Hector and I were alerted to a large fight in Magellan, and were joined shortly later by Maverick and WO Nicosis. The battle initially took place near the Liberty Navy's Freeport, but became quite spread out as their forces staggered back to Leeds. One of their Valors attempted to flee in a random direction, but my Eros was able to catch up. Once friendly capital support caught back up, we made short work of the RNS-Acheron. Overall, I'd classify this engagement as a victory for the Allied Forces.
Having recovered Hector's pod, the three of us returned to Curacao via the California star system. There we met up with Blitz, who was keeping an eye on the trade lane traffic and the Coronado jump point. Not long after we encountered a trio of intelligence agents. The first was a Rheinlander with odd power readings who chose to commit suicide rather than deal with us.
The other two were Bretonian and Libertonian, both much more cooperative. The Bretonian liner was escorted by Blitz and WO Nicosis to Baffin while the LSF Agent wished to have a meeting with some "sources" on Barrier Gate. Maverick and I took him there, but his stay wasn't long. He came out, requesting to be escorted to the location of the infamous ancient jump gate. There he somehow managed to activate it, and jumped through! Doubt we'll be seeing him again ...
Finally, Nestor[K248] is back up and running. They haven't quite found the source of the engine troubles - but the replacement set works like a charm. I'm looking to take it for a cruise up to the Taus tomorrow.
"You see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing. ... how, what you think the universe is, and how you react to that in everything you do, depends on what you know. And when that knowledge changes, for you, the universe changes. And that is as true for the whole of society as that is for the individual. We all are what we know, today. What we knew yesterday, was different; and so were we."
- James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed (1985)
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