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From: Stanley Calvert [SRD]
To: New Scotland Yard Report Database
Subject: Report
Hopped onto my Challenger to deal with a Gunboat in Dublin to find myself as part of a small HMS/Dublin Defender fleet that was systematically cleaning out pirates under the command of HMS-Nottingham. After several patrols of Dublin assisting this fleet we managed to clear out one Outcast in a Light fighter. As the fleet disbanded for the day I received a report of a Pirate from a trader "William Turner" in Manchester. Moving into New London to deal with this situation I discovered a civilian "Sasa-" that was publicly asking the location of Poole. I informed him that it was off limit to everyone with out access granted by the BPA high command. He complied with my request not to enter and upon inquiry confessed that he wanted to use it as a shortcut to Omega 50. I pottered around the Poole jump hole for a bit to confirm that he wasn't going to try and go thorough our system anyway. Shortly I received notice that the Pirate that had been reported earlier was now in New London. I informed all civilians to be wary while Lt. John Cay and myself later assisted by a BAF Admiral searched for the Pirate "Zhou_Zhi_He". Over public comns he was quiet compliant about leaving Bretonia but implied threats that he would return. Upon finding him trying to leave through Dublin with a hold of stolen gold Lt. Cay requested that he cut his engines, when he refused he was disrupted and after a few seconds he opened fire on us. Eventually the BAF and I downed him (evidence). All in all a good day
Regards
Stanley "Tigger" Calvert Special Response Division
After seeing off the hackers, I spotted an unlicensed Military Vehicle trader;
Whilst Lucy and a BAF battleship guarded him, I checked the licenses, confirming he did not posses one. I collected the licence fee, whilst the others apprehended a second smuggler, then moved to assist them:
Lucy resolved the situation peacefully, and I transferred the fees to BPA)Anvil:
Later on, Whilst patrolling Dublin with Sgt Kirko, we came across an IMG battlecruiser!
Whilst we tried to talk to it, telling it to leave, it opened fire with a surprise missile salvo, and blew my ship to shreds as I was reporting to command. I survived, but unconscious for hours.
When I woke up, I heard reports of a large Kusari presence in Leeds. It turned out to be a Battleship, and two destroyers:
A BAF force was slowly gathering to meet them, unfortunately, a large Ion interference dropped my systems, and a Kusari patrol swept in and destroyed my ship, again. Not such a good day.
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Reporting of an enormous Corsair skirmish and a hostage situation that erupted beforehand.
I received a distress call from the BAF, reporting a few Corsair ships trying to lay siege to the Leeds defense line. Since they were outnumbered, I scrambled to assist.
By the time I got there from Dublin, a massive Corsair battlefleet consistent mainly of capital ships piled up near the planet, about 6 clicks from Battleship Derby. Two Osirises, two Corsair cruisers and two gunboats, accompanied by miscellaneous smaller ships was spotted; little could I do to make myself useful against such a might in my Hussar.
I attempted buying the BAF time to pile up by issuing arrest warrants and flying close to the Corsair fleet, as well as trying to lure them to the Derby as they attempted hitting my rather agile vessel. The Corsairs got tired of the attempted pursuit, so they relocated their fleet to the Stokes-Leeds lane, losing a gunboat to BAF Admiral Jones in the process.
The Armed Forces luckily had enough time to amass a reasonably-sized strike force, I don't know if I succeeded distracting the Corsair invasion force or they were simply afraid to face the Derby, but I like booking it as my own achievement.
What /is/ my own achievement however, is solving a hostage crisis that soon erupted. Republican Shipping signature 814 approached the trade lane, which the Corsairs were holding in their grasps. The BAF was getting ready to strike, but it the Corsairs were threatening to destroy the Rheinland cargo vessel. I complied with their demand and transferred multiple times the required sum to their bank account, so not only would they let go of the civilian vessel and the BAF would have a green light to commence the attack, but the greedy bastards they are, they would also get divided by being unable to decide how to split the money.
I have no idea how the fight ended as I outlived my usefulness with this notion and landed on Leeds to end my shift. I can only hope the Queen's forces were victorious.
Whilst patrolling Dublin, I scanned a merc named Willis, who was holding ten Bounty Hunters captive. He said they were the result of him having completed a contract on Hunters, offered by "MercNet"
I told him to hand the hunters over, but he ignored, and landed on hood, later launching without the hunters, I knew he hadn't handed them over to the IMG, because I questioned him as to the name of the IMG trader aboard the Hood, and he answered incorrectly. I was forced to conclude that he had turned them over to those who would pay most - Mollys, as their operatives are known to work upon the hood.
I placed him under arrest, and held him until BAF|Lt.Cmdr.Buchanan arrived, and let him off with a warning.
As BAF have jurisdiction, I obeyed his orders.
Then an Order GB named "Lukeii" arrived, holding more hunter pilots, and criminals captive.
Buchanan ordered it to release the pilots, and leave Bretonia, but it refused, and attacked.
Myself, Buchanan, Willis, and another BAF ensign engaged the GB, and destroyed it.
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Here are the files on Liberty activity you wanted Commander:
The first was a Liberty navy Gunboat in Dublin named skillz-wiz:
The BAF ordered him out of Bretonia, so I offered to escort him to the Magellen JH:
However; once we jumped into Leeds, he turned on me without warning:
And destroyed my ship:
Next was when a large group of LSF ships entered New London without asking permission, despite the fact that I, and members of the Albion Guard were present at the time:
The LSF initially claimed to be simply escorting another LSF heron, bringing scientists to Cambridge research station, however at least two, later changed their story to; being here in order to investigate the Liberty navy Siege Cruiser which had also entered Bretonia, AND docked on New London!
After communicating with command, I ordered ALL liberty ships back to Bretonia, and escorted them out, along with the Albion guard battleship. However, there were so many, that the trade ship an several MORE escorts proceeded to Leeds whilst I was escorting the cruiser and the two VHFs. I believe they too were escorted out by a different officer.
The last case was a Liberty navy gunboat, flying around Leeds, claiming he was helping a friend.
However we were interrupted from dealing with him, when Keehnan was attacked.
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I caught my first smuggler here! A Gaian Wildlife Smuggler named Kazuko:
I placed him under arrest, and ordered him to stop:
He ignored me, So I had to destroy his ship:
It's sad it so often has to end in violence. I suppose he will go on the wanted list now?
As you may have seen, accompanying him was Lukeii, the Order GB that attacked us in DUblin earlier, I ordered him to pay a 10 mill fine, and to get out until he had got permission to bring an Order GB into Bretonia.
His friend Selfless_matyr lived up to his name, and tried to pay his fine for him, but between them they only had 6.1mill. I talked to command, whilst Bethany and a BAF guarded them, and was told that 6.1 would cover it:
I collected the fine, and transferred it to BPA)Anvil:
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Urgent report on a lone madman, a freelancer or merc named "Gulveig" who attacked me in Dublin when I tried to scan him, destroying my ship as I was attempting to talk to him:
Later, I received reports of 2 corsairs in Cambridge, working with BHG and a VPS, I managed to locate them, they were in Gunboats, and carrying Civillian Pilots, I ordered them to release the Pilots, which they did, and to leave Bretonia:
Which, after a lot of haggling, they also did:
Finally! A peaceful resolution.
However The VPS scouted, and reported that a Corsair Osiris was on the other side of the JH, so I scouted and confirmed:
It didn't make any hostile action though, beyond ordering me to leave, which I did, but I stayed behind to guard the Hole, just in case.
If only all Sairs were as reasonable, we met a bloody FLEET of them off Southampton, which attacked a trader and then us when we tried to stop them:
Unfortunately all the ion trails left by the engines played havok with my ship, and my systems crashed, leaving me easy prey, and stuck in a blacked-out escape pod! Not pleasant!
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What Ho chaps, another of my Long awaited reports, Cram-packed with derring-do, and lovely maidens!
I apprehended yet another unlicensed Military Vehicle trader In leeds today, this one styling himself; "MerchantsLuck"
Fella said he was taking the cars to Macduff, and that he couldn't afford the license fee, from the looks of his ship, I had to agree with him.
As he was helping us by carrying Military Vehicles to our outpost, I decided to be Lenient;
( By the way Lucy old girl; I DO think charging the same fee for titchy little ships like his, and gargantuam Shetlands is a bit off, these fellas ARE trying to help US you know)
I allowed him to pay me what he could at first, then escorted him out to the far reaches of the empire; (Macduff - Sad isn't it?)
And collected the rest, after he had unloaded the cars:
I then Transferred the Creits to old Anvil:
Which reminds me; when is Anvil going to be transferring back to me eh? I've barley enough to keep my ship afloat, Let alone patronise Christy's!
The next is a dastardly fool named; "{ORE}_Helix"
I spotted him trying to go to the taus, an when I questioned him, he claimed he wanted to mine, however, as he was not in a mining ship, nor sporting mining papers, nor even possessing mining turrets, I found his story decidedly fishy.
I told him tau access was restricted due to the war, and ordered him to hold whilst I called command for further orders. However, he chose to run down the trade lane cutting out, and doubling back, My suspicions were confirmed! I placed him under arrest:
However, he chose to disobey again, and attacked:
Things were looking a little grim, I wasn't in danger, but the dratted Hussar's guns are so weak, that it looked as though he might get away, fortunately, a Molly Gunboat patrol turned up, (Wow is that a sentence you'd expect to hear me say?) and damaged him enough that even though he escaped from the Molly's I was able to finish him off:
Usefull chaps those mollys, good thing we have the armistace, or I wouldn't have fancied my chances.
Shall we introduce Mr Helix to the blacklist? I think we shall.
Next, one of my proudest moments serving in the BPA, not only did I get to fight alongside Commissioner Lucy, I also, well, I'll let the pictures do the talking shall I?
That's right, A BATTLESHIP!
And finally, a rare event;
After Khenan's ship was destroyed:
Lucy and I Hunted the killer to Edinburgh, where, after a brief firefight, he fled and docked on Islay.
However, I tracked him down to the Dublin system, and there had him pay the fine for attacking an agent of the crown, 5 Million Credits:
I then transferred the fine to Anvil.
More to come folks, ho yes, more to come...
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I have to assume this shift earned me a little extra. Got pulled into both military and military intelligence tasks, the former being the more troublesome.
After finishing, or rather suspending a training with Sergeant Hidamari, I was summoned to respond to an unidentified Bretonian distress call coming in from Leeds. This time I hoped, it was not an invitation to chase ghost cruisers as the day before in Dublin, so I asked for further information via the channel of the Armed Forced Lieutenant flying around in London. To my surprise, [color=#66CCCC]Lieutenant Tensdale was just as unaware of the case as myself, not even receiving the ominous "we need backup in Leeds" signal that I picked up.
For some reason, I was asked to investigate, which given the fact that Bretonia seemed to be cleansed of any other troubles at that point, I was more than happy to do. I flew to Planet Leeds and scanned the area, spotting merely a Freelancer Sabre, flown by a pilot who claimed to be belonging to some "Neo-Terran Front". During our conversation with the NTF pilot (who seemed to be not as violent as the Liberty reports indicate), I also determined that the distress signal originated from vessels belonging to the ill-reputed [color=#66CCCC]Bretonia Security Force organization, attempting to take over Stokes with merely an expeditionary force. The Kusari response divisions scrambled to defend were making short work of the BSF's attempt to push forward, as my sensors indicated. Lieutenant Tensdale of the BAF went forward to Stokes to investigate, regardless and soon requested my help.
Upon reaching Stokes smelter via the trade lane, I sighted a smaller Kusari battlegroup, including two or three primary fleet vessels, a considerably aggressive reserve Chimaera and the IKN-Akatsuki, which is a destroyer I believe we have met before. The Kusari forces already decimated the BSF wing, finishing the destruction of one gunboat, the =BSF=(v)=Lt.Erisk. What a waste of life and tech.
Lieutenant Tensdale decided it would not be wise of us to attack such a Kusarian force with merely a bomber and a light fighter, so he decided to withdraw. I was intending to surveillance the end of the battle between the BSF and the Kusari Navy and collect as much survivors as possible, but one of the Kusari combat craft, a certain Faythe Yamasaki mistook me for a combatant vessel and begin opening fire, even as the Akatsuki's commander ordered him to stand down. Interesting, I'd like to note, given the supposed high level of discipline in the honor-based Kusari Naval Forces.
At any rate, the Kusari vessel attacking me gave me the seeming choice to withdraw, but every time I attempted taking a trade lane or cruise, either the rookie KNF wings disrupted me or the lane was taken down. While attempting to reason with my attacker obviously blinded by rage and fury, it was rather hard to dodge, charge cruise and keep the comms channel open at the same time.
Not really a constable's schedule to participate in a situation like that against trained and equipped military personnel, but... everything for the Queen.
I eventually managed to withdraw and reached Leeds, where the NTF vessel I talked to earlier seemed to have found a companion. They explained a bit about their movement, having ties with the Liberty-based Hellfire legion and pursuing a goal that involves rebuilding a sleeper ship or something. Couldn't really get a full picture as an unidentified transport soon showed up and refused to comply with my orders to pull over for a scan.
Thanks to the intervention of another constable, Terrance Cromby, we managed to bring the fleeing transport to a halt in London, two other constables and an Albion Guard vessel arrived to the scene. The ship was designated as Kawoosh, telling us he was from Gallia. To a question regarding the reason for his presence in Bretonia, he replied that he was "here to pass true". I took the liberty of assuming that true was sort of slang term for a drug or a weapon.
With the arrival of the intelligence service however and my shift long being over, I turned the case over to Agent Violet of the Albion Guard and flew back to London to sign off duty.