[font=Trebuchet Ms]This time 5 minutes ahead of schedule, I launched from Avalon Station and started my patrol. I immediately heard all sorts of chatter on the system wide comm channel. It certainly didn't sound very friendly, so I teamed up with Aubert Giroux and started investigating. It became quite obvious they were Sirians, mercenaries, only interested in money. I highly suspect them working for the Council, at least their intelligence was very similar c.q. low. Apparently they were looking for Lieutenant Giroux, but failed. While trying to find us, they started insulting and threatening us.
After 15 minutes, they finally managed to "find" us. They were clearly out for a fight, and they got one. Although we were outnumbered, we had the upper hand in the fight. They proved to be lousy fighters, whenever they were out of repair supplies, They went after the rookie pilots to rob them of their supplies. We weren't interested in such a low fight, so we decided to lure then to Dijon's weapon platforms. This tactic proved quite effective, since we damaged some of them quite badly.
It appeared not all of them are registered hostile to the GRP and GRN. I recommend that the entire SMP faction to be registered as fully hostile to the Gallic Royal forces, especially this one:
After a while, they had enough of being in the disadvantage, and tried to lure us out of the protection area of the weapon platforms. When they failed at that, they turned to psychological warfare, trying to make us feel bad about ourselves by calling us all sorts of things. After 45 minutes of fighting, one of them blew himself up with is own mine... idiot.
After that, Princess Aurelia DeFrance joined us, and managed to take out one of the fighters after a very short duel. Once they realized you can't mess with the Royal Navy, the rest of them fled. I had an appointment for dinner, so I left soon after that.
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