[Recipient ID] Liberty Navy Primary Fleet Reporting Center
[Subject] Combat Action Report for July 9th, 823 A.S.
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Hello again, Command. This is Commander Kingston reporting in.
I launched from the Yukon hearing word of two large unknowns in Magellan, mostly word from our men on Freeport 4. I jumped through the gate, and quckly identified them as ORIZON|Dakun and ORIZON|Uzed, two heavily armed Zoner "Nephilim"-class Juggernaut Colony Ships. They were on course for the Gate, and I informed them that if they jumped, they would regret their decision.
Sure enough, they both jumped, and I pursued the lead vessel, Dakun, into the California system, where we flew under the Tahoe cloud and up towards the marked jump hole to Pennsylvania. I managed to stop the lead vessel, and inform him of his crime. Evading a pilot of the Navy, a heavy warship inside Liberty space, and refusal to pay the designated fine I placed on them. Eventually, and with no word, then opened fire on me, prompting me to retreat outside their gun range, after which they jumped. Lt. Cmdr. Hirlerman arrived on scene, of which I quickly had him follow through, but he lost them on the other side.
I flew back and acquired the L.N.S. Plymouth Rock to deal with the vessels, which had flown to a theorized safety at Bethlehem. Our weapons we no match for them, however, and we were forced to pull back. We pulled some hastened emergency repairs on Erie, before launching back out, rendezvousing with Rear Admiral Knight aboard the L.N.S. Harmony, and later Admiral Reaser aboard the L.N.S. Malrone. With their help, we quickly ended the two Zoner warships and spared Sirius their tyranny.
We returned the Plymouth Rock to Norfolk, but soon received a distress call from a black box of the Luxury Liner Yorkshire broadcasting on all frequencies. We headed out again, the call dictating what sounded like a hijacking. The distress call originated from Manhattan, where we found a Lane Hacker "Storta"-class Outcast Destroyer hovering not far from Newark, the Yorkshire nowhere in sight. Lt. Cmdr. Hirlerman joined up, as well as a secondary fleet pilot named Adam West, and we began conversing with the vessel.
The vessel, named the Lane.Jumper, was under the control of a female Lane Hacker pirate named 'Highway', and she apparently had roughly 49 of the Yorkshire's passengers and crew aboard, stating that the rest of the people and the ship were "somewhere drifting in Cortez". They demanded Fifty million credits in exchange for the passengers lives, of which I was able to haggle down to Thirty million, along with 'assurance' that we would let them go. We transferred the money from a fake Neural Net account, a master stroke of genius by Ensign Mallone, and were able to acquire all but one individual from the vessel, of which we were.. unaware of. 'Highway' recognized our deception, and for it, killed the final captive, of which we later identified to be Lt. Daniel Patterson.
For this act, the ship's fate was sealed. We destroyed the vessel, without any damage to our own, and returned the civilians to Manhattan, as well as.. Lt. Patterson's remains. We returned the Plymouth Rock to Norfolk, where she's undergoing repairs from the Zoner vessel fire in Pennsylvania. I wish I could've done something to save Patterson's life, but there was little we could've done. This 'Highway' needs to be stopped before she can make any further attacks on our people.
Custodibus et punctum.
Signed,
Commander Alexander Samuel Kingston, Liberty Navy Primary.
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