::Incoming Transmission::
Comm id: Cloud McGannon aboard the Fires of Liberation
Message begins:
This message is soley for commodore Robinson.
Since captain Redline still hasn't returned, I'll send the message instead.
Engineer Roy Basker will report to your quarters tommorrow at 14.00 ma'am for eh, a physical examination. I trust we can keep the ret of the inspection to ourselves? The bit about the playboys, kiddyporn and a dead dog in the storeroom. And the Weed stash and stolen booze in the armoury. As well as the strippoker playing engineers. Please say yes.
Cloud McGannon
end of message.
Transmission; Start
Identification: Commodore Christina Robinson
Location: Texas system, Planet Houston
Commander McGannon;
The Booze and the dead dog shouldn't pose any sort of problem, since they're no longer in your ship, the Fires of Liberation. As for the rest, well... that depends if your commanding officer, though I doubt how Redline came about the position, burns them in a fire somewhere quiet.
As for Engineer Basker and the officers that he was playing strip poker with.
I'm sure we can keep that quiet, depending on how fit for duty Basker is.
Transmission Terminated
LPI Customs Report, Standard Form
Officer ID: Frank Austin
Badge Code: CUST707
Identifier: This is Frank Austin, pilot of the unimaginatively named customs vessel Liberty.Customs.
Locations:I began my patrol in New York, and proceeded to Texas where I linked up with two LSF capital vessels bearing the AEGIS designation.
Comments: We encountered a foolish smuggler inbound to New York in a Humpback carrying Rheinland diamonds. His ship ID was Ray.Blackwell. Despite our demands to stop, we received no reply from his ship at any time. He narrowly escaped through the trade lane to the New York gate, but we caught up to him at the gate where a navy officer had cleverly locked it down with his own jump request.
Further demands and an ultimatum went ignored, and when he tried to flee yet again he ate cruise disruptors and the combined firepower of the AEGIS battlegroup. A comm log of the final transmissions are included below.
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It is worth noting that the vessel N.W.A was an incredibly insubordinate Navy Gunboat that complained longly and bitterly about the Rheinland blockade. He ignored the orders of the AEGIS group to stand down and land on Houston for a mental health evaluation, and his command was terminated. I am assured a detailed report will be submitted to higher authorities.
INCOMING TRANSMISSION
Sender: Plodlington
Location: Fort Bush
Target: Frank Austin
Subject: Embargo
Mr Austin, Diamonds are not considered to be contraband and so long as they are indeed the said commodity then the trader is free to bring them in. This includes War Diamonds. By all means have them checked over just be on the safe side, although their destination is most likely capable of performing that task.
We don't really go about destroying freighters, even a Rheinland one, unless it's absolutely necessary. Of course, this one appears to have made off without any attempt at communicating so it was probably the best option to take it out as it may have been a spy that speaks only a Rheinland tongue. After all, refusal to comply, and it's usually rather obvious that you wish for them to stop even if they don't understand the wording, may be met with deadly force. Rheinland transports are of course prohibited and regardless of their cargo.
Please familarise yourself with the embargo, see
[here] and section 0.2 which clearly states:
Quote: Non-military goods bound from Rheinland to Liberty are permitted.
Regards,
Plod.
TRANSMISSION TERMINATED
***Incoming transmission...***
"Subject ID: Recruit Christopher Hood, Primary Liberty Naval fleet division"
"Source: Battleship Missouri"
Good day, officers.
Atmosphere today was pretty chaotic. I was in space near Manhattan when I received a message from Lieutenant K. Toliman. A minute after we met by Missouri and started our patrol duty. We've met a transport with diamonds aboard and stopped him. He has been refusing to leave our space, but after some time we persuaded him to do so.
Lieutenant Toliman ordered to escort him out of space of Liberty. Me and secondary fleet pilot Jefferson Lee have escorted him out into Bering.
When I was en route to Manhattan, I've spotted a Rogue vessel. This was an average-armed bomber, easy target. He yelled that I should die, then I decided that so must be it. While we were fighting, I managed to get his hull was decompressing and a Naval capital ships patrol spotted him about this time, then with a great aim the gunner of Cruiser destroyed his ship completely.
That would be all.
Attached snap(s):
Recruit Hood out.
***Transmission terminated...***
Comm ID: Jenkin Shiv.
Location: LSFC Leyte Gulf, Task Force AEGIS.
Please instruct this captain that if Liberty forces are reporting multiple Rhinland capital ships, they probably exist and it is a good idea to respond accordingly to a request for assistance, rather than insist that the vessels do not exist.
[Inbound Transmission]
--Streaming--
Captain Jack Malrone
>RE: Garble.
Captain Shiv,
It seems to me that all you've recorded is garble on the comms from the Raleigh's Captain. If I remember correctly, Vice Admiral Anderson commands that gunboat - Meaning he'd have up-to-the-nanosecond information about whats happening in the fleet. Its likely the Vice Admiral saw the sizable fleet you already had and knew backup was probably not required.
Is that all, Captain?
Captain Jack Malrone
--Stream End
[Transmission End]