Again, this is from a piece of scurrilous and provocative journalism written by the player running Anastasia, the psionicist and journalist who publishes pieces anonymously under the pen name “Mind’s Eye” in the Syndalian Banner news-sheet.
It should be noted that the sudden upsurge of piracy in Hilfer was largely caused by the players deploying two of their ships – the Shinkiro and the Grey Area (formerly Ferrik Redthane’s flagship) – to the system to apply some indirect pressure.
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Your reporter’s Hilfer contacts have been loud in their lamentation over the seemingly unstoppable pilfering in Hilfer, with multiple confirmed instances of cargo ships being de-cargoed by the increasingly bold pirate fleet operating in system – seemingly without the least fear of interruption, let alone apprehension. Readers who have been following the dusty trail of recycled tears that is Hilfer’s domestic political scene will be shocked, shocked I tell you when they read that the power structures traditionally keen to explain away their continued failure to provide a reliable glass of water are once again blaming the boogeyman of Drinax.
Waving away as a tissue of facts the brilliant operation against the notorious Ferrik Redthane by Drinaxian operatives, and dismissing as mere coincidence the sudden pause in pirate activity when those self-same operatives appeared in Hilfer, Hilfer’s political leaders continue to peddle a narrative as dusty as the Low Port’s cisterns rather than swallow their dessicated pride and take the opportunity to reach out to a local proven anti-piracy force in the Reach.
We wonder if the average Hilferian is thirsty for change yet.
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