With the liberators still out of service for the shield repairs (Lazy LPI Engineers) I again took command of the Fort.Dix for my patrol. I patrolled New York, Pennsylvania, and Colorado without any incident. I was asked by the navy to assist with a cloaked pirate. Upon confronting this ship with the full might of [LN] and LPI the pirate immediately docked in fear of our fleet. After this incident I picked up a Rheinland vessel in Texas through Long Range Scans. Our combined fleet swept through Texas without finding this vessel which eventually retreated.
I think it would be in LPI's best interest to install a Sunbucks kiosk on the Fort Dix. I keep running out of donuts while I am out on patrol.
After my morning trip to Sunbucks I reported to the flight deck for duty. I look around the dock for my Liberator.
"Your Liberator is still down for repairs." the Chief Engineer yells to me. "The flux capacitor is still out of alignment."
"Hmmmm" I thought to myself. " I don't remember any flux capacitor on board my ship. That doesn't even sound like a real part."
I shake off the thought and walked down to the fighter deck to find another ship for today's patrol. I see the four Raven's Talon Prototype Fighters sitting off away from the rest of the ships. They are spotless having just been through a major overhaul. They bristle with the most advanced weaponry in LPI and are equipped for any situation. I check them out and see they are prepped for flight. I look around and see no one.
"Well, These are SWAT ships and I am a SWAT member. I don't think anyone would mind me borrowing one of them."
I hopped into the cockpit of Ravens.Wing.2 and launched into space. I push the fighter to its limits inside Illinois and then jumped into Colorado where I start my patrol.I encountered no hostiles in this system. I then went through the jump hole into New York looking for any unlawfuls. Finding none I patrolled the trade lanes and then jumped to California. While I was scouting near the jump gate to Magellan, I received a report from Fort Bush of a pirate call sign SilverOcelot at the Pennsylvania Jump Gate in NY.
I searched throughout New York with no sign of him on TLAGSNET. I finally caught sight of him at the Colorado gate and followed him through. After the jump I engaged this pirate. He was however a formidable opponent and after a fierce battle my fighter was destroyed and I was forced to eject my pod.
I floated through space for a several days before a USI trader spotted me and picked me up. I returned back to Police Plaza and was immediately escorted to a room full of angry Deputy Chiefs. One of them approached me and with a very sarcastic tone said,
"Congratulations, Young man. You just destroyed one of our most advanced fighters. Do you have any idea how much that ship cost?"
"Probably less then you spend on donuts, Sir." I replied and watched the Deputy Chief swell with rage.
"What!!!! How dare you insult a ranking LPI officer. I am gonna find the worst punishment possible for you after that remark."
He glares at me and notices my considerable girth caused by many years of coffee and donuts and thinks for a moment. He then slowly smiles and says,
"I know just how to punish you. He walks over towards the door and shouts.
"Secretary, Cancel this man's Sunbucks privileges!"
"Noooooooooooooooo, Please Not my Sunbucks" I screamed.
"Please", I beg. "Can't you just taze me instead?"
I headed down to the flight deck this morning to find my Liberator with its repairs completed.
"It's a good thing my ships finally fixed," I thought."With my Sunbucks privileges still revoked I probably would have flipped out at the Chief engineer if it wasn't."
I jump in the cockpit and pull out a small coffeemaker from my duffel bag. "Well no Sunbucks but I will still have some coffee." I thought. "Ill just have to figure out how to install this thing."
I lean under the control panel and pull some power cords so I can splice them with the coffeemaker.
After 10 mins or so of working the Chief Engineer walks up and yells.
"What are you doing. I just got that ship fixed and now you are ripping apart the cockpit."
"I'm just trying to install this coffeemaker. Calm down I am not gonna hurt the ship," I replied.
"Its against LPI regulations to have any beverage dispensers in patrol craft.
Also that coffeemaker will draw too much energy from the smaller power core we had to install.
So unhook the coffeemaker," he demanded.
I grin at him and pull a bottle out of my duffel bag.
"How about a small bribe for your silence," I ask. "Is a bottle of 30 year old Gallic wine sufficient."
He stares at me and asks,"Where did you get that?"
"I confiscated it from a smuggler. Do we have a deal?" I ask.
"Hmm.... Alright, If you hook the coffeemaker to the scanner array it shouldn't affect your power supply too much." He takes the wine and stuffs it under his uniform and heads away.
After hooking up the coffeemaker I head out to space and start my patrol.
I patrolled Colorado, New York, Texas, and Pennsylvania without any incident.
I then went to Manhattan and established a checkpoint outside the docking ring.
I did not find any smugglers and eventually received a report of a rogue destroyer near west point.
I called for reinforcements and an Assault Carrier answered my summons.
Together we engaged this hostile who almost immediately fled into the badlands.
We did not pursue and I received no more reports of this hostile.
Today was my first day on the job and it was a very interesting day. I started out by sitting next to Planet Manhattan, scanning and greeting everyone that went by. Things started to tense up a little later, as one person (Funny.Sunny) randomly started shooting at Trenton Outpost. I decided to not have anything to do with this and let the stations kill him.
Later, I came across this fellow named Jaron_Voidrunner, I scanned him and found 3400 tons of Synthetic Marijuana. I attempted to pull him over, but he refused and continued docking, so I waited until he undocked. When he undocked, I told him to halt and demanded 4 million as payment for his unlawful actions. He refused and said he was never carrying any Synthetic Marijuana. I had a witness say he did infact have it in his cargo hold. We finally came to an agreement on 1 million, because I did not have screenshot proof of his crime and we parted ways. Here is a log of our conversation.
Quote:[19.11.2013 01:51:26] LPI-Jadin.Larsen[RO]: Jaron
[19.11.2013 01:51:40] Jaron_Voidrunner: Yes officer
[19.11.2013 01:51:55] LPI-Jadin.Larsen[RO]: 4 Mill fine
[19.11.2013 01:52:10] Jaron_Voidrunner: For what I broke no laws
[19.11.2013 01:52:32] LPI-Jadin.Larsen[RO]: Weed is illegal
[19.11.2013 01:53:01] Jaron_Voidrunner: I have no idea what you are talking about
[19.11.2013 01:53:26] Jaron_Voidrunner: I was trasnsporting pharma good from Cryer
[19.11.2013 01:53:31] LPI-Jadin.Larsen[RO]: 4 million fine.
[19.11.2013 01:53:44] Jaron_Voidrunner: Sure cryer would never sell illegal goods
[19.11.2013 01:53:49] bob_dole: I can testify that i scaned his hold and found weed.
[19.11.2013 01:54:32] Jaron_Voidrunner: Unless you can provide just cause for holding me I will leave
[19.11.2013 01:54:39] LPI-Jadin.Larsen[RO]: 4 million, now.
[19.11.2013 01:54:48] LPI-Jadin.Larsen[RO]: I have a witness
[19.11.2013 01:55:29] Jaron_Voidrunner: Then take me to court the body of evidence is against you
[19.11.2013 01:55:56] Jaron_Voidrunner: Am I carrying illegal goods NOW at this time, if not then let me pass
[19.11.2013 01:56:05] LPI-Jadin.Larsen[RO]: Call it 2 million and you can leave.
[19.11.2013 01:56:27] Jaron_Voidrunner: THIS IS POLICE CORRUPTION AT THE VERY WORST
[19.11.2013 01:56:44] Jaron_Voidrunner: At most I will pay 200k to get you to go away
[19.11.2013 01:57:13] LPI-Jadin.Larsen[RO]: Yeah right, 200k doesn't even buy me a dozen donuts.
[19.11.2013 01:57:56] Jaron_Voidrunner: Do you REALLY need those dougnuts... Oh wait munchies I understand 1 million
[19.11.2013 01:58:18] LPI-Jadin.Larsen[RO]: Fine, 1 million.
[19.11.2013 02:00:18] You have received 1.000.000 credits from Jaron_Voidrunner
[19.11.2013 02:00:30] Jaron_Voidrunner: Now be a good piggy and go away
[19.11.2013 02:00:50] LPI-Jadin.Larsen[RO]: *pulls out tazer with donut in left hand*
Later, I met this nice fellow named LPI-SWAT-J.Valent[H], he helped me improve my combat skills, as well as improve the strength of my ship. We received a distress call from a man named SUSA]-Recovery:
Quote:[19.11.2013 03:15:18] SUSA]-Recovery: VESESLS NAMED GHOST AND CID. UNDER ATTACK. ASSISTANCE TEXAS GATE
We were unable to help in time, because 30 seconds later, we saw this:
Quote:[19.11.2013 03:15:49] Death: SUSA]-Recovery was killed by Cid.Trippin (Gun)
We decided to pursue this Cid.Trippin fellow and bring him to justice. He was uncooperative and got the help of a Xeno (XA-Mamba) to kill us. I was wiped out immediately and J.Valent was wiped out shortly after. Here is a log of our conversation.
Quote:[19.11.2013 03:34:13] Cid.Trippin: Want some?
[19.11.2013 03:35:03] LPI-Jadin.Larsen[RO]: Cid halt
[19.11.2013 03:35:10] XA-Mamba.: My my if it ain't the infamous LPI *laughs*
[19.11.2013 03:35:32] LPI-Jadin.Larsen[RO]: You are suspected for murder.
[19.11.2013 03:35:40] Cid.Trippin: Sure Larson. I'll stop to watch the Zeno kill both of you. lol
[19.11.2013 03:35:50] Cid.Trippin: hahahahaha
[19.11.2013 03:36:23] Cid.Trippin: Well?
[19.11.2013 03:36:38] XA-Mamba.: Ya know I've killed quite a few fellas in my day as well
[19.11.2013 03:36:45] LPI-Jadin.Larsen[RO]: 5 mil and you can go
[19.11.2013 03:36:46] Cid.Trippin: Si
[19.11.2013 03:36:47] XA-Mamba.: Ya gonna arrest me too?
[19.11.2013 03:36:53] Death: LPI-Jadin.Larsen[RO] was killed by Cid.Trippin (Gun)
Well, that is a summary of my very first day as an LPI Recruit Officer!
To: LPI High Command ID: Sargeant Samms Location: New York Priority: MEDIUM Subject: Patrol
Report 16
Order gunboat Peacebringer, trespassing and just passed through.
Of more concern was the erratic behaviour of one of our regular visitors Hans.von.Goeben
This involved a prolonged period of erratic comms and failure to respond sensibly to requests. I was on the verge of declaring the vessel, a Renzu Liner as a space hazard when eventual order was restored.
It is possible it was a malfunctioning E.V.E. AI unit, apparently a prototype, and whilst I have no reason to disbelieve there is reasonable doubt other factors were at play.
Asked him to get the E.V.E. unir serviced by an AutomatedDroidAppraisalModule in order to hopefully rectify and informed pilot he would be raised in our "interested" file to check it does not happen again.
To: LPI High Command ID: Sargeant Samms Location: New York Priority: MEDIUM Subject: Patrol
Report 16
Order gunboat Peacebringer, trespassing and just passed through.
Of more concern was the erratic behaviour of one of our regular visitorsHans.von.Goeben
This involved a prolonged period of erratic comms and failure to respond sensibly to requests. I was on the verge of declaring the vessel, a Renzu Liner as a space hazard when eventual order was restored.
It is possible it was a malfunctioning E.V.E. AI unit, apparently a prototype, and whilst I have no reason to disbelieve there is reasonable doubt other factors were at play.
Asked him to get the E.V.E. unir serviced by an AutomatedDroidAppraisalModule in order to hopefully rectify and informed pilot he would be raised in our "interested" file to check it does not happen again.
To: LPI High Command ID: Sargeant Samms Location: New York Priority: MEDIUM Subject: Patrol
Report 16
Order gunboat Peacebringer, trespassing and just passed through.
Of more concern was the erratic behaviour of one of our regular visitorsHans.von.Goeben
This involved a prolonged period of erratic comms and failure to respond sensibly to requests. I was on the verge of declaring the vessel, a Renzu Liner as a space hazard when eventual order was restored.
It is possible it was a malfunctioning E.V.E. AI unit, apparently a prototype, and whilst I have no reason to disbelieve there is reasonable doubt other factors were at play.
Asked him to get the E.V.E. unir serviced by an Automated.Droid.Appraisal.Module. in order to hopefully rectify and informed pilot he would be raised in our "interested" file to check it does not happen again.
Patrolled through New York, Pennsylvania, and California without encountering anything of interest. When I reached Texas I started hearing strange chatter on the open system wide comms. This chatter was from a Rheinland Wraith that I eventually located in the North Dallas Debris Field. This Rheinlander named Katharina.Sonnen who sounded suspiciously like a nomad started explaining that she was searching for a terrorist named Kole.Buriet. I insisted that the she leave liberty space immediately and that I would forward any information about this criminal to rheinland high command. She complied and left Texas. The strange thing however was the weapons loadout on her ship. She was equipped with 4 Adapated Nomad Cannons which might signal that Rhineland warships are rearming with Nomad technology.
[21.12.2013 23:07:01] Katharina.Sonnen: "Here you are...finally"
[21.12.2013 23:07:08] LPI-SWAT-J.Valent[E]: So rheinlander do we have a problem
[21.12.2013 23:07:21] Katharina.Sonnen: "Problem?"
[21.12.2013 23:10:02] Katharina.Sonnen: "I am just to tell you that a LWB member named Kole.Buriet is in your territory now"
[21.12.2013 23:10:56] Katharina.Sonnen: "I just got the order from the higher command to take her back to Rheinland"
[21.12.2013 23:11:10] Katharina.Sonnen: "She got something we want"
[21.12.2013 23:12:48] Katharina.Sonnen: "she is under arrest for pirating traders in our space"
[21.12.2013 23:13:19] Katharina.Sonnen: *{You see a woman fighting a strange vessel in a star..}*
[21.12.2013 23:14:05] LPI-SWAT-J.Valent[E]: you shouldnt be in our space without a official communique from your government
[21.12.2013 23:14:48] Katharina.Sonnen: "Then I ask you to bring her to here for me?"
[21.12.2013 23:15:32] LPI-SWAT-J.Valent[E]: hold please....(Accessing TLAGSNET)
[21.12.2013 23:16:19] Katharina.Sonnen: *{She lost the battle...and was taken away by ~her~ to a secret "hive"}*
[21.12.2013 23:17:25] LPI-SWAT-J.Valent[E]: I have located the ship however you must leave liberty space
[21.12.2013 23:17:51] Katharina.Sonnen: "Gut...."
[21.12.2013 23:18:43] Katharina.Sonnen: "It is my first time to see that Liberty polizei will cooperate with us"
[21.12.2013 23:20:35] Katharina.Sonnen: **...'we' shall depart now...**
I started my patrol around Planet Manhattan. Soon after launching I was contacted by Deputy Chief Bauer. He had decided to get away from the desk and run a patrol.
We headed out to California after receiving reports of rogue ships. Immediately after jumping into California we found LR-Paradise.Bomber and Tony_Marani. After a robust threat by DC Bauer they fled into the field and we did not pursue.
We returned to Manhattan where we were soon joined by Recruit Officer Roger Wilkins. We got another report of pirates and found the same two rogues near the badlands jumphole.
After a lengthy exchange of threats Roger and I engaged the rogues. We fought them until they fled through the jumphole. After this incident I encountered LPI-Leavenworth who advised me about an Outcast Cruiser in New York.
A combined fleet of LNS, LSF, and LPI was gathered to find this ship. The ship was located near the Colorado jumphole in NY.
LPI-Leavenworth was first to engage the hostiles. I covered the Leavenworth while it engaged the cruiser. The Leavenworth fought well and even though she limped off the battlefield the target was destroyed.
I ran an extended patrol today as things were awfully busy. I started out assisting LPI-Rokuro-Mizushima with a couple of Hackers near California Minor. I then received reports of a pirate call-sign Robert.Fletcher. Several naval vessels and myself encountered this hostile near Rochester. It was a very long engagement that went from Rochester through the jumphole to the Xeno base in Colorado, The battle resulted in a stalemate as Robert fled from us.
Later I went to patrol the Pennsylvania system and encountered a rogue destroyer call-sign Scylla. "Red.Moon". After a lengthily comm exchange the LNS-Jupiter and myself encountered this vessel outside Philadelphia station. In the ensuing battle the Jupiter was destroyed and Scylla limped away with massive hull damage. I was engaged by azure.flare during the battle which prevented me from finishing off Scylla. After a extended engagement I killed Azure near Erie.
I then went into the New York system where I found the navy engaged with several Reavers in the Badlands. Against my better judgement I entered into the Badlands to assist the navy. I engaged Cerulean,Reaver and after a fierce battle my ship was destroyed and I was forced to jettison. I am now floating through the Badlands in my escape pod as I write this. Hopefully ill be picked up before my air supply runs out.