Liberty Police, Inc. Reporting Office

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Name: Art Collins
Rank: Recruit Officer
Report: 01

This is my first report of duty. Sorry that it is so long, but there's a lot that happened.

All started while I was still on my way through the New York system completing the weapons configuration of my ship, still off-duty.
I heard a transmission from the the prison liner San.Quentin indicating they had engine problems. Then I was contacted by Sergeant Aiden Maggard warning me that Manhattan space was not safe. That's where I was already.
I quickly continued equipping my ship at Newark. Later Sergeant Maggard advised me to avoid the hostiles and Manhattan in general. Then I heard Officer Andy Kingman over the communications.
Sergeant Maggard informed us that there were 7 Outcasts in that area. He also told us that there was no Navy on site. We tried to contact the LNS-Assault1 and the LNS-Twilight then.
Inbetween there were messages from the San.Quentin that they still had problems aboard (probably rogue prisoners trying to take control of the ship).

Officer Kingman finally tried to arrest the criminals and had to engage them. Sergeant Maggard quickly joined him for support. This was the moment I had my weapons mounted and ready; I quickly left Newark and looked to join my comrades as fast as possible.
At that time also some HA arrived (I detected Charoum, Sammael and Raphael), Apollo's.Arrow and Kailee.Barnes were on site, too. Also the Hind tried to secure some bounty. There were Xenos, Outcasts, Rogues all sorts of criminals. I surely did not notice everybody on scene, it was quite a crowd. I quickly entered combat, but very fast everything changed.

Obviously there was some sort of ion storm which affected most of the ships. Many left within one or two minutes. My ship was not affected that badly and I continued. But Officer Kingman and Sergeant Maggard transmitted that their ships wee heavily affected.

On the comms I heard the San.Quentin, there sure was chaos on that ship; first Rogue prisoners getting into control, then Xeno prisoners fighting them.

The ion storm continued, the Xenos were among the last who dissapeared. After that also Sergeant Maggard and Officer Kingman decided to leave, the storm nearly rendering their ships uncontrollable.

Then it was very quiet in the New York system. I flew back to orbit Manhattan. I noticed a Freelancer yacht, the Diplomatic_Envoy, who tried to sell weapons near Newark. It carried nearly 25 codename guns and some other weapons, but there was not a lot of clientele left.

I then intercepted a call from the San.Quentin (Officer Jackson) telling that the ship is under control and that they needed technical and medical help. They also gave an indication where they could be found.
I was already on my way to the San.Quentin when they contacted me directly asking for assistance, shortly after that I arrived on scene. The San.Quentin was heavily damaged, they also seemed to have troubles with their shield and were unable to activate cruise.

They asked me to escort them to Manhattan and to protect them from possible Xeno attacks. Slowly we arrived at Manhattan where the San.Quentin made first repairs. I then escorted them to Fort Bush where they docked.

As it was very quiet now, I started to patrol from there. I checked Pittsburgh, Colorade jumpgate, Norfolk Shipyard, continued to Houston, Bering jumpgate, then Hudson jumpgate. No hostile contacts. Then I returned to New York.

Shortly after that Sergeant Maggard returned to space. After a short chat with him I continued my patrol to West Point and then turned to the Pennsylvania jumpgate. In the Badlands some Rogues had interrupted the trade lane. I killed two of them, the third fled into the Badlands.

That's when I received a call from Sergeant Maggard telling me that there might be trouble in California. I quickly flew to California.

When I joined Sergeant Maggard there was the Outcast Lea.Lopez in a Sabre. Sergeant Maggard told her to leave the system, but her replies were weird. I first thought she was confused (calling California her territory), but when she insulted Sergeant Maggard it became clear she was out for a fight. She talked about owning California system and told Sergeant Maggard to leave! After enough warning Sergeant Maggard engaged. It was a tough fight. Sergeant Maggard's ship still seemed to suffer from the ion storm.

After a short fight suddenly everything went very fast. Sergeant Maggard's ship did not hold any longer, although the Outcast was damaged already. At that moment I was at her tails trying to finish her off when I was struck by a mine. Instantly the shields were gone and the hull was critical. Before I could activate the nanobots I was killed by additional gun fire.

I do not know what happened after that, but now I am in a hospital ward with a terrible headache.
I do not have access to my camera shots right now, but I could provide some once I have access to my ship.

Art Collins out.

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Fighter pilot: You follow my fiancee. You are my rival. I brook no rivals. At six o'clock I shall be in Connecticut, alone, with my Sabre. Do you understand?
Battleship commander: Oh, thank you, that's a fighter pilot's proposal. I'm into heavy ordnance, and I have the choice of weapons. If I go, I shall take my battleship. And there shall be no mistake about the ammunition this time.