The princess is save.
13 Apr 2023Prins Hugo
The trip back to the bubble took more time then I anticipated. At some point during my trip the fleet carrier that had been a save haven in the last few months during the thrip caught up with me and I decided to put my ship on it and take the comfort of a nice bed to get back to the bubble. In the beginning of April we got close enough to the bubble that I could jump in a few jumps back to the VANG home worlds and so I did. Arriving in Yembo and talking to some of my friend I found out that the Princess was indeed spotted a few times in the area but nobody new exactly where she was at that moment. I checked with the rest of the family, but no one could tell me anything and also some investigations into her financial assets did not reveal any more information about her movements. The only thing I did find out was that she was probably very tight on cache so she would probably, at some point, try to find some way of getting some money.
While hanging around in our systems and doing some random work for our faction I heard that the Princess was seen doing some small transport jobs in the region. This could help me locate her. I talked to several of my friends and all mission posts in the region were notified to send us a message when and where she took a mission so we could intercept her and bring her back to the safety of my own carrier. After that we would see what would happen next.
At the same time we got into conflict with "Allowair Constitution Party" in the Allowair system and we were all asked to bring that system under our control. We did not expect a lot of resistance, but a few days of war were to be expected. When I arrived at my carrier with this news I already noticed that news travels fast. Bryant Higgins, the captain of my carrier, was already giving orders to make sure that everything was in perfect working order and the Golden Arrow, my trusted Federal Corvette, was blinking in the light of the Yembo main star.
On the 6th of April my carrier jumped into the Allowair system to see what was going on exactly. I talked to several people in the ACP and did some work for them, while trying to persuade them into handing the system over without a bloody war. But even though I made some new friends and did some real work to reignite some old friendships I was not able to make them understand our ideas, and then, on the 8th of April the war started.
Kayla Sawyer, my fighter pilot, had been training the last couple of months, but due to my exploration trip she didn't have much real work to do. When I told her that we would go to war again, she did not know how fast she had to get into the Golden Arrow to check on all the fighters. I also told her about the Princess. After I had told her, she suddenly ran away jumped in one of my other ships and was gone. A few hours later she returned, with on the passenger seat of the ship, my daughter, the Princess. Later I heard that Kayla and several of her friends had seen this very young princess running around in several systems doing missions and fooling around in her Sidewinder. Because they didn't know who she was, but she looked like she might need some help at some point, Kayla and her friends had kept a close tap on her and made sure they always knew where she was and what she was doing.
The next couple of days were marked by the war in the Allowair system. Within 4 days the ACP saw that there was not much they could do against the force of the Marauders Shadowcouncil and turned the main station "Skripochka Survey" over to us. Besides her marvelous combat skills in the fighter, Kayla also took it on her to start training the Princess and after a few hours she was already a good asset in the gunner seat of the Golden Arrow.
Now that this war is over we can start to rebuild our family again. It sure looks like the Princess will be here to stay for the foreseeable future.