Black Sails - Communications

[vladimir26]

Incoming transmission

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Recipient: Arthur Ortega
Sender: Massimo Insigne
Location:Cruiser Vendetta

Arthur, this is Gold, I'm telling you,

As you know, we just commenced the Zoner hunt. It was going well, slow and steady. We managed to close in on a Phoenix destroyer, and right when we were about to pounce, an ALG barge showed up. As it was filled to the brim with valuables, please excuse us but we jumped on it like a fox on a hen. In the meantime the Phoenix managed to escape.

On our way back to Freeport 9, we ran into this odd dude, the captain of a Colony ship that goes by the name Freeport 13. It seems he was returning from an errand, so he had no direct involvement in the events of Theta. Still, a token sum was in order.

Now, here comes the bombshell. Around the Freeport, we ran into a Zoner carrier, the ZCV-Kaldra, piloted by Jerard Voncloud, the ex administrator of Pygar. This made no difference, but his prior allegiance with OSI made him a prime target for piracy, as we won't soon forget their treachery. One thing led to another, after he refused to honor our modest demand of 20.000 SC.

Shortly after and a dead sniffer in between, the Kaldra was crippled to the point where it couldn't be combat effective, at which point Voncloud submitted to our demands. Poor fool, his problems were only starting, as a wing of elusive fighters that go by the callsign Noth went down on him, with the intention to end his life. They did managed to cripple the Kaldra even more, to the point where escape pods were all over the place. Some were lost to the Noth, some ended up on the Freeport, and some did ended on the Vendetta. Little did we expect to run into such luck, as Voncloud himself ended up in our hands. Immediately we adjusted course to Tripoli, and we are on our way to Cadiz as we speak.

Being stranded in Bretonia for well over an year now, there's not much that we know about Voncloud, but his disappearance and our assault on the Zoners caused a huge panic within the bigger factions of the Corsairs. The biggest lot of fools that I ever met, I'm telling you. Deterrence's video feed comes on a harsh tone, ordering us to obey their pact with the local zoners, while the other maggot is disrespectful towards the Black Sails, despite having an interest on us. What I can appreciate them for is serving me on the table all the information that we needed about Voncloud, most important his value to them, and our ability to force leverage.

I'll let these cabrons boil up a bit, while we calculate our next move. In this time, signor Jerard Voncloud will remain comfortable on Cadiz.

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