***Incoming Transmission*** Location:Freeport 4 Comm ID:Lieutenant Marius Pain To:High Command Subject: Gallic presence in the Border Worlds
Greetings, there's an urgent issue that requires your attention. Yesterday I was finishing a patrol in Liberty core space when I was intercepted by an LPI pilot in California. For some reason the bugger was preventing me from jumping to Magellan. Needless to say my reply was swift and precise:
After I cleaned house I proceeded to the Freeport for some repairs. About 10 kliks from the station I detected an unknown contact. I have never seen such an enormous battleship before. However the well-polished hull and bourgeois accent over the comms gave it all up. The fact that the Gallics have reached so far came as a shock, and how a battleship of this size slipped past our recon wings is beyond me. Someone in HQ needs to conduct a more in-depth research on the matter.
Anyways, what dazzled me even more was that the Liberty navy seemed to be in cahoots with the foreigner.
The Liberty forces on the scene consisted two identical "Geb" class carriers and a couple of "Guardian" fighters. A rogue destroyer appeared out of nowhere and was almost immediately vaporized by the LSF. I had to retreat to the safety of the Freeport because I was next on the hit list. No further data was gathered.