To: Maverick O'Howell

[Fuski]

Well! You're just in time! Good ol' Initiative contracting got us parts and we got the entire ship all patched up. *Maverick raises his hands, showing them both wrapped up in light gause* Also got into it with the reader. But we solved the lockout. The ship is completely combat ready. Oh... Speaking of combat ready. Stevens, send over the comm log. "Yes sir." We were found by a bloke named Joker. Poking around for information while I was trying to get her bypassed. Sylus told 'em. You'll see it in the logs. We also fooled a Gallic. I don't know how. But it was close.

*as you read the message a side screen opens up with a recording of the speech between them.*

Spoiler

":Joker:": Still 0 vision.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Yes.
":Joker:": Is that...
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Is that what, Pilot?
":Joker:": An overlord.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Aye, It is.
":Joker:": Ah. I have heard about this ship.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: we must be well known, I presume.
":Joker:": Nah. I just hear a lot of things around.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Well known and feared.
":Joker:": Contacts and all...
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Well known and feared, Don't lie to us.
":Joker:": We are not liars.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: We know better right boys? *The crew laughs and cheers.
":Joker:": Ah... This makes me remember my ship.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Aren't we looking for someone?
":Joker:": Yea...I forgot.
":Joker:": What was his name...
":Joker:": Hey Mr. Captain.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Yesm?
":Joker:": I would be looking for a guy Austin Pierce. I had been tracking him a bit but he fell of the grid.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: *chuckles* Well. That name rings a hole in my neck. Doesn't it, Sy?
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: More ways than one, Mav.
":Joker:": I am sensing a story here....
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Pierce on a IMG base?
":Joker:": No..
":Joker:": Pierce everywhere.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Do you mean Augustin?
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Well .. cheap drinks.
":Joker:": Aye.
":Joker:": He had people rolling around not to long ago.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Hm. Hm-hm. *Maverick chuckles slightly* Sylus you tell him while I deal with these wires.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Sure thing. We know who he is alright. And we know what happened to him. First. You gotta tell us who you are, 'lancer.
":Joker:": I aint a "'lancer"
":Joker:": I was...How should I put it.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: We both aren't.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Someone special?
":Joker:": That is not going to get us answeres man.
":Joker:": We are The Blackguard.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Mav, you heard of the black guard?
":Joker:": We were The Order's special wing but we went rogue 5/6 years ago.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Uh-huh. Go on.
":Joker:": Now we are a group of nomad hunters, brokers, mercenaries and other crew looking to bring those blobs back to where they~
":Joker:": belong
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Bringing them to where they belong? Meaning on some planet burried and forgoten?
":Joker:": Nah...
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Burning in hell..
":Joker:": A graveyard.
":Joker:": And what he said.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Thats where they belong.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: So. You're against the blue jellied abominations?
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Yes.
":Joker:": And their supporters.
The.Cincinnati: Supporters of nomads that want nomads dead. That makes little sense.
":Joker:": Outcasts, Wild, Oracle and The Comune.
":Joker:": And I smell trouble.
The.Cincinnati: GAH! *Loud crackle and static is heard shortly after*
":Joker:": Everything alright in there?
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: What the ..
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Damn these consoles. Jims, C'mere. Give me a hand.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: We had a core malfunction. Liberty Navy locked us out. Now we're working on fixing that with a bypass.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Seems like you need a overhaul.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: So you're friends of the Commune, outcasts and such, or enemies?
":Joker:": Enemies.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Good to hear th*Static*t you.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Arent Outcasts getting their brain washed by nomads already?
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Almost got 'er. 9, what's the read?
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: They consume too much cardamine ..
The.Cincinnati: *-*Coming up fault. Try another.
":Joker:": That is the new core isn't it?
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Blasted pieces of junk. No. It's the same one. The old cards were locking us out of the main core. Trying *grunts and-
The.Cincinnati: struggles with the mainframe* to rid this *uurgh* of that problem.
":Joker:": Hold on...
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Well seems you need a overhaul really..
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: It was very short on my scanners..
":Joker:": Show yourself pilot. We know you are here.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: We already got most of the main repairs done. Just this last batch and the Nasty 'nati would be ready for combat.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Ganes, You see what that blip was?
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Hehe .. the Nasty'nati..
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Its back on my scanners ..
The.Cincinnati: Ganes: It was a Gallic tagged sir.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: 13k away.
":Joker:": There...
":Joker:": I knew it.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: [muttering] -see three feet in front of me in this damn cloud.
":Joker:": Can we be heard from that ship?
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: I hate those clouds aswell.
The.Cincinnati: Ganes: I assume so, pilot. If they're on our scanners, they're more than likely within earshot.
The.Cincinnati: Ganes: Depending on that cloud's density.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Seems like he wont come closer.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Cap, we best hurry it up.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: I'm trying Sy. Give me a cod-flabbed minute.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: [she sighs]
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: And I was just starting to be happy about having nothing to do.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Target comes cloers ..
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: //closer*
":Joker:": Anything interesting?
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Just a Gallic Royal Navy ...
":Joker:": Oh well.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Bring the shield online, I should be alright.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: What are you two - three, even - radar blips doing out here in the middle of nowhere?
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: You sure sir?
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Nothing to bother you with..
The.Cincinnati: Mav: yeah, Least I get is a shocking experience.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Alright, Bring up the Graviton.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Actually, it usually is something to bother me with.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Ever since the Oblique did- well, what it did.
The.Cincinnati: deck 3: Graviton charging. Online.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: I dont remember harm any of your Gallic citizen.
":Joker:": Well your shields are going up well Cincinnati.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: I never said you had.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: What's that you jokers have back there? Some kind of transport?
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Your IFF transponder's scrambled.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Err...
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: A transport.. yes.
":Joker:": We like it scrambled.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Old and rusty.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Really old.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: really rusty.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: [sounding bored] Uh-huh.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Strange place to park a transport.
":Joker:": Everywhere is a strange place to be.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: You like the 37 jump anomaly, do you?
":Joker:": I did not noice that there.
":Joker:": Gas field an all... I don't have the time to look at my map.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: [she chuckles] Okay, fair point. I have a map to follow.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Do enjoy! Watch out for rocks.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Really? You get used to the double vision pretty quick.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: I know how to dodge a rock.
":Joker:": I like a clean flight.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Who doesnt like them ..
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Not when you see it within 3 feet of your craft. That can be hard to avoid.
":Joker:": So. Mr. Captain. I would really like to know what happened to Mr. Pierce.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: [she chuckles] Oh, wait, wait. Now I get it.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: You guys are some kind of Guild survey team, right?
":Joker:": *laughs*
":Joker:": *gets serius* no.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: GMS squeezing you guys out?
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: GMS?
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: You serious?
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Uh, yeah?
The.Cincinnati: Mav: *Mumbles inaudibly just off the comms from under the paneling*
":Joker:": Come again? I did not hear a thing.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: 9, Let us know if we trigger somet**** Radio goes blank and appears the ship has failed.



The.Cincinnati: *4* Secondary generators online. What happened?
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Crossed the wrong wire.
":Joker:": You went FUBAR.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: 17 million combinations here, narrowed down to about 10 thousand.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: You'd think I know better.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Sounds like you have a problem.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Sounds like fun down there Mav.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Bad place to get lost.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Sylus, I"m taking a break. *Maverick walks off and away to the quarters, wiping sweat off his brow.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Well. Now a better time than ever. You gents seem like you're in the same boat as us as far as goals.
":Joker:": We do work together.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Augustin Pierce was the gent who helped the us get out of Liberty along with Battlegroup Auxesia.
":Joker:": Oh?
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Seems like Raven didnt lost her mind.
":Joker:": We will see that soon enough.
":Joker:": Z. i need to run through some contacts.
":Joker:": Be nice and stay here with the man and learn about Pierce.
":Joker:": I bid you farewell my friends. Z. when you are done meet me on the station.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: He must be around somewhere.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Allright.
2016-01-18 22:56:16 SMT Traffic control alert: ":Joker:" has requested to dock
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Farewell.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Safeskies Gallic pilot.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: [sighing] Uh-huh.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: -Man-, are the deep Taus boring.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Well. The thing is about pierce... He was killed.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: What?
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: When?
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Where?
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: The man had set a firing sequence on a prototype ship, which ended up in the ships destruction. Pierce tried to kill
The.Cincinnati: the man on it by doing so.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: God damn Pierce ..
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: We made *ehem* a stop somewhere. When we got there, Pierce had been shot in the neck. Can't say who. But I'd
The.Cincinnati: venture a guess it was the guy who Pierce tried to kill.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: I hope for this guy he is somewhere far far away.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Thats bad news .. really bad news.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Sounds like you guys have the most eventful mining in the whole sector.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Do tell. Why is that bad?
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Very eventful.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: He was a good friend and old comrade.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Anyways.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: I have to tell this to Joker.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: You do so. We'll be back to work on this piece.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Captain you ready to try and finish'er?
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: I will meet him at the station, farewell and good luck Mav with your Nast'nati.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Indeed. Take care.
[BG]-Dozerua.Zozen: Safe skies.
2016-01-18 23:01:40 SMT Traffic control alert: [BG]-Dozerua.Zozen has requested to dock

GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: You know, if Singapore's crews are having trouble with that thing, I could always call you a rep boat or something.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: [wryly] I don't mean to intrude on Guild business, but you sound a little stuck.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: They could even fix your transponder for you, though I imagine there'd be a fine. You know how it is.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Nah, We got it. Engines are fine. Just having some powercore issues. Transponder is next on the list.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Got a hefty crew of 200 all working on it ourselves.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Sure. Don't let anyone else see you with it scrambled like that. [she chuckles]
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Two hundred?
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: What model is that thing?
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Mind if I take a look?
The.Cincinnati: Mav: *ahem* it's an old model. Nothing special.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Pff. Sure.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: A Pilgrim, is it?
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: I know all about those things.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: You know, some of the crew fom the yard is out and about. We only have maybe 20.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: The Gauls don't, of course, but they can't tell a Pelican from a Gull half the time.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: If it doesn't run on promethene, they aren't interested. Oh, no, not with Sirian technology.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: H-fuels being one of the most transported fuels on this side of the border.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Yeah, well.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: They tried adapting Lynxes a few years back.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: did it work?
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Oh, yeah.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: I mean, insofar as -mine- worked.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Then some other Legionnaire got herself killed after the plasma conduits went critical, and that's the end of that.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Some lieutenant or another. Gabriel, or something.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Doesn't ring a bell.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Do I know a Gabriel?
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: I doubt it.
The.Cincinnati: Sylus: Not that I'm aware of.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: I mean, unless you used to be Legion material - which I doubt.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Hmm. No just standard Civilians.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Although, now that I think of it, this isn't a bad place to go.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Singapore exclusion agreement, ass end of nowhere...
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Quite the retreat. It's quiet.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: If I ended up skipping the Foreign Legion, I wouldn't rate this low. [chuckling]
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Yeah, it's quiet, but it's a hellhole.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: I can't even get a fix on my location, let alone anything else.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: The restrooms on board seem to be about as much. To be expected from Miners I guess.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: If Minato wasn't holding a nav beam for me, I'd probably just have to fly towards the sun until the clouds went away.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Things were nicer before the Oblique had to go and... y'know, screw us over.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Now, -someone- has to draw the short straw and spend hours flying through ice, ice, and more ice.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: I'd venture a guess. Everyone has a job and some of us are not that Lucky.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: [she sighs] I'm sorry if I'm rambling. I'm just so -bored-. You have no idea.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: I mean, it beats Leeds, but...
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: -not by much, I guess.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Mhmm. We've just been flyin' 'round ya know.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Took a couple hits by some hostile parties. took out the engine and damaged the core.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Now we're here. Getting her fixed up.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Uh-huh. Yeah, I know how it is.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: I used to run a transport myself.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: You did too? How far ya go?
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Through the Taus to Bretonia and back.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Back in the days of - well, I guess Leeds is -still- under siege - but when it was us doing it.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: I mean- wait- Kusari doing it.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: [she coughs]
The.Cincinnati: Mav: We've been around Sirius ourselves.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Yeah?
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: You're not some ex-Omicron types, are you?
The.Cincinnati: Mav: As a matter of fact, we came from -ehm- Omega's. We started in Liberty.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Actually, if you were, you'd have told me by now. [she giggles] Never met an Omicroner who didn't big it up.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: And - yeah, right. Omegas. Never been, but I know of them.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Same for Liberty, although I've been there. Kind of.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: It's quite the trip.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Some nice scenery. All up and down the four houses outside of Gallia.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Oh, yeah?
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Quite a tour.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: It sure was.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Want a tip?
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Sure!
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Don't bother applying for a permit if you ever wanna see Gallia. I've seen the waiting list - and the reasons for denial.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: The old hole through Orkney's still there. Just run it.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: It's what I'd do, if I was still in the business.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: But, yeah. Don't bother with the bureaucracy.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Good to know. We'll have to check it out. I hear it's real nice in Gallia. Lanes are different than the rest of Sirius.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Sure, if you mean they're twisted ninety degrees.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: It's smarter, though, I'll give you that.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: -the hell? More radar blips?
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Seems there was another out there.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Mmmh.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Didn't look like it was flagged red, so - not my problem.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Literally nothing out here but a Valor hiding somewhere... somewhere, anyway. I don't even know if it's in this cloud.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: That and Singapore, which I am very much not allowed to go near. [she coughs]
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Not like anyone else would think twice about trampling all over the Guild's wants and do-not-wants, but...
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Call it a difference between Gauls and Sirians, I guess.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Again, the Diplomacy.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Though I'd kill to know what model you're flying.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: But... not worth my job to look outside the cloud.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: It's ehm... It's a large class, Enterprise. It's an old Luxury Liner.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: That's about as descriptive as I can get.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Oh, one of those?
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Yeah, I know what you mean.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: We're re-modeling it top and bottom. But we couldn't get to the yard we were destined for.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: One used to be shacked up in Edinburgh. Used to fly past it every so often.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Then - well, you can guess what happened. It 'relocated'.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: For sure. Can't control everyone.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Mmmhm.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Well if you don't mind us. We got some work to do before we get this beast out of here.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: [she yawns] Yeah, yeah. I didn't mean to keep you or anything.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: I just get bored as hell out here, you know?
The.Cincinnati: Mav: We know the feeling. Either it's dull or you're being shot at.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: I should probably stop skirting the exclusion zone, though. Hey, if you don't tell anyone, neither will I.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Oh, yeah. Tell me about it. Especially in the Navy.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Our lips are sealed, Pilot. Say I never caught your name.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: With someone breathing down your neck, there's no time to talk.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: It's all 'yes, Commandant; no, Commandant; engaging on your wing, Commandant'.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Yeah, yeah. I'll just copy paste my old patrol logs.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Again.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Seems they never pay attention to them.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Who would? They never change.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Like I said - dead end duty.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Welcome to the Foreign Legion. [she laughs bitterly]
The.Cincinnati: Mav: *Maverick chuckles in return*
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Anyway, I won't keep you. Get that transponder fixed, though, or you really -will- run into trouble.
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: Sayonara, captain.
The.Cincinnati: Mav: Take care pilot!
GRN|Katsuko.Komatsu: [sighing] Aaand - now for Thirty-Seven.

*The recording stops playing. Maverick continues.*

I'll also inform you that From This Valley is here with us and so is the Artemis. Again, Engines are repaired and the Core is functional. Wait till you see how we did it! As far as crew, The only members we should have on the ships is the ones designated for the ship's themselves. All of the crew from the stations were dropped off by us. At least, most of them. Either way. Once I'm done here with you, I'm going to contact the Guild Master of the Independent miners and thank them for their time.
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