Personal Log, 13 January 3304
13 Jan 2018User78245
I saw Lave's complement of Type-10 Defenders fly into Lave Station the other day. The ADF requisitioned a bunch of Type-9s from the Alliance merchant marine, then turned them in to Lakon for stripping and conversion into an adhoc warship, along with the huge order of brand new ones they put in. Apparently they saved a bit of credits taking the conversion route. I contacted my old crew chief from the 351st to see what was going on: The ADF is putting Type-10s on in-system patrol duty to protect the local stations and settlements, and this frees up their Anacondas and Pythons for long distance deployment. They're going to need to refit the Pythons though, as I remember the ADF corvettes were fuel hogs and crap on jumprange. I don't know what they think they can do by getting the fleet prepared to deploy, the Pleiades are fast becoming a hellhole.People are losing their minds lately. Some idiot brought a Thargoid probe into Braun Orbital; it locked the station down and started screwing with its orbit. I don't know what he was trying to accomplish with that, but The Pilots Federation rounded up a few of us to run Meta-Alloy from Darnielle's Progress all the way to the Tengye system. The local authorities were grateful but there was no money in it. Sometimes I do things for money, sometimes I do it because innocent people don't deserve to have their lives screwed with by an idiot.
Again, I can't believe how thinly stretched the ADF is getting with everything going on; I assume it's the same with the Feds and the Empire. Pirates popping up everywhere. The ADF is even paying to put independent pilots into combat situations now. I keep promising myself not to work with them again, but they dangle the carrot and I bite. I accepted a contract to help them put down some chump of a petty dictator in Reorte, whose exact position they're still trying to nail down. Maybe this'll be the last time I jump when they snap their fingers, but probably not.