Captain Michael Owens.
Ship: Armed transport class Celestra "Merodeador"
Greetings, I'm glad to report that we have complete seventeen investigation of the Mad King's army suply lines along southern Taus and Leeds, by the best method known by man kind: Shooting people.
Despite this almost three weeks of constant fighting and traveling our old boy Merodeador is in good condition and ready for more. Here is our results:
Tau 29:
Almost a waste of time. We spend litle time near the gate to Tau 31 but the only we font is many angry Gauls and Outcats. Unless the intelicence's guys say otherwise there is little reason to make raids there. Not with the rest of our results as reference.
As for the Gauls concern there is little to see here. Alot of empty transports and a small suply depot near the Indochine Outpost, wich of course we take a sample.
Our favorite drug dealers on the other are a different story. Insted of the traditional cardamine shipments we found and intersting offer of comodites like Pharmaceuticals, Mox and the Galic crap version of Alcohol known as "Wine". I guest the role of Cali these days is more of an outpost for raid operations than drug smugling. A pity they only use small freighters.
Other coments:Seriously, if someone tell me that they are invading Sirius to get access to decent drinks I would believe it. This "colored water" have no impact.
There is something of value... I guest. We only found transports carrying food wich our friends in Roussillon desperately need. Maybe desperately enough to make a few deliveries from time to time.
Now we are talking about. We identified two iportants suply routes with diferent sets of commodities of high value, both with planet Leeds as destination. Some of them we only knew of them after this. I guest that normal materials is not rifinied enough to make Galic fantasy stuff like their Lynx.
1) Endimburg jump gate->Planet Leeds
This trade lane have a hole in the West Leeds Smog Cloud, with is great. However there are fewer valuable shippments troght this route. But we found a huge delivery of Protomere and something identified by my creew member private Dominique Wells, ex IMG, as Molybedenum. A raw Material used to manufacture metal alloys, here are the some potential selling points. Some people in freeport 4 buy this stuff at 3288 credits the unit.
I imagine that the GRN has managed to capture some industrial complex on Leeds capable capable of producing this and they are they are producing locally Metal Alloys instead of give us the chance to steal it in space. Looks that we won't be able to get basic alloys to our little project from them after all.
2) Tau 31 jump gate->Stokes Mining station->Planet Leeds
In terms of loot per time unit this is the trade route. Have less patrols than the Endimburg jumpgate-> Planet Leeds route, this one doesnt have a hole in a smog cloud, and have more frecuent transports of all sizes with Ship hull panels and some kind of special alloy for special stuff. After not few inquiries we found that is called Shape-Memory Alloy, here is the list with some of the most lucrative selling points. The people of Freeport 4 buy this at 3.015 credits the unit.
I guest someone smarter than me can theorize what the Gauls are doing with this. Because they are moving a lot of this high tech crap.