Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, Kaileen Rodriguez again.
Sinc I was able to obtain that old Mastodon as a substitute for the original Eternal Light, things have become interesting when hauling shipments for our different customers. Here is the route I was using yesterday:
Important situations during trade runs:
Hah, at least three interesting encounters I had, all happened within borders of Rheinland.
Nr. one would be the piracy of Red Hessian cruisers in Stuttgart. They made me pay 5 Million, else my ship would have been easily destroyed by them. Well, I had no other choice then to pay the requested sum. **
Second encounter where some good old customers of us. The corsairs of the Black Sails. They went all happy to see a mastodon and were already going to extort me when they noticed who they are talking about. Seems like OSI still has a good reputation within the corsair empire. The corsairs can be real gentlemen if you treat them properly. And they were just too eager to take out those Hessians when I mentioned it by the way. Sometimes they the Black Sails are really cute... **
Well, the third encounter, I have to say was the most annoying issue I have ever had so far. And almost as dangerous as the Hessian Cruisers. What I am talking about? About the damned Rheinland Police!
Dear board directors, you know that I am really patient, even in dangerous situtations, but this...officer really made me angry due to her harrassing.
The reason for her behaviour was the Mastodon I was flying. Seems like the war between Rheinland and Liberty has made some parts of the Police gone xenophobic, I have no other explanation for this rude behaviour.
I was interrogated by Mrs Bommel at Mainz storage facility for about damned 30 minutes about my origin, the reason for flying a Libertonian ship, she even tried to force me to hand out our own trade routes! I think she wanted to make me violate a law so she could levy a fine against me, while she was insulting me herself by stating I was a Libertonian, although I had explained her thorougly I was not a Libertonian citizen.
And when I had to make a bigger turn to get a proper entering point for the trade lane to Sigma 13 and therefor got a bit too near for the trade lane to New Berlin, I was disrupted by this police officer for nothing!
I have to admit I was at the border to insulting her, but I could avoid it in the end.
Here are some parts of the comm logs for you, ladies and gentlemen: ************
So, right now I am just fed up by Rheinland and therfore will stay out of it for a while. Really, this house has just gone bogus if you ask me.
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