To: General IMG Comms
Encryption: High
From: Andy Austin, currently stationed at Java Station
Subject: Hessian base supply; Captain changing on vessel Giant.Sloth
Greetings dear Sirs.
Today I was part of a convoy that, among other runs, delivered some construction materials on the Red Hessian base "Diamant". The first delivery on my behalf was of 4600 units of Optronics (Shot 1). The second delivery was of 4600 units of Robotics (Shot 2).
I did not manage to record the name of the base while docked, but the other transports of the same convoy can confirm the delivery.
We, then, tractored in 4600 units of uncut diamonds extracted by local miners from a local asteroid field as payment.
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On another issue, I would like to annouce that I will be stepping down from the position of captain of my recently assigned transport, the IMG|Giant.Sloth.
I have decided to let a faithful crew member, named Jacob Wallace, have the captain position on the Giant Sloth.
I will now make a brief description of my experience with Jacob.
A short while after I got my Hegemon class miner, back in California, I met Jacob as I was searching for a capable, politically independent crew.
He too shared my vision about the corruption on Liberty companies and expressed his wishes upon endorsing an independent business.
He agreed to join my crew and contribute for my mining business.
Later on, he also shared my wish to join the IMG and, since then, we have become good friends.
However we do have our ... differences of opinion, and he has developed and expressed a wish to ... let's say, be part of a more lively action. He is not as "loving" of diplomacy and dialogue as I am.
In the meantime, when I was assigned the Giant Sloth (formerly known as HiyamaBridge), I had to pick it up from Osaka Storage Facility and take it to Java Station. However, that first trip on the Giant Sloth was rather traumatic, as the transport went under heavy attack and was destroyed on Kyushu... Luckly my escape-pod was returned unharmed and a recently acquired insurance managed to pay part of the ship's loss.
Jacob was growing bored of being part of a miner-ship crew, so we agreed to transfer him to the Giant Sloth.
A later cargo run was also under heavy attack, but luckly our escorts managed to destroy the offender.
While I was quite scared for my life and my crew's life, Jacob was thrilled with the event and kept saying that we needed more of those to really feel alive and some adrenaline.
I have barely used my miner since, and my previous mining crew was growing bored, as I was onboard the Giant Sloth most of the time, doing cargo runs or updating it's navmaps.
I have grown wary of the feeling of constantly having to be on the look out for pirates, routes, dealing with unreasonable demands or threats, for fear of losing the ship and possibly our lives. I was never too much of a arms-master. Jacob, on the other hand, loved the thrill of out witting pirates, even attempting to shoot at them from our turrets and other foolish suicidal tendencies (he is a very good fellow, but I really do not understand his eagerness to get into the heat).
I have therefore chosen to step down from the Giant Sloth's command, and go back to my beautiful Lithovore and the mining assignment. *smiles*
Jacob, on the other hand, wants to get on battling ships, but for now, he agreed to stay on the Giant Sloth and get to know more about transporting routes, pirate routes, possibly exchange of knowledge and experience with other IMG fighter pilots or gunboat crews (or allies), etc...
So now, I will be dedicating exclusively to the mining operations and Jacob will be on the Giant Sloth's command.
Best regards to all.
Andy Austin out.
PS: Needless to say, Jacob was rather amped by this issue regarding the zoners on FP1... But rest assured, he will not do anything stupid. *smiles*
