Commodore Christopher Edwards, Battleship Akhetaten, New York System, 20/04/828 A.S.
About time I recorded this, there's a number of things I need to log. Lets start from the simpler ones; Coronado.
The place is a mess, every time the Akhetaten has to fly to the Yellowstone to report the patrol results I get a feeling that we might not come back from this hell-hole of a system. This time, we had the Insurgency, Auxesia and the Coalition out there to ruin our day. The Insurgency battlecruiser was initially supported by an Auxesian bomber and a fighter while the Akhetaten was assisted by an LSF bomber. Shortly after the engagement begun, Captain Hawkins on board he Unto Nightfall, the known Order recon cruiser, decloaked in our vicinity and engaged the Auxesian snubcraft in our defense.
The LSF agent was surprised by this action, something that will be further discussed on later down this log. I, on the other hand, can't say I was as surprised as the agent. Captain Hawkins along with other operatives working for the Order have shown no hostilities towards the Liberty Navy the past few months after the discovery of Omicron Nu.
The Nightfall did a good job keeping the hostile snubcraft off of us and we managed to take down the battlecruiser, suffering immense damage while doing so. The two Auxesians were backed up by a third bomber a few minutes later along with a small wing of Coalition bombers. In the end, Captain Hawkins made the right move to re-cloak and leave the vicinity as it was a lost fight. Our backup didn't arrive in time and the Akhetaten ended up disabled for a few minutes before we got towed back to Norfolk for repairs.
After this engagement and with data from various past engagements the Akhetaten has been in, I filed a request towards the Fifth Fleet's Admiralty to keep the Akhetaten at Norfolk for a minor overhaul, which was approved. The C-48 "Cerberus"-type turret was removed from the Akhetaten and replaced with a TL-25 "Mortar", a cryogenic antimatter projector. The crew among with myself believe that the TL-25 will be a valuable addition to the Akhetaten's arsenal and an excellent replacement to the C-48.
Moving on, just yesterday we were on a routine patrol to Coronado once again when we came across a heavily damaged research vessel, the RSV-Neumann, that requested our assistance. The research vessel was stranded inside the star's corona with it's engines completely non-operational, we approached the vessel and engaged our tractor beams effectively pulling it out of the corona. Unfortunately, the Akhetaten's systems went offline for about three minutes after this procedure. We later found out that this was due to the immense heat radiated from the nearby sun that in conjunction with the Akhetaten's already heavily loaded reactor due to the tractor-beam being active lead to an overheat on our onboard components forcing everything to shut down so as to prevent any permanent damage.
After the issue was dealt with, a boarding team lead by Lieutenant Howard Stone and consisting of a few marines along with Lieutenant Emanuel Stoza was sent on board the Neumann tasked to repair the ship's reactor. The repairing of the reactor turned to be quite more adventurous than we expected, with Stone reporting that the ship suffered a lot more issues than what we initially thought. First the team had to repair the ship's reactor in order to restore power to all systems. Then, the communications of the ship in order to deactivate the on-going self-destruct sequence that was started when the 'intruders' were detected by the automatic defense system. Then, and only then, could they move to the engine room and fix the engine. During all of the above, they were 'escorted' by a robot that Stone described as 'overly rude', mentioning that it constantly referred to them as 'meatbags' and how it almost shot Stoza.
With the repairs all handled and the entire team still alive, they left the Neumann and returned to the Akhetaten where they were quarantined until the necessary check-ups were completed.
The research vessel was then escorted to Baltimore Shipyard which was notified of our arrival as I arranged an empty drydock for the Neumann to be repaired in. It seems that the Neumann encountered some large concentration of energy in California that when interacted with exploded causing the damage pre-mentioned. The stating is at the very least confusing.
During this whole operation, the same LSF agent as well as the Cursed Days, a Liberty Navy Overlord were in the vicinity looking after the Akhetaten while we were unable to defend ourselves. After the research vessel successfully docked at Baltimore, the agent requested our presence at a secluded area in order to discuss a few matters.
The Akhetaten rendezvoused with the agent inside Zone-21 at Chadwick station where we had Commander Nelson's company as well, a rather pleasant surprise I might add. The agent seemed to have been worried about Captain Hawkins and her intentions judging from our last meeting with her and the Unto Nightfall. He believed that the Order cruiser may have intercepted the transmission we sent to Yellowstone.
I ensured the agent that our transmission was not intercepted as the Akhetaten's counter-intelligence and cyber-warfare systems are second to none, effectively being the best known to man. To help him understand that his worries were insignificant, I told him that the data being transmitted was mere routine patrol data which of course was true. With that discussion out of the way, the agent docked and I brought the Akhetaten to Norfolk to rest after a long day.
