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Not a job for the long term.
Best to pack away a few million credits over a few years then head back to land, sea and air and retire in comfort. Leave the fighting for the adrenalin junkies -- me, I just wanta slip between pirates and bots, buy low and sell high and scout out the best mining fields in all systems.
Pretty soon, even the big Corporations will take notice that they've got some competition.
Elsewhere in the void, it seems a few others had the same idea too. Orus Koshumi, Commander of the IGPK lay down the mission: Money and information equal power.
Already IGPK has about 35 million stashed away and a well planned hack into the TPG main system bore fruit: THE best maps of the galaxy. Not just mineral maps either. Want a ion storm free route from Deneb to Odia, Jalik to Bethesee? IGPK now has them. Want to learn to mine without defenders in the hottest bot sectors? IGPK has the know how.
It is, me thinks, a Guild worth joining.
Best to pack away a few million credits over a few years then head back to land, sea and air and retire in comfort. Leave the fighting for the adrenalin junkies -- me, I just wanta slip between pirates and bots, buy low and sell high and scout out the best mining fields in all systems.
Pretty soon, even the big Corporations will take notice that they've got some competition.
Elsewhere in the void, it seems a few others had the same idea too. Orus Koshumi, Commander of the IGPK lay down the mission: Money and information equal power.
Already IGPK has about 35 million stashed away and a well planned hack into the TPG main system bore fruit: THE best maps of the galaxy. Not just mineral maps either. Want a ion storm free route from Deneb to Odia, Jalik to Bethesee? IGPK now has them. Want to learn to mine without defenders in the hottest bot sectors? IGPK has the know how.
It is, me thinks, a Guild worth joining.
Orus Koshumi, so you found a good idea for your guild. However, by saying you are peacekeepers kind of implies you are a psuedo-military organization.
Although I like the fact that Peace Keepers is abbreviated "PK". Hope that doesn't backfire on ya.
Good luck!
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[IA] LeberMac
Although I like the fact that Peace Keepers is abbreviated "PK". Hope that doesn't backfire on ya.
Good luck!
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[IA] LeberMac
His description suggest traders while the name suggests a group who stands between the Serco and the Itani and tries to keep them from killing each other. Why do I get the feeing that the latter would only end in them getting killed first?
Odia. The most God forsaken system.
Rumours are that it's filled with some rare ores. Fact is that it's practically made of Apecine and Lanthanic, but darn hard to mine and sell. Avoid the bots and you still gotta beat the pirates getting it out of Odia. Sell it in Odia and you got no choice but to sell it cheap.
Folks at the Tunguska Station are friendly enough but the sector is completely surrounded by bot/roid/storm sectors, just to make the trip interesting, I reckon.
Jumped into I10...Apecine, Lanthanic...Denteks too--the wolfpack of the bot force. They followed me as I filled up the Centaur with a few accurate stinging shots to my backside. Then, out the port side there was a cracked roid. How to resist? With 8 Dentek close I swung into the crack and back to the rear...ZOW! Not only can the bots now see you in the cracks but if they don't see you they come in after!
Exit Asteroid! Turbo...but, heh...wrong control. Boom. Bots 1, Me 0. And 40c of Apecine and Centaur bits left for dead. At least the Guild has the entire system mapped. I'm outta here.
It's back to Itani monitored space for some recruiting. Anyone interested in mining in bot infested space let us know. I'm heading to Itan.
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Rumours are that it's filled with some rare ores. Fact is that it's practically made of Apecine and Lanthanic, but darn hard to mine and sell. Avoid the bots and you still gotta beat the pirates getting it out of Odia. Sell it in Odia and you got no choice but to sell it cheap.
Folks at the Tunguska Station are friendly enough but the sector is completely surrounded by bot/roid/storm sectors, just to make the trip interesting, I reckon.
Jumped into I10...Apecine, Lanthanic...Denteks too--the wolfpack of the bot force. They followed me as I filled up the Centaur with a few accurate stinging shots to my backside. Then, out the port side there was a cracked roid. How to resist? With 8 Dentek close I swung into the crack and back to the rear...ZOW! Not only can the bots now see you in the cracks but if they don't see you they come in after!
Exit Asteroid! Turbo...but, heh...wrong control. Boom. Bots 1, Me 0. And 40c of Apecine and Centaur bits left for dead. At least the Guild has the entire system mapped. I'm outta here.
It's back to Itani monitored space for some recruiting. Anyone interested in mining in bot infested space let us know. I'm heading to Itan.
Out.
the name of the guild is rather contridicting of the purpose, might wanna change the name seriously.
Name of the guild sounds rather Orwellian....
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ISSP > IGPK!
What is ISSP? Itani SUPER Secret Police?
Follow the money.
Pirates are a cost of doing business I suppose. Best course of action? Evasion. Protect cargo. Resist the urge to turn and fight. Testosterone, not cool reason, started all the really stupid fights anyway. Earn enough cash and you can hire some guns to vaporize the varmit. Someone once rightly wrote that revenge is a dish best served cold.
Completed a trade run to Itan then another around to the Initros Xith sectors. Xith at 960 per crate. Not bad and widely ignored.
All was very quite 'til Broma Ba Slick appeared on screen.
Pirate?!
No. Quick assessment shows him to be a lieutenant of TGFT. Intelligence shows TGFT accumulating Heliocene and lots of it. "Just 'cause we're competitors doesn't mean we can't do business," says he.
True. There's plenty of roids to go around I guess. Have to think about that. He's right. Plenty of roids. Maybe not enough cool ones.
Just need some additional enthusiastic entrepenuers to follow me in for some scouting missions. With Guild controlled funds are now approaching 40 million we gotta expand to scout out close Itani space for Heliocene. Intelligence indicates that Jalik and Divinia may be promising.
For me and for now, it's back to the outlying regions before returning to Grey for the Council's meeting.
Pirates are a cost of doing business I suppose. Best course of action? Evasion. Protect cargo. Resist the urge to turn and fight. Testosterone, not cool reason, started all the really stupid fights anyway. Earn enough cash and you can hire some guns to vaporize the varmit. Someone once rightly wrote that revenge is a dish best served cold.
Completed a trade run to Itan then another around to the Initros Xith sectors. Xith at 960 per crate. Not bad and widely ignored.
All was very quite 'til Broma Ba Slick appeared on screen.
Pirate?!
No. Quick assessment shows him to be a lieutenant of TGFT. Intelligence shows TGFT accumulating Heliocene and lots of it. "Just 'cause we're competitors doesn't mean we can't do business," says he.
True. There's plenty of roids to go around I guess. Have to think about that. He's right. Plenty of roids. Maybe not enough cool ones.
Just need some additional enthusiastic entrepenuers to follow me in for some scouting missions. With Guild controlled funds are now approaching 40 million we gotta expand to scout out close Itani space for Heliocene. Intelligence indicates that Jalik and Divinia may be promising.
For me and for now, it's back to the outlying regions before returning to Grey for the Council's meeting.
So, I'm minding my own business mining on a short-term contract for Orion, when I pick up a broadcast on the UIT channel offering some helio for sale. Caught my attention, as you don't see that every day. After some back and forth, we agree on a price below top dollar. Only fair, as I'll have to haul it to get top price.
So we meet. and I see that the pilot is a lieutenant of a new guild. Inter Galactic something or other. As I'm always interested in the competition, we have a nice chat. I wish the pilot luck and offer to do business in the future.
Then I head for my usual mining base in Ironhold. On my way to dock, I see pilot glb. I'd run into him. Nice enough fella. And I see he's also a member of the new guild. We exchange hails. Then he politely lets me know that he's sold some helio at a station in Initros and probably crashed the price. I thank him and let him know I'm not selling now.
We get to chatting, and he asks if I want to buy some more helio. I tell him depends on the price. When he asks if I'm in a guild, I let him know TGFT. He thinks a minute, then says we're probably competitors. I agree, but tell him even competitors can do business. He says we'll talk.
Welcome to the universe IGPK. It's a big and lonely place, and traders can always use friends. Even friends who are competitors.
Broma-Ba Slick
So we meet. and I see that the pilot is a lieutenant of a new guild. Inter Galactic something or other. As I'm always interested in the competition, we have a nice chat. I wish the pilot luck and offer to do business in the future.
Then I head for my usual mining base in Ironhold. On my way to dock, I see pilot glb. I'd run into him. Nice enough fella. And I see he's also a member of the new guild. We exchange hails. Then he politely lets me know that he's sold some helio at a station in Initros and probably crashed the price. I thank him and let him know I'm not selling now.
We get to chatting, and he asks if I want to buy some more helio. I tell him depends on the price. When he asks if I'm in a guild, I let him know TGFT. He thinks a minute, then says we're probably competitors. I agree, but tell him even competitors can do business. He says we'll talk.
Welcome to the universe IGPK. It's a big and lonely place, and traders can always use friends. Even friends who are competitors.
Broma-Ba Slick
LeberMac scanned the sub-ether comm bands for traffic on his usual 8-hour shift manning the [IA]'s supercomputer DeepBlue, looking for that most important of all assets: information.
Hrm, that new guild, IGPK, could be the ones responsible for crashing the price of Heliocene throughout Artana, Divinia and Jallik.
He makes a note and turns his attention back to the dangerous [BLAK] systems virus that he still has in level 10 quarantine. It seems to have an affinity for TPG software. More study is required.
Hrm, that new guild, IGPK, could be the ones responsible for crashing the price of Heliocene throughout Artana, Divinia and Jallik.
He makes a note and turns his attention back to the dangerous [BLAK] systems virus that he still has in level 10 quarantine. It seems to have an affinity for TPG software. More study is required.
well now that you say something leber i also found the virus in the hyperion system.Heh didnt last long, destroyed once recognized but i did manage to keep a copy of it in quaranteen and I am studying it myself.I propose that it has something to do with the BLAK dissapearance.Thats all i know for the time being.
A largely failed group mining effort in extreme bot infested Azek space (and the sad loss of Broma Ba Slick's favorite Behemoth) followed by some experimentation with various mining beams yielded some interesting revelations with regards to future missions. More on this ingame.
Then, a troubling turn of events: a demand for protection money in monitored space for access to Serco minerals?
Council debate yielded no clear concensus to what could be a troubling cost of doing business or else an unacceptable demand.
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Then, a troubling turn of events: a demand for protection money in monitored space for access to Serco minerals?
Council debate yielded no clear concensus to what could be a troubling cost of doing business or else an unacceptable demand.
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I loved that moth. And I'd just made the last payment on it, too. Dang bots.
Broma-ba Slick
Broma-ba Slick
I will help defend TGFT, IGPK, (and almost any other guild for that matter) from anyone demanding "protection" monies, which is in my eyes equal to pirating.
But if it's in monitored Serco space, they don't like me too much, so I will also have to deal with a hefty strike force. :(
But if it's in monitored Serco space, they don't like me too much, so I will also have to deal with a hefty strike force. :(
update.
Guild Moral remained high and the expected SCAR bluster appears to have subsided leaving IGPK unimpeded access to the ample mineral stores in SERCO space.
There continues to be no sign of significant unified Itani opposition to UIT entry to Itani claimed space.
With respect to the short lived Serco opposition, even SCAR's esteemed Lieutenant can't be everywhere at once and his loyal Serco troops exercised their hostility more towards the Itani foe than the UIT corporate advance.
Unfortunately, the increased mining activities are taking their toll on the ore prices throughout many systems. The "goldrush" dream of 2400 credit Heliocene is fading as supplies outstrip demand in multiple systems.
Economists predict a continued and sustained decline in key precious ore pricing over the short term while competing Guilds forcast cheaper ship and weapons pricing as a result.
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Guild Moral remained high and the expected SCAR bluster appears to have subsided leaving IGPK unimpeded access to the ample mineral stores in SERCO space.
There continues to be no sign of significant unified Itani opposition to UIT entry to Itani claimed space.
With respect to the short lived Serco opposition, even SCAR's esteemed Lieutenant can't be everywhere at once and his loyal Serco troops exercised their hostility more towards the Itani foe than the UIT corporate advance.
Unfortunately, the increased mining activities are taking their toll on the ore prices throughout many systems. The "goldrush" dream of 2400 credit Heliocene is fading as supplies outstrip demand in multiple systems.
Economists predict a continued and sustained decline in key precious ore pricing over the short term while competing Guilds forcast cheaper ship and weapons pricing as a result.
out.
TGFT compensates the participants in its mining expeditions based on maximum ore values universe wide. Price fluctuations in Azek or any other system have no effect on the expeditions or compensation of the participants.
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Broma-Ba Slick
Lieutenant and Council, The Guild of Free Traders
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Broma-Ba Slick
Lieutenant and Council, The Guild of Free Traders
So you morons are the ones behind the market crashes in Azek!
Grrr, if I had any skill at all at PvPing I'd show you to mess with me milk cows!
As it is I'll let you go with JUST a stern warning, but a VERY stern warning at that!
grumblegrumblegrumble...
Grrr, if I had any skill at all at PvPing I'd show you to mess with me milk cows!
As it is I'll let you go with JUST a stern warning, but a VERY stern warning at that!
grumblegrumblegrumble...
Indeed it seems [IGPK] has initiated a galaxy-wide assault on precious ore prices, apparently. An interesting turn of events. When the new trade missions come out in the next update (hopefully), it will be interesting to see how they can destroy that profitability as well.
And I'd like to thank Dr. Lecter and A-Dawg for making the last TGFT mining event slightly more exciting than usual. I was able to get some light exercise not only leading around a pack of wild Artemis Collectors, but using [SCAR] as target practice.
Yawn. Next time, Lecter, bring some flares and at least make me WORK for my PK's...
Like I said before, [IA] stands ready to assist miners and traders when pirates and bandits lurk.
And I'd like to thank Dr. Lecter and A-Dawg for making the last TGFT mining event slightly more exciting than usual. I was able to get some light exercise not only leading around a pack of wild Artemis Collectors, but using [SCAR] as target practice.
Yawn. Next time, Lecter, bring some flares and at least make me WORK for my PK's...
Like I said before, [IA] stands ready to assist miners and traders when pirates and bandits lurk.