Mouths to feed & Getting Noticed
29 Nov 2015N.R.Crosby
Commander' Log November 28th 3011With the Fleet nearing the T'ienimi Star System my restlessness grows not only am I worried about their safe arrival but today I was tricked by an employee of the Thudd's Merchant Cartel while trying to earn some credits to help feed the fleet.. This employee of Thudd's suggested I could make some serious credits if I were to haul Battle Weapons to a Hudson World but once I got their the information they had given me on their black market contact proved bogus. After leaving the system and scanning my own trade banks I found a suitable black market in Gamatcho, but before I could dump them, I was apprehended by a Cobra and a Eagle that were in league with my Thudd's Informant.
They ordered that I disperse the Battle Weapons but I wasn't going to give up such a costly load of 208 tons of Battle Weapons worth 1,649,282 credits. So I veered hard into a gravity well hoping to shake them. The Cobra caught up to me just as my FSD had cooled 50% but a Lakon T7 is no match for a Cobra MK III neither in speed nor weaponry. He began hammering my shields which dropped while I waiting those last few seconds for my FSD to spool up by the time I had retreated he had my hull pretty banged up with about 50% damaged sustained.
Needing to get to the Station I over-steered and got caught in the Gravity well again and this time the guy in the Eagle was waiting for me. My shields hadn't had time to come online and I did my best to put some distance between me and the Eagle, but it was all in vein and I could see the writing on the wall and pushed the red eject button and sent myself catapulting up and out in my escape pod just as The Black Market exploded in a fireball.
That made it a pretty costly Trading Day as I lost 2,691,852 credits between the ship and cargo. Not going to make it any easier to put food into all those hungry mouths.
N.R.Crosby
Wing Commander for the Chindi-Malistso
Commander' Log November 29th 3011
After having failed at making credits with the Black Market, and losing them instead. I took out the Black Wolf and decided to try my hand at Bounty hunting in the Hazardous Res Sites in the T'ienimi Star System hoping to gain the attention of the local authorities and gain some favor before the fleets arrival. Fishing in the Res Sites was good and I was making a decent profit, then Commander F.Roy Mickey showed up and we headed on over to HIP 15604 and started helping in the conflict zone there. We were supporting a group of Anarchists against a dictatorship group. Again we were doing well for ourselves until I thinking F.Roy was still on my wing I proceeded to take on a Anaconda before I knew what was happening I was in serious trouble and for the second time in 24 hours lost another ship and a whole lot of credits 1,893,842 to be precise.
All in all I lost nearly 6 million credits in 24 hours but I did gain the attention of the Local Authorities who were more than happy to accept the fleet at Fontana Port later in the day.
N.R.Crosby
Wing Commander for the Chindi-Malistso