Seems like everything has fallen apart since the conference, a bunch of bombings on space stations - and a bunch of people trying to capture Kumo held systems.. time to fly to the rescue again..

I've rescued a few hundred people from Li Qing Jao, Going to try to pull a few of those escape pods too.

Remind me never to help imperial / A Lavigny-Duval stations when they are on fire again, Went into Dawes Hub to rescue escape pods and drop off water to put out fires, and they give me a blocking fine for trying to land on the pad they actually assigned me, screw you, wont even piss on your fires then, I am going to help Sol instead.

I've managed to reconfigure my frieght ship here.. so its a limpit collection machine now, i pull into a burning station, and deploy 8 limpets to clean the entire place out, then exit and drop them into the nearest search and rescue. Rinse, repeat.

Get about 600k a trip.

While I am in the area i notice Quikindji is being undermined by hostile powers.. man that's dirty - half the galaxy is on fire, and the major power faction go around trying to overthrow other peoples systems.. nope not today.

So after the other so called powers tried to sneak a take over of Delaine's territory this week with everyone distracted by the conference - plus all those rogues who rather annoyingly don't pay Kumo their cut currently bothering everyone over in Sirius, he has decided to go to the conference himself to keep an eye on things in person. Or more to the point to personally show them he knows the games they are playing at his expense.

Good luck to him, I have better things to do.

Last group paid over 7 million credits.. and then I had another group offering 8 million waiting when I dropped them off.. a Governor for the system no less. Sometimes being a pirate cruise liner has its advantages.. You don't see those top 1% liners installing poles in the luxury passenger cabins.. cough.. its for er structural integrity.. really.. for my wallet that is.. laughter

I never sold so much room service in my life.. in one trip. HAHAHA or should that be argh! for all the pirate booty on this ship...

Good thing too, this trip took longer than it should, the federals had me divert several times to deliver some tactical data on the sly. Ugh. Well at least I got a promotion and a system permit out of it. One step closer to that corvette.

Well my little deliveries went as well as to be expected.. no systems under threat now. Now I need to do a gross of passenger shuttling to make back the 50 or so million credits Delaines little political games just cost me.

Well Delaine really came through today - he put me onto one of his Bars in Harma on Gabrielle Station, where I've hired some strippers to play the role of air hostesses to push around the room service carts, and started taking on Luxury passengers... that too is going as well as expected... not a single passenger is paying under a million a trip. Get that money back in no time.... Lindsay of course orders a snack every 30 minutes and tries rather pathetically to flirt with the girls.. sigh.

Not that I mind the interruptions to the bridge.. these trips are rather uneventful.. even the few interdicts I get from would be kidnappers are so incompetent i barely even need to move the joystick to avoid them.

Hey it pays well and the scenery is nice.. this is one kind of pirate booty I like to get behind.. Oh stop rolling your eyes Madelynn, I saw you checking out that rich guy in the sharp outfit earlier when he boarded the ship.

Looks like we have an organized attempt to take several systems while everyone is distracted by the summit, they are deploying fleet carriers in high value systems and trying to sneak under the radar to secure them.

Now Lalande 45165 and Apteti too?

Not today.

Archon Delaine you owe me big this week. 50 Million big.

So I have been trying to get my hands on a Corvette. Apparently I need to work for the federals to get one. Ugh. Well I have a gunship at least to replace my old Argyre Ship.

With the new gun ship I blew away a few Jupitor Corp traitors to help secure the star system.. despite single handedly clearing about 40 warzones the feds didn't give me anything but some money and a lousy t-shirt.

So Instead I grabbed a few luxuries and sent it over to that farce of a conference. Now they are having troubles with pirates interrupting their summit.. whatever.. it appears the summit is just a front for some power plays, looks like they are after the Madon system.. Archon Delaine has approved taking action about it while everyone is distracted at the summit. Will cost me a fortune to get those marked slaves of his.. but I guess its just a few hours work running Space Uber to earn it back.. I guess the Corvette can wait..

...time to mothball the gunship and drag out space express.. they wont be taking Madon any time soon now...

So after my investigation of the imperial prison facility.. i did some work for the federals.. I now have a higher clearance rank, and a federal gunship.

So.. i get sent an anonymous tip about some extremely valuable data stored in a high value data facility located on HIP 1742 B5 a, at Lat 26.21. Lon 168.95.

I managed to eventually locate the place, but it is a massive heavily armed military installation full of skimmers, goliaths, and a bunch of cobaras and imperial couriers guarding it on regular patrols.

I got into the perimeter but was barely able to get in close enough to scan a single node which just turned out to be a security terminal for one of the surface to air turrets.. sadly it did no go well and my SRV is now scrap metal.

Maybe someone in a wing group can stage a raid on it to get the information out.

Looks to be out of my pay grade to get in there.. I am a pilot not a special ops ninja.

The info we need is in the data core.

Edit: Shortly after I also got a second tip off about a facility located at HIP 12248, 5a. Long 5.63, Lat 150.62. Not sure whats at this one, but ill take a look there too.

Edit 2: It is a Facility called Blackman Silo +++ - And hell no.

Since I have the Sol permit after my little investigation of that distress signal, I think it is time to pay them a visit...

Well that didn't go well apparently investigating wrecks is a crime.. excuuuuse me.

Strange someone with a load of explosives just tried to attack Brorsen port in Multuring. The station authorities detected the ship, owned by one Roger Malmstein, was full of explosive mines and between the station and the patrolling ships destroyed it before it could get too close..

All while I was trying to launch, so I had to dodge the gunfire, then my points defense turrets destroyed the explosives before I ran face first into them.. well that was different.

I really should install collector limpets in this thing.. what is the point of over 600 storage if I have to scoop everything up manually.

I suggested to Madelynn she use her fighter to pick things up for me, but all I got was a dirty look.