"Breaking News! Liberty Navy's Admiral X Y was in affair with his cousin. The Navy refused to make any comments regarding the topic."
All in all, I like the idea, but I think it would be better in form of an anthology. Discovery Freelancer's actual universe is too big for just one novel. We have not only war diaries of the military and pseudo-military factions, but also the pirates, smugglers, infected ones, common traders, girls who were kidnapped and abused by the military/pirates/bored smugglers...
Reading The Unforgiven's story with his Captain Antares would be pretty epic though.