Report Filed by: Officer Steven Taylor
Subject: Second day on the job
I started my day by launching from Manhattan and heading to Colorado/Illinois to try out some different equipment. I then returned to New York and started my patrol. Things were rather quiet for quite a while. For the first few hours the most exciting thing that happened was a Zoner convention. None of them were carrying contraband, and they were just passing through silently, like Zoners tend to do.
I joined a Navy patrol for a while, but we didn't detect anything out of the ordinary. I took a coffee and doughnut break on Newark Station (mmm...Sunbucks.). LNS-Ironhide reminded me that Sunbucks gives you Space Cancer, but I let him in on the secret: The doughnuts cancel the cancer. He promised to keep the secret safe.
When my break was over, I launched from Newark, and was confronted by a strange request from a Bounty Hunter to fire upon my ship to test his weapons. He was in a Battlecruiser, so I didn't like my odds. I politely declined his request, and he moved off a bit. Within seconds, a second battlecruiser appeared on the Scene. This one was showing IMG colors, and I didn't think anything of it until I got in scanner range: http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp42/LP...thArtifacts.jpg
As you can see, he was smuggling Artifacts! I ordered him to drop the artifacts, which was pretty funny, with me being in a Liberator. He wondered out loud what I would do if he didn't. I replied that he didn't want to be on Liberty's Wanted list, while on another channel letting the LNS-Ironhide know what was going on. The Bounty Hunter [BHG]KIDy who requested permission to fire on me was still in the area as well. Midnight docked with Manhattan, and LNS-Ironhide requested him to pay the 2mil fine. Midnight didn't make any reply, and LNS-Ironhide contracted with the Hunter to help us out if it came to a fight.
Well, it came to a fight. Midnight undocked from Manhattan and engaged us. I did my best to stay on his tail, hoping to stay in his blind spot, while LNS-Ironhide and [BHG]KIDy blasted him as well. We were certainly winning the fight, and he was nearly destroyed. As near as I can tell, he decided that he wasn't going to get my allies, so picked the easiest target to destroy: Me.
As you can see, he was destroyed within seconds of blowing me out of the sky. LNS-Ironhide picked up my escape pod and dropped me back on Manhattan and I spent the rest of the day filling out the endless paperwork that accompanies an officer's ship being destroyed.
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