Diary: Samuel Collins

[FreshP]

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Entry III.

08/05/828


I said the first half of the day wasn't eventful... Well tell it to the second half I guess...

With the crew, we decided to check out northern parts of Bretonia so we sailed up all the way to Cortez where we managed to cloak just in time to avoid confrontation with the HMS-Tiger battlecruiser of the Bretonian Armed Forces. Several minutes later, on our way back to New London we ran into the HMS-Ayr cruiser from the same military branch as the HMS-Tiger.
Naturally, the cloaking device kneeled down in the worst minute so we had to face a significantly stronger design in hostile territory with their reinforcements already on their way.
The HMS-Tiger arrived on the scene almost immediately and an interesting conversation occurred where they wanted to convince me that we Gaians are simple murderers and when we shed blood it's not justified at all. They even think that if they shed their enemies' blood it's completely rightful and justified... Interesting worldview not going to lie...

Communications log

[08.05.2021 13:46:59] Rebirth: S: Greetings, captain
[08.05.2021 13:47:04] BAF|HMS-Ayr: Good afternoon, Gaian.
[08.05.2021 13:47:15] Rebirth: S: Naturally the cloak gives up when it's the worst time *grins*
[08.05.2021 13:47:35] BAF|HMS-Ayr: It is quite the contrary to a bad time, I believe.
[08.05.2021 13:47:39] BAF|HMS-Ayr: But my opinion is my own.
[08.05.2021 13:47:51] Rebirth: S: Well yeah... I mean... It's fate isn't it...
[08.05.2021 13:48:02] BAF|HMS-Ayr: So it would seem.
[08.05.2021 13:48:11] BAF|A-HMS-Tiger: Anna: Good afternoon.
[08.05.2021 13:48:13] BAF|HMS-Ayr: Though fate does not appear to favour you much today.
[08.05.2021 13:48:23] Rebirth: S: Good afternoon
[08.05.2021 13:48:36] BAF|HMS-Ayr: It does favour my gunnery crew, I suppose. They could use some practice today.
[08.05.2021 13:48:48] Rebirth: S: Well... Before we start anything...
[08.05.2021 13:48:58] Rebirth: S: I think proper foes should intorudce before fights...
[08.05.2021 13:49:21] Rebirth: S: khm... introduce... my apologies
[08.05.2021 13:49:24] BAF|HMS-Ayr: Go ahead, if you're feeling it.
[08.05.2021 13:49:55] Rebirth: S: I'm Samuel Collins, formerly a regular Bretonian like yourself... But I opened my eyes
[08.05.2021 13:50:13] BAF|HMS-Ayr: Spare me the eye-opening bullshit.
[08.05.2021 13:50:33] Rebirth: S: *laughs* You are ignorant...
[08.05.2021 13:50:43] BAF|A-HMS-Tiger: Anna: Terrorism is never a good way how to solve problems, mr. Collins.
[08.05.2021 13:50:45] BAF|HMS-Ayr: Whatever helps you sleep at night, Gaian.
[08.05.2021 13:51:03] Rebirth: S: But you shall not be ignorant when your worlds will suffer from your mistakes
[08.05.2021 13:51:22] Rebirth: S: Calling us simple terrorists seems lazy
[08.05.2021 13:51:23] BAF|HMS-Ayr: Murder is never the solution to a problem.
[08.05.2021 13:51:31] BAF|HMS-Ayr: All that makes you is the bigger problem.
[08.05.2021 13:51:31] Rebirth: S: Did you see me murder anyone?
[08.05.2021 13:51:40] BAF|HMS-Ayr: I see your movement murdering people.
[08.05.2021 13:51:58] Rebirth: S: Like I see your armed forces murdering people as well *laughs*
[08.05.2021 13:51:59] BAF|A-HMS-Tiger: Anna: Many of your colleagues murder people, innocent people.
[08.05.2021 13:52:28] BAF|HMS-Ayr: The people we are tasked with killing have earned themselves that fate, one way or the other.
[08.05.2021 13:52:53] Rebirth: S: I value life, that's why I didn't blow up those four BMM ships previously this day
[08.05.2021 13:53:16] BAF|HMS-Ayr: You value life and affiliate yourself with a terrorist movement. It is hypocrisy of the highest order.
[08.05.2021 13:53:27] Rebirth: S: Sometimes words don't work
[08.05.2021 13:53:35] BAF|A-HMS-Tiger: Anna: Why don't you live life of Freelancer, solving issues without act of terrorism?
[08.05.2021 13:53:38] BAF|HMS-Ayr: That's not an excuse, and you know that.
[08.05.2021 13:53:52] BAF|HMS-Ayr: You're just trying to justify bloodshed for the sake of bloodshed.
[08.05.2021 13:54:05] Rebirth: S: I will go now, so you see we are not mindless killers, just defenders of nature *winks*
[08.05.2021 13:54:25] BAF|HMS-Ayr: I do not believe you will be headed anywhere, Gaian.
[08.05.2021 13:54:30] BAF|HMS-Ayr: Except, perhaps, the hospitality of Newgate.
[08.05.2021 13:54:53] Rebirth: S: If you hold me back and make me resort to violence that values you not my movement
[08.05.2021 13:55:08] BAF|HMS-Ayr: What an excuse.
[08.05.2021 13:55:15] Rebirth: S: Just a fact *winks*
[08.05.2021 13:55:19] BAF|HMS-Ayr: You are a terrorist, a murderer, in command of a warship.
[08.05.2021 13:55:27] BAF|HMS-Ayr: You do not get to excuse yourself in any shape or form.
[08.05.2021 13:55:39] BAF|HMS-Ayr: Gunnery, fire to destroy. We'll collect the debris later.
[08.05.2021 13:55:41] Gateway|-GSV-Alexter: Greetings
[08.05.2021 13:55:44] Rebirth: S: Excuse... Like your excuses to murder your foes, no?
[08.05.2021 13:55:46] BAF|A-HMS-Tiger: Anna: Good afternoon, Alexter. Be careful.
[08.05.2021 13:55:52] Rebirth: S: Okay, you don't give other chances
[08.05.2021 13:55:56] Rebirth: S: Gunners fire
[08.05.2021 13:57:58] BAF|A-HMS-Tiger: Anna: See, gunners? Watch and learn.

Since I couldn't manage to convince them of my truth it came down to our guns to decide.
They gave a mostly fair fight because the battlecruiser stayed on reserve while I had the opportunity to engage in a deadly dance with their cruiser.

Our armour didn't hold up long against their more durable cruiser so after 10 minutes of trading hits, we suffered heavy damage to the hull and had to withdraw to the Skye Base in Newcastle to patch up the Rebirth and to tend to our wounded.

Rebirth facing the HMS-Ayr

That captain was a formidable and dangerous opponent, it's lucky we managed to withdraw in time. I will have to get some escort vessels next time I venture into the hands of BAF...

The crew worked hard on restoring the Rebirth's previous form while I myself received a surprising but very pleasing answer to one of my previous calls. In that call, I reached out to a respected Corsair Elder Pepe Ladron and DISCUSSED our relations in detail. He gave me a task so he had put some faith in me and the cause I fight for. I was given a task in which I will have to hunt down one of their foes, this way I may be able to earn the trust of Senor Ladron and receive more tasks or even get powerful allies.
After we got all our systems into operating order again we took off and sailed through Bretonia while being cloaked and maintaining radio silence because the Rebirth wasn't in perfect form yet, risking another fight would've ended horribly.

The Rebirth on it's way to Tirpoli Shipyard, Omicron Gamma

We took one of our previous routes to Omicron Gamma to get proper repairs at Tripoli Shipyard.
We also received a briefing about the person we will have to hunt down.

Hunt down for sure but not today... It was too long already, the crew is very exhausted as well as me.
The Rebirth stays in Corsair territory for the rest of this day.

...E N C R Y P T E D   F I L E   T E R M I N A T E D...

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