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[custo'-benitez]

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PERSONAL LOG: 22/06/816

Ai! Sorry amigos, I've fallen behind with my log recordings. I've been busy working on blueprints for a new project. The last few days have been hectic though. I'll summarize the events.

On the eighteenth, two days after my last log I got a call from the Leon Technicians working on the Auxiliary and from the Junkers of Trafalgar. The technicians told me she was complete. It looked the same as before, but that was a subtle deception, the armour has been made denser using complicated armour synthesizers and a new powerplant has been added. It was a completely new ship. The Junkers told me I could dock on Trafalgar again. Under armed guard. I guess the bribe worked.

The upgrades did in fact boost it to the standards required to have it changed in name from a Legionnaire class vessel to a Decurion. I immediately took it out to re-register it with Crete docking control. the only thing I noted with disappointment was that it's increased mass had dampened down it's turning capability. I reported to Crete, obtained identification papers and bunked down for the night in the Benitez estates. Later on I discovered that the rest of the familia had just won a crushing victory against the outcasts in Eta.

On the nineteenth I undocked from Crete to ominous silence. I prepared to return to Bretonia for live fire testing and asked if anyone else would like to accompany me on a long range patrol. There was for the most part stony silence and replies to the negative. I guess Bretonia is too scary for the majority of those Corsairs that would sit in Crete's orbit...

Despite the general atmosphere, I received a willing wingman in the form of the Corsair pilot Shogun. who for reasons unknown piloted an Eagle. We proceeded to Omega 41 when we started to think we were being followed. [OPG]Dauntless was keeping pace behind us, but we did not know whether he was simply relocating from Gamma to Omega 5. We exited the Omegas and entered Cambridge, heading for the Leeds JH, and then it was confirmed. [OPG]Dauntless was keeping a steady 9K behind us. I asked for Shogun's opinion on Dauntless and whether he was actively following us. We decided that he could be seen as a good thing or a bad thing. Fire support, or competition/a spy.

It was settled by opening a comms channel and asking him if he wanted to come. He responded in a affirmative, so I invited him to our Group comms frequency and asked why he hadn't just said! We proceeded to fly to the Leeds JH in Arrowhead formation:


/Picture taken by one of the Auxillary's photo droids/

We arrived at Trafalgar for resupply at which point the Junkers ran a scan of Shogun. and realised he had been marked as hostile. Consequently Trafalgar opened fire and he was forced to withdraw to a safe distance. He satisfied himself by terrorising the local Molly populous. At this point, to my bitter dissapointment a critical error message arreared on my analisis screens warning of engine failiure. I was forced to redock with Trafalgar and abondon my raid. I beleive Dauntless and Shogun. both proceeded to interdict some shipping. We could almost hear the traders squealing through the void.

I lay low for the next few days waiting for the pissy inefficient Junker engineers to finish on my engines. Boring as hell, especialy when you're under armed guard. They got the Auxillary finished for today, so I took her out for some mapping. I did a run along the Southampton Shipyard > New London trade lane, periodicly disrupting it as I went and menacing any traders that dropped out. I've heard Decurions look scary from the perspective of an escape pod! I proceeded towards the planet and when nearing it's security zone bugged out. I didn't want to be stumbling onto a battleship patrol.

I pulled out and headed for the Cumbria asteroid field and the Dublin JH. I had heard there was gold just waiting to be tractored in there and the though appealed to me. There was also the fact that the system was full of Mollies. Another plus point! There is no lost love between me and the Mollies. As I jumped through a unknown contact appeared on sensors. It was an Outcast Facalta callsigned {SOB}Dark_Assasin blundering around the field lost.

I ordered it to leave the area (heh, I didn't like the look of the torpedo's it was hauling. I'd rather it left of it's own accord then attack me) to which it's reply was homing in on the transmissions source. He promptly opened fire without a word. The fight flowed back and forth, with the fight able to go either way. At one point I managed to lower his shields and get his hull integrity down to around 45%. Soon we were both out of NanoTech and it was a fight to the death. Or not. I decided I didn't fancy a stay in my escape pod in sovereign Molly territory, so i set course for the Leeds JH and killed engines. Assasin did the same, so I about turned Disrupted him and continued on my merry, gliding way. Popping through the JH I had enough of a head start to engage Cruise engines and get out of range of his disruptor's. Here's the Nefarious foe himself!:



Needless to say he didn't catch me and I returned to Trafalgar. Now then. I best finish writing this and get some sleep.
Adios amigos.

-Custo' out

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