Gateway Shipping communications

[beander2]

Gateway Comm System: OPEN
To: All Personel
From: Alisdair Buchanan, Trafalgar
Subject: Trade Report

Greetings All,

My apologies for the infrequency of my reports lately. Other affairs keep me quite occupied.

Delivered a load of beryllium from our fair base to Pueblo this afternoon. Ran into a Hacker gunship called Sick in Cortez. He had distrupted a lane, so we stopped to hear his demand. He proceeded to fire at the Trafalgar, even though we had already been stopped for several seconds. I told him to hold fire and I asked him what he wanted as he flew by me; he replied, "Drop your cargo." I thought it a bit strange for a Hacker to ask for a total cargo jettison, so I asked "All of it?" while throwing the engines to full and heading for the newly reparied trade lane. "Hold, let me scan you," he replied, but it was too late - we had entered the lane and was off. We entered California with the pirate on our heels, but he was unable to catch up, and we were free and clear by Los Angeles.

Nevertheless, I transmitted a few credits to him anyway, just for adding some spice to my trip. "I almost had you," he responded. Of course...

Safe travels, friends.

Alisdair


Buchanan out.

Gateway Comm System: CLOSED

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Sir Alisdair Buchanan, KBE ~ Gateway)Trafalgar