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Leo · (This post was last modified: 09-02-2025, 03:10 AM by Leo.)

::>> CODEC LGN-OS DETECTED <<::
::>> ENCRYPT VAULT <<::
::>> IDENT: "GRAVES" <<::
::>> SUBJT: AKHETATEN ENCOUNTER <<::
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We had an interesting encounter this evening at Baltimore Shipyard. We came out of the trade lane from Newark and came upon a Hel PLF cruiser engaging a DSE gunboat and LPI heavy fighter. Unsurprisingly, the DSE and Police fighter disengaged and fled the area do to being able to take down the cruiser. When they departed, we spoke briefly to the captain of the PLF, named the Barbarian shortly before the Akhetaten showed up.

An impressive ship to be sure. The Liberty Navy has a certain style, but this ship bristled with offensive weaponry. No way in hell our Grendel Frigate would be able to stand up to her strength. The captain, Brown, and I spoke for a while. The PLF captain, who had drunk a copious amount of alcohol by this point, continued to try to goad the ship into a fight with us. However, the captain remained resolute and did not take the bait...we wouldn't have survived the encounter anyway. I must admit, Brown impressed me. Despite us being on opposite sides now, they were a true and respectable captain...it pains me that they are at the beck and call of one of the House governments...those governments who care not for our lives and see us only as a number.

We spoke and parted ways at the end of the evening without any weapons fire. I hope that I got through to them in the end. No doubt the brainwashing that the government puts them through have blinded them...but there is hope that they will one day see the truth.

"GRAVES"

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[28.11.2024 01:05:51] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Fancy, ship there Barbarian.
[28.11.2024 01:06:05] PLF/Barbarian: My thanks. Fine ship it is.
[28.11.2024 01:06:07] Gamma_3: Anyway, I'm out of here.
[28.11.2024 01:06:10] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Rheinland engineering, eh?
[28.11.2024 01:06:42] PLF/Barbarian: Rheinland on the outside, Zoner in the insides.
[28.11.2024 01:06:49] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Hah. Nice.
[28.11.2024 01:07:22] Death: Wilde.Vernunft was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[28.11.2024 01:08:47] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Well, this should be interesting.
[28.11.2024 01:08:51] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Old friends.
[28.11.2024 01:09:01] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Using that word pretty liberally.
[28.11.2024 01:09:16] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Don't take it too personally.
[28.11.2024 01:09:34] PLF/Barbarian: Here it comes. Liberty's finest.
[28.11.2024 01:10:15] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: You flatter us.
[28.11.2024 01:10:31] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Man, I don't miss being under the thumb of those bean counters anymore.
[28.11.2024 01:11:02] Unsure about the regions listed in your ID? You can use the following command to access the full systems classification list - /helpmenu regions
[28.11.2024 01:11:25] PLF/Barbarian: I don't intend on surrendering, Brown.
[28.11.2024 01:11:29] PLF/Barbarian: So, what are you here for?
[28.11.2024 01:11:39] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Wasn't planning to even ask you to.
[28.11.2024 01:11:58] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Heh, well. I'm not suicidal. So, you kids have fun. No offense, Barbarian actual, you can't pay me enough.
[28.11.2024 01:12:04] PLF/Barbarian: Ah, as expected.
[28.11.2024 01:12:22] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: I'm not here for any particular reason, was just flying around.
[28.11.2024 01:12:49] PLF/Barbarian: Ah? Oh. Yeah. It's not like we're doing any crimes, right?
[28.11.2024 01:13:00] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Yeah, we're just stargazing.
[28.11.2024 01:13:02] PLF/Barbarian: Leave me, my crew and my ship be.
[28.11.2024 01:13:40] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: What crimes are there to be commited by a Militant warship and a Pirate frigate in Liberty's capitol, hm?
[28.11.2024 01:13:46] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Surely none.
[28.11.2024 01:13:52] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Pirate? Where?
[28.11.2024 01:14:09] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Mhmm, I must be seeing things.
[28.11.2024 01:14:15] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Just a former military man sick of being forced to die for profit.
[28.11.2024 01:14:51] PLF/Barbarian: This ship is clearly a freighter. Hah - FO, bring me another bottle.
[28.11.2024 01:15:13] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: And that makes your case better how, Graves?
[28.11.2024 01:15:16] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Yeah, we're bringing food to the less fortunate.
[28.11.2024 01:15:39] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Never said it made my case better. Just got tired of it. You should be too.
[28.11.2024 01:15:44] PLF/Barbarian: Where's the other bottles?
[28.11.2024 01:16:11] PLF/Barbarian: What do you mean that the crates exploded during maneuvers?
[28.11.2024 01:16:34] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Geez Barbarian actual, didn't you lash that shit down?
[28.11.2024 01:16:39] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Rookie mistake.
[28.11.2024 01:16:50] PLF/Barbarian: Oh, great - cargo hold's full of liberty piss.
[28.11.2024 01:16:56] LGN|-"Graves": [He laughs.]
[28.11.2024 01:17:17] LGN|-"Graves": ?: [In a mocking tone] Liberty Ale!
[28.11.2024 01:17:58] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Give me a Sidewinder Fang anyday.
[28.11.2024 01:18:11] PLF/Barbarian: Ah - Look, I guess it was good, you know? No more of this piss.
[28.11.2024 01:19:14] PLF/Barbarian: You're making me uneasy, cap. Are you gonna stand there with your expensive ship... or...? [hic]
[28.11.2024 01:19:32] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Oh great.
[28.11.2024 01:19:33] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: I don't see how we could possibly make you uneasy.
[28.11.2024 01:19:55] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: If I wanted to threaten you I'd have already done so, wouldn't I?
[28.11.2024 01:20:17] PLF/Barbarian: Maybe you're in the budget, you know? Don't waste fuel chasing smaller ships, eh?
[28.11.2024 01:20:38] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Hm.. No. Not quite.
[28.11.2024 01:21:25] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Tell me Brown, why do you fight for a government that only sees you as a number?
[28.11.2024 01:21:28] PLF/Barbarian: Didn't you say you were in for a walk? What, engine malfunction?
[28.11.2024 01:21:37] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Genuinely curious.
[28.11.2024 01:21:58] PLF/Barbarian: [Sounds of glass clinking]
[28.11.2024 01:22:04] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Oh -please-. Isn't it a little too awkward of a time to have /that/ discussion?
[28.11.2024 01:22:20] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Hey, I mean...if you don't have an answer that's fine too.
[28.11.2024 01:22:23] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: I was out for a walk until I found something borderline more interesting than staring at empty space.
[28.11.2024 01:22:26] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: And now I'm here.
[28.11.2024 01:22:31] PLF/Barbarian: Don't bother, man Graves. Those liberty dogs are all brainwashed to shit.
[28.11.2024 01:22:37] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: I'm not in the mood to think of an answer, to be honest.
[28.11.2024 01:22:45] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Not all of us, some of us wized up.
[28.11.2024 01:23:01] [OOC] LGN|-"Graves": wised **
[28.11.2024 01:24:02] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Eh, fair enough Brown. I won't judge. Some of us have to fight for something. On that, I think we can agree.
[28.11.2024 01:24:34] /si me
[28.11.2024 01:24:40] Death: Amanda.Wingbat was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[28.11.2024 01:25:14] /si me
[28.11.2024 01:26:32] PLF/Barbarian: I'd give you a bottle, Graves. But this is the last one.
[28.11.2024 01:26:45] LGN|-"Graves": ?: What makes you think I don't have one of my own? Just saving it for when I land.
[28.11.2024 01:26:45] PLF/Barbarian: Don't think you'd enjoy Lale would you?
[28.11.2024 01:26:58] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Nah, Whiskey is my vice.
[28.11.2024 01:27:07] PLF/Barbarian: Fair. What matters is the gesture, right?
[28.11.2024 01:27:14] LGN|-"Graves": ?: True.
[28.11.2024 01:27:26] LGN|-"Graves": ?: What's your vice, Brown? Whiskey? Vodka?
[28.11.2024 01:27:42] PLF/Barbarian: I'd guess it's innocent blood like the rest of the Navy.
[28.11.2024 01:27:48] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Whiskey, without a doubt.
[28.11.2024 01:28:03] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Not all of them are criminals, Barbarian. Some of them are just following orders...even unlawful ones.
[28.11.2024 01:28:17] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: With no more than two icecubes.
[28.11.2024 01:28:35] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Large or small? That's the question.
[28.11.2024 01:28:41] PLF/Barbarian: That ain't an excuse to kill innocent people, Graves. Even if I'm drunk as shit I can see through that.
[28.11.2024 01:28:43] 2024-11-28 01:28:42 SMT Traffic control alert: Bryan_Thompson has docked
[28.11.2024 01:28:54] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Small. Ain't that the point of not putting many of them in?
[28.11.2024 01:28:59] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: I prefer my drink to not be watered.
[28.11.2024 01:29:11] LGN|-"Graves": [He shrugs] ?: I mean, fair. But...I was once a military man myself. Sometimes you don't have a choice.
[28.11.2024 01:29:17] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Good point, Brown.
[28.11.2024 01:30:23] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Old Fashioned, can't do much better than that in my humble opinion.
[28.11.2024 01:30:24] PLF/Barbarian: If only navy captains were as good with innocents as they are good with their drinks. Probably paid with taxpayer money -
[28.11.2024 01:31:03] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Y'all should learn some new vocabulary some time. It gets /soooo/ stale.
[28.11.2024 01:31:13] Tip: The ''Laws of Sirius'', are a collection of in-roleplay laws for each house. They mention things such as contraband, punishments and fines and are enforceable by lawful IDed ships.
[28.11.2024 01:31:24] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Taxpayer money this, taxpayer money that, taxpayer money, taxpayer money, taxpayer moneeyyyy.
[28.11.2024 01:31:46] PLF/Barbarian: Well, ain't that the truth?
[28.11.2024 01:32:34] PLF/Barbarian: I'd be surprised - genuinely - if a navy captain could afford such ship alone. Then I'd start talking about corruption,
[28.11.2024 01:32:38] PLF/Barbarian: and everyone would fall asleep.
[28.11.2024 01:33:26] Death: Amanda.Wingbat was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[28.11.2024 01:33:32] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Yeah, of course. How did you know I didn't build this thing from scrap metal in my garage?
[28.11.2024 01:33:32] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Well...I mean...these ships are built to protect the citizens of Liberty. Overspending? 100% but they do serve a purpose.
[28.11.2024 01:34:10] PLF/Barbarian: That's a big fucking garage you got, cap. Damn.
[28.11.2024 01:34:28] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Yeaaah. I built that myself too. Biiig garage.
[28.11.2024 01:35:13] PLF/Barbarian: Hah. Ain't you a funny one, captain.
[28.11.2024 01:35:31] PLF/Barbarian: Graves. It looks like there won't be any transports around these parts anytime soon.
[28.11.2024 01:35:54] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Aw, damn, you're leaving already?
[28.11.2024 01:35:57] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Eh. Probably for the best. I've got a bottle nearby that I should probably visit anyway.
[28.11.2024 01:36:15] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Brown, while I respect your duty...the next time we meet, we will more than likely be enemies.
[28.11.2024 01:36:24] LGN|-"Graves": ?: I wish you luck.
[28.11.2024 01:36:25] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Aren't we already?
[28.11.2024 01:36:34] LGN|-"Graves": ?: You would be surprised.
[28.11.2024 01:36:40] PLF/Barbarian: Graves here ain't guilty of any crimes, is he now?
[28.11.2024 01:36:46] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Oh I was walking into this discussion assuming we already are enemies, Graves.
[28.11.2024 01:37:11] LGN|-"Graves": [He smiles weakly.] ?: Maybe sometime I will explain to you how that may surprise you.
[28.11.2024 01:37:30] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Not that I know of anyway, Barbarian.
[28.11.2024 01:37:36] PLF/Barbarian: Graves. You commited the terrible crime of existing.
[28.11.2024 01:37:36] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: It would probably seem like a major surprise to you but.. ugh.. You see.. this identification friend or foe thing that -
[28.11.2024 01:37:39] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Just fighting for a government that didn't want me.
[28.11.2024 01:37:39] PLF/Barbarian: Welcome to Liberty.
[28.11.2024 01:37:45] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: - our radars have? Right? It shows your contact as red.
[28.11.2024 01:37:53] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: And if mama Liberty has taught me anything.
[28.11.2024 01:37:58] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: It's that red equals hostile, right?
[28.11.2024 01:38:10] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Mama Liberty isn't always right either, friend.
[28.11.2024 01:38:21] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Oh /please/ understand the joke.
[28.11.2024 01:38:23] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Keep believing her stories, see where that leads you.
[28.11.2024 01:38:27] PLF/Barbarian: I suggest you looking into an IFF spoofer, Graves. Easy to find. Unless you really want to be seen.
[28.11.2024 01:38:50] LGN|-"Graves": [He shrugs.] ?: Nah, I'd rather try to wake some of these fools up from the dream their governments have promised them.
[28.11.2024 01:39:00] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Maybe one day, it will get through.
[28.11.2024 01:39:11] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: Hmph, good luck with that.
[28.11.2024 01:39:15] LGN|-"Graves": ?: Farewell, Brown. Until next time. To you as well, Barbarian.
[28.11.2024 01:39:25] 46th|TFA-LNS-Akhetaten: Brown: See you around, Graves.
[28.11.2024 01:39:44] PLF/Barbarian: Man, I hope I don't get to see you again, captain.

::>> Log End <<::
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