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[aerelm]

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Date: 03 Jan 828
Location: Planet Malta, Omicron Alpha

Registered Contacts:
    Crayter           =CR=Hellfire           Pytho
    Scrambled         *MR|MNS-Abaddon        Storta
    Outcasts          L\-MNS-Saint.Blaise    Hasta
    Outcasts          L\-Eliza.Valdez        Sabre
    Outcasts          LG|Luis,Torres         Waran
    Outcasts          -|-Antelao             Tridente

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[03.01.828 22:33:15] aerelm: What's this racket all about?
[03.01.828 22:33:55] Death: =CR=Hellfire was put out of action by L\-Eliza.Valdez (Gun).
[03.01.828 22:34:09] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Buenos dias, aerelm.
[03.01.828 22:34:11] aerelm: Seems I'm in time for cleanup at least.
[03.01.828 22:34:21] LG|Luis.Torres: I just realised that one of those traitors is here.
[03.01.828 22:34:28] LG|Luis.Torres: I thought they all died out.
[03.01.828 22:34:29] *MR|MNS-Abaddon: RO: 'Traitors'.
[03.01.828 22:34:41] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Senor aerelm, I'll pay you 5 million credits if you help us with this MR traitor.
[03.01.828 22:35:01] *MR|MNS-Abaddon: RO: Try it, Senorita. You won't survive the exchange.
[03.01.828 22:35:11] LG|Luis.Torres: You suck Crayters dick and claim to be the true sons of Malta or whatever.
[03.01.828 22:35:16] aerelm: It's alright, stuff like this is just another... uhh... wednesday is it?
[03.01.828 22:35:20] LG|Luis.Torres: Pretty sure that counts as being a traitor.
[03.01.828 22:35:39] MNS-Platea: Hola amigos
[03.01.828 22:36:10] L\-MNS-Saint.Blaise: Vesco: XO Alberto Vesco reporting. Dona Eliza, I will save you from that traitor.
[03.01.828 22:36:22] L\-Eliza.Valdez: You're on time, Vesco.
[03.01.828 22:36:24] L\-MNS-Saint.Blaise: Vesco: Have they hurt you?
[03.01.828 22:36:24] *MR|MNS-Abaddon: RO: Let's do this, terrorist.
[03.01.828 22:36:57] aerelm: Have to admit, feels weird tossing infernos at a 'cast ship.
[03.01.828 22:39:03] aerelm: Oh cheeky.
[03.01.828 22:39:43] L\-MNS-Saint.Blaise: Vesco: Dona Eliza, who is this aerelm person who keeps moving into my line of fire?
[03.01.828 22:39:53] L\-Eliza.Valdez: A mercenary, I believe.
[03.01.828 22:40:03] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Senor aerelm, can you please stand out of the line of fire.
[03.01.828 22:40:08] L\-Eliza.Valdez: I'll transfer you the credits anyways.
[03.01.828 22:40:08] aerelm: Oh, my bad. *Chuckles*
[03.01.828 22:40:15] [827-12-01] 22:40:15 You have received 5.000.000 credits from L\-Eliza.Valdez
[03.01.828 22:40:24] Death: *MR|MNS-Abaddon was put out of action by L\-MNS-Saint.Blaise (Gun).
[03.01.828 22:40:27] aerelm: Never shot one of those ships before, kinda tricky finding the right angle on it.
[03.01.828 22:40:43] LG|Luis,Torres: What a waste of a good cruiser.
[03.01.828 22:40:46] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Si, it does have decent rear defense.
[03.01.828 22:41:18] aerelm: So how did one manage to get away with one of those?
[03.01.828 22:41:53] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Good question. Wish I knew. As far as I know they were somewhere far from Malta when they decided to change colors.
[03.01.828 22:42:19] 827-12-01 22:42:19 SMT  Traffic control alert: L\-MNS-Saint.Blaise has requested to dock
[03.01.828 22:42:22] aerelm: Well, what a waste indeed then.
[03.01.828 22:42:24] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Thankfully it's just this one Storta corvette.
[03.01.828 22:42:38] LG|Luis,Torres: Makes you wonder how they survive down in Tau-44.
[03.01.828 22:42:43] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Imagine how much more emberassing it would have been if it was a dreadnaught or a battleship?
[03.01.828 22:42:55] LG|Luis,Torres: Someone has to be supplying them with Cardamine or worse Stabiline.
[03.01.828 22:43:23] LG|Luis,Torres: I recall seeing a Ranseur flying their colors once.
[03.01.828 22:43:49] aerelm: And I appreciate the gesture, but I've been around these parts long enough, don't really need the monetary incentive to lend a~
[03.01.828 22:43:53] aerelm: hand whenever I can.
[03.01.828 22:43:59] [827-12-01] 22:43:59 You have sent 5.000.000 credits to L\-Eliza.Valdez.
[03.01.828 22:44:06] L\-Eliza.Valdez: As you wish, senor aerelm.
[03.01.828 22:43:59] 827-12-01 22:43:59 SMT  Traffic control alert: -|-Antelao has requested to dock
[03.01.828 22:45:03] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Well then, time for damage diagnostics.
[03.01.828 22:45:14] 827-12-01 22:45:14 SMT  Traffic control alert: L\-Eliza.Valdez has requested to dock
[03.01.828 22:45:34] aerelm: Hm, why would you need a Waran?
[03.01.828 22:45:45] LG|Luis,Torres: Stronger powercore.
[03.01.828 22:45:53] aerelm: Well....
[03.01.828 22:46:01] LG|Luis,Torres: Useful against the Royal Navy and their Valors.
[03.01.828 22:46:29] aerelm: Cutlass can stay in one piece much longer, so that does technically get more powercore than a Waran when the fight gets messy
[03.01.828 22:47:00] LG|Luis,Torres: Waran has served me well enough.
[03.01.828 22:47:09] LG|Luis,Torres: Plus I like having options.
[03.01.828 22:47:17] aerelm: Hm, fair enough.
[03.01.828 22:47:31] aerelm: I suppose it is mostly a matter of habit.
[03.01.828 22:47:36] aerelm: I've never liked the heavier stuff.
[03.01.828 22:48:08] L\-Eliza.Valdez: The extra firepower does have its uses.
[03.01.828 22:48:57] aerelm: Yea... thinkin about it, times are a bit different now. Everyone and their dog has a whole cap fleet.
[03.01.828 22:49:15] aerelm: Even Gaians.... Gaians! of all people
[03.01.828 22:49:23] aerelm: how that lot managed to build a cruiser is well beyond me
[03.01.828 22:50:04] aerelm: Yea, they're still makin a mess down in Bretonia on the daily.
[03.01.828 22:50:05] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Maybe once the rogues proved you can just combine debris with more debris until you get a boat as big to classify as a cruiser
[03.01.828 22:50:15] L\-Eliza.Valdez: the rest of Sirius realized it isn't as difficult to get a bigger ship.
[03.01.828 22:50:33] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Though most have attempted to put more finesse into their designs.
[03.01.828 22:50:40] aerelm: Hah, touche.
[03.01.828 22:51:28] aerelm: I was down in Omegas when I heard about the trouble in Taus. Took me a while to fly my way up here.
[03.01.828 22:51:40] aerelm: But seems things havent properly settled yet.
[03.01.828 22:51:48] aerelm: So I might stick around a while.
[03.01.828 22:51:56] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Plenty of conflict up here.
[03.01.828 22:52:04] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Some of it has yet to include us at all.
[03.01.828 22:52:26] LG|Luis,Torres: If only we could shoot something more worthwhile than Crayter.
[03.01.828 22:52:57] L\-Eliza.Valdez: There have been Kusari Navy in Tau-23 lately.
[03.01.828 22:53:27] aerelm: Huh, that must've been a sight.
[03.01.828 22:53:46] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Can't believe they managed to spearhead into Gallia with barely any resistance.
[03.01.828 22:54:17] LG|Luis,Torres: I suppose they lost the will to fight after losing to Bretonia of all people.
[03.01.828 22:54:19] aerelm: Them gauls had it coming, stretching themselves so thin like that
[03.01.828 22:54:40] aerelm: No one in their right mind would've tried what they did
[03.01.828 22:54:46] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Yes, that loss to Bretonia had likely hurt.
[03.01.828 22:54:47] aerelm: So... good riddance I suppose.
[03.01.828 22:54:51] L\-Eliza.Valdez: They've split into two over it.
[03.01.828 22:55:14] L\-Eliza.Valdez: One side I believe is still loyal to their king, the other decided to try democracy or something.
[03.01.828 22:55:48] aerelm: It's been ages since the last time I was in Gallia, but all of em sounded the same to me.
[03.01.828 22:57:07] L\-Eliza.Valdez: I think those traitors we shot earlier got inspired by Gallia's change of governance.
[03.01.828 22:57:38] L\-Eliza.Valdez: They call themselves "the lawful government of Malta" while flying side by side with Crayterian warships.
[03.01.828 22:57:49] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Would have been funny if it wasn't sad.
[03.01.828 22:58:16] LG|Luis,Torres: They are little more than Crayters pets.
[03.01.828 22:58:30] LG|Luis,Torres: They bring disgrace to us all.
[03.01.828 22:58:45] aerelm: Ugh. Can't even play devil's advocate here, if they had any sense they would've at least sided with someone better than Crayter
[03.01.828 22:59:04] L\-Eliza.Valdez: I guess the Crayterians were the only ones to take them in.
[03.01.828 22:59:37] aerelm: *Chuckles* Of course they were. Who else takes in any and every lowlife that's willing to fire a gun for them.
[03.01.828 22:59:45] aerelm: Even the BHG have higher standards.
[03.01.828 23:00:19] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Hopefully once things in Tau-44 are over they'll also be less of a nuisense.
[03.01.828 23:01:07] aerelm: This sort of trouble is nothing time can't fix. If you find 'em not worth the effort, just wait it out, they won't be able to
[03.01.828 23:01:20] aerelm: keep those larger ships of theirs running for long.
[03.01.828 23:01:33] LG|Luis,Torres: I was thinking the same thing last year.
[03.01.828 23:01:44] aerelm: Then chances are Crayter will just give 'em some of their own ship, and those things are pretty easy to hit, so problem solved.
[03.01.828 23:02:16] L\-Eliza.Valdez: They've been surprisingly inventive in keeping their fleets running.
[03.01.828 23:02:49] L\-Eliza.Valdez: And I doubt it's just the miners helping them.
[03.01.828 23:03:08] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Probably one of the houses is sponsoring them to continue being a nuisense in the Taus.
[03.01.828 23:03:27] L\-Eliza.Valdez: No other way they've built their numbers this fast.
[03.01.828 23:04:03] aerelm: Huh, seems they're worth keeping an eye on then.
[03.01.828 23:04:04] LG|Luis,Torres: The question is which one could spare the resources.
[03.01.828 23:04:56] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Liberty seems in the best state to spend money outside of its own military industry.
[03.01.828 23:05:30] LG|Luis,Torres: Liberty has been more annoying as of late.
[03.01.828 23:05:45] aerelm: Oh I doubt it's Liberty. They have bigger things to worry about right now.
[03.01.828 23:06:05] LG|Luis,Torres: Like securing their foothold into the Omicrons?
[03.01.828 23:06:24] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Who else then? The only other house with enough resources is Gallia and over the last decade or so the Crayterians have been
[03.01.828 23:06:26] L\-Eliza.Valdez: fighting them.
[03.01.828 23:07:08] LG|Luis,Torres: From what I have seen they haven't being too well ever since their split or whatever it was.
[03.01.828 23:07:16] aerelm: I didn't stick around long enough to figure out who's who and what's why, but there's this new bunch around.
[03.01.828 23:07:33] aerelm: Dunno if they're up to any good, but their caps sure are big, and their guns pointed at the Navy.
[03.01.828 23:07:50] L\-Eliza.Valdez: The insurgency in Liberty or?
[03.01.828 23:07:54] aerelm: So Liberty's probably saving up all they can, just in case things get out of hand.
[03.01.828 23:08:08] aerelm: Yea that one must be it.
[03.01.828 23:08:33] L\-Eliza.Valdez: They defected a few battlegroups from Liberty during the Gallic conflict. Hid in Bering from what I've heard.
[03.01.828 23:08:38] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Not sure what they're up to nowadays.
[03.01.828 23:09:04] LG|Luis,Torres: They are also the remnant of the Hellfire morons from what I heard last time I was down in Liberty.
[03.01.828 23:09:32] aerelm: Yea, I noticed their fighters looked familiar.
[03.01.828 23:09:45] LG|Luis,Torres: Granted when we were there our minds were set on teaching the Rogues to obey.
[03.01.828 23:10:06] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Quite the mess that place is.
[03.01.828 23:11:13] aerelm: Heh, that's just Rogues being Rogues. They get drunk, start daydreaming about being an actual threat to anyone.
[03.01.828 23:11:35] aerelm: You just let 'em sober up, they'll remember the port engine on the ship is about to fall off and they'd better go pester some
[03.01.828 23:11:44] aerelm: trader to at least make enough money for the repairs.
[03.01.828 23:12:18] L\-Eliza.Valdez: And yet surprisingly they're usually less arogant than one of those Lane Hackers.
[03.01.828 23:12:34] aerelm: Lovely bunch though, always up for some fun... But yea, they dream big, a bit too big for their own good from time to time.
[03.01.828 23:13:01] LG|Luis,Torres: At least the Hackers have some skills to back the arrogance.
[03.01.828 23:13:12] L\-Eliza.Valdez: True.
[03.01.828 23:13:56] L\-Eliza.Valdez: But unless we find middle ground to deal cardamine through the Xenos, the rogues will continue having their use.
[03.01.828 23:14:07] aerelm: Good ol' Doc Jameson knew how to deal with those Hackers. Knew how to speak their language, as it were.
[03.01.828 23:14:26] aerelm: Any word of him lately?
[03.01.828 23:14:32] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Shame about what happened to the 101st after him. No, not at all.
[03.01.828 23:14:47] aerelm: Yea, that's a shame.
[03.01.828 23:15:02] L\-Eliza.Valdez: The 101st got caught trying to deal with Corsairs to help them overthrow the National Council.
[03.01.828 23:15:20] LG|Luis,Torres: The Xenos will never be a valid option.
[03.01.828 23:15:49] L\-Eliza.Valdez: They're surprisingly eager to get into the cardamine business, but refuse to make compromises.
[03.01.828 23:16:11] LG|Luis,Torres: They want to have their cake and eat it as well.
[03.01.828 23:16:29] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Have you seen what they did to Rochester? They think they're the hotshots now.
[03.01.828 23:17:27] LG|Luis,Torres: For now.
[03.01.828 23:17:55] aerelm: You'll probably have better luck with their southern clans.
[03.01.828 23:18:07] aerelm: Those alliance nutjobs will bite your entire arm off if you give em a finger.
[03.01.828 23:18:12] aerelm:  ...or the finger.
[03.01.828 23:19:08] aerelm: Especially now that Unioners have shown their true colors a bit more, you'll probably have an easier time
[03.01.828 23:19:11] LG|Luis,Torres: I heard Loyola got blown up by one of those alliance fools.
[03.01.828 23:19:34] aerelm: playing "enemy of my enemy" with at least the chunk of Xenos that have to deal with Unioners at all.
[03.01.828 23:19:49] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Ol' Enma has been shot by just about everyone over the last few years.
[03.01.828 23:20:15] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Rheinland's a mess currently as well. Got themselves some civil war.
[03.01.828 23:20:33] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Funnily one of the Bureau knew this will happen in advance.
[03.01.828 23:20:49] LG|Luis,Torres: And they didn't take action to stop it?
[03.01.828 23:21:00] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Not sure if they didn't or they couldn't.
[03.01.828 23:21:14] aerelm: Well, Hessians seem to be fine with it. Government's just doing their work for them for once.
[03.01.828 23:22:02] LG|Luis,Torres: Far as I know Hessians care more about killing Corsairs and securing the Omegas or whatever.
[03.01.828 23:22:40] aerelm: Depends on which base you end up on. Some of em are too far from Omegas to care about Sairs.
[03.01.828 23:23:15] L\-Eliza.Valdez: I've never seen them near the Sigmas though.
[03.01.828 23:23:42] aerelm: Well, not since the jumphole in New Berlin collapsed.
[03.01.828 23:24:17] LG|Luis,Torres: I guess the Hessians don't see much of value in the Sigmas.
[03.01.828 23:24:40] L\-Eliza.Valdez: I think they just prefer the more orthodox form of mining.
[03.01.828 23:24:50] L\-Eliza.Valdez: You know, with rocks and ore or diamonds.
[03.01.828 23:25:29] LG|Luis,Torres: Ah yes.
[03.01.828 23:25:29] aerelm:  ...or miners.
[03.01.828 23:25:38] LG|Luis,Torres: Those red diamonds they love to sell.
[03.01.828 23:27:31] aerelm: ugh, politics and all that.
[03.01.828 23:27:47] aerelm: Now I feel like I need to go wash my brain with some good alcohol.
[03.01.828 23:28:04] aerelm: The whole place is always a mess.
[03.01.828 23:28:22] LG|Luis,Torres: Wouldn't be so fun if it wasn't such a mess.
[03.01.828 23:28:28] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Most of Sirius is currently one big mess right now.
[03.01.828 23:28:51] aerelm: Well.... They can at least have the decency to take it in turns *chuckles*
[03.01.828 23:29:13] L\-Eliza.Valdez: I almost thought we got spared from this, but as you can see we have defectees thinking they can reform Malta into an
[03.01.828 23:29:16] L\-Eliza.Valdez: upstanding vassal of Crayter.
[03.01.828 23:29:26] L\-Eliza.Valdez: And all that is messed up on more than one level.
[03.01.828 23:29:32] LG|Luis,Torres: At least the MOA is dead and gone.
[03.01.828 23:29:45] LG|Luis,Torres: Those fools were a nuisance.
[03.01.828 23:30:06] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Oh yeah, those. Almost forgot they existed.
[03.01.828 23:30:15] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Tried to pick a personal war with some cartel.
[03.01.828 23:30:27] L\-Eliza.Valdez: When told to fuck off they tried to go all out war against Malta.
[03.01.828 23:30:50] L\-Eliza.Valdez: At least they went down fighting without begging Crayter for help.
[03.01.828 23:31:14] LG|Luis,Torres: True.
[03.01.828 23:31:55] aerelm: Huh, seems I have more catching up to do around these parts than I thought.
[03.01.828 23:32:03] aerelm: Not a single clue what this MOA even was.
[03.01.828 23:32:29] aerelm: Always happens, I stick around one part for a while, then feels like I've been gone for decades when I drop by some other place
[03.01.828 23:32:33] aerelm: just a few months later.
[03.01.828 23:32:37] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Maltese Opposition(?) Army?
[03.01.828 23:32:57] L\-Eliza.Valdez: I forgot what their acronym stood for.
[03.01.828 23:33:20] LG|Luis,Torres: Opposition army sounds about right.
[03.01.828 23:33:42] L\-Eliza.Valdez: They wanted to turn Malta into some socialist paradise and overthrow the cartels.
[03.01.828 23:34:02] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Apparently got inspired by those Coalition bunch.
[03.01.828 23:34:21] LG|Luis,Torres: They were dealing with the Commies.
[03.01.828 23:34:42] aerelm: Hah, reminds me of that socialist-wannabe IMG offshoot ages ago
[03.01.828 23:34:43] LG|Luis,Torres: I recall shooting them alongside one of the Coalitions battlecruisers in Tau-23.
[03.01.828 23:35:08] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Could be. Maybe they finally took the hint and decided to live in the utopia that is New Moscow.
[03.01.828 23:35:16] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Or however they called their Omega homeworld.
[03.01.828 23:35:59] aerelm: Wouldn't be surprised if it just turns out they all starved to death
[03.01.828 23:36:10] LG|Luis,Torres: A fitting end.
[03.01.828 23:36:59] aerelm: Speaking of starve to death *chuckles*
[03.01.828 23:37:06] aerelm: I'd better go grab something to eat.
[03.01.828 23:37:18] L\-Eliza.Valdez: That's a good suggestion.
[03.01.828 23:37:32] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Alpha seems quiet enough to warrant a break.
[03.01.828 23:37:33] aerelm: Gonna be a good couple hours flight before I get to anywhere with anything edible around
[03.01.828 23:37:45] aerelm: Dont like the stuff they try to sell as "food" at port
[03.01.828 23:38:05] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Alas, Curacao is quite far away.
[03.01.828 23:38:52] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Buenas noches.
[03.01.828 23:38:54] 827-12-01 23:38:54 SMT  Traffic control alert: L\-Eliza.Valdez has requested to dock
[03.01.828 23:39:04] aerelm: There are a good few corners on Malta that have some decent stuff.
[03.01.828 23:39:22] aerelm: I'll probably just let autopilot decide at which one I'll be eating tonight.
[03.01.828 23:39:53] aerelm: *Chuckles* Was nice meeting you. Hopefully next time it wont be with Crayter around.