Bowex InfoNet (inRP)

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To: Bowex InfoNet
Comm ID: Peter Brown

Afternoon all. Some interesting occurrences today, that's for sure. Things started off with the Mountbatten being pulled from survey duty in Edinburgh, to serve as a refugee courier in a new initiative Bowex and the Government have running. As I flew the M' towards the Edinburgh gate, something incredibly strange happened. A Kusari Destroyer jumped through, and screamed 'HALT' at me, exactly like that. Not exactly impressed by his manners, or his pretty dangerous looking guns, I jumped.

As I hit the lanes to Leeds, the Destroyer jumped back through. Unfortunately for me, halfway down the lane the ring was knocked out from under me, and I was greeted by the grinning mug of a MR pilot on the comms screen. After a short while 'bargaining' I was allowed to go, while my ears were further assaulted by the Destroyer captains poorly worded jabberings. The grammar was appalling too...

Anyway, I picked up my passengers on Leeds (a sorry looking lot. The war hadn't treated them kindly) then moved out to the Dublin system to meet up with Captain Riley of the Chamberlain. Once he arrived with a cargo hold full of materials for Port Jackson, we set off for Omega 49 and Planet Sydney.

All was quiet there, until we ran into a massive group of CR miners. Both of us decided discretion was the better part of valour, so we both went our separate ways with little more than raised hackles. When we hit planetary orbit Mr. Riley radioed down to Port Jackson itself, to find that they'd rigged up some more tech down on their landing strip so larger craft could be serviced. Still, I tried radioing, and the delays on the replies were unbelievable. There was heavy latency and lag on the line. It's probably because the communication servers are located on the equator at the spaceport.

Anyway, when I arrived, the place was a dump. Most of the houses are temporary pre-fab boxes, with maybe one or two permanent houses scattered around the place. Mind you there's a fair number of construction sites. There's also a census office to keep track of arrivals, as well as a humanitarian centre run by us at Bowex.

We left and flew back to the spaceport, where a consignment of Deutrarium from the Zoner's mines was waiting for us. Loading it on, we were ready to leave. In orbit there was some TAZ guy who tried to convince us that the planet was called Gran Canaria. What an idiot, eh? He can check Bretonian cartographical records himself if he wants to - Planet Sydney, discovered by the BES Cook in 816 AS is what he'll find.

S'all for now.
-Peter Brown

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