Date: 061008
Planet: Tatooine/Naboo System/Ord Mantell
Region: Farpoint Valley/Nova Orion Station
Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).
The pirate activity in the Naboo system might have tapered off, but the pirates did not vanish - they just moved their hunting grounds. Today's IMC convoy, ferrying steel from Tatooine to Ord Mantell, encountered no pirates in the Naboo system.
But when the three ships - captain Ryian Coron's X-4 "Defiance", captain Drake's "Crimson Eclipse", escorted by pilot Motoko Isawa - arrived in the Ord Mantell system, four pirates jumped them. The "Defiance" boosted straight at the station upon contact, and made a rushed but successful landing under fire. The "Crimson Eclipse" did not fare as well, depsite the help from hte escort, and came under heavy fire, After the escort was taken out, the vigo-class freighter crashed into the station, losing her cargo to the raiders. Fortunately no crew member died during the crash, and the ship was deemed repairable by the experts of the Nova Orion shipyard.
The escort pilot, Isawa, was in more dire straits though - disabled, and without communication, drifting in hostile space. So the "Defiance" launched from the station in order to recover the fighter - or what was left of it. The ship came under attack soon, and had to fight off several pirates, shooting down an ARC-170, before the escort pilot was saved and delivered to the med bay of the station. Her injuries were deemed serious, but not life threatening.
IMC stock fell 2 % at the Coronet Stock Exhange.
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