Deterrence [DTR] - Message Dump

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Sender ID

Smuggler Prosorinos

Location

Planet Amorgus, Omicron Xi

Recipient

Deterrence Operations

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Deterrence Operations Team,

Today I was about to head out smuggling artifacts to New London, when I found the fledgeling Corsair Apoc flying a brand new, still shiny (if you can believe it) Correo outside Skiros Station.
So I did what anyone would do... I fast talked them into following me on the smuggling run, charged them a "training fee" and decided I would impart all the wisdom I could into hapless newcomer potential recruit.

I took him to Amorgus and we grabbed some relics, along the way we collected DTR-Miguel, a capable and professional fighter to act as our escort.

Our first stop was Luxury Line Hawaii. We were forced to detour via Munich so we could lose a Nomad that was tracking us in the dark matter storm. We need more patrols.

I smugly asked Apoc to choose whether we would continue via the jumpholes, or via the tradelanes. I chuckled to myself as he chose the jumpholes. Everyone knows you can save an enormous amount of time and fuel with the tradelanes, you just have to be willing to dodge a bit of incoming fire, but why would I spoil his fun? I was dead certain that half way through the trip, he would run out of H-Fuel and we would have to rescue him, with his lesson learnt.

Well, I was completely wrong. Our newbie had, without fail, completely filled his tank with H-Fuel and even brought food supplies. We all made it to New London completely undetected thanks to the jumpholes and without incident.
At this point the sound of sniggering could be heard from Miguel who was much amused by my hopes being dashed.

So... We all bought a drink... A cargo hold full of them to be precise as we stocked up on Whiskey to return to Amorgus. This time I plotted the route seriously. I now knew that Apoc wasn't the same kind of impatient hot-head that I was all those years ago.

We travelled into the Omegas via Dublin. We avoided the tradelanes, because I wanted to stay near a friendly base should one of our many enemies decide to make an appearance. ...Which they didn't. Even the nomad that we detected at the beginning wasn't around.

The rookie flew well and quickly, so we reached Amorgus in good time and grabbed ourselves another drink... This time for us. I'm pleased to report that it was a completely successful smuggling run and that this new kid is much better than I thought. We need to get him up and into our ranks, before one of the other groups snatch him up.

Ravenna Vult,
Smuggler Prosorinos