James Miller

[Jimothy]

*LOG USER: OLIVER STRICK*

Oh my god, those Neanderthals. Since when has the only diplomacy for pirates been: give them what they want and run. James should learn diplomacy. Try to haggle. Nah, he'd wouldn't understand that...
Well, it was nice of Charles to get another two in/output terminals for the log, now there's one on the bridge and one in each of the quarters. I never fly this ship, spend most of my time trying to make sure Interspace don't reposes this ship for these two's idiocy. All they do is flippin' yell at me all day. Will admit, it's funny sometime though.
Well, we were just landing on Nuremburg one time, and Charles came into my quarters saying we've got a new route. We'd hooked up with another trader, known as Mephta, I believe, who could improve our profits with only a minor detour. We would still take the Military Vehicles to the Macduff (Or a Kusarian battleship if some KNF guys caught us supplying Bretonia right through their territory) and then Mephta had found a jump hole to Edinburgh. Now I wasn't overly happy with the jump hole idea, but we were promised it was safe. When in Edinburgh, we would pick up VIPs from the Luxury Liner. Now this I really wasn't happy with. A Train isn't a passenger vehicle. But Mephta had said that if we bought some special cargo pods for our train, the passengers would be quite comfortable, and a lot of the VIPs didn't want to show up on shuttle logs for whatever reason. Plus non-passenger ships aren't an obvious target if someone's trying to get a bunch of VIPs to take hostage. We would then take the VIPs to Augsburg Orbital Colony in Munich. From there they could take inter-connecting flight to other parts of Rheinland. After that we went came back to Nuremburg and picked up Some more Military Vehicles and went again.
Now I really wasn't overly happy about this at all, but James had made up his mind, so we got some passenger-suitable cargo pods (They could hold normal cargo as well, thankfully) and off we went.
That trip was quiet, with the only trouble being a pirate at the Leeds jump gate, who we would have bumped into even on our old route, he asked for 1 million credits from Mephta and us, which Mephta paid promptly while James was panicking. James wired Mephta 500,000 to cover our side of the pirate tax, and we carried on to the Macduff. Going through to Edinburgh was uneventful, unless you count our autopilot trying to ram that Planet Gaia. The return trip was just as uneventful, and I agreed we could stick with it. After all, Interspace may frown on shipping passengers, but money's money, and more money's even better, so they won't mind too much.

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I was formerly know as Spiritar.

It's been a while.