Liberty Police, Inc. Reporting Office

[Tom "Sandman" Fiddle]

From: Recruit Officer Tom Fiddle
To: Newark Station
Subj: Incident Log #1

Patrol Log #2, 20180324, Fiddle here.
Today seems to be just as eventful as the last. I am sad to say that after receiving reports of Lane Hacker activity in the New York and Texas system, I did not manage to pin the targets. The hackers - two bomber class ships, were armed with cloaking devices. Something I did not get a chance to scan during the very first encounter in the Texas system, which allowed the target to escape while under fire.

After that setback, it was near impossible to pin them down again, given their use of tradelane discruption, waiting at the gates to catch the pursuer on cooldown and other tricks you'd expect them to use. The only backup I had at the time came in the form of a LABC class ship, which was not designed for this sort of pursuit.

This is context as to what happened next. Given that these two ships were ghosting us, we both resorted to use mines and flack bursts at random, whenever the cloak detector was set off, as long as there were no civilian traffic around at that moment. One of such moments happened in the high orbit above Planet Manhattan, where I launched a handful of screamer mines in an attempt to find if the cloaked ship was outright following me or not.

It turned out that it was indeed the case, but the ship that was close enough to prompt a collision warning was not the Lane hackers, but a 5th fleet bomber belonging to one "Grey Evans". The ship in question, I would like to point out, is a ''Waran'' class heavy bomber with a grade 4 armor setup.

The audio log is as follows:

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[23.03.2018 22:51:58] 5th|Grey.Evans: Hey!
[23.03.2018 22:52:05] 5th|Grey.Evans: Quit dropping mines.
[23.03.2018 22:52:08] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: Be glad I ain't packing nukes then.
[23.03.2018 22:52:15] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: There are two cloaked lane hackers in the system.
[23.03.2018 22:52:25] 5th|Grey.Evans: I'm going to have to fine you for this.
[23.03.2018 22:52:36] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: Are you mentally challenged?
[23.03.2018 22:52:49] 5th|Grey.Evans: No, but you seem to be.
[23.03.2018 22:53:01] 5th|Grey.Evans: 5 million credits. Now.
[23.03.2018 22:53:11] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: Mrs evans, please restrain your collegue before I have to do it myself.
[23.03.2018 22:53:17] 5th|Sarah.Evans: What's the matter Grey ?
[23.03.2018 22:53:22] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: We have two cloaked ships in the system and he thought it was a good idea to fly around me cloaked.
[23.03.2018 22:53:29] 5th|Grey.Evans: This guy has been dropping mines non-stop.
[23.03.2018 22:53:36] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: So I promptly dropped mines on him. Screamers. It seems as though I knocked off his coffee cup or something.
[23.03.2018 22:53:53] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: If he tries to extort me one more time, there will be fireworks.
[23.03.2018 22:54:15] 5th|Grey.Evans: I'm going to have to report your infraction to High Command.
[23.03.2018 22:54:18] 5th|Sarah.Evans: Well first, did you warned before dropping mines?
[23.03.2018 22:54:28] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: There are two cloaked lane hackers in the system.
[23.03.2018 22:54:31] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: Did I stutter?
[23.03.2018 22:54:47] 5th|Grey.Evans: That does not warrant dropping mines everywhere.
[23.03.2018 22:54:59] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: It does, when you just got off of an engagement with them.
[23.03.2018 22:55:15] 5th|Gareth.Dayton: Greetings!
[23.03.2018 22:55:27] 5th|Sarah.Evans: But you weren't sure if was them.
[23.03.2018 22:55:33] 5th|Grey.Evans: You damaged a Liberty Navy vessel. You are going to have to pay for that. Credits or life?
[23.03.2018 22:55:36] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: I was sure enough to launch screamers.
[23.03.2018 22:55:39] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: Credits or life?
[23.03.2018 22:55:41] 5th|Sarah.Evans: Grey, enough.
[23.03.2018 22:55:45] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: Alright.
[23.03.2018 22:55:47] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: Alright..
[23.03.2018 22:55:48] You are allowed to use this.
[23.03.2018 22:55:48] 2018-03-23 22:55:51 SMT 5th|Grey.Evans's docking rights have been removed by LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO] for minimum 120 seconds
[23.03.2018 22:55:59] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: You are threatening a member of the liberty police incoporated.
[23.03.2018 22:56:15] 5th|Grey.Evans: You work for the government, which is us. Not the other way around.
[23.03.2018 22:56:32] 5th|Gareth.Dayton: Please don't start it again...
[23.03.2018 22:56:46] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: Gareth, Sarah. Please carry on your patrol.
[23.03.2018 22:56:51] 5th|Sarah.Evans: Grey, enough I said, let's close the case for now. You will file a report when you'll dock. That will be all.
[23.03.2018 22:56:57] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: I would rather not have Grey here embaress himself in front of his surperiors.
[23.03.2018 22:57:09] 5th|Grey.Evans: If you hadn't noticed, I cannot dock.
[23.03.2018 22:57:13] You are allowed to use this.
[23.03.2018 22:57:13] OK Removal of docking rights reset to 120 seconds
[23.03.2018 22:57:33] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: You just threatened my life. I am not going to allow a pychopath dock anywhere.
[23.03.2018 22:57:50] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: Especially one that seems intent on extorting other libertonian pilots.
[23.03.2018 22:57:50] 5th|Gareth.Dayton: That's a very big luck that the cabin of the fighter isn't big enough for a rope to hang myself up...
[23.03.2018 22:57:51] 5th|Grey.Evans: Restore my docking rights. Now.
[23.03.2018 22:58:03] 5th|Sarah.Evans: Will handle that ourselves, Mr Fiddle.
[23.03.2018 22:58:15] 5th|Sarah.Evans: We'll, even
[23.03.2018 22:58:51] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: Restrain your collegue or I will do it for him.
[23.03.2018 22:59:09] 5th|Grey.Evans: Yes
[23.03.2018 22:59:13] You are allowed to use this.
[23.03.2018 22:59:13] OK Removal of docking rights reset to 120 seconds
[23.03.2018 22:59:38] 5th|Sarah.Evans: Alright, what we will do for now is : Grey, you'll get to West point for debriefing.
[23.03.2018 22:59:56] 5th|Sarah.Evans: And Mr Fiddle, you'll let him dock, as we will handle the case by ourselves.
[23.03.2018 23:00:00] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: Right.
[23.03.2018 23:00:19] =LSF=Kitty.Hawk.II: XO: What appears to be the issue here
[23.03.2018 23:00:19] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: Please escort him to the station, I am worried about any civilians he may pose a threat to.
[23.03.2018 23:00:29] 5th|Sarah.Evans: Gareth, go with him.
[23.03.2018 23:00:31] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: The restriction should remain another 60 seconds.
[23.03.2018 23:00:41] 5th|Gareth.Dayton: Yes
[23.03.2018 23:01:37] 5th|LNT-Kanata: Watson: Good evening Evans
[23.03.2018 23:01:39] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: I really did not need this.
[23.03.2018 23:01:59] 5th|Sarah.Evans: I hope this won't makes our relations worse, between the Fifth and the LPI.
[23.03.2018 23:02:09] LPI-Tom.Fiddle[RO]: In either case, please be cery careful. Two lane hacker bombers use cloaking devices and they ARE in the system.
[23.03.2018 23:02:23] =LSF=Kitty.Hawk.II: XO: Just sounds like someone needs to better screen their officers.

As of setting up this report, the incident took place roughly 15 hours ago. This is a summary of my version of the events, in the case of a legal dispute.


That concludes my flight report.
Fiddle signing out.