From: Jack Henderson
Location: Dublin System, Battleship Hood
Honourable Ladies and Gentlemen,
my name is Jack Henderson (32) and the purpose of this transmission is my decision to apply with the Independent Mining Guild. I'm a legal Bretonian citizen with roots in Dublin as well as New London.
I worked for BMM for 8 years until it became clear that there was no future for me in a company that restricted my skills to the very limited field of hauling cargo between well-protected systems. After being charged for breaking company conduct rules by engaging in lawful firefights or changing trading routes, I decided to quit a job that only paid the bill but held no thrill.
Two years ago, I founded a small company named "Risk & Success" together with my former BMM copilot Jonathan Myamat who had also quit BMM employment by then. The company consisting of us two has provided services for miners who work outside BMM in Bretonian territory for the last two years.
Our offered services include: forward scouting of routes, unknown route reconnaisance, risk assessment and managment, conflict prevention, convoy protection as well as legal preemptive assaults against unlawful threats to our clients' interests.
In the wake of rising tensions in our main area of operation around Dublin, increased pressure by BMM and ample opportunities with IMG to do what we love to do, we decided to give up our complete independence to join IMG.
In my opinion IMG is the best possible solution because it stays out of exactly the kind of politics that devastated my home system and rendered it an insecure and economically as well as politically instable home to separatists, rouges, criminals and terrorists. As a Dubliner loyal to the Crown operating outside BMM it proved to be hard to find a party of support which I could turn to without betraying at least one part of oneself. I want to stay in the mining business. I want to stay in Bretonia. IMG is a way of accomplishing both.
If you accept my application, my skills and equipment would be used for the common good of the Guild. Especially in unstable systems IMG miners need to be prepared to show strength and not back away easily in order to succeed financially. Increasingly, Molly fractions treat IMG members as hostiles, restricting access to independent Dublin mining areas or charging illegal mining fees, not to mention a rising number of acts of piracy or outright deliberate killings. If there shall be a future for independent miners in the Dublin sector, a position of strength and committment must be taken. We - myself and my business partner - can assist efforts to maintain IMG interests in Dublin.
Not backing away easily, but taking calculated risks is a lesson learnt the hard way while working as freelancers in the Dublin system. I can be a part of the Guild's effort to strengthen our presence in dangerous sectors and difficult times.
