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Comm ID: Cadet Lucius Hopkins
Recipient: 5th Fleet Command, Liberty Navy 5th Fleet
Subject: Reports

Greetings Command,

Please find two reports filed within this transmission. One is an after action report and the other is a standard patrol report.

After Action Report

Date 01/05/827
Time: Approx 22:50 -23:54 SMT

After receiving an emergency communication at approx 22:47 on the fleet communications system. I proceeded with dispatch to Planet Denver in Colarado where Xeno and Outcast vessels had been encountered.

Upon my arrival I encountered two Xeno fighters a 'Xeno Alliance' vessel callsign Ridgenose and an unaffiliated Xeno pilot callsign Kelvin.Heat. At my time of arrival friendly forces amounted to four friendlies. At 22:56 1st Fleet officer James Davis gave the order to engage the Xeno vessels. More friendlies to continued to turn up during the fight (mostly freelancers and Bounty hunters), who immediately engaged the targets. Due to the numbers engaged on a single target my targeting computers found it difficult to keep track of the vessels so for safety reasons I stayed in range but kept my weapons cool. Waiting to see if my vessel would be needed further.

At 23:04:59 the Xeno alliance vessel was put out of action by Bounty hunter 'full throttle'. At 23:08:59 the second Xeno vessel was put out of action, once again by Bounty Hunter 'full throttle'.

At 23:13 I was informed that there was a Liberty Rogue gunboat in New York and my assistance was requested. I quickly re-armed my guardian and then proceeded to New York at best speed. Upon arriving I found the [LN]-LNS-Fluvanna engaged with a Liberty Rogue gunboat 'Sea Hawk'. The Bounty Hunter 'full throttle' and a Liberty Police battlecruiser the LPS-Elizabeth arrived shortly after and also engaged. Seeing the number of forces engaged against the gunboat I began to maintain a CAP only firing when fired upon.

By 23:30 the Rogue Gunboat was still up and fighting. While monitoring I was engaged by the fighter L\-'Blaster'. Unfortunately, my vessels gun camera images of this vessel were corrupted post battle. Anyways, I am not proud and will admit that I was outmatched against 'Blaster' and the destruction of my craft was only prevented by the intervention of the Bounty Hunter 'full throttle' who wished to claim the bounty for the Outcast craft. At this point, my guardian had moderate damage and a reactor leak so it's combat effectiveness was limited.

Unfortunately the Outcast got the better of the Bounty hunter on this occasion who was forced to eject into an escape pod. Myself and the Outcast 'Blaster' engaged again however the battle was impeded by the LPS-Elizabeth and I must unfortunately report that the Outcast fighter fled without being destroyed at approx 23:45 SMT.

The LPS-Elizabeth requested that I follow them back to the rogue gunboat engagement which was still occurring at this point. I initially re-engaged at approx 23:49 at request of the [LN]-LNS-Fluvanna. However, when two freelancer bombers arrived on-site at approx 23:50 I began flying a CAP formation again to screen for possible hostile fighters as I deemed that there was enough firepower to deal with the gunboat already on-site.

The gunboat was successfully downed at 23:54:15. After which I returned immediately to the Missouri for emergency repairs. I have included all salvageable gun camera footage from my fighter below.

Guncam

Patrol Report

Date: 03/05/827
Time: Begins 10:00 SMT - Ends 11:00 SMT

This morning I departed on a standard patrol of core liberty space. I patrolled from Richmond Academy to Texas and from there a Patrolled all the trade lanes is Pennsylvania, Texas, New York, Colarado and California.

There was nothing to report from this patrol. In fact I only encountered one other ship a freelancer craft which was clean. I completed my Patrol and docked at the Missouri in New York.

With Regards,
Cadet Lucius Hopkins, 5th Fleet

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