The Lane Hackers | Internal Comms

[Howard10]

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Right then, I suppose I should make my first report. Dialectius reporting in, name unimportant. First, just gonna mention that the freelancer Mai.Saeki has been extremely useful - joint operations could be a possibility in the future. Already she's assisted me by using her Interceptor to block the retreat of a miner I was perusing and, heh, shown me some anomalies of academic interest. Now, on to the meat of the report methinks.

We had a combined operation yesterday. At its largest, I counted myself, fellow Dagger-Gauntlet-runner LH~Sundancer, the boss Phate in his Sabre, another Lane Hacker called Shocksword in some sort of fighter and the pirate Tridente The_Raven. Not too shabby in all. I was holding down a vanguard action against any lawmen who chose to try and lay any frontier justice on us. I'd sit by the gate while the others were on the lane. If any significant threat jumped through, I'd tell the others to scramble, and drop the lane ring to stop them being chased. Oh, and we cause a Universal Mastadon, the North.Thumberland.

After the trader was gone, a LNS Cruiser jumped in. The siege variety that is. I got all the scans required, then Phate hinted that we'd be able to take it down - no doubt you could get far more results from the ship's pieces if we took them home for study. It was official. The LNS-Portland was a dead <strike>man</strike> crew <strike>walking</strike> flying from that point forward. After a short scuffle of attrition, we wore him down and ruptured the hull. After that, we all drifted off and a posse of Xenos moved in and took over the system. Me and Phate used this as an opportunity to ransack Colorado.

At the end of the day, I was operating alone in California and ended up chasing the gold miner zions through California into New York. The freelancer Mai Saeki was waiting on the other side, and the miner capitulated to my demands.

[18.11.2010 16:09:11] Mai.Saeki: You ain't going nowhere.
[18.11.2010 16:09:13] LH~Dialectius: Well well, looks like we have an impasse.
[18.11.2010 16:09:29] LH~Dialectius: Now, how about that paltry 500k I asked for?
[18.11.2010 16:09:38] zion: congulations you catched me
[18.11.2010 16:09:40] LH~Dialectius: Be thankful I'm not hitting up my radio and throwing you to the wolves.
[18.11.2010 16:09:42] zions: for that you get 750
[18.11.2010 16:09:48] LH~Dialectius: Huh. Generous.
[18.11.2010 16:09:56] LH~Dialectius: Almost makes me forget how rude you were earlier.

After this I returned home, but not before subverting a copy of the 'Los Angeles Phonebook' from a trade lane information conduit. I spent the evening wiring up a number of proxy servers, and ordered 300 pizzas for an 'Aaron A. Aaranson'. Well, that's all really.

::Dialectius::

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