Corebarn Tyto

[CoreTyto]

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Type: Voice Recording

Transmitter: Corebarn Tyto

Transmission Source: Omega-55

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Captain's log: #3

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I made it.. I got to Dagger in one piece somehow, but it wasn't without trouble mind you, nor is the laundrymat on Dagger Outpost anything I'd give a 5 star review, but I'm here now.. Lot's of things happened, but let's start from the beginning.

So after I left Houston I jumped through the Liberty zones until I hit the Rheinland systems. First Hamburg, and then New Berlin. Wasn't much fuzz at all around this area, as to be expected by house controlled territory. Then came Dresden.. Hoo boy that was an interaction. After I landed on the other side of the gate I saw a trade lane set up right outside of it, going on with my business as usually I thought I might as well sit back and relax in the lane. Imagine my surprise when I was spit out SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF A BUNDSCHUH zone. I heard the lasers zoom past my cockpit the moment I realized what was going on, and they were ready. I boosted away, dodged, rolled, and hit my cruise engine to fire it up. Somehow they didn't hit me, not once! Sun's mercy was I lucky. When I got out of the zone I glanzed at the starmap the HQ had of the area and could pretty easily navigate to the jump hole to get to Omega-55, just wished I would have done that sooner! (note to self, don't trust the lanes..)
On the other side I got out in the middle of a debris field which was unextected, but I set up the nav system to point me towards Dagger Outpost according to my starmap and after a while I could see it in the distance. I nearly had a run in with some Corsairs but I was not going to lose my progression to this point by some stray Corsairs flying around in a system they don't belong, so I made the smart decision to sneak around them. Not this time, death!

After I had unpacked all that water I had in my cargo hold in to the Dagger Outpost warehouse (I didn't run out, amazingly enough) I found somewhere to crash for the night and clean my clothes while I was at it. (now that I think about it, how DO they wash their clothes out here?)
I headed over to the bar to ask the bartender what he knew about Omicron Kappa and after some persuasion I got some info from him (nothing is ever free mind you). There's two ways to get to Kappa from the Dagger, either through Omicron Gamma which, by the way, is governed by the Corsairs who as we know, do NOT like Bounty Hunters. Or through Omicron Rho which is governed by The Core. Things wasn't looking bright for me, because even tho the BHG is allied with the Core, only Core registered ships are allowed in Omicron Rho and let me tell you, these guys are hardass, you do not want to become enemies with them. But the only way for me to gain access to Rho is by swearing loyalty to The Core, and I don't even know if they want me.. I decided to sleep on it..

The next day after mornsmeal I had made a decision. I'm a lucky fellow, I might as well try to sneak my way through Omicron Gamma, try to find the jump hole to Kappa and sneak my way up to the Corsairs area. I went over to the bar to see what the bartender could tell me about Gamma. He showed me the location of the jump hole to Gamma but did warn me that Corsairs had been seen in the area. He also had some info on the whereabouts of the jump hole to Kappa, but nothing absolute. But hey, I rather take my chances on something than nothing at all. I jumped in to my ship and set off towards the Gamma jump hole. When I got there I could see Corsairs circling the area.Not knowing what I was looking for, I had issues finding it. It didn't help that the cloud also interfered with my scanners, making it near impossible to see it. But suddenly it showed up on the scanner, so I marked it, saw a window and hit the boost, and got in to the jump hole before they could even notice me.

Imagine my surprise when I was greeted by the sound of my alarms going haywire. This place was not a friendly area to me or my ship, and on top of the toxic cloud I jumped into, I also ran into a Corsairs security wing.. Did I mention they're not fond of Bounty Hunters? A fight broke loose but it wasn't anything I couldn't handle, these guys didn't seem to be much to the world, I wonder why they decided to engage me? I picked one of them up to try and get some more information on where the jump hole was located. I kept on going through the cloud, dodging asteroids left and right. I ran into another security vessel but again, nothing hard to handle for a bounty specced Heavy Fighter. The bartender's notes were sparse with detail, but with the help of my freshly beamed Corsairs pilot and my above average sense of direction, I glimpsed a white and blue sparkle in the cloud of green, and there it was, the Omicron Kappa jump hole. I could feel my adrenaline pumping when I locked my target and jumped..

I don't know what I expected, but I'm sure I wasn't expecting the view of Omicron Kappa. It had its charm in a way, it was hard to describe, nothing like anything I had seen before and at the same time the most scariest thing I had seen in my whole life. I had no sense of direction so I marked the location of the jump hole back to Gamma and started moving slightly towards the yellow planet I saw in the distance.

Suddenly I could see it, the Corsairs outpost, Ciutadella. This was the area where Dowe's last know location was, I was getting close. I started looking around, seeing if I could see any traces of old ships or the alike, but there was nothing.. Could there even be anything at all? It has been 18 years.. 18 years since his disappearance.. Suddenly I saw a ship on my sensors and my blood froze to ice. In panic, without knowing from what direction the ship came from, I turned my ship around and started to move back towards the jump hole. Then I was hailed, by a Starlight's Research Consortium ship. My heart dropped, I had no idea what to expect but they seemed friendly enough. I cooked up some story about me being lost looking for one of the Border systems I had heard was connected to Omicron Gamma. They didn't seem too convinced about my story and a drone was sent out to scan my ship.. I had forgotten about my "passenger" in the cargo hold and the moment of realization dawned on me. Shit.

Leave or you get destroyed
Short, direct, easy to understand. I wasn't going to try my luck anymore so I bolted out of there, took aim for the Gamma jump hole and went back, back in to that green cloud of hurt. When I got out on the other side I dumped my passenger right then and there, leaving it to the cloud to take care of the evidence. I headed back towards the area of the Omega-55 jump hole but had a hard time finding it, resulting in me running in to even more Corsairs security. Yet again some easy pickings, but hey, it's good training none the less! Finally I found it and went back through to Omega-55, set my aim for Dagger Outpost and cruised over there none the wiser than when I left, but at least I had some experience..

Now I'm here again, back on Dagger. I don't think I'll get that lucky again.. Suns damn you Dowe, why in the world were you out here in the first place..?
I think it's time to change my tactic and my perspective. I think I'll spend a couple of days in the bar keeping an eye on the Core pilots passing through here, learn some more about them, get on their good side..

Tyto out.