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ID: Cpt. Theobald Franklin

Location: OS&C|Reverie, Planet Manhatten, New York System

To: Cpt. Jonathan Seabourne, OS&C|Breezewood

Cc: All Colleagues

Subject: Incident with the Liberty Navy

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Hello Jonathan!

Recently you mentioned that you wanted to hear if we had any interesting encounters. Well, I guess you might have heared already about this one, but I wanted to tell you myself, might make a good story for the Magazin of yours.

The Reverie had recently an unpleasant episode with a Navy vessel, callsign "Inceptor", in Manhatten Orbit. During this the "Inceptor" fired two torpedoes at the Reverie, which struck home. The pilot claimed that he accidentaly fired them and wanted to target some other ship. Honestly, I doubt that, but thats only my personal opinion. Reveries shield crumbled immediatly with the first hit. The second damaged her significantly. Mathew Davis, my first maat, suspected, that only because we had some additional armor installed, nothing worse, like hull breaches, happened. Nevertheless, we had some power failures, damaged turrets and damaged outer hull platings. We had to dock at Manhatten again. The Reverie is currently moored for several days at Manhatten to get the repairs done, a total of more than 800.000SC.

Our guests at this time were a bit more than 3500 Envoys from New Tokyo. They booked the Reverie for a journey to Grand Vista Orbital, in Sydney Orbit, where they have a symposium. I hope we can get them there still in time. Naturally they are all terrified now. I had to calm some of them personally, had a few shouts and angry protest. Can't blame them, they, as we all, escaped death only narrowly. I guess it was sheer luck, that nobody died because of the torpedo hits. The worst that happened to our guests was one broken wrist, lots of broken glass and thus a lot of cuts, and many bruises. Our chef is furios, because his kitchen is completly messed up and a hugh pot with tomorrows gulash was ruined. And there are a lot of bruised egos of all the people who stumbled and fell when the whole ship rocked at the impacts. But these are only minor things.

What made me angry was not only the lack of skill of this Navy Pilot, who seemd not to be able to use a targeting computer, but that said pilot had the audacity to tell me, that Envoy passangers are illegal and I have to pay 100SC for each of them. Of course I checked our regulations and Libertonian Law just to be sure. Surprise, I couldn't find a single word about that. The Pilot than graciously "let it go this time because he had fired at us".
I can't describe how angry I am because of all this. Incompetent people who carelessly endanger the lives of thouthand innocent people for a petty penny!

But I get beside the point.
This incident gave me some things to think through. Maybe we should increase the armor of the Reverie, but this would cost even more space. We just are in the process of aquiring two docking bays for her at Freeport 12, which cost all the lower deck cabins. And if we switch to capital armor upgrades, it will reduce space even more. We travell rarly to the outer Systems like the Omicrons. But when we encounter torpedoes even here in House Space, maybe we should armor up. What would you say, Jonathan?

Well thats about it. I already filed an Official Protest with the Liberty Navy, and included a copy of our Black Box recording. There should be a copy of it in the OS&C database already. But I link it here for you anyway, so you can use it if you want. I have no answer from them Navy yet, but such things normally take a while I guess. If I hear from them, I'll let you know. If you have any more questions, let me know.

Cheers,
Cpt. Theobald Franklin
OS&C|Reverie

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