Liberty intel file 529-117
Identification:Nathan Brown
Affiliation:Liberty Rouges
Last know Location:New york, Seen fleeing into the badlands
Bio:
Son of Stan Brown, a very successful rouge who was shot and killed on an outcast base for unknown reasons. Nathan's mother is presumed dead as there are no records of her for the last 15 years. Sources say that Nathan grew up on the pirate base presumably hidden in the badlands. Needless to say, growing up on a pirate base hardens a man, even if he was the son of a relitivly wealthy rouge. Other than that little is know about his childhood. When his father died he inherited a Gunboat and his first known act of lawbreaking was renameing said GB the "Essex". His motives for taking the Bretonian battleship's name is unknown and when asked he simply states "I pirated the name you got a problem with that?" He commands his GB with three crewmen whom are unidentifyed at this time. He is most often sighted disrupting trade lanes throughout New York. He has been recorded demanding in excess of 2 million credits from traders and refusal usualy leads to said trader haveing their ship blow out from under them. But on an odd note he is sirprizingly merciful to escape pods. Sending them to the nearest planet when possible and has even been reported to transfer them to the next paying trader that he catches. It is also reported that he is a coward, running from even lone Liberty Navy officers in fighters. This may be because scans have shown that the armor plateing on his ship is only level 2. A second reson may is that he is almost never spotted in a group.
Recommended action:Mr. Brown is nothing more than a theive whom will eventualy be captured
or killed at the hands of the navy or police forces, intervention not needed.
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Be powerful,
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Nate smiled as the Mastadon Transport engines blazed to life after dropping out of the trade lane "Matt open a channel." Matt bent over the dimly lit consol "Done." Nate straitened and in an imposing voice stated "Cut your engines or you will be shot." The transport did not change direction or slow down. Nate swore "Damnit! Jack match their speed, Dita disrupt their engine's, and Matt send them a second warning!" 12 hours of waiting and multiple bribes to hackers had paid off, this was the biggest catch they had in weeks and the dumb captian of that transport was gonna run? That transport was filled with military grade personal weapons, he was just gonna fill his hold and charge this guy 2 million credits (which would be paid by the company not the captian or crew of the transport) but this idiot was making a run for it!?! Matt interrupted his thoughts "Captian, their still not stopping" and then Dita piped in "Should I open fire with the pulses?" Nate had an idea "Yes, but when their shields are down I want you to only fire one Razor at a time and Matt send them a message that if they stop we will cease fire." Nate waited and watched screen's showing him what was happening and sincerely hoped that the transport figured that he wasn't gonna make it and gave up.
Then things really started going downhill when Matt said "Oh my god I'm gonna kill that hacker, CAPTAIN! a dreadnought and a cruiser just dropped out of the lane and if this transport keeps running will be here in 1 minute." Nate sighed then gave orders "Dita use all the guns and blow that transport out from under their seats then tracter as much of the cargo as you can, Jack when Dita is done I want you to get us in the Whitney field and I dont care if it takes every counter measure we have, dont let those ships get within 1k." Nate watched for a moment as the true aimed battle razers smashed the hull of the transport, but then he had one more idea."Matt I want you to jettison the police pods we tractored earlier in two different directions away from the ice field, and make sure those navy boys know they are there." Nate had gotten his crew out of scrapes before and when the stakes were high they took his orders without question. One of his screens flare brightly as the transport's reactor caught a razer and escape pods shot away as it exploded. A few more second went by then Dita indicated she was done and Jack started the cruise engines. But then Jack saw a problem with his course "Ah hell, two Navy fighters dropped out of the lane in front of us I wont be able to avoid them!" Nate acted fast "Dang, give me manual control if we can dodge em till we make it to the ice field we will be able to lose em, somone tell me what those capital ships are doing behind us." Matt quickly responded "The Dreadnought has turned to go after one set of pods but the cruiser is closing fast, it looks like one of the fighters is headed for the other group of pods." A tactical visor moved over Nate's view as he took manual control of manuvering and hit the thrusters. "Dita use the pulses and make that fighter nervous if you can get a good shot, Jack how long to the whitney field on thrusters?.
The bridge of the Essex got quieter as the crew concentrated on getting away. Nate was good at dodgeing attacks and as a result the cruiser could not land any substantial hits but even with Dita knocking out the fighters shield and causeing to to manuver away temporarly it was still makeing enough hits to drop the shield to dangerous levels. But eventualy they made it into the ice field, the cruiser lagged behind, but that fighter would not give up. Nate knew that he could not go back to Alcatraz with it on his tail and so he had to get rid of it... but if it took to long the cruiser would catch up and cause even more problems. "Dita, how good of a pilot does thaty fighter have, as in if I turned us to fight how long would it take for you to destroy it?" Dita thought for a moment before responding "Judgeing by how many times I have dropped his shields and by the fact that he acualy used some batteries to maintian this chase I could probably blast him in less than thirty seconds if he maintains the joust."
Nate killed the engine and turned around then shot them back up to full straight at the fighter. True to her word Dita took out the poor sucker's shield the first pass and when Nate turned the ship around once more she had aready targeted the razors and the fighter exploded as three bursts of antimatter tore through it's hull. Dita stood up and acualy bowed while a huge grin crossed her face. Nate laughed and said sarcasticly "I thought you said 30 seconds? That only took ten at most, if you cant make a proper prediction I may have to throw you off the ship." Dita responded in mock humility "I'm sorry sir but I thought that he might try to not get shot, please forgive my failure." The bridge roared with laughter but finaly Nate remebered the cruiser and still chuckling said "Jack, plot a course to Alcatraz before that criuser shows up, it's high time we had a drink."
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Be powerful,
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5 days later.
Bridge of the Essex
Enrout to Cassini.
About to enter the Alamosa field, Colorado
11 pm Buffalo time
"Captian how the hell did we get stuck with the night shift today?" complained Jack again "I mean I could of plotted a course and the ship could have gotten it self back to Terre Haute." Nate sighed "Since they could only fit two cabins into this ship even if I let you off duty you would have the choice of snuggling up beside Matt, which I'm sure you would enjoy, or you could try and sneak into Dita's cabin." Jack smiled "You saying you wouldn't stop me from trying to sneak into Dita's cabin?" Nate grinned back "Well, I really wouldn't mind except it would really be a shame to have the dead body of my navigator stinking up the ship till we got to our destination." Jack's face got a little paler as he realised that his captian meant it. "Then again if you were really unlucky she might let you live... I think she may have even found out how to monitor the bridge from her cabin." Jack froze and turned white as a sheet. Nate laughed "Dont worry I'm only joking with you I'm sure she doesn't have the codes to watch the bridge, on a less scary note how far are we from the jumphole?" Jack swore under his breath then answered "Really had me going there for a sec, we will enter the jumphole in about 5 minutes and estimated jumptime is 1 hour, all jump systems show green, looks like we are good to go." Nate leaned back in his chair "Well I'm gonna get some shut eye wake me when we exit jump or something exciting happens, and seriously, stay out of Dita's cabin I really dont want to find a new navigator."
The Reppu cloud, Galileo
"Hey captian wake up, we will be coming out of jump into the Reppu cloud in 1 minute." Nate stirred "Huh whats going on?" "We will be there soon, but our shift doesn't end for anouther 6 hours" Nate blinked away the last bits of sleep "There will be a few ships waiting to greet us, get the comms ready to transfer our codes" Jack yawned as he got to work "Right, coming out of jump in 5 seconds." As they came out of jump the main viewscreen changed to the darkness of the Reppu cloud and suddenly space seems alot less friendly. Jack worked at a consol for a few moments before speaking "Sir, I cant find any of the ships that are suppost to be here, sensors are dead thanks to the cloud but we should be able to hail them." Nate brought up a 360 view on a few monitors trying to see somthing, somthing drifted close and deflected off the shields causeing one of the monitors to brighten for a moment, Nate zoomed in and as he realised that it was a piece of a rogue fighter Jack yelled "OH S***, Orca GB closeing five o'clock high!" Nate hit the panic button, It was an acual button he had installed in his chair that automaticly performed multiple functions. Alarms sounded thoughout ship and the Essex leapt forward and started manuvering through the cloud as the first salvo from the bounty hunters missed. Weapons came online as well and a tactical visor lowered over his vision. Not 15 seconds after the alarms first rang out Dita ran onto the bridge, Nate was manuvering the ship but Jack's face turned bright red when he noticed she was only wearing underwear and a shirt. Dita shot him a glare that could kill at 20 paces before starting to target the guns and yelling over the still ringing alarms "What we fighting?" Jack locked his eyes on his station and answered "So far only 1 Orca class bounty hunter gunboat, opened fire shortly after we came out of jump, looks like it is armed with 4 Cerberus turrets, two pulses, and it's forward gun, without sensors I cant tell you how much armor it has but hit it with a few razor's and i will be able to make a good guess." Matt ran into the bridge with a few more articals of clothing than Dita and manned his station as Nate said to Dita "How do you want me to manuver today, close and personal or you want to rain death from afar?" Dita thought for a few seconds before answering "Try to encourage a joust but if they try to get us to follow them from more than 700 i'd advise getting us out of here, I should be able to deal out more damage than they."
The fight went as most fights go, but in this case it looked like the Essex would prevale, Dita was able to use their three pulses to remove the Orca's shields and Nate's piloting skills only let a few hits land on their own. While it turned out that the Orca had heavier armor than the Essex they could not sustain enough fire to even drop the Essex's shields. The Bounty Hunters on the Orca realised that they were outmached to late and could not escape.
Dita smiled as she fired 3 final bursts of antimatter at the bounty hunters, the antimatter flew into the engines of the fleeing ship and without warning the Orca exploded into a spectacular fireball. Dita shouted in victory "That'll teach you to wake me up in the middle of the night!" She then stated that her shift didn't start for five and a half hours and left the bridge. Nate had caught himself stareing at her right after he had lifted the tactical visor and then locked his eyes on a view screen on the other side of the bridge till she left. Nate coughed "Ahem, well if either of you find any pods from that gunboat make sure you dont tell Dita about them... we wouldn't want them to be killed before we even got back to base."
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Be efficient,
Be powerful,
The correct way to pirate
Cassini system, exact location unknown, station bar, station time 7:00 pm
"You think they are done with repairs yet Nate?" Asked Dita with an anxious look to which Nate smiled "With how popular I seem to be I'm sure they got to work as soon as we landed..."
Nate and Dita sat alone at one end of the bar, the only person to come within yards of the pair was the bartender who had asked what they had wanted then retreated to the other end of the bar.
While it wasn't crowded at this hour something was definitely wrong...
Nate noticed two men in ambiguous clothing walking towards them and warned Dita. But before he could do more they were pointing plasma weapons at him. "Mr. Brown you will be coming with us." Nate responded before Dita could say anything "Alright but leave the girl, she's just some company I paid on the way here." The man who spoke before paused and the second man muttered something to him, the first one nodded then answered spoke to Dita. "Get out of here girl, this never happened." Dita nodded and ran out of the bar. The second man then took Nate's pistol had him start walking. Nate tried to speak but they silenced him and they led him out of the bar towards an elevator, they never got that far though.
BAM BAM, blood splattered Nate and he turned to find Dita running down the hallway towards him and his would be captors on the ground with most of their brains now artwork for the wall. "I assume we would be leaving now captain?" Dita said with a sarcastic tone. Nate was all business, "Jack and Matt?" Dita answered quickly "Jack has the ship locked down, he says enough repairs are done that she should be safe to fly and Matt's fine, said he is on his way back to the ship, were these friends of yours?" Nate frowned "Judging by how brazen they were seems I made the wrong people mad, come on we are leaving, we have work to do." They made it back to the Essex and launched without incident, even if the repair teams were a bit confused as to why they were leaving repairs uncompleted.
"Jack set a course for Magellan, we're in the market for information..."
Edit: I really dont know where I was taking this so I'm gonna pretend I never wrote it for now.
Edit2:Ya... Even though no one is ever actually gonna read this I'm giving up on it. I seem to be able to make a scenario in my mind but unable to connect that to a larger story... oh well.
Be quick,
Be efficient,
Be powerful,
The correct way to pirate
