordance with Sub-Section 6. But the slanderous bear-dropping, clearly not getting the message, decided to threaten me with Federal Prison! ME! As if that wasn'€™t enough, the WEASEL stuck me with his share of the security bill on return to New London, whilst he ran off to the Red-Light district with a trio of male prostitutes. The absolute ruddy nerve! Needless to say that I request full satisfaction in this matter!
Below is posted the com logs that we recovered from the Bonny Lass to give management a better idea of the occurences.

Coms Log

Convoy 819-7-30-A

The standard convoy on Saturday went extremely well. Almost too well to be honest, as I believe our escorts became genuinely bored. We RV'€™d at New London as usual, and were met by our scout and escorts. I was not expecting to see our escorts until we were at the Kingston Border Station but they received clearance from the Border Control to come and meet us at New London instead.
This convoy consisted of:

BES Lennox, Capt. MacFarlane, Convoy Lead
BES Smith, Capt. Mundi, Assistant Convoy Lead
Pipilo, Yoko Mori, Scout and Security Lead
Harry.Dresden, Convoy communications
BES Williams Capt. Williams
BES Wellington Capt Clark
DSE M-10 Wolverine Gunboat Close Escort
DSE M-24 Chaffee Gunboat Shepherd

The movement saw nothing of the usual red dots trying to avoid us, nor did we have the usual troubles getting started. In fact, after my convoy briefing, things ran like clockwork. I dare say it was the smoothest running convoy yet. I can only hope for more like it. Only problems we had were Captain Williams total impatience with the pace, which truly made me want to Shire-ram him, and a LN Cruiser that absolutely insisted on accosting our escorts concerning their use of Liberty Gunboats. Nothing else of occurence to report. Certainly nothing like the previous week'€™s excitement.

The Convoy cleared 200 million in profit for Queen and Country and 29.9 million was paid in security fees.

Master Scott MacFarlane, Clan MacFarlane
Department Manager, Bowex Trade Combine.

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