Today was a glorious victory for the Red Dawn, and a lesson to the Corsairs of Omega 5 not to mess with the Coalition's glorious fighters.
As I was off in the Saratov visiting our Hessian comrades, Lieutenant Commander Lanakov was alerted by the defensive fleet of a freelancer in the home system. After ascertaining that the interloper was of no harm, he escorted the freelancer out of the system and made it known that the Coalition would not indulge him again. Comrade Lanakov then went on a sweep of the Omega systems in an anti-piracy raid.
During this raid, he came across two gunboat-class ships of Kusari origin pirating the lanes in Omega 3. Exercising good judgement, Lanakov endured the barbs slung by the pirates and alerted me to their presence. I flew back from Freital to Mykolaiv for a re-armament of the Saratov to anti-capital ship setup, and Lanakov switched to his Revolution bomber. Sadly, by the time this took place, both pirates left the vicinity. It is my belief that they docked on the Freeport, further implicating Zoners as harboring fugitives.
It was then that the odd Harvester-74 joined Lanakov and the re-armed Saratov, at which point it was decided to sweep the omegas of pirates for the civilians travelling the lanes. As the armada set off to protect the people, we were intercepted by a Corsair gunboat and Titan. They were later re-enforced by a Praetorian, and tried to assert their authority by demanding the Coalition forces leave their systems.
This display of bravado didn't go over well with me or my comrades, who tried in vain to let the Corsairs off easy by seeing them run away, which they did not. Oddly, the Praetorian MadFan decided to shoot first, firing on comrade Lanakov's Revolution, initiating combat. It didn't last long as the gunboat Ell Morro was the first to be terminated by the combine might of Battle Razors and SNAC anti-matter. A great shot by Lanakov's bomber took down the Imperator.
The next to fall was the Titan Gregorio_Chavez to the guns of Harvester-74. After terminating these two targets, the bomber was left flitting around the asteroids. Unfortunately comrade Lanakov was weakened from an earlier engagement, and succumbed to a lucky SNAC shot by the Corsair. After tractoring in his escape pod, the Harvester and I engaged the bomber.
The Praetorian targeted my Storm, and I was lucky a couple of times, but through our combined efforts the bomber finally went down.
The Harvester and myself proceeded back to Omega-52 to get Lanakov to the med-bay and the Saratov to repair dock. A good day for the Revolution indeed.