Xeno Alliance communications (iRP) (FO)

[Xeno Alliance]

Phantom 4 here.

I encountered a USI transport by the name of RenRen~Trading hauling slaves in the New York system, stopped by LH~Jaws.

Surprisingly, the Hacker was not after taxing the trader but freeing the slaves. We forced the transport to drop its slaves and saw them safely picked up by a DSE transport and returned to Norfolk Shipyard so they may be returned home.

I found the best end to this situation to be a peaceful parting of ways between myself and the Hacker. I apologize for allowing one of our enemies to live, but he was acting in Liberty's interests this day in this situation. I believed he should be rewarded with the privilege of continuing to draw air for one more.

I'm attaching a communications log of the incident.

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[21.08.2018 16:41:25] LH~Jaws.: Hmm.. Sound sabout right for corporate capitalist scum! Where are you headed
[21.08.2018 16:41:26] RenRen~Trading: And Rheinland is currently quite interested in them
[21.08.2018 16:41:29] XA-Phantom.4: "Huh."
[21.08.2018 16:41:40] XA-Phantom.4: "Am I interrupting?"
[21.08.2018 16:41:55] RenRen~Trading: Oh hello, please do join the party
[21.08.2018 16:41:59] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: Not at all, move on
[21.08.2018 16:42:00] RenRen~Trading: I'm headed to Stuttgart
[21.08.2018 16:42:10] XA-Phantom.4: "Taking our citizens to Stuttgart for forced labor?"
[21.08.2018 16:42:16] XA-Phantom.4: "Are you that stupid?"
[21.08.2018 16:42:29] RenRen~Trading: If anything these are your enemies
[21.08.2018 16:42:37] XA-Phantom.4: "Who, precisely?"
[21.08.2018 16:42:40] XA-Phantom.4: "The slaves?"
[21.08.2018 16:42:43] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: There we go.. So the Xeno has a concience?
[21.08.2018 16:43:00] XA-Phantom.4: "You tell me, Hacker. We don't support the Maltese and their slavery."
[21.08.2018 16:43:04] XA-Phantom.4: "Which one has less of a conscience?"
[21.08.2018 16:43:31] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: I support myself, the others are.. a neccesity
[21.08.2018 16:43:43] XA-Phantom.4: "A necessity to support greed, perhaps."
[21.08.2018 16:43:49] XA-Phantom.4: "Not a necessity for survival."
[21.08.2018 16:44:04] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: Ways and means, ways and means
[21.08.2018 16:44:06] XA-Phantom.4: "Anyway, you."
[21.08.2018 16:44:14] XA-Phantom.4: "Give me one good reason I shouldn't kill you for what you're doing."
[21.08.2018 16:44:21] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: Hey, he's mine..
[21.08.2018 16:44:21] XA-Phantom.4: "Slavers are trash."
[21.08.2018 16:44:27] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: Drop the cargo
[21.08.2018 16:44:30] XA-Phantom.4: "For you to tax and let go?"
[21.08.2018 16:44:35] XA-Phantom.4: "Ooh."
[21.08.2018 16:44:38] XA-Phantom.4: "Imagine that."
[21.08.2018 16:44:55] RenRen~Trading: Would be quite the shame to drop 4500 souls in the void of space, wouldn't it?
[21.08.2018 16:45:12] XA-Phantom.4: "They'd be in pods, not in the vaccuum of space."
[21.08.2018 16:45:14] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: I will have them collected, of course
[21.08.2018 16:45:25] XA-Phantom.4: "Come now, we're not idiots enough to be fooled by your attempt to save your credits."
[21.08.2018 16:45:56] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: It seems you are at an impase, trader
[21.08.2018 16:45:58] RenRen~Trading: That's alright, but who's going to pick them up then?
[21.08.2018 16:46:08] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: No concern of yours, is it?
[21.08.2018 16:46:13] XA-Phantom.4: "Doesn't matter."
[21.08.2018 16:46:22] XA-Phantom.4: "Your concern is whether you're dropping them, or I'm killing you and some of them in the process."
[21.08.2018 16:46:30] XA-Phantom.4: "Which is better than all of them being sentenced to a life of slavery."
[21.08.2018 16:46:43] XA-Phantom.4: "Slavery is worse than death, after all."
[21.08.2018 16:46:53] RenRen~Trading: There's no need to be violent, we're all good business people here
[21.08.2018 16:47:01] XA-Phantom.4: "Do I look like a businessman?"
[21.08.2018 16:47:04] RenRen~Trading: Have at it then
[21.08.2018 16:47:11] XA-Phantom.4: "I will gouge out your eyes and crap in your sockets if need be."
[21.08.2018 16:47:23] XA-Phantom.4: "Very good."
[21.08.2018 16:47:23] RenRen~Trading: Come on then
[21.08.2018 16:47:25] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: Good choice
[21.08.2018 16:47:28] XA-Phantom.4: "Now leave, before I kill you anyway."
[21.08.2018 16:47:36] RenRen~Trading: Nice meeting you
[21.08.2018 16:47:39] RenRen~Trading: Have a good one
[21.08.2018 16:47:41] XA-Phantom.4: "Ayyup.
[21.08.2018 16:48:05] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: Now, what do we do from here..
[21.08.2018 16:48:16] XA-Phantom.4: "Regarding two enemies meeting eachother?"
[21.08.2018 16:48:20] XA-Phantom.4: "Or arranging a pick-up?"
[21.08.2018 16:48:27] XA-Phantom.4: Pilot, where is your cargo headed? // To Stormblazer
[21.08.2018 16:48:33] XA-Phantom.4: We need slaves dropped off at the nearest station.
[21.08.2018 16:48:38] XA-Phantom.4: Freshly liberated.
[21.08.2018 16:48:48] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: Regarding the meeting, of course.. the passangers transport is arranged
[21.08.2018 16:48:53] Stormblazer: Colorado
[21.08.2018 16:49:06] XA-Phantom.4: Care to swing back and pick them up when you're done? You passed us at the Texas gate. // To Stormblazer
[21.08.2018 16:49:11] XA-Phantom.4: "Well."
[21.08.2018 16:49:24] Stormblazer: Only if you guarantee free passage
[21.08.2018 16:49:28] XA-Phantom.4: "I'm entertained by the notion of parting ways peacefully, as you showed some measure of decency."
[21.08.2018 16:49:40] XA-Phantom.4: Of course. Provided they are sold on the nearest station and not for profit elsewhere. // To Stormblazer
[21.08.2018 16:49:49] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: That seems like the most logical conclusion
[21.08.2018 16:50:08] XA-Phantom.4: "I suppose it depends on whether or not you've some cheetos dust crusted superiors to impress, though."
[21.08.2018 16:50:10] Stormblazer: That would be Norfolk I presume?
[21.08.2018 16:50:16] XA-Phantom.4: That it would. // To Stormblazer
[21.08.2018 16:50:32] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: *laughs* I dont quite work like that..
[21.08.2018 16:50:32] XA-Phantom.4: "The DSE pilot will be coming back after he sells his cargo in Colorado to pick the slaves up and drop them on Norfolk."
[21.08.2018 16:50:47] XA-Phantom.4: "Nothing personal, but I don't really trust you won't just sell them for yourself."
[21.08.2018 16:50:56] XA-Phantom.4: "Actually, I suppose that is rather personal."
[21.08.2018 16:51:03] XA-Phantom.4: "No offense, then?"
[21.08.2018 16:51:12] Stormblazer: Give me a moment to swing back around
[21.08.2018 16:51:21] XA-Phantom.4: Much obliged, their families will thank you. // To Stormblazer
[21.08.2018 16:51:29] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: well, i dont expect to be trusted by an Xeno.. but i have already secured my cargo
[21.08.2018 16:51:48] XA-Phantom.4: "I suppose we'll see if your ship gets here first, then."
[21.08.2018 16:51:55] XA-Phantom.4: "Unless you intend to stop the DSE."
[21.08.2018 16:52:00] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: However, i assume you have a proposal?
[21.08.2018 16:52:14] XA-Phantom.4: "The pilot I contacted will be dropping them off on Norfolk."
[21.08.2018 16:52:24] XA-Phantom.4: "If you truly intend to simply free them, that shouldn't raise issue, should it?"
[21.08.2018 16:53:27] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: You make very good points, i have to admit
[21.08.2018 16:53:56] XA-Phantom.4: "Not all of us are babbling blue-collar workers, you know."
[21.08.2018 16:54:10] Stormblazer: incoming
[21.08.2018 16:54:26] XA-Phantom.4: Copy. // To Stormblazer
[21.08.2018 16:54:31] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: Really, i have not had the pleasur of yet meeting an Zeno i could get a word in with
[21.08.2018 16:54:35] XA-Phantom.4: "They're right here, pilot."
[21.08.2018 16:54:41] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: IS this your man?
[21.08.2018 16:54:47] XA-Phantom.4: "That it is."
[21.08.2018 16:54:55] Stormblazer: Hold it, Hacker
[21.08.2018 16:55:07] XA-Phantom.4: "What?"
[21.08.2018 16:55:09] Stormblazer: I hate you just as much as you hate me, I jsut want to help those people
[21.08.2018 16:55:14] XA-Phantom.4: "He's not going to touch you."
[21.08.2018 16:55:27] LH~Jaws.: Jaws: Buigger off you, i'm not interested in you today
[21.08.2018 16:56:11] XA-Phantom.4: "Consider this a surprisingly pleasant encounter.
[21.08.2018 16:57:00] Stormblazer: The slaves have been set free at Norfolk Shipyard
[21.08.2018 16:57:12] XA-Phantom.4: Much obliged.
[21.08.2018 16:57:17] /givecash stormblazer 1500000
[21.08.2018 16:57:17] You have sent 1.500.000 credits to stormblazer
[21.08.2018 16:57:21] XA-Phantom.4: Your reward.
[21.08.2018 16:58:29] Stormblazer: Sadly with your "friend" camping the Texas gate I won't be able to return on my mission to help rebuild the Munich system
[21.08.2018 16:58:52] XA-Phantom.4: That Hacker is no friend of mine. Yet we parted peacefully for he was also looking out for the slaves.
[21.08.2018 16:59:11] Stormblazer: That's what I figured
[21.08.2018 16:59:21] XA-Phantom.4: I could let much worse people live another day.
[21.08.2018 17:00:03] XA-Phantom.4: You should know better than to invest interest in Rheinland, though.
[21.08.2018 17:00:06] XA-Phantom.4: Munich is not our problem.

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