Other operatives present : 46th|LNS-Tomahawk, 46th|Blake.W.Van-Leer
Systems visited :New York
Encounter Description :
Upon standart patrol on NY I recieved a call for backup from the Tomahawk, and after arriving in Manhattan I found:
-A Lane Hacker, and an Outcast both flying Gunboats;
-A Civilian of Gallian origin that I spoke with earlier
-A strange civlian with some illegal tech that made him DECOMPRESED as soon as he hailed us in comms
Understanding the GRAVITY of the situation and weighting the LIVES at stake, I decided to work some TACTICAL DIPLOMACY to avoid any damage to the Tomahawk or the civilians in the vicinity.
Outcome : Despite the tense situation me and the comms crew of the Tomahawk managed to keep the interaction civil as the elements did not seem as hostile as we expected. I felt a sudden urge to go to the bathroom and grab some more coffee, so when Rear Admiral Van Leer joined, I felt it was best to de-escalate the situation and leave.
Taking part in that "cult" Admiral Van Leer discovered might be taking it's toll on outcast, being so trigger happy and ready to suicide by Navy, so eager to face multiple vessels inside our own defense grid.
Don't know if that's courage or stupidity. I can respect both.
In the other hand I recommend civil interactions with unlawfuls, specially Lane Hackers, when possible. We can gather good intel and/or understand their tactics, motives, strengths and weaknesses...
2020-11-19 19:13:23 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Good afternoon
2020-11-19 19:15:37 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Eyy. More of your type.
2020-11-19 19:15:40 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Beautiful.
2020-11-19 19:15:51 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: keep eye on silencer
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: This is Rear Admiral Romeo Darkbeat from the Navy 46th Strike Force
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Greetings
2020-11-19 19:16:19 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Salutations, Rear Admiral.
2020-11-19 19:16:29 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: You always like to show up around hattan, right?
2020-11-19 19:16:40 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Of course. It's the most crowded place.
2020-11-19 19:16:58 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: any special occasion for this timely visit?
2020-11-19 19:17:22 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: As I said to Tomahawk here, I am here to talk people to death.
2020-11-19 19:17:36 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: I dont believe that for one second
2020-11-19 19:17:50 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Well, I mean... You don't have to.
2020-11-19 19:18:12 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: Well after all you are a criminal so why should I beleive you
2020-11-19 19:18:27 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Talk or no talk, staying here with that reputation is bound to attract people wanting to.... "debate"
2020-11-19 19:18:34 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: My more regular customers here would support me.
2020-11-19 19:18:50 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: I am open to debates.
2020-11-19 19:19:04 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Like that outcast 3 days ago that tried to sell me insurance against himself?
2020-11-19 19:19:05 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: And what customers are those
2020-11-19 19:19:19 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Any Freelancers sitting around the grid daily.
2020-11-19 19:19:24 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: a round of my heavy mortar was enough pay for him
2020-11-19 19:19:33 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Oh I don't sell commodities, don't worry.
2020-11-19 19:19:34 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: Tally-ho!
2020-11-19 19:19:35 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: I sell words.
2020-11-19 19:19:43 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Good day, Silencer.
2020-11-19 19:19:47 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: well I dont believe that either
2020-11-19 19:19:57 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: You don't have to believe it.
2020-11-19 19:20:02 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt
2020-11-19 19:20:19 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: I never expected to be believed.
2020-11-19 19:20:33 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: IF we are to agree on sharing words and not shots, at least for now
2020-11-19 19:21:04 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: For now?
2020-11-19 19:21:08 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: I know outcast love to go trigger happy with their cardamine
2020-11-19 19:21:21 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Why for now? Is that until your backup arrives?
2020-11-19 19:21:21 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: Welkl for a start I will insist o Silencer ceasing his firig
2020-11-19 19:21:21 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: So I'm keeping my blasters cold, but ready
2020-11-19 19:21:31 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: I like to blast those fancy ships if yours.
2020-11-19 19:21:53 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Saw that new one? I imported it from Bretonia
2020-11-19 19:22:07 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Even though it's kusarian made
2020-11-19 19:22:17 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Fancy ship, the Sutinga is.
2020-11-19 19:22:18 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: Amigo, if you honestly think these are here to chit-chat, I'll have to disappoint you.
2020-11-19 19:22:18 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Even has a coffee dispenser
2020-11-19 19:22:31 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: We really shouldn't wait until their lackeys arrive.
2020-11-19 19:22:39 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: You may be right. They could be just waiting for backup.
2020-11-19 19:22:45 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Your amigo was the one offering words
2020-11-19 19:22:47 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: Well we dont appear to be doing anything else but chatting do we
2020-11-19 19:23:01 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: I'll leave the call to you, Silencer.
2020-11-19 19:23:33 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: we can take one maybe if we focus him
2020-11-19 19:23:45 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: Do you really want to let them have their Carriers arrive ?
2020-11-19 19:23:53 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: Not that they'd make a difference.
2020-11-19 19:24:01 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: No carriers scheduled for today
2020-11-19 19:24:08 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Unless you force us to
2020-11-19 19:24:11 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: Carriers I cant see any Carriers
2020-11-19 19:24:11 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: That's what they always say.
2020-11-19 19:24:14 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: I somehow believe the Rear Admiral.
2020-11-19 19:24:21 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: He doesn't sound like a prick.
2020-11-19 19:24:39 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: I mean, how many admirals have you seen on fighters?
2020-11-19 19:24:55 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: Just the ones wishing to die.
2020-11-19 19:25:02 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Definitely not many.
2020-11-19 19:25:18 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Pretty funny, at least I didn't die yet
2020-11-19 19:25:33 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: In the end that's what we all do, right?
2020-11-19 19:25:46 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Die, get reborn anew, than die again
2020-11-19 19:25:52 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: You didn't get my point it seems.
2020-11-19 19:26:01 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: That's a nasty narcissistic point of view.
2020-11-19 19:26:08 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: You should change that.
2020-11-19 19:26:12 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Be a little positive.
2020-11-19 19:26:19 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: More like someone who likes to waste resources.
2020-11-19 19:26:19 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Humanity's struggle for immortal life for tens of thousands of years, and we can't stop death
2020-11-19 19:26:22 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Ever
2020-11-19 19:26:27 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Never could
2020-11-19 19:26:44 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: We can only hope for something good on the other side
2020-11-19 19:26:44 SMT
Donte.Scirocco: Buongiorno!
2020-11-19 19:26:49 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: You can prolongue it, though.
2020-11-19 19:26:49 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: OOH we have another visitor
2020-11-19 19:26:52 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Salutations, friend.
2020-11-19 19:26:59 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: ok now THAT's new
Death: Donte.Scirocco was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
2020-11-19 19:27:09 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: wtf
2020-11-19 19:27:13 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: aaaaand he's gone
2020-11-19 19:27:16 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: Uhh...
2020-11-19 19:27:21 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Right.
2020-11-19 19:27:22 SMT
Stella.Dewoitine: Oh hey, the defense grid caught someone.
2020-11-19 19:27:27 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: How about we act like nobody saw that?
2020-11-19 19:27:37 SMT
Stella.Dewoitine: Pretty hard not to see it.
2020-11-19 19:27:41 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: That might be a good idea
2020-11-19 19:27:42 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Let's just assume it never happened.
2020-11-19 19:27:56 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: yes very hard to see him disintegrate
2020-11-19 19:28:35 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Right, Tomahawk, It seems that despite their reputations, the gentlemen here are not hostile for now
2020-11-19 19:28:46 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: Thats true
2020-11-19 19:28:53 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Never expected to hear any member of the Fourty-Sixth speak like that.
2020-11-19 19:28:55 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: I'm in a real hard craving for coffee so
2020-11-19 19:28:56 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: turned over a new leaf perhaps
2020-11-19 19:29:02 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: It's a wonder they can even speak.
2020-11-19 19:29:03 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: You truly own a brain, Rear Admiral.
2020-11-19 19:29:04 SMT
Donte.Scirocco: Buongiorno again!
2020-11-19 19:29:09 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: And that is respectable.
2020-11-19 19:29:15 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: we retreating
2020-11-19 19:29:16 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Your call, admiral
2020-11-19 19:29:29 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: We're citzens first, hacker. Soldiers second
2020-11-19 19:29:33 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: the other ones back
2020-11-19 19:29:33 SMT
Donte.Scirocco: Kindly ignore that unexpected explosive decompression I experienced earlier!
2020-11-19 19:29:44 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Not everyone thinks like that, Rear Admiral.
2020-11-19 19:29:48 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: That explains why you're so bad.
2020-11-19 19:30:02 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: And I'm willing to work things out when words can precede blasts
2020-11-19 19:30:17 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: You ok there "mi amico"
2020-11-19 19:30:28 SMT
Donte.Scirocco: Si! Grazie!
2020-11-19 19:30:29 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Wait, my romance languages might be rusty
2020-11-19 19:30:41 SMT
Donte.Scirocco: No, that was excellent!
2020-11-19 19:30:41 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: "Tutto...." eh... "Benne"?
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Ma che cazzo amico quella splosione eh estatta brutta cosa faccieva?
2020-11-19 19:31:26 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Ok, that might not have worked
2020-11-19 19:31:35 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: Well it doesnt appear there are any freelancers for you today Hacker
2020-11-19 19:31:43 SMT
Donte.Scirocco: Sorry, your comms just got all kinds of scrambled there, pilot.
2020-11-19 19:31:48 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Indeed, which is sad.
2020-11-19 19:32:07 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Well, it seems Manhattan is as cosmopolitan as I never saw
2020-11-19 19:32:09 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: I wonder were Sun is.
2020-11-19 19:32:12 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Or Lovebird.
2020-11-19 19:32:21 SMT
Donte.Scirocco: I believe the sun is off to the east.
2020-11-19 19:32:26 SMT
Donte.Scirocco: Hard to miss, really.
2020-11-19 19:32:27 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Not that sun.
2020-11-19 19:32:32 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: I'm referring to a person.
2020-11-19 19:32:46 SMT
Donte.Scirocco: Ah.
2020-11-19 19:32:52 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: I'll leave you to your diplomacy here and clean my apartment back in manhattan. Girlfriend is arriving from Bret tomorrow
2020-11-19 19:33:02 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Have fun, Rear Admiral.
2020-11-19 19:33:07 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Enjoy your time with her.
2020-11-19 19:33:08 SMT
Donte.Scirocco: Oh, better practice your romance languages!
2020-11-19 19:33:12 SMT
Donte.Scirocco: If you catch my drift.
2020-11-19 19:33:14 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: Can we now trash that fucking Interdictor ?
2020-11-19 19:33:17 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: Stella why do you have Liberty Navy pilots i your hold
2020-11-19 19:33:27 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Tomahawk, if you don't mind, I suggest we retreat for now
2020-11-19 19:33:29 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: The damn thing's mere existence is pissing me off.
2020-11-19 19:33:37 SMT
Stella.Dewoitine: Because neither of you bothered to pick them up.
2020-11-19 19:33:44 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: Liste I have not been aggrezive towrads you so back off
2020-11-19 19:33:54 SMT
Stella.Dewoitine: They were just floating out here.
2020-11-19 19:33:59 SMT
Stella.Dewoitine: Was that directed towards me?
2020-11-19 19:34:00 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: Oh ok thanks stella
2020-11-19 19:34:02 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: I think you're forgetting with whom you are speaking.
2020-11-19 19:34:09 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: I can have them if you don't mind
2020-11-19 19:34:19 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Or you can drop them at trenton here
2020-11-19 19:34:28 SMT
Donte.Scirocco: I personally am perfectly satisfied with -not- engaging in violence.
2020-11-19 19:34:41 SMT
Stella.Dewoitine: Sure, I'll eventually take them there.
2020-11-19 19:34:57 SMT
Stella.Dewoitine: I got a feeling a few more will end up in their pods.
2020-11-19 19:35:49 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: Greetings Van Leer
2020-11-19 19:35:52 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Oh, Van Leer
2020-11-19 19:35:54 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Good day.
2020-11-19 19:35:56 SMT
Donte.Scirocco: Van Leer!
2020-11-19 19:35:57 SMT
46th|Blake.W.Van-Leer: what seems to be the situation
2020-11-19 19:35:59 SMT
Stella.Dewoitine: Bonjour.
2020-11-19 19:36:02 SMT
LH~Airdrie.Tormentor: ?: Van Leer.
2020-11-19 19:36:10 SMT
46th|Blake.W.Van-Leer: hello freelancer
2020-11-19 19:36:13 SMT
46th|Blake.W.Van-Leer: looking for a job?
2020-11-19 19:36:18 SMT
46th|LNS-Tomahawk: We were just chatting to these law abiding citizens
2020-11-19 19:36:30 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: Admiral, I really need to go, so please work this out between the Tomahawk and these foreigners please
2020-11-19 19:36:34 SMT
Stella.Dewoitine: If it involves me having to shoot any of the ships here, I think I'll pass.
2020-11-19 19:36:35 SMT
-|-"Silencer": A: Weren't you claiming that you are citizens first ?
2020-11-19 19:36:38 SMT
46th|Blake.W.Van-Leer: alright then
2020-11-19 19:36:48 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: We are
2020-11-19 19:36:58 SMT
46th|Romeo-Darkbeat: And Van Leer is a fine citzend
2020-11-19 19:37:23 SMT
Stella.Dewoitine: I feel like that would just end up with me getting chased through a system I don't know too well.
2020-11-19 19:37:41 SMT
Donte.Scirocco: Worry not, Miss Dewoitine. You won't have to get involved.
2020-11-19 19:37:45 SMT Traffic control alert: 46th|Romeo-Darkbeat has requested to dock
Shutdown
Sometimes it's good to keep your weapons cold, but loaded. Mantaining civil and decent interactions with criminals might be the best way to bring them back to the cleasing light of LAW, LIBERTY AND DEMOCRACY. But ALWAYS check your flanks.
This is RADM Romeo Darkbeat, out.
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