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Incoming Transmission

Source: Yanagi Depot
Sender: Eugene Delacroix
Topic: Junker aggression at Yanagi.

Greetings gentlemen.

Earlier this day an incident happened where I myself mistakenly participated in it. But to cut a long story short...

I was returning to Yanagi after traversing half of Sirius, looking for parts for outfitting my Collector. As I had just closed in Yanagi, I got an Outcast destroyer class vessel, Casa.de.OsoRojo and a Junker affiliated Zoner destroyer, Old_Steel. I positioned myself close to Yanagi, in close proximity to the Outcast, the destroyer being 2 or 3K away. The Old_Steel, apparently had some jury-rigged battleship-class sensor system.

The Outcast vessel's captain said something about the scanner. Old_Steel did not reply. A couple of seconds later, I see shots flying in space, the two vessels exchanging fire. Baffled, I engaged the Outcast, fire for some seconds, then I stop my attack, ordering both ships to stop firing on each other and explain their actions. No reply came from either ship, so I continued my attack. In the end, the Outcast ship fell, my added firepower being the deciding factor of that engagement's outcome.

After formally asking Old_Steel about what happened, I got no reply. I contacted the Outcast's escape pod, and he claimed Old_Steel fired first. I compiled telemetry data captured by my ship and also salvaged a storage unit from the Outcast's ship wreckage, and early analysis of energy patterns show that indeed Old_Steel fired first, as the Outcast claimed.

What is a Zoner destroyer doing protecting a relatively safe station (despite surges of aggression by extremists), and what is the reason for attacking a ship having no history of aggression near our station (at least that what I can gather from the files I am cleared to access).

I am requesting a formal investigation on the matter by anyone having jurisdiction over Yanagi.

P.S.: I have no real love for the Outcasts, but remember that distribution of Cardamine and relative paraphernalia brings quite a bit of income. I, for once, do not want that to change because of the actions of a potentially renegade vessel.

Signed,
Eugene Delacroix.

Transmission End

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