Liberty Forces Message dump - Printable Version

Very tough evening last night. Only just recovered from the stresses of it, however remarkably I'm unscathed - Not sure why that is.. Red One is having half it's electronics and afterburner replaced due to the pounding I took.

We were on patrol of New York we encountered the pirate Go.Crazy and his henchman Jeffery.Hernandez. After orders by Angel, we took on Hernandez. The pilot knows how to fly his Bayonet and he took out Angelina with a well placed mine. I rescued her from her burning ship before fighting on. I reduced the guy down to a handful of bots and bats but the fight was dragging on longer than I anticipated and I was tiring. Eventually I relented and let Tia join the fight. She certainly saved her superior officer and is to be commended. She relentlessly pounded Hernandez until he was nothing more than space dust. I saw his pod eject though, and his comms after the fight warned of future Hernandez destruction. Perhaps a warning, perhaps the words of a madman.

After that fight, We received word of an assault taking place on California by Rheinland forces. I joined the fight midway through the battle to re-enforce our pilots. Our secondary pilots were dropping like flies and although the situation seemed desperate, it was definitely win-able. I jumped in and ordered combined fire on the bodyguard of Jarek. The gunboat was lit up under all our guns and exploded in a haze. The remaining cruiser seeing the destruction of his wingman attempted to surrender. This was obviously disregarded (no mercy is shown to us by the strudels - why should we show any?) and we forced the ship into lower Mojave orbit. We lost a couple more pilots in the final assault, however the cruiser finally relented - exploding with a beautiful fireball in Mojave's orbit. The rogue who helped against the Rheinlanders sped off very quickly as soon as the cruiser was destroyed. A favour to the Navy perhaps? I'll monitor him/her - See what he/she does in the future.

I headed back to the Missouri after getting a new distress call. The AI cruiser - Research-Drone|Chemical was getting dangerously close to Norfolk. He failed to stop in Liberty in my previous evenings patrol, even firing on Navy officers and as such, was treated as a hostile target. A squadron of bombers and an LNS gunboat saw off the cruiser with no casulties - However significant damage was caused to the shipyards by the exploding cruiser as it rammed Norfolk with it's dying breath. Damage control have advised that the shipyards should be back to full operating efficiency within the week. However the under construction Dreadnought bore the brunt of the damage and will be delayed in its launch again.

Finally, we received word of more Rheinland hostiles converging on Texas. At this point I was very tired due to the stresses of the previous fights, however I remained focused and determined enough to take out Jarek. The last remaining fighter however was a problem. After fighting his Wraith for nearly half an hour, I called in backup and made my escape. The Rheinland Wraith ran back to Hamburg the last I heard.

Hopefully - I'll get an easier patrol next time. I'm shattered.. I think I need a drink...