To: Zoners, Corsairs.

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SOURCE: ████████, Alice...
SUBJECT: Questionable vessel master behavor.

Alice is here. I guess, i saw something weird with my own eyes and heared something strange with my own ears. I would like to inform you about that.

On my loitering around in OM-49 i ran into a Praefect cruiser passing the system. Being interested with constantly increasing activity of non-zoner capital fleet in that area, i took my chance to question the vessel masters about his intentions, goals, and cause of said vessel presense.

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I wonder if i should really explain why was i surprised with his answer, since he gave it in a language... lets say, he, as a corsair, was not quite supposed to use. Here is a short part of his "speech".

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With that i would like you, guys, to make several things... more clear for me. Those would be:

14) Behaviour of a warship captain must be befitting of such a vessel. Appropriate behaviour for a warship captain excludes;
Violation of the Sirius Codex
Unintelligible communications chatter. (//oorp chat)

15) Warship captains must be responsible guardians of the Empire's asset that is in their keeping. Responsible guardianship excludes;
Unnecessarily placing their ship and crew in danger.
Entering battles that will almost certainly lead to their ships destruction unless the safety of Planet Crete is at stake.

16) Warship captains must not take their ship outside core Corsair territory* unless;
They are accompanied by a balanced fleet, with at least as many fighters and bombers as there are warships. ......or....
Their operation has received the approval of a Council Elder or one of their deputies.

*Here, "core corsair territory" refers to the regions of Omicron Gamma, Omicron Theta, Omicron Eta (south of minefield), Omicron Kappa, Omicron Delta, Omicron 91, Omicron 93, Omicron 94, Omicron 96, Omega 41 and Omega 5.

To make it simple, i am asking you to explain me why was said vessel so far from its "normal position", alone, with no escorts and with vessel master failing to communicate, speaking foreign languages.

Looking forward to hear back from you.
Yours sincerely, Alice.

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