Today I received a message from Phate telling me to get a break on my researches on the pulsar improvements and get my falchion for our spatial operations.
The technician Mr.Big and recruit Nathan Seek joined the operations as well then we went out of Mactan, heading to Cortez system and then California system.
Once in California, the time was short before we could start actively our operations we grabbed 2400 MOX units. For the transport, the Disco Volante was deployed of course since our hold were not large enough for the loot.
Then, we split ourselves in 3 groups, Nathan scooting, Phate alone and Mr.Big under my wing. I personally choose to operate on the California Minor - Magellan Jump Gate trade line since the cloud offer a perfect cover and blind the convoyers when it's about to run.
Few minutes later, our comms were spamed by screams coming from a space fight, maybe Phate collected more informations than I have about it. Nevertheless, Phate ordered a short retirement of our operations until the screams get calm.
Here we split once again in 2 groups. Nathan came with me and we went both back to my old position.
A first empty convoy passed us, leaving a 500 000 credits donation before being on their way. A second came just behind but the discussion was much shorter than usual and Nathan had to eject his safety pod due to the surprise fire from the trading convoy.
I asked then for help I received pretty fast, a bit too much in fact, from an outcast gunship he annihilated the convoy before I could ask him to stop and let them at low hull integrity for being sure they would not pay their fine. I think while there is no harms on my side I could say all is okay but I had still the Nathan's pod to tract back to Mactan.
It was few moments later the funnier part of the day started. Nathan, on his scooting job, found a cryocube convoy. Same convoy he followed of course. We joined Nathan and managed to stop the "Logi_Tech" trading ship. Then Phate started the conventional hack operations when few seconds after the demand, the Logi_Tech's hold was dropped and demolecularized by the captain of the Logi_Tech himself. Keeping our calm, we just looked at Phate preparing a surprise as revenge for this high loss. Even us learned about it. Phate just destroyed the convoy ship engines, letting him on his only lateral strafe engines.
Even me I did learn a lot today, but my knowledge should be shared I supposed as Phate did with both of us.
Nathan showed lack of skills in our operations so I will start training him. Don't mind the few tachyons you will see next to America in the next days. And we should look for scrap metal delivery in order to have enough stuff to repair the training ships. I think Nathan will need lot of them.
