For the Empire! ... sort of
08 Jan 2017Clarion-Z
So much has been happening since the last update... We found the pirates who too Darwin Anthony's kid near Varati. After catching and "talking" with them, we finally have the location where he is held. Summerland. Empire has him. Now this makes things bit more tricky.
I never had any love for the Empire nor I have any for now. There's few instances of them capturing scientists and selling them off as slaves. Also their blockade over the first crash site has also been bit of a headache for Canonn as they're shooting everyone coming to study the wreck.
But now I have to play nice with them to gain permits to their systems. And I have just a perfect way to do so...
I went to Quince system to work for the imperial factions in the area. They are really slow with their "paperwork" which gave me a good opportunity to trick them. Me and Darwin both signed up for their missions to scan a local body for some sensitive information. So basically we did one scan and collected the "bounty" twice. Not only that, we datamined the imperial beacons for sensitive data to sell to Alliance and Federation. Does this make us triple agents? Or just mean.
Either way, they get their local body scanned, we'll be known as friends of the empire (hell, they even made me a baron at this point) and we also get extra credits while selling data to Federation and Alliance..
While in the middle of all this.. it happened... The first encounter!
Pleiades area, a lone corvette was pulled out from hyperspace and scanned by unknown ship. Which did look like something from the crash sites we've seen. I left Darwin to Quince while I joined Canonn pilots in pleiades.
After a while, I winged up with CMDR Darwin and CMDR Engalo to do some investigation. We picked up some unknown artefacts and soon it happened. I was pulled out from hyperspace.
There's already stories about how these encounters go.. and speculations what they want.
Lot of research is being done at the moment and luckily for Darwin Anthony, who has only one objective in mind, this can be done remotely. So I took my Asp back to Quince and we keep working with the empire (while selling their data to others) for bit longer so we can rescue his kid in the middle of all this.