Urgent Message to the Omega Pirates Guild

[Edgeworld Drifter]

from: the Fringe ( taken out of active duty due to irreversable damage )
to: the OPG

*** sir, concerning the needed and traditional shipments to crete ***

+++ this ship has taken naturally grown Gran Canaria food to planet Crete for quite a long time +++ it was an established route and i got the credit for that by being undistrubed for most of the time taking back the mildly profitable nano capacitors from your homeworld to Gran Canaria +++

+++ however, this route was lately "being brought to an end", sadly - terminally. +++ as the.Fringe was destroyed by one of your captains of a gunboat +++ now i say "one of yours" which is not precise of course +++ it was none of your section, but a gunboat that was hitherto unknown and probably part of a more independent nature +++

+++ this captain stated that Crete would not need food by the Zoners at all, that the Corsairs now employed the Biodome technology, however it was aquired in numbers to supply the whole Corsair nation is puzzling, but he appeared very determined about it +++

+++ end of the engagement was that he destroyed the.Fringe. +++ my escape pod got safely but shaken to Gran Canaria, but the ship is lost of course. +++ you will most certainly understand that some of us Zoners are not too happy about this developement that even food deliveries to Crete are intercepted and the ships that cost well over 100.000.000 credits being heavily damaged or even destroyed. +++

+++ naturally all this is none of the fault of the Omega Pirates Guild, but it may explain how responsible Zoner captains retreat from these regions when even regular shipments for the corsairs cause do them no good. +++

+++ below you will see an excerpt from the received communications that i was able to secure before the transport blew up in a terminal fireball. +++



--> +++the Ghost.Ship was identified as a Corsair vessel of Gunboat class with appropriate and matching IFF / ID+++

+++ on that day, crete lost a classified "supertransport", not cause it is my wish to discontinue the otherwise fruitful and beneficial agreement, but cause the ship is no more as you can see. +++ Since the incident happened at the jumphole 47/49 still in communication range to Gran Canaria, you can understand that it caused quite some uproar. +++ this is just to explain that those captains that would usually venture the edgeworld systems are of course afraid to continue and rather seek alternative business opportunities, much to the disadvantage of our other allies. +++

+++ i may also inform you that it was not a piracy attempt but an act of spiteful terrorism. +++ this corsair never asked for money or cargo! - he just blew the.Fringe up - letting 5000 tons of food drift into the depths of space+++

cpt. Richard Bach"

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+++ this is an alternate forum account for RP purpose +++