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Cristobal Escudero
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New York skirmish

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Buenos dias,
Ayer "Valladolid" and "Bormida" intercepted a Corsair train in Omicron Alpha hauling goods into Omicron Tau. The pilot claimed to be "freelancing" but his very ship of clearly Corsair design, as well as IFF indicated otherwise. Following the Constitution of Territorial and Interstellar Laws of Malta, Section 1 paragraph 5 the trespasser was destroyed on the spot (see logs in appendix).

Such daredevil acts on behalf of our lost brethren are rare, so alongslide "Bormida" and an escort of two interceptors we ventured into Omicron Xi system to look into possible increased activity of Corsairs in Maltese space. In Omicron Xi we encountered a Corsair "Praefect" Cruiser piloted by captain Santiago Alvez. Corsairs position in the system heavily fortified, to attack would be a suicide. Instead, we resorted to diplomacy and offered to compensate Malta for the troubles of dealing with Cretan trespassers. As expected, we were in no position to make demands but it was worth at least trying. Captain Alvez had no knowledge of possible reasons of Corsair smugglers' activity in Maltese space which probably was a statistical outlier. To our surprise, our negotiations were interrupted by another Corsair that clearly was not recognised by Santiago Alvez as one of his own. IFF "ApS" is probably linked to the rumours about "Apostatas" - the renegade movement within the Empire. The pilot behaved himself/herself quite insolent and disrespectful to the us, which is why it was decided to give him/her a lesson. Our fighters intercepted the bomber and successfully terminated it. Upon inquiries of this group with captain Alvez, we learnt that the latter knew nothing of them as well.

While any Cretan opposition is beneficial for Malta and for Cartel's business operations in Omicrons in particular, initial hostility and insolence indicated there might be less room to negotiate about. Hence, we need dispatch agents to learn more about these "Apostatas", what they stand for and whom do they work with. Perhaps, there is stil lchacne for cooperation. For now, we should treat them as the rest of Corsairs.

Respetuosamente,
Adelantado C. Escudero

Flight Log: QC "Valladolid" - interception in Alpha

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Combat Log

[24.03.2019 09:28:26] QC|"Bormida": ?: Shut down your engines. Do it now or you'll be destroyed.
[24.03.2019 09:28:49] QC|"Valladolid": ?: A corsair in Alpha. Peculiar
[24.03.2019 09:29:01] Dazzled_Beaver: freelancing to tau
[24.03.2019 09:29:23] QC|"Valladolid": ?: You are a Corsair. In hostile space
[24.03.2019 09:29:41] QC|"Valladolid": ?: The laws are clear
[24.03.2019 09:29:49] QC|"Valladolid": ?: "Bormina" - fuego
[24.03.2019 09:29:51] QC|"Bormida": ? Fuego.
[24.03.2019 09:29:58] Death: Dazzled_Beaver was put out of action by QC|"Valladolid" (Gun).
24-03-825 Corsair Train "Dazzled Beaver" destroyed.

Flight Log: QC "Valladolid" - encounter in Xi

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Combat Log

[24.03.2019 10:19:34] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: well, well, well. Another Corsair
[24.03.2019 10:20:02] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: how about you pay us a bit and we leave this system peacefully?
[24.03.2019 10:20:05] Santiago.Alvez: Hola intruder
[24.03.2019 10:20:27] Santiago.Alvez: So you can buy your drugs and get high?
[24.03.2019 10:20:48] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: so that we don't damage your precious facilities aroudn here
[24.03.2019 10:21:13] Santiago.Alvez: Oh, interesting
[24.03.2019 10:22:11] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: although, to be honest, mi familia has no hatred for the Corsairs
[24.03.2019 10:22:33] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: same as we are, you were punished by fate and left stranded in damaged Hispania
[24.03.2019 10:22:54] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: the war has had its toll on public image, so now our peoples fight
[24.03.2019 10:22:55] Santiago.Alvez: It, clearly doesn't seem that you have some sympathy for us.
[24.03.2019 10:23:18] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: how can I if your Emprie supports the Gauls at our doors?
[24.03.2019 10:23:47] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: how can I if you deal with Cryer who seek to udnermine our cardamine routes on which our life depends?
[24.03.2019 10:24:00] Santiago.Alvez: Every party, does what's necessary to protect their systems
[24.03.2019 10:24:37] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: well, our presence here is because one of yours tried to smuggle goods in Omicron Alpha itself
[24.03.2019 10:24:44] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: so we came to inquire
[24.03.2019 10:24:56] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: however, I guess it was a sporadic event
[24.03.2019 10:24:58] ApS|Fortuna[6]: ?:Am I interrupting something?
[24.03.2019 10:25:22] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: hmm, the IFF of that Corsair is different
[24.03.2019 10:25:42] ApS|Fortuna[6]: ?:Outcatsts and corsairs in the same place? That's a new one
[24.03.2019 10:26:00] Santiago.Alvez: Hola there
[24.03.2019 10:26:01] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: said as if you are not a Corsair
[24.03.2019 10:26:47] ApS|Fortuna[6]: ?:Let's say I'm but I'm not
[24.03.2019 10:27:04] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: okay, capitano, we see you fortified and we are no militaries to blindlessly kill everything on sight
[24.03.2019 10:27:33] ApS|Fortuna[6]: ?:Says the Sarissa Captain
[24.03.2019 10:27:42] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: so I would rather just kindly ask you to convey to your traders not to enter Omicron Alpha
[24.03.2019 10:28:08] Santiago.Alvez: You might be capable to take on me today, but the empire will remain nevertheless
[24.03.2019 10:28:10] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: "Sarissa" is a wonderous ship indeed, but is no "Ranseur" that our militaries usually use
[24.03.2019 10:28:27] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: capitan, we do not seek to blidnly kill you
[24.03.2019 10:28:38] ApS|Fortuna[6]: ?:So an Outcats delegation with a battleship? That's a new one
[24.03.2019 10:28:42] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: we just seek to deliver a message to your traders
[24.03.2019 10:28:59] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: stay out of Alpha and we can peacefully hate each otehr at home
[24.03.2019 10:29:10] ApS|Fortuna[6]: ?:Or else?
[24.03.2019 10:29:15] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: pragmatic, si o no?
[24.03.2019 10:29:23] Santiago.Alvez: I guess that message has arrived, a long time ago
[24.03.2019 10:29:31] ApS|Fortuna[6]: ?:May I ask, are you a National Council delegate?
[24.03.2019 10:29:38] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: after today it seems we need to reiterate it once in a while
[24.03.2019 10:29:53] Santiago.Alvez: Oh, does it?
[24.03.2019 10:30:00] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: we do not represent Consejo Nacional
[24.03.2019 10:30:13] ApS|Fortuna[6]: ?:Then you can get out
[24.03.2019 10:30:34] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: a loud words from a single yet-to-be-defined whom
[24.03.2019 10:30:37] Santiago.Alvez: It seems to me, that you are quite stubborn to turn up here under no flag
[24.03.2019 10:30:54] ApS|Fortuna[6]: ?:If somebody has something to tell us, NC should send a delegate
[24.03.2019 10:31:01] ApS|Fortuna[6]: ?:Not some random chico
[24.03.2019 10:31:14] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: capitan, how about you pay us, say, 3 million credits for the troubles and we leave?
[24.03.2019 10:31:30] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: those traders make us spend fuel on chasing them
[24.03.2019 10:31:30] ApS|Fortuna[6]: ?:*laughs* You said what?
[24.03.2019 10:31:34] Santiago.Alvez: You don't want to get to no the ApS, they're one ugly piece of work
[24.03.2019 10:31:45] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: is that so?
[24.03.2019 10:31:55] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: hmmm, I have something better in mind then
[24.03.2019 10:32:08] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: help us get the head of that loud mouth and we leave in peace
[24.03.2019 10:32:22] Santiago.Alvez: Yeah is that so?
[24.03.2019 10:32:44] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: insolence to me is worse than trespassing
[24.03.2019 10:32:45] ApS|Fortuna[6]: ?:Show time?
[24.03.2019 10:33:00] ApS|Fortuna[6]: ?:Who's first to die?
[24.03.2019 10:33:24] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: fighters - engage
[24.03.2019 10:33:36] ApS|Fortuna[6]: ?:As you wish...
[24.03.2019 10:33:36] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: that bad mouth goes down today
[24.03.2019 10:34:14] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: as for you, senhor capitan, I fully realise you have nothing to do with the incursions.
[24.03.2019 10:34:35] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: consider it luck there was that insolent one
[24.03.2019 10:35:10] Santiago.Alvez: Consider it luck, that you didn't start a full on war with the empire
[24.03.2019 10:35:31] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: senhor Alves, how can we start a war that is ongoing already?
[24.03.2019 10:36:01] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: however, if you tell us what you know about those - Apostatas - we would consider it a gesture of good will
[24.03.2019 10:36:05] Santiago.Alvez: You would interupt a phase of calm to say it gentle
[24.03.2019 10:36:32] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: we both know that the "Empire" is waging war on Bretonia at the moment
[24.03.2019 10:36:45] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: not mentioning the Hessians and the Commies
[24.03.2019 10:37:34] Santiago.Alvez: Correct and if you don't want the same storm rushing throughout the alphas, you better be cautious with your visits here
[24.03.2019 10:37:43] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: senhor Alvez, are you a man of business? I have a proposal for you
[24.03.2019 10:38:04] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: do you know anything of this Corsair renegades?
[24.03.2019 10:38:19] QC|"Valladolid": Corsair: we might make your time worthy and pay for the intel
[24.03.2019 10:38:42] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: it appears, they are a thorn in the eye of Malta after all
[24.03.2019 10:39:06] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: although, naturally, Corsair renegades should be favourable to us. Hmmm
[24.03.2019 10:39:06] Santiago.Alvez: I sadly don't have a lot of intel
[24.03.2019 10:39:44] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: sad. Well, if you want to make some cash - you know what you can sell and to whom
[24.03.2019 10:39:54] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: we will leave you in peace
[24.03.2019 10:39:56] Santiago.Alvez: I try to figure them out myself to be honest.
[24.03.2019 10:40:23] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: we heard the rumours of some group. Working with the commies, allegedly
[24.03.2019 10:40:45] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal+ but to believe sairs working with commies and Hessians? Even the religious Malteseans would not dare to
[24.03.2019 10:40:47] Death: ApS|Fortuna[6] was put out of action by Rodrigo_Rodriguez (Gun).
[24.03.2019 10:41:25] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: bad mouth shut, i say we call it a day in this system, hermanos
[24.03.2019 10:41:35] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: delante, senhores
[24.03.2019 10:41:47] QC|"Valladolid": Cristobal: as for you, senhor Alves, hasta luego
[24.03.2019 10:42:08] Santiago.Alvez: Hasta luego senors
24-03-825 Corsair Bomber of unknown class eliminated. Corsair "Praefect"-class Cruiser left alone.

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