Me and Cly were on a patrol from New London after resting on Canterbury Station. After chasing the Slave Runner i felt a little bit sick, b.but I did my medicine and i felt better, we took the lane into dublin and i could hear the rowdy talking of the BAF vessels on the radio, soon they were in uproar.. they said.. a alien the size of a cruiser had been found in New London... I.. I didnt,, know they got that big, soon after this... I started to hear them.. in my head. whispering to me.. i couldnt understand them... and then 2 nomad ships came..
I was with the mercenary Tyronne Hopper, who was helping me train, then suddenly the blue.. things began to attack us, more BAF arrived and the fight escalated when another the BAF lost many ships, 2 alien Heavy Fighters, 1 Light Fighter and Bomber sized ships were all fighting.
Cly took a few scrapes but in the end we took down one of the heavy fighters with help from Hopper-san
a cruiser captain took down the other heavy fighter with a swift Battlerazor to its.. um, body.
since the other ships seemed to be too slow to adequatly track the agile alien vessels i was doing alot of the work making sure their shields were down and slowly me and Cly were chipping away at their bodies... the kills were logged as BAF kills despite out hard work..
I was at the leeds blockade when a lane hacker Roc bomber suddenly approached from the stokes lane, me and Cly quicklt moved from under the Derby and asked him to stop, but before we could do anything the hacker used the trade lane to dublin, i asked him to stop many times and he refused to I opened fire on him, i managed to dent his hull a fair amount, and then i recieved unbelieveable amounts of static from him.
I scanned him again and his bomber was actually unarmed, during the fighting we ended up in Dublin, he must have called for help, because soon there was 2 mollys teling me to back off the hacker, I refused and so they decided to join in, meanwhile the hacker Roc escaped so it was 2 v 1 on my hussar, Cly recieved a communication from trusted mercenary Tyronne Hopper-san and he came from far away to to help me defeat the mollys, during the course of the fighting a total of 4 molly vessels were destroyed with no losses to our side
the mollys are getting more and more violent, im not sure how much the peace treaty is supposed to do, but right now it seems non-existant..
Channel: Open
CommID: Police Authority
Subject: Smuggler
Top of the morning t..to you all. This is Terrance Cromby, independent officer for the BPA, reporting a smuggling incident to you chaps here at HQ. Now, I know we normally look past the IMG carrying supp...sup...supplies to their bases and such. This however c..cannot be overlooked!
An IMG transport by the name of Findlay passed by Leeds while I was watching for smugglers. Scanned him and the lad had a load full of Gold, and he was headed for the l..lane to Kusari! I asked him repeatedly to stop as I followed him down the lane. This one, claiming he had no time. Luckily there weren't any Kusari p..p..patrols at Stokes or I would have been in over my head. I caught up with him and downed the lane just in time.
I asked him again to turn around and report to Leeds for confiscation of his cargo. The lad was belligerent still and then he opened fire! The lad t..took some of my hull away in the first volley! I returned fire for some time as he at..t..ttempted to bugger off at impulse sp..speed. After a long battle, I had him finished and offered to let him return to Leeds to face the consequences instead of losing his ship. At this point I now had a spectator whose comms were simply emit..t..ting static.
Then the unbelievable happened... A Gaian, claiming to only be a freelancer working for the Gaians and not one of them (Besides his IFF and identification papers), comes out of the lane and takes the transport's side! Seeing that I was outmatched and unable to call for backup, I reluctantly returned to Leeds.
Do what you will with the evidence and make this chap pay if you please.
NSY CommChannel Status: OPEN
Incoming Transmission...
Priority: NORMAL
From: Commander Lucy Silsbury
To: Terrance Cromby
Subject: Smuggler
Thank you for bringing this to our attention, we have placed Findlay on the Blacklist, he will be seen as a target within Bretonia until he pays a fine of 5 million credits to the BPA)Anvil, some of which will be given to you as compensation.
NSY Internal CommChannel Status: OPEN
Incoming Transmission...
Priority: NORMAL
From: Commander Lucy Silsbury
To: Report Centre
Subject: Patrol
Took the Hussar out for a spin to Omega 3 today. Checked on our installation in that system, everything seems to be working fine. BPA presence is welcomed by the civilians in the area.
No action seen yet by any of the members.
The elections are coming up, we will have to increase security on planet, especialy around proposed voting stations.
[color=#CC6600]NEWS:
[color=#CC0000]We are now paying commission on arrests! Proof of a criminal/s being dealt with in the Report Centre will result in a payment ranging from 500,000 credits to larger ammounts depending on the achievement.
NSY CommChannel Status: Open
Incoming Transmission...
Message Decrypted
Priority: Normal
From: Inspector Adam Savins
To: New Scotland Yard
It is good to be out there once again. You see.. ever since the last tea spill, the console was not working right... and with the continual annoyances that keep comming along like those popups... yeah... Anyhow, to the report! I must say the views on some of these parts are truely stunning you see. I suppose we just don't notice it because we just keep going along our day. But of course, nothing is better than watching the sun in its continual turmoil, struggle and change... like depths of my soul... what? Anyways, I patrolled the usual systems and luckily, there were very few things that kept me from eating my crumpet.. I mean, checking the communications for other activity. Traders here and there, a few ion storm disruptions were present but nothing major. I did however get a transmission from a Golden Crysanthemum claiming there is some deal between them and the Armed Forces?
I of course am curious and ask who this mistress is...
Afterwards, I met the vessel and the person I was in contact with and everything seemed to check out. Here are the before and after scans of the vessel:
Other than that, another quiet day. Of course, I'm sure people on the other side of the system heard me blasting my "Jam" as the younger people say... Ride of the Valkyries sure gets the blood pumping.
Reporting of my first patrol with the force, luckily enough it was rather boring until the end of it when we caught a software smuggler red handed.
The patrol began with Inspector Adam Savins and Junior Constable Rod Higgins patrolling Cambridge and London alone, I launched to space just as they were about to hit Manchester. We checked London, Leeds and Edinburgh, Junior Constable Angela Leigh joined us in the meantime.
Our patrol was mainly consistent of conversing. Inspector Savins told us some tricks and gave us some tips, lecturing us about our duties during the war, the situation in Dublin, the BAF's supposed truce with the Mollies, and so on.
Once we were done with Edinburgh, Higgins signed off due to some comms messup they started fixing on Leeds, then we went to uh... Manchester. Quite a... memorable place, if you excuse a personal remark.
On our way back, we bumped into a Bowex transport vessel, designated as [color=#FFFF00]Cpt_Montgomery. The trader claimed to be hauling Mining machinery from London to South Shields, my scans confirmed the content of his pods. Everything was in order save for his broken comms.
London again, then Cambridge. In London, our biggest issue was listening to some idiot who left his comms to his cat. In Cambridge, we found a Mandalorian merc called the [color=#FFFF00]Cat Lover. Coincidence? I think not, even though she denied responsibility. The only thing out of the ordinary was the Mandalorian's level of radiation. The ship was so irradiated that even a click away from it, my sensors were flashing lethal levels. The pilot claimed that she got irradiated in some place called Omicron Theta and her nanobots can handle it. Right.
Anyhow, as the Constables were chatting with the merc, a Freelancer Conference labeled as ameriod flew past us. I didn't get an accurate scan of his hold, so I told him to stop. He didn't. I pursued him to Manchaster, with Inspector Savins flying after me. I gave several warnings to the gunboat to stop, Savins even told him he was breaking Bretonia law, to which he only replied something like "I know."
Lucky for him, something else came by as I entered Manchester. A catch!
A Zoner BWT, designated as Slippery_Jim dropped out of the lane. Nomen est omen, he was filled with counterfeit software container devices. Lane Hacker origin, I assumed. He stopped for about ten seconds, then started to run like a crazed rabbit. Unluckily for him, my Hussar is crafted for such occasions, I caught him in under a minute, giving Savins time to arrive too.
We demanded a drop and told him to pay a fine of two million credits. Surprise! He cooperated.
As the smuggler flied past with an empty hold and with a pair millions short, we flew back to London with the Inspector and signed off duty.
That's a Bretonia-wide patrol and a smuggler caught. Eventful for a first assignment.
Junior Constable Alastair Graham Hind signing off.
*Incoming Data Link*
*Encryption Level: PIGGYBACK*
*From: BPA)Hone.Nathan*
[font=Comic Sans Ms] Phew! I wish MY first patrol had been as relaxing!
My first event to report, was a piracy attempt.
I was on a mission destroying a corsair infestation in New London, when I heard suspicious comm chatter, I enquired, and a trader revealed he was being pirated by Painkiller.
I arrived on the scene, to find Painkiller in combat with a merc named Willis.
After confirming Painkiller was a pirate, placing him under arrest, and demanding he surrender, (he didn't) I assisted Willis, and we destroyed painkiller's ship.
However, unfortunately Willis destroyed himself at the same instant, but I caught his pod, and safely returned it to New London.
The 2nd instance is not so happy, I scanned a trader and saw he was LPI AND Carrying Light arms! I asked him to halt, but he simply opened fire on me without responding!
I returned fire, and placed him under arrest, however he simply spouted some indecipherable nonsense, and continued firing and fleeing.
Fortunately, a Privateer turned up, and assisted me, and together we destroyed the LPI Lunatic.
The looney then insulted me from his pod, but I wont show that here.
I would like to request a complaint be sent to the LPI.
Oh well, that is two criminals successfully dealt with anyhow.
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