Greed Knows No Limits

[aerelm]

Realizing the situation is in no way in their favor, both the freelancer and the freighter captain decided to split and try to get away from the Council patrol.

aerelm: Err... Ok. Thank you gentlemen for showing me the way out... I'd better be on my way now!
[C]-Nicole.Blanchard: Monsieur aerelm... Identify yourself.
aerelm: Err... No need.
aerelm: Hey! Come on! I'm just leaving.
Jean.Rousseau: Oui. And I still owe that man to show him the places around, but... I will head in other direction!
aerelm: And I thought GRN were the hostile ones...
[C]-Nicole.Blanchard: You will dock and answer a few questions first.
aerelm: Ok, no need to get all pushy on me.
[C]-Victor.Cezanne: The transport is on the move!
[C]-Nicole.Blanchard: Catch it.
Jean.Rousseau: Monsieur, don't believe them!
aerelm: That other guy who's running is the one who you should shoot, see?
[C]-Victor.Cezanne: Montpelier, lock down the sector, we have a situation!
[C]-Refaello.Sanzio: Colonel should i engage fire?
[C]-Nicole.Blanchard: Oui. Disarm it and shut down the engines.
aerelm: Ah for cryin' out loud.
[C]-Nicole.Blanchard: Remember we want him alive.
[C]-Victor.Cezanne: Understood Colonel!
Jean.Rousseau: Bon sang!
aerelm: Ok... Enough being nice to you. You'll let me and this freighter go -Now-, or you wont like what's next!

But as the situation goes out of hand and Council forces engage the freighter, they realize running is pointless and decide to turn and fight their way out.

aerelm: That's it!
[C]-Victor.Cezanne: Watch out! The Freelancer has engaged!
[C]-Nicole.Blanchard: Engage the hostiles!
Death: Jean.Rousseau was killed by [C]-Victor.Cezanne (Gun)
Jean.Rousseau: *The sound of air being sucked out of some of the scrap floating around clearly indicated, that if someone was there... now he is a cheese.*

Freighter's explosion and no escape pods appearing soon after only meant that the captain and the crew couldn't make it to the pods in time, or something went wrong and the pods weren't ejected before the explosion. The freelancer however, hitting the tractor button by reflex, managed to beam in a part of the freighter's loot - The council weaponry.

[C]-Victor.Cezanne: Your choice freelancer, one way or another, those guns are coming back to us!
aerelm: Don't even think about it!
[C]-NicoIe.Blanchard: Miner... Move away from the fight.
Slaine: freelancer do you require assistance
[C]-NicoIe.Blanchard: I dare you.
aerelm: Nah you and all your frenchie buddies can all go to hell!
Slaine: im bretonian
aerelm: Then I suggest you get back to whereever you've came from!
[C]-NicoIe.Blanchard: Wise suggestion

With the freelancer refusing to surrender the cargo, all three members of the Council patrol wing turned on him to either destroy his ship or force him to drop the guns.

Jacquotte.Delahaye: Bon jour, Council
[C]-NicoIe.Blanchard: Save your breath. Too busy fighting.

As the fight went on, the freelancer managed to take down two of the council fighters.

Death: [C]-Refaello.Sanzio was killed by aerelm (Gun)
[C]-Victor.Cezanne: We lost one!
[C]-NicoIe.Blanchard: Merde!
aerelm: One down, two to go!

[C]-NicoIe.Blanchard: Ba'tard.
[C]-NicoIe.Blanchard: Die already!

Death: [C]-NicoIe.Blanchard was killed by aerelm (Mine)
aerelm: Two down, one to go.

But as the fight with last remaining Council fighter went on, the freelancer realized with all the regens he had lost during the fight he won't be able to take down the third and last fighter, so decided to make a run for it and don't risk his life on a pointless fight.

Thrusting his way to Orkney jumphole, he managed to outrun the last Council fighter after the jump to Orkney, and by the time the last Council fighter jumped to Orkney and alerted Reunion, the freelancer was already on cruise and at the opening of the minefield. So, failing to stop him, the freelancer managed to cruise his way to Kirkwall, and dock safely with his ship intact and cargo secure.