Date: 220909
Planet: Tatoo System/Naboo System/Ord Mantell
Region: Farpoint Valley/Nova Orion Station
Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).
While it has been a bit quiet about the infamous Thunder Pirates and some even assumed they had met their justified end, this band of cutthroats seems back judging by the events last night.
As every week IMC had sent out freighters carrying ore from Farpoint Valley, Tatooine, to the Nova Orion Station in Ord Mantell. This time two freighters, the TTC-Tencilia, a YT-2400 class light freighter piloted by Falcun Nix with his gunner Bio-Din, and the Nova Courier "Miss-Beehavin" captained by Bee Debs launched from Tatooine under the protection of two imperial escorts while a freelance escort had to land shortly after launch due to mechanical trouble.
After such an inauspicious start the convoy lost no time getting into even more serious trouble - it was attacked right away by pirates later identified as the "Thunder Pirates" upon entering the Naboo system at the hyperspace jump point "Royal Way". Led by the assumed flagship "Thunder Retribution", a converted Y-1300, the pirates charged the convoy. In the following battle all involved ships sustained damage.
Despite the skilled defense put up by the Imperial escorts and the gunners of the two freighters the pirates managed to get away with half the cargo of the convoy. If the name of their flagship - "Thunder Retribution" - is indicative of their future plans the Thunder Pirates may be posing a greater problem than anticipated for civilian shipping.
IMC shares fell 5 % at the Coronet Stock Exchange following the news.
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