The intelligence you ask from us is very sensitive. I do hope though that sharing it with you will also let you understand our initial reservations better. First let me share with you general profile of the Hellfire Legion from our archives.
Hellfire Legion started in 800 AS as a renegade fleet led by Drake Thastus. Shortly after its escape, the Hellfire Legion fleet was ambushed by the Liberty Navy in Magellan. The Lane Hackers, perceiving The Legion as a potential ally in their fight against the Liberty, sent their fighter wings to help the Legionaries to break through the ambush and gave them shelter in a nearby Vespucci system. While The Lane Hackers were helping the Legion to build their infrastructure in the Vespucci system and joined their Spyglass program, Professor Moriarty signed a mutual protection pact with Lord Commander Denelo Mori. However, shortly after Mori's death, the Hellfire Legion radically changed the direction it was heading, severing any relations with the Outcasts and Liberty Rogues, while forming an alliance with the Xenos. The relations between the Legion and The Lane Hackers started to slowly deteriorate with numerousincidents which finally led to Legionaries betraying Hackers and expelling them from Vespucci system. Even though The Lane Hackers tried to maintain neutrality afterwards, occasionally even selling information to the High Command, the Legion's more and more aggressive stance finally led to the outright hostility followed by numerous skirmishes. However, ever since The Hellfire Legion plunged into disarray it is no longer considered a threat to Lane Hacker operations, while their vessels are treated simply as hostile targets of opportunity.
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Vespucci is the Hellfire Legion lair. In the past we had almost unlimited access to their facilities there, and vice versa. This came at a cost similar to the ancient Mutual Assured Destruction doctrine. We are hostile to each other and equally valid targets of opportunity, but it is a conventional war and the red button is a measure of the last resort. Therefore the amount of intelligence we can share with you on Vespucci is limited. What is important is that Legion, probably in order to fuel war efforts, created their own slave labor camp on Planet Guadalajara under a facade puppet government of a self-proclaimed "Commonwealth of Liberty". We do know of two entrance jump-holes leading to Vespucci, one located in Magellan and the other in Kansas. Due to high-profile presence of the "Commonwealth" their location is no longer secret and we can share it with you. Any further intelligence on Vespucci you will have to gather yourself. If I were you I would put my best-yet-still-expendable spy on a slave shipment going to Guadalajara. They call them "refugee resettlement".
As for the Deep Space Engineering collusion with the Hellfire Legion, we had some signs of it in the past and obviously will welcome any hard evidence that could be leaked to the right ears for maximum damage. Please do share as much as you can.
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