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COMM ID: Captain Joshua Ashfield
TARGET ID: Liberty Navy Reporting Terminal
SUBJECT: Spyglass
ENCRYPTION: Medium
PRIORITY: Medium
Had to answer a distress call coming from Secondary Fleet patrols near the orbit of Manhattan. They requested heavy artillery so once again I got into the bridge of Cloverfield and cruised at full speed towards the coordinates I was sent. The heavy artillery proved to be necessary since... well, a Spyglass battleship was literally parked next to a Liner -which was blown up later, ouch-. Anyway, the Cerberus turrets of the Cloverfield managed to scratch the hull of the hostile battleship until it activated it's cruise engines and set course to Rochester. Yeah, Rochester.
Ashfield out.
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COMM ID: [color=#99FFFF] Ensign James Colibrie
TARGET ID: Liberty Navy Reporting Terminal
SUBJECT: Quiet Patrol
ENCRYPTION: Medium
PRIORITY: Low
About an hour ago I started my patrol in New York. Surprisingly, there was not a single pirate or smuggler around at the lanes from Manhattan > West Point > Norfolk >Fort Bush > Pittsburg > Fort Bush > Colorado Gate > Fort Bush > Norfolk > Texas Gate > Norfolk > West Point > California Gate.
I jumped over to Cali, just to encounter the same amount of pirates there. New York Gate > Mojave > Los Angeles > Cortez Gate > Ontario Gate > Cortez Gate > Los Angeles > Magellan Gate > Cali. Minor > Mojave > New York Gate.
I moved towards Texas and, suprise, nobody was around there first. I patrolled the system up to the Hudson Jump Gate, where I encountered a Samura Transport, fortunately not breaking the embargo.
In Hudson the situation was the same, no activity.
I decided to move into Hamburg system and check the situation at the Westfalen. And there really was a Rheinland Gunboat, alone without backup. The RNC-Nordsee, it retreated after seeing me on it's scanners.
A rather quiet patrol, so I decided to end at that point.
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COMM ID: [color=#3366FF]Captain Catherine Raven
TARGET ID: Fleet Admiral David Hale
SUBJECT: Launders
ENCRYPTION: Medium
PRIORITY: Medium
Good evening, Admiral.
I happened to come across a pilot of the infamous Soaring Ducks squadron. This particular individual was openly firing at a secondary fleet pilot of the Navy.
I tried shedding some light into the scenery, tried making out the cause of this kindergarten, but got nothing but even more unacceptable behaviour from the pilot, called Jason Launders.
If necessary, I can provide logged files of the conversation, but he clearly asked me to talk to you about the situation, since "you are able to explain", he said.
Enlighten me, Admiral...
Raven out.
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COMM ID: [color=#99FFFF]Fleet Admiral David Hale
TARGET ID: Captain Catherine Raven
SUBJECT: Jason Launders
ENCRYPTION: Medium
PRIORITY: Medium
Hale here.
Launders isn't a name I've heard in a long time, and I can't think of any reason I'd know what he was up to with regards to shooting a secondary fleet pilot. Maybe the logs would be enlightening.
I have my doubts that I'd know what he was up to, even if I did receive the logs, but you're more than welcome to send them in my direction.
Hale out.
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COMM ID: [color=#3366FF]Captain Catherine Raven
TARGET ID: Fleet Admiral David Hale
SUBJECT: Launders
ENCRYPTION: Medium
PRIORITY: Medium
Good morning.
I don't think wasting more time by sending you these files is necessary. I'll make sure he'll be put down soon enough.
Thank you for your answer, Admiral.
Raven out.
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COMM ID: [color=#99FFFF] Ensign James Colibrie
TARGET ID: Liberty Navy Reporting Terminal
SUBJECT: Pirate Group/Gang
ENCRYPTION: Medium
PRIORITY: Medium
On another patrol earlier in the day I encountered a group of pirates I already saw a few days ago.
These pirates, name tagged Ghost~of~FirstName.LastName/Nickname seem to be operating all over Liberty and are growing in size. From what I saw lately, they seem to be flying Bombers and Fighters, Civilian and Borderworlds Design.
Also, those pirates are only seen in Groups of two or bigger and they are more and more frequently attacking larger Navy ships. However, when encountered by snubcraft, they tend to be cautious and mostly draw back to a nearby base or into Bretonian space.
I suggest paying a lot more attention to these folks, since they interrupt commercial traffic, rob, extort and destroy trading ships on many occasions, besides targeting Navy Capitals here and there.
I was able to collect very little evidence of their pirate-dom, by scanning one of their ships during a chase:
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Ensign Colibrie out.
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COMM ID: [color=#99FFFF] Ensign Aleesha Cooper
TARGET ID: Liberty Navy Reporting Terminal
SUBJECT: Simple as that
ENCRYPTION: Medium
PRIORITY: Medium
The following material is the summary of the considerably important information regarding last patrol and (or) reconnaissance assignments. It would as brief as possible given that no generally important information was collected during that definite period of time.
First of all, I had updated the signature on the Colony Ship under Zoner affiliation that had opened fire on our wing in Omicron Minor. We hadn't yet identified what line of the data collected was the reason of such an outcome, but that operation appeared to be dangerous, not to say deadly, when two Osiris class Battleships, a Light Carrier and the assorted snubcraft were sent against our small wing of fighters and a single bomber. We managed to make it away from there, no pilots had been lost, yet the ship of a secondary fleet officer had suffered a catastrophic decompression. During that operation the Dreadnought controlling the perimeter was also lost heavily damaged; let me put a reminder here: the whole situation was unexpected, we took all the means to reduce the losses.
The pirate transport bearing the Ghost~of identification was stopped in meters from the Rochester docking points. Junkers hadn't yet voiced the official complaint regarding the incident, yet I doubt it would happen at all.
Finally, a group of Liberty Rogues and Maltese had been intercepted and destroyed deep in Badlands. This fortunate occasion hadn't provided us with anything but stars on our wings. Their location, their methods of operations were as usual as they could be.
Aleesha Cooper out.
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