Originally by: Gindar

---

region: verge vendor
security status: 0.3

i was drawn to not this system but a nearby because i the map showed many ship losses in the last hour. equipped with salvagers i was on my way. i stopped in loes because i thought it had a funny name:

Gindar > shop at loes
Okura's > shop for what? ;-)
Gindar > all your hardware needs

just then, about 7 haulers jumped in. some of them warped to a station. the rest just decloaked and started floating around like stainless steel balloons. some of them had suspicious names.

Gindar > whats with the macros
Okura's > dont know, haulers all
Okura's > shoot them
Gindar > freaky

at the same time i was thinking, "wait a minute, haulers in lowsec?! this is not right!" and apparently not! the place seemed to be a haven for mission runners, some of which couldn't speak english.

Gindar > this place needs more pirates

at this point about 4 haulers targetted me and 1 of them convo'd. i accepted.

cptbeaver > hi
Gindar > sup
cptbeaver > go
Gindar > go where?
cptbeaver > loes 3
Gindar > why are there so many haulers and macro names
cptbeaver > why
Gindar > yeah. how come?
cptbeaver > you

i just couldn't shake the feeling that this guy was using a translator. i warped to the said station to find out more. there i found a brutix just outside station. i tried to scare him by targetting him and mwd'ing around him, but he just warped to somewhere in deadspace. then a dominix undocked. he had an english sounding name, so i thought maybe i'd ask him what's going on.

missbort > WHAT？
Gindar > hi, sorry to bother you
Gindar > what the heck is going on with this system?
Gindar > no one speaks english
missbort > I DONæT KONW

bewildered and frightened i closed the convo. at this point i put in my pipe and donned my sherlock holmes hat. i warped to the other station and docked, hoping to find the answer to the riddle. and there it was, the source of all the strangeness.

Loes 5 Moon 19 Roden Shipyards

Level 4 Quality 20 Distribution Agents. FIVE of them.

overwhelmed by an alice in wonderland feeling, and in awe at the total void of piracy in the area, i cringed as i watched hauler after hauler warp in and out freely, and dominix's and cruisers warping in and out of mission deadspace.

---