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

[Adam_Spire]

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



Last time I checked, Rheinalnd is still at war with Liberty and there is that trade embargo going on. You know, the one where things like copper ore isn'€™t supposed to be transported to Liberty? Well I guess the IMG has no qualms with it. I'€™m sure this is yet, AGAIN, just another independent, Independent miner and not one of the REAL IMG guys.

So here'€™s the story. I held up in Hamburg for a while, stationed at planet Hamburg when The-Seq.-Hermaphrodite. with two dots and two minus thingies, made a run from Hamburg to Bering. I'€™m sure he was just on his way to see a sick relative, seeing as he was also transporting vacationers.

Just to be safe, I followed him to the planet Houston, where he docked and delivered Rheinland'€™s own copper ore to Liberty.

I look forward to educating him later to the error of his ways.

Ship Class:
Stork - CT-73 Civilian Advanced Train


Cargo:
Copper Ore (4100)
Ship Name: The-Seq.-Hermaphrodite.
Ship IFF: IMG
Pilot ID: IMG

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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: Munich ---]



Ran into a contact with a smuggler in Munich of Black.Market~01 trying to smuggle Military Vehicles from Nuremburg to God knows where. I gave him the warning and explanation to which the bloody idiot tried to land at the Battlestation. I think the deck crew would have shot him on sight if he did that. He eventually returned to Nuremburg and lifted off with Food Rations, departing away from the normal trade lanes.

I'€™m going to keep a look out for that chap.

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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: Munich ---]


Im not going to spend too much time on this because it'€™s a one hit wonder. The IMG'€™s own Professor_Farnsworth, as expected, has smuggled Military Vehicles out from Munich with the support of Mercenary cover. The timing is just too coincidental. Take it or leave it, he'€™s back on the RCD. He'€™ll pay his fine and keep doing the same thing again. I hope you Rheinland chaps know this.

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

[Adam_Spire]

[] Transmission Received []
[] Ship ID: [FL]-Vigilance []
[] Ship Location: New Berlin[]
[] Sender ID: Captain David Owens []

We had a run in with a well known Hessian Gunship [)(]-'€œddwb'€ was disrupting traffic in and out of New Berlin to Stuttgart. With the help of military officer Adolf.Von.Hof, we were able to prevent his escape and destroy him.

Two rather unusual issue. We first were chasing two ships, one of which we did not record. The other ship information as follows:

Mammoth - EL-HiL51 Liberty Transport

Ship Name: Travis.Green
Ship IFF None
ID: Unknown
Cargo: Cardamine (2200)

The transport Travis.Green smuggled cardamine into New Berlin and we perused. We saw him and the other cardamine smuggler at the tri-lane at Planet New Berlin and he started heading for the lane up to the mining facilities. We met up with a military agent ID ~Cody planet side and communicated that he stop those transports. We'€™ll pause here as we address a second issue.

When we first jumped into New Berlin to chase after the cardamine smugglers, we ran into Orbital spa and Cruise Liner at the New Berlin to Frankfurt gate. The ship ID as follows:

L-584 "Enterprise" Luxury Liner

Ship Name: Gomez
Ship IFF Interspace
ID: Orbital Spa and Cruise
Cargo: Silver ore (1819) & Copper Ore (2271)

When we asked the captain why they were shipping ore, they said they refitted the liner to ship such materials. We assessed that cardamine smugglers were the greater of two evils at this point and headed to Planet New Berlin. This alteration with Gomez lasted about one minute.

We point this out because when we reached Planet New Berlin, Travis.Green and his friend were still there, with the Rheinland Military agent ~Cody~. When we communicated for the agent to stop the smugglers, the two had already taken the lane and were off to the mining facilities. Approaching the lane, ~Cody~ deliberately disrupted the trade lane, preventing us from perusing the smugglers. When I asked why would he do that, he merely landed without a word. As a result, Travis.Green and his accomplice escaped.

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Sirs, it'€™s going to be very difficult to uphold your laws if agents within Rheinland start seemingly working with those who oppose it. May I have some response to this Rheinland'€™s actions taken here?

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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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No rest in the Omega 7 system. Ah ran into a lone miner being harassed by some pirate I neva heard of before. Went by the ID of -=Wrath_of_innos=-. Didn'€™t take too kindly to him making life hard for that miner and took him out in a hurry.

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Next one is kina one of those issues where you see two varmints in a tussle and you gota choose the lesser of the two. Ah figured, the Corsair twouldnt have listened to reason, if ah took out the bomber, Id have the Corsair AND that Hessian Gunship on me. If that Corsair actually helped me, he twouldnt have just left omega 7 empty handed. I'€™ve seen enough times a Hessian '€˜fight'€™ off attackers that harass miners. Maybe winnin points for the civis or just looking to make friends, but if I had to do it over again, I might think I'€™d do the same thing again. All three of us engaged the Corsair.

The Corsair Gunboat was dispatched and those two Hessians and I agreed to just go our separate ways. With the Corsair gone, the Hessians not harassin any miners or transports, I'€™d say that twas a win-win.

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Now ah know wut ya'€™ll sayin, Wut would the Cowboy do if it was just the Hessian, well, didn'€™t take too long to answer that. Soon after that one Hessian ah dun saved his life was messing with that miner guy down south. Yep Habsucht twas making a fuss at the miner near the Omega 11 jump hole. Before ah had time to do a little negotiating, he dun opened fire on me. Well that didn'€™t bode well fer his career. I guess not all of those Hessians are the reasonable kind. And after ah dun saved his life too.

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Everyone'€™s favorite professor was lookin to make a copper profit in the Omega 7 fields. Well didn'€™t take much to hold him at bay. Making sure the locals weren'€™t in on his little scheme ah questioned them a bit and dispensed some indiscriminate justice to the good professor.

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Four for the day and I'€™m heading in.

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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: Frankfurt ****
**** Signal ID: Cedric Richards ****
**** Vessel ID: [FL]-Thexder ****



Class in session. An independent trader tried his luck with some military vehicles. I really did try to explain to him that his actions were beyond the scope of right, but he choose to replace reality with his own fantasy land. So I sent him to it.

With no Rheinland tagged ship in the vicinity, all stolen cargo was destroyed in space.

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Ship Class:
Heron - CT-53 Civilian Train


Cargo: Military Vehicles (600)
Ship Name: RathiDragon
Ship IFF: Liberty Police
Pilot ID: Independent Trader

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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 ****



Another Junker thinks he can just space a transport? Not on my watch. Bandicoot used a jammed gun firing mechanism as his excuse for trying to blow up a Republican transport. Yea right, and I bet it jammed his ship into a pursuit course to the transport too.

I did ask if there was trouble, just to be safe and, yea I was right. Joey charged up the SNAC and we went at that junker in flash.

A few moments later, poof, the harassing Junker was dispatched.

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

[Adam_Spire]

[] Transmission Received []
[] Ship ID: [FL]-Vigilance []
[] Ship Location: Frankfurt []
[] Sender ID: Captain David Owens []

While patrolling New Berlin, I ran into a Junker Frigate carrying military vehicles. Ship ID as follows:


Ship Class: Junker Salvage Frigate
Cargo: Military Vehicles 670
Ship Name: PurePearls
Ship IFF: Junker
Pilot ID: Junker ID

I tried to warn the transport and ask it to corroperate, then it fired on us. With no other options we returned fire. With the frigates'€™ core going critical, we held back as it blew apart. Scanning for the cargo, and no Rheinland ship in the system we destroyed the cargo in space to prevent unauthorized use.

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[] Communication closed []

David Owens: Half the universe is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

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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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Busy night on the range. I launched into Omega 7 to find two Corsairs VHF kicking up a few transports. When I finally ran both of the varmints. Got ID'€™s of Crimson.Ace and Spongepop911*forsesX who didn'€™t wait a moment or even say howdy before opening fire on me. I managed to push them into Stuttgart but had to fall back. Our Train CD was not working. Docking at the IMG station, we purchased a Wasp CD and headed back to Stuttgart.

Headding back to Stuttgart, those two didn'€™t waste no time making a fuss with a lone Bowex transport. Well the Cowboy wasn'€™t going to have any of that. Re-engaging the varmints I managed to take one down for good and scare the other one off. All was quiet until a Corsair Gunboat showed up.

Seemed to be a Primary boat like mine with dual missiles, anti fighter/bomber load out. Good thing it didn'€™t have any pulses. Tried reasoning with them, but a Corsair and reason just don'€™t mix. Did my fancy gallop an took that Gunboat down in a hurry. Manage to rescue a lot of that Corsair's captives and returned them to a safe station.

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Finally found a lone pirate Border world bomber mixing it up with a few IMG recruits. Didn'€™t know wut to make of it so I flipped through the comms until I got a hold of an IMG ship in Rheinland and got his input on the issue. The varmint actually egged me into attacking him, but I waited until the IMG guy arrived. Shortly after, we opened fire managed to dispatch him with the final blow comin frum the Venerable.

Ah figured three for four was a good night'€™s work and headed on in.

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

[Adam_Spire]

[] Transmission Received []
[] Ship ID: [FL]-Vigilance []
[] Ship Location: New Berlin []
[] Sender ID: Captain David Owens []

A lone Corsair bomber was making trouble for a Republican Titanic transport two days ago. I managed to protect the transport and forced the bomber to land at Keruzburg. The transport captain was quite happy.

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Some transports I can see why they haul house-illegal goods. Desperation, survival, oppressive governments, all things I would associate with house criminals and pirates but not Zoners. I think we only ran into one other Zoner since my time here who has broken Rheinland law but this is a outright act. Zoner ships and ID as follows:



Ship Class: "Conference" Zoner Gunship
Cargo: Black Market Munitions (189)
Ship Name: Ebrios.Viator
Ship IFF: Zoner
Pilot ID: Zoner


Ship Class: Zoner Borderworld Transport "ZBT-100Z 2"
Cargo: Black Market Munitions (5000)
Ship Name: Aequorum.Viator
Ship IFF: Zoner
Pilot ID: Zoner Guard

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The Gunboat was able to be stopped but it was an obvious decoy for the primary transport which managed to escape into Hudson and then to who knows where. I was additional angered by the Zoner Guard'€™s answer for the infraction to pay me off 3 million credits to forget the whole thing. Under any other circumstances, defense, escort, I would have kept it, but if this transport captain justifies breaking house law for some reason of protection, its dirty money. When given the proper channel I will give it over to them. In the mean time, both of them are going on the RCD.

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