Comm ID: Cadet Lucius Hopkins Recipient: 5th Fleet Command, Liberty Navy 5th Fleet Subject: Patrol Report
Greetings Command,
I wish to advise you of an issue I encountered while on patrol in the New York system. Upon exiting the Fort Bush to Norfolk Shipyard trade lane I encountered a rather strange sight. The Missouri and Norfolk shipyard were engaged with a Freelancer ID'd combat vessel and firing for effect. To all intents and purposes my IFF system was identifying the vessel as neutral, after scanning the vessel it was identified as an 'Inquisitor' class Hellfire Legion gunboat.
I commed the vessel to advise it to move from the firing range of the battleship so that we could discuss it's presence in Liberty space. However, I received no response.
The weapons fire from the Missouri was such that the vessel was overcome and destroyed in short order without any intervention on my part. Though I did not engage the vessel I manually engaged my Guardian's guncam to record the encounter, which can be seen in the attachments below.