@fairchild/var/log

[Fairchild]

@Fairchild/var/log/006.log # Time 21 January 825 A.S. 12:00 SMT # Location Freeport 2, Bering # Involvement • "Fairchild" • Unioners • Battlegroup Harmony • ]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio • Liberty forces

<"Fairchild"> "Greetings." <LSS-Fearsome> Good day to you. <6th|LNS-Hampshire> Michael: Greetings. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> But every stone leaves a paperchase. <"Fairchild"> "Greetings." <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *suddenly all proffessionalism.* Unknown contact in the Freeport Two defense zone - identify yourself. <"Fairchild"> "I was under the impression this was a Freeport, to be honest." <H|-Delta-3> Its more like a Harmony Port, but same thing for you. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *Squinting close* Oh yea'? Well, freedom ain't Fre'.... wait - is that a reaper ship? <UN|Gunda.Riehl> You don't say - I thought you types had died off with the era. <"Fairchild"> "Is it?" <"Fairchild"> "I don't know, I bought it four days ago on Barrier Gate." <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Apparrently. *suddenly meditative, lip-chewing* Unless you're fudging your IFF real good and proper - I know my ships. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> That's no raggedy-ass Maltese-vintage stock sabre. <"Fairchild"> "Was in good condition and for a low price, eh?" <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *snorts* Yea', can't argue with that logic. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> There's a buttload of old LWB flying barns on the Rheinland greymarket retail nowadays, as well. Mostly whatever... <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Die Union didn't mannage to hoover up during the grand merge. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> We've got whole squadrons of the things nowadays without a hangar to compartmentalise 'em in. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> But ya', where are my manners? This sure is a freeport - of sorts. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> The Locals call it Freeport Providence. <"Fairchild"> "I wouldn't know, I don't frequent this place." <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Nobody of any right mind would - this is a hellhole that only those of us without any other place to go, crawl to, to be safe. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> It's the closest thing to the far edgeworlds you'll get in the centre of the sector. <"Fairchild"> "I don't know, seems like a fine travel destination to me." <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: I'm back. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *laughs* Hah! Well, barring the general hive of scum and villainy, present company excepted, of course. <"Fairchild"> "Though Edge Worlds are more welcoming than Liberty as far as I'm concerned." <UN|Gunda.Riehl> ....Unioner gravimetric mines littered everywhere, Rheinland Liberty war wreckage <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: Did I miss something here ?, Who's that ? <UN|Gunda.Riehl> ...The blown jumpgate.... <UN|Gunda.Riehl> ....The utterly worthless pasalt asteroids. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Sure, it's practically candyland. <"Fairchild"> "I've had worse." <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *demurring* 'Don't doubt you. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> You'll get a drink here. Most of the local rogues, Seppies, of both the Rhein and the Libbie varieties, Ratpackers, Junks, and <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Syndics, don't bother one another. <"Fairchild"> "You get Outcasts here?" <UN|Gunda.Riehl> We've got something of a gentleman's agreement to keep this sector outta' the hands of the houses as long as we can... <UN|Gunda.Riehl> undermine them. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *grins* No 'casts. They're not the most welcome characters. This is the last pitstop of Corsair fairweather before... <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Bridging over into their zone of control. Cardamine runs through here on occasion, but the Rhein's got little market for it. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> We don't buy, what doesn't sell. Why, you got a beef with the Malts'? <"Fairchild"> "To a degree." <"Vault.Torn": L-41> Hayo <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: Contact. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *Suddenly all professionalism* <"Vault.Torn"> L-41:Unioners and Harmony <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Eyes up, eyes up, we have crimson ping - possible tango. Throttling drives. <H|-Delta-3> This one fired on the Harmony correct? <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: Commonwealth on scanner. <H|-SNS-Harmony> We have an unknown target in the area. <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: Intercepting ! <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Ugh. *hissing* Frickin' Commonwealth traitor scum., <"Vault.Torn": L-41> What& <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Run back to Kansas, Dorothy, because you sure ain't there anymore. <"Vault.Torn": L-41> Don't you like a travellers? <H|-Delta-3> Why on earth you would come all the out here after firing on the Harmony is beyond me. <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: A Lancer that is shown as Comonwealth... <UN|Gunda.Riehl> We like travellers, sonny-Jim. We're not fond of Commonwealth spies. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> He's a 'Lancer? Well, your sensors probe deeper than mine. *she slackens off, still naturally suspicious.* <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: Leave the area, its better for your life. <"Vault.Torn": L-41> Hey. I going to leave <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Look, 'Lancer - I'd be lenient to fellow gentlemen of leisure, but that's Commonwealth hardware you're packing. Run back... <UN|Gunda.Riehl> To Liberty - don't take the strait. <"Vault.Torn": L-41> Do you like to follow me foreve? <H|-Delta-3> I'm waiting for you to give me the excuse I need. <H|-Delta-3> You're doing a great job of not leaving so far. <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: The vessel refuses to run, weapons warming up. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *Frequency matching Fairchild* By way of explaination - the Syndicalist Unions used to be bonded with the Legion, and its... <UN|Gunda.Riehl> puppet 'Commonwealth'. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> About a year ago, the Legion betrayed us without givin' due cause. Apparently a new party came in power in the... <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Commonwealth, that didn't take too kindly to our methods, nor our mutual affair with the Cretian Empire. Base Helium-3 Trade Center TR destroyed <UN|Gunda.Riehl> The situation... degenerated... when they tried to move a task force in here. *With obvious pride* I say 'tried'. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Beringia looks after its own. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> They're no fans of the Seppie's either, since they tried to glass the Seppies when we aided 'em back in their hour of need... <"Vault.Torn": L-41> Heh. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> up in New Hampshire. <H|-Delta-3> You had a choice <UN|Gunda.Riehl> I guess it's hard to seem like the noble opposition to the Liberty Navy if you've got competitors around. *grins* <H|-SNS-Harmony> Delta 3 clear to engage. <H|-SNS-Harmony> Remove that thing. <"Fairchild"> "Politics are not very interesting to me, really." <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Amen to that - they bore me to tears as well. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Unfortunately, I keep gettin' caught up in 'em. All I want at the end of the day is a fistfull of credits in one and a drink in <UN|Gunda.Riehl> the other. Or, y'know, other, non-Maltese sourced Narcotics. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> So, Lancer - what's your attitude to the Empire? You a friend of Crete? <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Not that I'm quizzing you - you could be totally opposed to 'em and I wouldn't mind. <"Fairchild"> "I've got family on Crete." <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *Whistles* <UN|Gunda.Riehl> That was nearly me after shore leave in Xi. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> "You're a long way from home out here. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Listen, if you ever need a way back up there - I could get you sneaked into the return journey of one of our artifact transport <UN|Gunda.Riehl> s. <"Fairchild"> "I would hardly call Crete home nowadays." <UN|Gunda.Riehl> My sympathies. More of the wandering type? <"Fairchild"> "I have a... mobile home and a lab, parked not far from here." <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *Taking professional intrest* Hm-hm? Travellin' lab, 'eh? <UN|Gunda.Riehl> You cook anything intrestin' to the Union? We're in the process of restockpiling after an exaustive war with the damn Hesse. Base Maryland Storage Facility destroyed <"Fairchild"> "Perhaps." <UN|Gunda.Riehl> If you're got so much as pain pills to market, we'll be happy to buy your wares. <"Fairchild"> "I suppose the technology we've developed might be used like that. You'd need a competent programmer though." <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *grins* Oh, trust me. We're the Unioners - best software slicers this side of 'The Man'. 'Cept the Hackers, 'course. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Harmony contact, harmony contact - I've got a Bowex transport pinged up here. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Looks like a super-train. <H|-SNS-Harmony> Copy that. what's your status? <Sherman.Grant> Harmony, Sean is one of my boys <Sean.Devlin> i work at Sherman <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Big damn ship to be loitering taking rads right in front of the sun. Status is clear - both me and the ship are immobile at <UN|Gunda.Riehl> three hundred metres VR. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Solid copy. *Squinting* Harmony - is this stiff supplying you? <UN|Gunda.Riehl> He's carrying Reinforced Alloy - looks like the good stuff. <H|-SNS-Harmony> Not us. But they're clear to pass by us. <Sherman.Grant> Stand clear, he's one of my boys <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: Gunda, Position? <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Roger, standing clear. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Mary, at ease. He's working for the Seppies'. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Additional contact, additional.... <H|-SNS-Harmony> This is Battleship Harmony for Civilian Armored Transport state your intentions. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> NTF.... *intakes* Neo Terran Front? <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Out here?! <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: This is Neo-Terran gunboat Kimbilio, here to parlay. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: I wanted to set up an information exchange, if I could. <H|-SNS-Harmony> We don't know who you are. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Uhm, Roger, Neo-Terran. *with suspicion* Ah, your organisation has been flagged as assumed dormant or deceased... <UN|Gunda.Riehl> for a good few years now. Where did you come from? <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: We've been in hiding a while. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *switching bands, still audiable* I'm patching through the Union's files from when we were still in cahoots with the Legion, <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Admiral. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: The Belisarius tends to draw a fair bit of attention, so it's been parked in an outer system out of the way. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> According to what the Legion shared with us at the time, they're a fairly technically astute group in possession of some rather <UN|Gunda.Riehl> whack hardware. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: Mostly we've been staying under the radar and gathering funds for our colony ship project. <H|-SNS-Harmony> So what do you wish to exchange? <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Right. Uh, we don't have anything on file for the NTF less than four years old. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Third contact, third contact. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: Yeah, after the internal Zoner mess in the Omicrons, we decided to get out of the fighting. <H|-SNS-Harmony> Man all defenses. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> LSF fighter varified! Delta three, on me! <H|-SNS-Harmony> We have hostiles in the area. Advise to defend. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> We're going in, weapons hot! <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: Ah, hell. <H|-Delta-3> Weapons ready. <H|-Delta-3> On Wing. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Visual varify, visual varify! The LSF is using infected weapons! <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: Wait, what? <UN|Gunda.Riehl> I repeat, the LSF is carrying frickin' hybrid guns. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *Exhales* Great kill, Delta three. <"Fairchild"> "The absolute level of combat expertise of the LSF..." <H|-Delta-3> Ah, sorry, next time I'll wait for the scans. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: I see a few spaced pilots. We have medical facilities on board, but I'll let your search and rescue handle it. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *squinting* Uh, Fairchild, I don't mean to be an arse, but my fellow Unioners appear to have a beef with you. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> What did you do? <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: Anyhow. <"Fairchild"> "I dunno." <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: Good work by the way Delta 3 <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *exhales* Did I just see a whale? <H|-Delta-3> You did. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: The NTF has a whole bunch of files from the LSF, Order, and Outcasts, though a lot of them are fairly outdated. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *grinning* What have you mannaged to pull, Knight? To be able to get the Zoners to help us fortify against the damn... <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Zoners. <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: *starts laughing* <H|-SNS-Harmony> Well so far we didn't have to fight any Zoner. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> I'll say. All manner of occurances have happened since the incident with the NTF went down. <H|-SNS-Harmony> How did that lane just disrupt <H|-Delta-3> Feel free to keep moving Catport. I don't know why the cancelled the lane. <The.Catport: Hookier> Okay! <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *appears to be tapping into her Console* Neo Terran.... this is on-the-record, now. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: But the most pertinent info I'm looking for is this. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> What's your organisation's reputation regardin' the Syndicalist Union? We're a.... confederation between the LWB remmenant <UN|Gunda.Riehl> and the Unioners. It's a long story. The LWB disintegrated. Something of a civil war has been broiling... <UN|Gunda.Riehl> in the Rheinlandic underworld, and they were the victims. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: We, ah, haven't had much of any contact apart from trading farming data with the LWB a bunch of years back. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: They seemed like good folks, though, sorry to hear about this. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *Gunda shrugs* People come, people go, causes rise, causes die. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> I lost enough good friends in the LWB to come to terms with it. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> You have to. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: True enough. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: Speaking of friends... one of the reasons I'm here is to investigate rumors of a weird Arbiter-class ship in the area. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *grinning* Wierd Arbeiter class ship? That'd be mine, bub'. <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: Gun he said Arbiter not Arbeiter. <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: Learn the diffrence. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> And it's not wierd - it's majestic. Eight guns and the powercore of a titan. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *irritated* Mary, shaddup. <H|-Delta-3> Seven. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: You know what I mean. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Arse-gun counts as well, Delta three. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: The Legion battleship class. <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: No it doesn't. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: There aren't many of those outside of Hellfire control. <Andrew.Coolins> ahoy lads <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: There isnt one here either. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: Ours is one... and one of the others that isn't accounted for was the metropolis. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Salut, Junker. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: The Vagrant Raiders' old flagship. <UN|Gunda.Riehl: Gunn> *expressing sudden intrest* <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: *Nods* Scraper. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Ooh, I know that old gal'! <Andrew.Coolins> ae hav some intel at ney york, all navy camps out noforlk ey *light up the cigar* <UN|Gunda.Riehl> She made quite a ruckus up in Kansas back in the day. 'Course, the Natio Octavarium's buried now. The Metropolis is... <UN|Gunda.Riehl> lazing under a hundred feet of water in the Orinoco basin on Kansas's surface. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> She breaches the surface in low-tide. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Sad fate, but... movements come, movements go. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Sirius is dangerously darwinian. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: Damn. I was hoping our old friends might have made it. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> The friends might - the ship? As far as we know, it got ditched. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> But it's mostly old, artifact smuggler's rumours. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: Hmm. So are the rumors of an unknown Arbiter actually true, then? <Andrew.Coolins> ew my buddies floatin out space *sad* <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Take everything you hear from those clowns with a touch of salt. I once met a guy who pretended he knew Shawn... <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Ashcroft. The Arse. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *Shaun <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *frowning* <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Well, apparently there's one of the things we've been.... <UN|Gunda.Riehl> It might solve a problem we've been having. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> What problem is that? <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Knight - remember what I said about the kraken in the mist? <H|-SNS-Harmony> Well certainly. <Andrew.Coolins> see ye lads *opens up the whiskey* <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Seems Die Union isn't the only group hunting a Kraken. <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: Isnt it weird that we just can sit here and talk ? I wonder how long we can continue. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> An E-war battleship would certainly fit the description of 'things that go bump in the night' <UN|Gunda.Riehl: Gunn> Roger, Mary - I don't like it either. Move yourself up near the Texas gate - we need someone to early warning picket. <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: Got it. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: If you don't mind, I'll offload this alloy to the station for a moment. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> So - you think we're hunting the same thing? <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: Maybe. I was hoping it would be our old friends, but... <ApS|Lanzo.Walker> <Hailing all UN| Ships> <Initiating long range contact bandwidth> <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: If something is out there, it might be worth looking into. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> *cautious* We have contact. <CONSOLE> Possible cheating detected: Mango <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Who the hell are you, buster? <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: I've got pretty wide leeway out here. <ApS|Lanzo.Walker> Representative Lanzo Walker of the Apostatales. To whom am I addressing? *pauses <H|-Bravo-2> Time to kill. <H|-Bravo-2> Weapons are primed. <H|-SNS-Harmony> Man all defenses. <]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio> Rusk: Wow. That bounty hunter did not choose the right system to enter. <H|-SNS-Harmony> Hostile in the area, ready to defend. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Gunda Riehl, Oberarbeiter for the Hamburg cell - Many thanks to you, captain, but we're in the middle of a war here. <Abyss> Weapons hot <UN|Gunda.Riehl> we've got hostile hunters in system. <UN|KKS-"Curse.of.Koeln"> Mary: Uh lets see when they will overheat. <UN|Gunda.Riehl> Weapons free, going in on the Abyss. <6th|LNS-Hampshire> Michael: Alright, group. And... <6th|LNS-Hampshire> Barney: Damn it! <H|-SNS-Harmony> That's a lot of hostiles. Man all guns. <6th|LNS-Hampshire> Michael: How much them? <H|-SNS-Harmony> Ready to defend. <"Fairchild"> "I'll excuse myself, I suppose."