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*** COMM ID: LOGAN SINCLAIR ***
*** SOURCE: BOWEX TRANSPORT QUEEN VICTORIA, SOUTHAMPTON SHIPYARD ***
*** TO: BOWEX INFONET ***

Good day!

Finally I have the time to write my first reports, bloody paperwork. Now, I've talked with the mission operatives at Lancaster a bit about the standard trade routes and decided to go for the Dublin - New Berlin - New London run. I hired a new weapon officer on Leeds and a new maintenance technician on New London. Well, the technician, his name's Joey, messed up my nav-system for a start. He makes some excellent coffee, though. Gotta keep him for that.

--- REPORT 1 ---

I met two independent Albatross captains in the New London system yesterday, commanding the "Keskow" and the "Zer0ed" that wanted to take the same route, so we formed up a convoy. And as three large holds full of gold are rather tempting for pirates, I hired a bounty hunter bomber as an escort for us, Mr. Owen Mcmanaman. A Daumann transport joined our little fleet in Omega-3 and that made him a lucky bastard: A Corsair gunboat from the Omega Pirates Guild stopped our convoy not far from the Omega-3/Omega-7 gate. I told everybody to stay calm but to bring their weapon systems online, just in case. However, those independents got a little nervous and opened fire. That left me little choice. My new weapons officer turned out to be quite skilled, the pirate had no chance against dozens of turrets and our escort. We made it safely to New Berlin.

Just as our convoy approached The Ring, I was contacted by the Rheinland Military battleship "Ravensburg" to alter my course to Brandenburg Border station for a "routine scan". Now, no routines require a battleship. Those two independents got a little scared again but they stayed in line. Our convoy was completely scanned at Brandenburg by two fighters and the Ravensburg, which took a lot of time. They didn't tell me what they were looking for but obviously they didn't find anything.

On the way back another [OPG] gunboat canceled our trade lane between Aland Shipyard and Freeport 1, perhaps as a revenge. We were running late on our timetable because of the Rheinlanders, so the Keskow and the Zer0ed were already through, that left the Daumann ship, the escort and me. Two other Bounty Hunters, Jack and Johnny Tequila, happened to pass us by and that was when things went bad. They pulled off an attack, the Corsair called for reinforcements, two more gunboats and a Titan showed up. Our convoy made it barely out of that mess. From what I heard the Tequilas weren't so lucky.

--- REPORT 2 ---

Took the same route today. I was intercepted by an [OPG] again, though that fellow didn't seem to be the brightest of all pirates out there. He piloted a Titan, so he was no real danger. However, I paid him. Can't afford to have the whole [OPG] looking for my ship or - worse - Bowex ships in general just because of the troubles from yesterday. Nothing else to mention on that trip.

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That's it. The Queen Victoria is currently in dock at Southampton to resupply and to repair the nav-system that Joey messed up.

Logan Sinclair out.


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