Is that a cat fight I hear... Nope, just a bunch of birds squawking over nothing.

Old Ecka sat in the cockpit of the moth and drank a big mug of Koffee, feeling rather than observing the hold filling with a mix of Denic and Ishik ores. Comms open to all the usual channels he leaned back in his seat and listened to the claims and counter claims from the various guilds and factions engaged in the latest squabble over Latos.

" Hey , Ecka, you mining in the middle of a war again ? " asked Zathras over the private channel.

" Looks like I am , but I can shift goods to the South and miss it all , use short wh jumps, the pirates rarely catch up "

"Ok , but if we need to we can call on you for Convoy protection ? "

" Aye , I'll park the moth and grab an old 'taur . Hang about in grey for the weekend. You never know it might just get interesting........"

"Hehe... roger"

The ancient grizzled miner swung the moth towards open space and headed out of the sector. He could afford to lose ships these days, and after a long week of mining the idea of "interesting" suited him just fine.....

Quirc was also listening to the bickering chatterboxes on open comms, and smirking to himself. Once again, the traders were attempting to drive out the pirates. Not like making pirates your enemies matters a damn... they attack you either way unless you cooperate. But it did mean he'd be flying through some firefights getting wherever he needed to go.

Quirc instructed his AI to monitor the waves for any future information, and set his course for Latos. He had other things to be concerned about, but no sense missing the upcoming entertainment...

Daggoth smirks slightly, reclining on the couch next to Miharu, and fiddles with his AI comm unit, twisting the Rev C this way and that, sweeping in for kills, and diving back out again to dodge. From his far-off planetside vantage point, the Latos evacuation was like a faraway dream, but that didn't keep him from zipping around the place with his AI.

Is this a joke? Trade through Latos will continue, as it always has, w/o a hitch.

yawns :)

Daggoth, you'd fly better if you'd use both hands on the AI comm unit.

So take that other one outta Miharu's...

it doesnt matter who owns what, aslong as those traders boom!