Bowex InfoNet (inRP)

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To: Bowex InfoNet
From: Andrew maloney

Well, today has been fairly eventful to say the least. I started my run by picking up a shipment of H Fuel from our reserves on New London and taking it out to Graves Station in Dublin, where they use the stuff to keep their security contingent in space and the turrets swatting attackers down. Once I arrived, we exchanged the load for a shipment of Gold and proceeded back to New London for the long haul to Rhienland.

As I passed Planet New London, none other than Mr. Richard Farbridge himself emerged from the swirling rain clouds! Together we proceeded to head down through Cambridge, Omega 3 and Omega 7 without incident. In Stuttgart I got a message from the captain of the tradeship Dodgeball. We'd flown with him on a previous convoy and knew he was a rather nice fellow and a jolly good pilot, so we decided to meet up at New Berlin and get a proper convoy going!

Once we reached the Planet, we sent the Gold heading towards the manufactories, where it'll be turned into something industrious, no doubt, and picked up some Luxury Consumer Goods, ready to supply the pleasure planet Baden Baden. I also cracked out my musical talents and treated the system to a verse of 'Rule Bretonia', which went something alike this:

"Rule Bretonia, Bretonia rules the waves;

We shall never, never, never smuggle slaves!"

According to some rather scandalous rumours I've heard however, the second line doesn't particularly apply to the IND! Of course, I never said this, because if I did, the IND legal team would have a field day.

Only after my performance the plot did thicken! A pilot was making rather odd broadcasts, talking about some rather abstract concepts too! As we arrived at the Stuttgart jump gate, we bumped into said pilot, who was a Hessian piloting a Wraith. He the called us 'Darknames', or 'matterbeings' - something ridiculous like that. Either way, he was being rather threatening, so being the hero that he truly is, Richard stepped in to intervene, and dispatched the pilot swiftly with the professional application of a torpedo.

We then proceeded to Baden Baden, and moved some minor supplies to the Border Station and then onto Solaris where we picked up a rather valuable shipment of Diamonds! From there, Omega 11, we took the 'Back Road' and made our way to Leeds, where we dropped off the Diamonds and picked up some Optronics bound for New London again. Only as the convoy departed, two hostiles appeared on radar - one of those MR fellows and some Corsair scoundrel. Me and Dogeball hastily departed, with Richard bringing up the rear, while a Bounty Hunter engaged the Molly and got a rapid kill.

After that there wasn't particularly much going on, save for some light banter with a TAZ fellow regarding an 'invisible unicorn'. After that we unloaded our goods and I settled down to write my reports and deal with any other remaining paperwork (and there is a size able amount of the stuff, I can tell you!)

Well, not much else to tell. Apart from the fact Tiddles the ship's cat has got suck behind the Nav-Consol again that is!

Cheerio!

~Andrew Maloney

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