The IMG Mission

[Loki 666]

Day 6, different view

From Loki_Asentreu
Location: Omega 11, Stuttgart, Omega 7, Omega 3, Cambridge, New London, Leeds, Tau 31.

This day will be interesting or very boring. But never mind, I will make a lot of money.
First I will take my Uruz… ok, it’s not a Uruz it is a Enterprise Luxury Liner from Planet Baden Baden, but it has really a very nice shape and 11 turrets of trade & peace, combined with some good armor… and second I will get into my Hegemon to mine some diamonds in Omega 11, and least one fast round with my cruiser.
I docked with my liner at planet Stuttgart and bought some Apfelstrudel to deliver it to planet Harris in system Tau 31. I never was there before, so I was very curious how this route would be. My navigation system deicide to fly up to the Kusari sectors, but I wanted to fly through Bretonia, so I had to corrected the route. It was really a peaceful flight with a nice view, only in system New London I saw a shootout …between I think BMM and a lone Gaian…, and in Leeds I nearly ran into 3 Corsairs pirates, but with some luck I kept a save distance. On my goal planet Harris I sold the goods, and bought some gain wildlife for the return. When I left the orbit I meet some Betronians from Interspace Commercial who where not amused, that someone from Rheinland pilot get’s they’re goods. But they haven’t made any problems. Returning as fast as I can, I reached planet Stuttgart quite fast.
From here I switched over to my Hegemon asteroid miner and flew to Omega 11. With a short stop at Solaris station I immediately began to mine in the Van Rohe Belt. Nobody disturbed me on that day, but I know from the past that there are Hessians, Corsairs and specially IMG pilots which pirate mining ships. Later I sold them at Waterloo station in system New London, with a great profit. After that good hard work I docked at battleship Karlsruhe in system Stuttgart to switch to my cruiser.
I just wanted to dock at the trade lane directing to Freiburg station, I saw a big red dot at the radar coming fast from the east. I immediately stopped the docking procedure and turned my ship to see who that crazy guy or smuggler is that is coming from the New Berlin Jumpgate. Seconds later a big hostile transport came out of the trade lane. I signaled him to stop immediately, because I need to scan him. He ignored me and flew to the next Tradelane, trying to dock. The Tradelane activated, but my cruise disruptor stopped his plan. Again I told him to stop and don’t even try to flee, because the weapons are hot now. He understood it this time, flew back to battleship Karlsruhe and waited for the control. I scanned him and saw that it was an enemy liberty vessel who was smuggling Aluminum. I contacted him and told him to pay a fine of 5 million and leave Rheinland territory, if he wants to fly back home in one peace. He told me he hasn’t got so much credits. At that moment a Freelancer fighter joined into the discussion and asked me why I’m stopping this liberty transport. Perhaps he was his wingman, or just a too social pilot, I don’t know. At that point a long discussion started. “Great” questions were asked, like if Liberty and Rheinland are at war… Simple things had to be explained like, that for a Rheinland vessel Liberty space isn’t save too. I started thinking about that these pilots were some people who just started working in Liberty and for this corporation and nobody told them the laws of both nations. So I decided to decrease my demand to 2 millions, because he is such a unlucky bastard. But even this chance wasn’t accepted by him. He really uses all my nerves… He stopped answering. I waited some time. No respond. Now it was over. I called him a last time and told him that the time is over. Energy was put on my turrets and all off them started firing on the enemy. Three seconds later a huge explosion ended every discussion. Where the transport was there where only metal pieces and a lot of aluminum cargo. The Freelancer was scared and didn’t understand what just had happened. I told him that a Rheinland pilot wouldn’t be welcome in Liberty just like Liberty pilots aren’t welcome here. He left. Perhaps he had taken the escape pod of the transporter with him. I took the rest of the cargo and sold it on planet Stuttgart. A strange end for a day.