Bowex InfoNet (inRP)

[Redon]

~ Incoming Transmission from King's Cross Station, New London System (78.12.48.218.87.144.10.169) ~
~ Date: 26. July 819 AS ~

From: Jan Peters, Supervisor.
To: Bowex InfoNet.
Encryption: Medium
Topic: Convoy report.

Convoy Participants:

• ExSec Brian Rowser, Hussar.
  
• BES Gladstone, Shire.
  
• BES Wilberforce, Percheron.
  
• BES Rutherford, Shire.
  
• BES Whittle, Shire - convoy leader.
  
• ExSec Ando Rodriguez, Havoc Mk II.
  

Convoy Information:

To introduce our new ExSec trainee Brian Rowser, we took him out for a short convoy to the Leeds system. After our first stop at planet New London, we brought roughly 14'500 units of basic alloy to Stokes. The ordered hull panels for King's Cross' new construction site were ready to be picked up - We delivered 7'250 hull panels on the way back to King's Cross.

Convoy Incidents:

What a ride it was! The 'short convoy' turned out to be much more than that, and we ended up going through an exceptional amount of incidents. First, we assisted a BIS agent in taking out a corsair gunboat named "AI-SDF-Macross" between Canterbury and New London. Shortly after we had returned to New London to pick up our goods, and gathered our convoy fleet in the orbit, "Firebrick..Reaver" turned up suddenly - Under heavy fire from all present defense turrets. His decision to try his luck nonetheless shows what a bunch of lunatics those Reavers are. He dodged our fire well, but his maneuvers couldn't avoid his inevitable death.

We decided to get a few minor repairs done on Thames, and refilled all repair materials. When we were back in space, we encountered yet another triggerhappy lunatic - The first lane of our route was disrupted by what seemed like an insane captain of a renegade Liberty Assault Battlecruiser. We didn't spend too much time on asking ourselves what this was all about, but rather saved our ships back into the docks of Thames. I took a break to have a coffee at the bar, which was excellent by the way. We heard later that the unusual Libertonian had been taken care of by the BIS and BAF. Finally, we managed to gather our ships without an interruption, and departed towards Leeds.

On our return trip, we ran into yet another bunch of very unpleasant company. Numerous CGS pirates held up our convoy between Leeds and Durham. As we were clearly outgunned in that situation, we decided to pay the demanded amount and finished our trade run without another fight.

Other Notes:

Mr. Rowser did a good job as a scout during his first Bowex convoy. He has potential to improve the convoy's time efficiency by keeping a bigger distance to the first transport, but he brought us to our destination safely nonetheless. The incident between Leeds and Durham was the result of a rather unfortunate and chaotic chain of events, and can't be blamed on any wrongdoing from our trainee's side, nor other pilots of the convoy.

~ End of Transmission ~