Today was the day I saw my first real combat action with my esteemed superiors. I was flying around outside Ouray base, picking off stray bounty hunters foolhardy to wander towards our glorious stronghold. I wouldn't like to suffer the fate they did when I handed them over to the base. I hear it wasn't pretty.
Noticing that a group of my superiors were in the system, I enquired if they could make use of my services. They said that they could and I joined their group. After a small skirmish at the Colorado to New York jump gate, we returned to Ouray base. We regrouped and decided to mount an attack on Manhatten, with independant Xeno -Spear- as leader. I formed on him and we proceeded to manhatten, high above the plane of the usual system traffic.
The rest of us waited about 20km from the planet while -Spear- proceeded to the main area of Manhatten's orbit to aquire persuers to lure back to the waiting squadron of fighters. We got quite a few bites; many more than we'd expected. In all, there were 4 gunboats, and a cruiser with fighter escourt. I entered the fray along with my cohorts, eager to make the most of my first real opportunity to take revenge on the corrupt autocrats that had forever disgraced themselves with their atrocious crimes. We converged on the ships jinking around to avoid enemy fire and returning that fire in equal measure.
Alas, my ship was destroyed quite aerly on in the engagement. I was fortunate however, my escape pod was picked up by a fellow pilot and hours later, I found myself back at Ouray base. What an experience. It is one I am sure I'll never forgat.
