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To: Bowex InfoNet.
From: Flight Instructor Andrew Peterson.
RE: Standard report.

Just a quick recap on yesterday's trading through Rhienland and the near-Omegas. Departing from The Ring in New Berlin, I attempted to get myself hired by any transports that were passing through. Unfortunately, the majority I passed were of the mute-Advanced-Train-Interspace persuasion, so employment was not particularly forthcoming. With a sigh of disdain but hope for the future, I loaded up with Engine Components and set a course to New London.

While in Stuttgart, I passed a rather interesting scene. Bundschuh - the "Volksfront Partei" I believe they call themselves, were out in force. I happened across three of their Sabres, one of which being busy pummelling a member of the Rhienland Military's secondary fleet. I also noticed that all of them were carrying civilian hostages, which didn't quite seem to fit the persona they've all been trying to flout.

As a paragon of helpfulness, I offered to take the civilians off them and shuttle them down to Planet Stuttgart itself. No harm done in that case, ey? At any rate, the belligerents protested that the people I was reading were political prisoners that had been rescued from the hold of a destroyed "WRF" fighter. I called shenanigans and firmly insisted that their prisoners be set free. From there, things went a little pear shaped.

It seemed those fellows may well have had a point about corruption in the Rhienland Military, seeing as the planet's orbiting battleship 'forgot' to open fire on the bugger that was attempting to roast marshmallows on my hull. Regardless, I got away without too much hassle, then continued through to the Omegas. When I got to Freeport 1, there was a Zoner Spatial and a Hogsha Black Dragon outside. I managed to convince the Zoner - {ZEF}Maelstrom - that the Hogsha - FOX2 - was a severe threat to the peace of the Omegas. Consequently, we both murdered him. The Zoner got the last shot however.

Image: The immediate aftermath of the destruction of Hogshan, FOX2.

After the above incident, I spent a while chatting with a sentiment robot working for the TAZ in Cambridge. Who puts a self-aware machine in a gunboat - a war machine, I ask you? A bloody lunatic, that's who! Simply asking for trouble, that is. The metallic menace also let slip that there was a machine uprising being conducted in a system known as 'Kappa', which is why rogue AIs keep cropping up all over Sirius. Hmph. Sounds like someone needs to drop a rather large bomb on the place, to me.

Well, cheero then!
~Peterson.

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