While today's engagements went by rather quickly, they were nevertheless notable.

The South Dakota, while originally responding to a call of a Unioner warship in Texas, was instead met by a Coalition destroyer. In time, support arrived in the form of the cruiser L.N.S. Theseus, the carrier Semper Fortis and pilot Josh Porter of the secondary, as well as the assistance of the L.N.S. Brigadier. The destroyer, accompanied by own own fallen in the form of Jack Edison, now a confirmed separatist, proceeded to be engaged by Liberty forces, and with both Edison's downing by Porter and the destroyer's being put out of action, the decision was made to proceed farther south to investigate the Separatists in kind in Bering, albeit without the support of the Theseus.

We were met by a bomber swarm consisting of Kelly O'Brien and Cheryl Augustine of Harmony, as well as Captain Blackwings and the SSRT|-Deltahawk. While we'd informed them of our intent to merely request their surrender, the stubbornness of the separatists rebuked with full forces, their swarms engaging the task force in full. While self-defense turret do go a way against strikecraft, Ms. O'Brien managed to slip from the engagement, calling the Harmony itself to enter the fight. The ship sustained marginal damage, numerous hits by the South Dakota's torpedo salvos and main battery guns, as well as the long range fire from the Semper Fortis and the Brigadier, but was eventually pushed back, retreating beyond the trade lane to the south. The decision was made then to turn back towards safer space, leaving the separatists to lick their wounds. Deltahawk was a confirmed downing, but the rest were left to ponder their defeat.

After that, the task forces was disassembled and returned to normal duties. Another day won, though with marginal results.
That is all.

A small but notable engagement, the Durango responded to a report of two hostile Unioner warships near the Houston perimeter. While the surprise was not unwarranted, to find them simply sitting outside the arms reach of the Scrap Palace's gun emplacements was unusual.

We were further accompanied by the L.N.S. Amadaeus, as well as pilots Josh Porter and Lance Woodhead of the secondary and 'Chaos', a bounty hunter. Conversations were exchanged, the usual Unioner banter that attempted to demoralize, but in due time they were given a choice to either leave Liberty and spare our crews the damage, or engage and be destroyed. While they pegged the former, it wasn't long before they were given an ultimatum, having wasted time that could've been better put elsewhere. After the battleship's fruitless effort to swat out pilot Porter, a response was sent in kind.

The warships were put out of action, a message to their people to be mindful of what they send our way.
That is all.