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To: Headquarters, IMG, Security Department
Concerning: Another Tau 23 Incident
This is Jack Henderson speaking. I was patroling the mining area in T23, helping IMG miners to load up when after some fights outside of scanner range (we only heard some radio chatter of it due to wave reflections) a gunship appeared.
I ordered the miners to evade and move out of scanner range, which they did.
The Outlaw approached me and the pilot was identified as Constantine Elias, who asked whether I wanted "protection". He wanted money, or he would kill me. Java received my call and sent reinforcement. When we outnumbered the gunboat 4 to 1, we hoped that a threat would make him retreat. He didn't.
In the fighting two IMG ships were destroyed, two could retreat.
I'm reporting this because the agressor issued a threat against the survivors which will make it pretty hard for me to work in the mining area of T23 as a sensory outpost and light protective force (as well as mining helper) because this gunship will for sure look for us there.
Therefore I'd be glad if IMG could muster some forces to efficiently protect the mining areas in Tau 23 against attacks. Just now we are easy prey there and as this incident has shown, the forces present in Java were not sufficient to stop even one agressor - not to speak of the biggest force I saw there: 2 dreadnoughs, a cruiser and a destroyer.
Still, I would be content if IMG could send enough fighting power to protect the mining fields which the enemy most likely won't attack with the capital ships but with smaller craft and pirating methods.
Thank you for reading the report.
I'm off duty tomorrow and I'll have to change locations a bit during the next days to evade the tracking attempts of my new "friend". Better let me do that and change personell roster and schedules than pay for a funeral and insurance for my wife and kids. This guy means business.
