CORSAIRS ATTACKED FREEPORT 9, OMICRON THETA

Corsair forces launch assault on fleeting Zoners

Fernando Martinez here with CORSAIRNET
West, We've received news that the Empire's flagship Charon, laid siege
to Freeport 9 in neighboring Omicron Theta today. Experts claim the
Zoner deathtoll neared 600, with nearly a thousand more bounty hunters
and zoner civilians injured. Admiral Danube, the commanding officer of
the Charon, gave the orders to enter Omicron Theta, and make the Zoners
feel "uncomfortable". Uncomfortable to say the least. Corsair patrols
bordering the southern cloud of Theta gave eye witness accounts of the
Charon's awesome display of power, calling it "a rain of flak-death from
every possible angle," said one Legionary recruit. "the Zoners had no
idea what hit them", Legionary Decanus Armand Christoph said, "we
watched as our cruiser decimated their numbers as they poured out of
Freeport 10 to defend it. The station itself received heavy damage."

As
for this new turn in violence, the Council of Elders on New Heraklion
gave motive. "For too long the nomadic Zoners have been a thorn in our
side, supplying our enemies the hunters with a forward outpost to
commence attacks. They feed off of the war that rages between the
hunters, the Corsairs and the Outcasts, preferring to stay *neutral* so
that they may reap the rewards of our losses. Well no more!" Councilman
Cicada said, "it is time that the Corsairs move forward, and push these
pests from the fringe worlds forever. They will not stay within the
borders of our great nation. Instead, they will drop like flies as we
pick them from space, and drive their wretched way of life back to the
petty houses from which they came."

This new offensive is
expected to continue, as reported by Admiral Danube and his crew on the
Charon, which remains posted only 10k from Freeport 10. "As long as the
Zoners stay there, we will continue to pound them until they surrender
by attrition, or they are all dead", Danube said, "We cannot continue to
let them host our enemies so that they may pester us in the future. The
time to end this is now."

It seems as though the Corsair Armada
is poised to remove the Zoners from Omicron Theta and beyond. This is
Fernando Martinez with CORSAIRNET West, signing off.