***Incoming Transmission***
***Location: Bornholm Depot, Omega 15***
***Comm ID: Alex Heartnet***
***Subject: New ship, contact with phantoms***
I just purchased a used mining ship from Oden Shipyard, New Berlin. It is an old ship, and as I found out, the smelter likes to turn itself off occasionally. After hiring the crew needed to run the ship, I decnded to name it the Rusty Smelter.
I bring the ship up to Yagani to begin mining scrap, and I encounter 4 phantom ships! Naturally I get scared and order the crew to flee, but then I get a request to dock on Yagani from the phantoms. Seeing this as an oppertunity to not get blasted, I cleared the phantoms to dock. The nanobots we normally use to take DNA samples from Das Wilde brought to Yagani managed to get Phantom DNA samples instead without them noticing, but that is a story for another time.
Anyway, I head back to Yagani, hoping the Phantoms will leave me and my crew alone siince they got permission to dock. It worked like a charm. They docked, and then undocked to launch their little assault on New Berlin, ignoring me. Poor rhinelanders, but not my problem. I hauled the scrap to Bornholm, nearly getting torn apart by Das Wilde ships in the process.
Currently this old ship is in need of major repairs, so I got the whole crew doing repair while I sleep. It is good to be the captain...
***End Transmission***
***Connection re-established***
Gah! Piece of junk transponder! You are only good for scrap, and scrap you shill be!
