To Cedric Richard, David Owens, Torin Marshal, Adam Spire

[Adam_Spire]

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On route to refit the Venerable, I ran into this pirate making camp at the Stuttgart > New Berlin Gate. Opened fire right away and gave that varmint a good woopin, but they twere returning some of their own. Calling out for assistance, we were quickly joined in by a Rheinland Cruiser that pushed the fight to one side. The Cruiser though the infractor was out of repair bots and broke but they were as tipped off as we were. The Venerable pursued the varmint to the Hessian base, figuring a second round at a fair fight wasn'€™t an option. So I called in another local patrol and when in range, the varmint though they had had their time in the sun and landed. A win none the less.

Trying to again to head to the Ring, we were delayed when these two transports were hauling alien artifacts. Just doesn'€™t end.
We caught them at the Bonn station where they over rode the docking procedures and docked. Later on, they both undocked and made a run for Hamburg. I twas able to halt foma and eventually destroy the transport, but kyz9 managed to slip by. That one is going on the RCDB. All artifacts dropped down by the transport foma were destroyed in space.

4/10

Albatross - CT-39X Civilian Transport

[*]Incident System: New Berlin
[*]IFF: None
[*]ID: Freelancer Trader
[*]Ship Type: Albatross - CT-39X Civilian Transport
[*]Ship name: kyz9
[*]Illegal transaction: Smuggling Alien Artifacts (1995)

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[*]Incident System: New Berlin
[*]IFF: None
[*]ID: Freelancer Trader
[*]Ship Type: "Mastodon" Libertonian Transport
[*]Ship name: foma
[*]Illegal transaction: Smuggling Alien Artifacts (4985)

//>.<! I;ll get back to you later

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Sometimes, when all you want is to gain your freedom, you must be willing to risk it all.

[Adam_Spire]

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On route back frum a refit, I ran into these two freelancers trying make way out of New Berlin right past Bonn into, I can only imagine, Bretionia. I dun did give them the chance to break off and drop the cargo but they kept a runnin. So I had to put them down one at a time. First the Cpt.Kurbage and his cargo, then Gliese_581 and his smuggled cargo. All military cargo was destroyed in space to prevent any further infractions.

5/10 & 6/10

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Unfortunately, at least one of the varmints tried to run past me again while we were blasting the radiation off the Venerable'€™s hull at Freiburg station, again carrying Military Vehicles. When they landed at the base ah tried to talk reason to them but not a bit of good came frum it. Their loss.

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[*]Incident System: New Berlin to Stuttgart
[*]IFF: None
[*]ID: Freelancer (original)
[*]Ship Type: Percheron - B-40-E Bretonia Transport
[*]Ship name: Cpt.Kurbage
[*]Illegal transaction: Smuggling Military Vehicles (500)

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[*]Incident System: New Berlin to Stuttgart
[*]IFF: None
[*]ID: Freelancer (original)
[*]Ship Type: Percheron - B-40-E Bretonia Transport
[*]Ship name: Gliese_581
[*]Illegal transaction: Smuggling Military Vehicles (500)

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Sometimes, when all you want is to gain your freedom, you must be willing to risk it all.

[Adam_Spire]

Incoming Transmission
Transmission Origin: New Berlin
Vessel ID: [FL]-FireHawk
Sender ID: Adam Spire



Managing to spend some time patrolling, I ran into a trade ship that forgot they needed to be a Researcher in order to transport Gaian Wildlife. I admit, I was a little overzealous, but the trader managed to convince me to have him land at Bonn and relinquish the cargo there. They soon lifted off, without the cargo and without incident.
7/10

Event Transmission

The problem was with a Transport Hickory who transported light weapons out of New Berlin to Stuttgart I wasn'€™t able to stop him in time. He will be reported.
8/10

Transmission timed out

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Sometimes, when all you want is to gain your freedom, you must be willing to risk it all.

[Adam_Spire]

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It'€™s all about good timing. Ah launched frum Nuremburg and found this varmint trumping up trouble for himself. After a quick scan, didn'€™t think it would be all too good to let him just mossy on off. Good thing too. The transport seemed to listen, they dropped the cargo and even asked if they could join Daumann or a Rheinland company to keep frum being obliterated.
We'€™ll see.
9/10

All ejected cargo was destroyed in space.


[*]Incident System: Munich
[*]IFF: None
[*]ID: Freelancer
[*]Ship Type: Firefly Transport
[*]Ship name: Cpt.Crunch
[*]Illegal transaction: Smuggling Military Vehicles (699)

Oh yea, almost forgot. This little dink was caught hauling military vehicles. Ah twouldn'€™t have even bothered as the Venerable could have run that little ship into the ground, but it was just too fast. Not fast enough fer the gun cameras. That little varmint is going right up there on the big board.

10/10


[*]Incident System: Munich
[*]IFF: None
[*]ID: Freelancer
[*]Ship Type: 203-ARKM-B5 "Humpback" Rheinland Freighter

[*]Ship name: Madara
[*]Illegal transaction: Smuggling Military Vehicles (74)

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Sometimes, when all you want is to gain your freedom, you must be willing to risk it all.

[Adam_Spire]

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[--- System ID: Stuttgart to Munich---]


The Vindicator is still running with a limp and some new Sirius broadcasting zoner code update further conflicted with the Explorer'€™s power core. I may request some help from Rheinland in a day or so. In the mean time, gaian wildlife is still only able to be transported by researchers. Problem is, how to tell the apart from anyone else? These two transports were clearly not Researchers.

With all the repairs we'€™ve been doing on the Vindicator, we never reloaded CDs or decoys. With this gaffe, it was impossible to stop the trade ships who had a clear lead and managed to land with the wildlife at the Orbital station in Munich. The chaps tried to make me feel bad about a freelancer attacking transports, but apparently they didn'€™t listen to the part where we were under contract with you guys. With their cargo delivered, all we can do is report them to the RCDB.

[color=#33FF33]11/10 & 12/10

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Ship Type: CT-73 '€œStork'€ Civilian Advanced Train

Ship Name: ExileBanking><Skywalker
Unauthorized cargo: Gaian Wildlife (1250)
ID: Interspace Commerce
IFF:Kishiro

Ship Type: HWDU-430 "Golem" ALG Heavy Mover

Ship Name: *[COD]*SILE
Unauthorized cargo: Gaian Wildlife (1175)
ID: Interspace Commerce
IFF:Liberty Navy

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Sometimes, when all you want is to gain your freedom, you must be willing to risk it all.

[Adam_Spire]

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[--- System ID: Stuttgart ---]



I found this transport flying through Stuttgart out of Rheinland space. It had a cargo of Light Arms, hand weapons and the like. I decided to follow it instead of stopping it for questions to see where the weapons were going to go. They seemed to be a Liberty make transport considering the weapons it had on it. Apparently they caught on and activated some 1st generation cloaking device and that was the end of that. Event specs are as follows.

[color=#33FF33]13/10

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Ship Type: CT-73 '€œStork'€ Civilian Advanced Train

Ship Name: Free-Sashiko
Unauthorized cargo: Light Arms (4996)
ID: Interspace Commerce
IFF: none

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Sometimes, when all you want is to gain your freedom, you must be willing to risk it all.

[Adam_Spire]

**** Incoming Transmission ****
**** Signal Location: Munich ****
**** Signal ID: Cedric Richards ****
**** Vessel ID: [FL]-Thexder ****



We'€™re seeing more Outcasts pushing into Munich. Must be from all the aluminum mining, seeing a quick profit from all the unauthorized miners. So what did we have? An Outcast gunboat and its Bomber escort. I think both of them were expecting me to turn and run, but regardless of who was mining, they would be easy picking for these two and I wasn'€™t about to let them just hang out. I opened fire on the pair and after I got a feel for that Gunboat captain, I ended up focusing on him. Those things are a snap to hit when they don'€™t move so much. I managed to destroy the gunboat and the Bomber and I began our dance. I hate dancing. I always seemed to manage to SNAC his shields to hell but couldn'€™t land the shot to take him out. Standard guns almost got him. But with the pounding I took from the combined pair, the fight was still a bit in that bomber'€™s favor. Until helped arrived. They transmitted to me a back of repair bots and we were back to tip top. Damn close to falling out too. Chasing the Outcast into the gas cloud, they eventually jumped to Sigma 17 and I returned to Nuremburg.

14/10

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Sometimes, when all you want is to gain your freedom, you must be willing to risk it all.

[Adam_Spire]

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[--- System ID: Hamburg ---]



Seeing some of these new transports passing through Rheinland and I was able to catch this one pushing slaves on to New Berlin. He was trying to tell me they were on vacation. Of all the excuses. I fired at him once as he just kept stalling and these Rheinland guns blew away his shields! Alright, I pulled back on the weapons fire and convinced him to release the captive people. He did. Then I saw him turn around, cruise right towards me. The bastard retrieved the captive people and tried to make a run for it. Two volleys and his hull was critical. Freighter or not I got to watch these guns. Maybe later. That freighter was dusted and I managed to rescue the captives as they were relatively close to the shipyard in Hamburg.

Bloody bastard. What was he thinking?!

[color=#FF0000]1/10

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Ship Type: CTE FR-2302-K Civilian Freighter

Ship Name: The.Wretched.Hermit
Unauthorized cargo: Slaves (540)
ID: Freelancer
IFF:None

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Sometimes, when all you want is to gain your freedom, you must be willing to risk it all.

[Adam_Spire]

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[--- System ID: Omega 7---]





After being bounced about Rheinlnad for a while, we headed into Omega 7 and engaged a Hessian and what looked like a military patrol taking on two of its own. The two in question were Hans.Eckhard and Jesek.Vardogr. Upon a closer scan we found one of the ships packed with Nomad technology. All bets were off at that point. We engaged and destroyed the one Hessian and chased the two infested pilots into Omega 55. We managed to evade them for a while but weren'€™t expecting a trap on the other side of the jump hole.

[color=#FF0000]2/10

We managed to make it back in one piece alright. Can'€™t say much for the Rheinland Cruiser with us.

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Sometimes, when all you want is to gain your freedom, you must be willing to risk it all.

[Adam_Spire]

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[--- System ID: Omega 7 ---]



Some of the mess you chaps took care of came back to haunt Stuttgart and Omega-7. I caught one in Stuttgart in an obviously stolen Bretonia and Rheinland Gunboat with a freelancer ID. The Bretonia Gunboat only had its main gun, but still could pose a threat to a low ranking transport. When I ordered them to leave Rheinland, the R-Gunboat landed at the base in Stuttgart then lifted off. Apparently he thought that was just fine for him to do that. More fuel for the fire I say. While heading to Omega 7, they both held position at the gate. I wasn'€™t going to just leave them there. Both weren'€™t packing much except the Rheinalnd ship who opened fire on me. Don'€™t worry I made damn sure it was a clear engagement before I opened fire. Those two '€œmaster'€ fellas tried to take me out there but I managed to see them to their end. Oddly, I took a bit of personal satisfaction destroying that Bretonia one.

[color=#FF0000]3/10 & 4/10

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Sometimes, when all you want is to gain your freedom, you must be willing to risk it all.