Patrol started today in a state of high alert, as we got news that two Nomad bombers, named 'Keepers', were headed our way. Vice-Admiral Hale and myself approached the two 'Keepers' and started to engage them after they fired on a gunboat in the vicinity. Their ships were small, agile and extremely powerful; they took down the first gunboat with ease. Almost immediately after, they targeted a second gunboat who came along to assist. Try as I might, i couldn't get the Nomad bombers with my SuperNova when they were engaging the gunboat. The fight soon moved toward Battleship Missouri, and the second gunboat was taken out by the might of the alien's weapons. Officer Walsh was quick to provide backup, however almost immediately after arriving at Missouri suffered a critical reactor failure and wasn't able to correct this. The Keepers took this as an opportunity to take out the officer's ship, luckily the ejection system still worked on Walsh's ship and he was able to be beamed aboard Missouri soon after his ship had been destroyed.
It was now down to the two Keepers verses Vice-Admiral Hale and myself. The Vice-Admiral lowered the enemy's shields, allowing me to hit them both with a SuperNova. A hazmat team was soon on the scene to clean up any residuals left behind by the Nomads.
Seconds after the last Nomad was destroyed, i had severe engine problems and i was forced to make an emergency landing at Fort Bush. It turned out that the engines had been infected with some sort of alien virus, no doubt a last ditch attempt by the Keepers to sabotage the ship. Luckily, the problem was found and the entire engine compartment had to be replaced, as such, i was off-duty for a good chunk of the day.
When i returned to duty with a new engine installed, i almost immediately ran into a pirate named 'Swashbuckler'. He told me he was leaving Liberty, i doubted this, but as he was causing no trouble I decided to let him run. However, later on, a small Outcast ship tagged 'Gomez.de.Ruiz' was ruthlessly engaging Liberty lawfuls for no apparent reason. I asked him to power down his weapons and hand over all lawful pilots on board, he refused and subsequently was engaged. Soon after, Swashbuckler made a return and immediately started firing on my ship. As such, i switched targeting sensors to Swashbuckler and he was destroyed with the help of Special Agent Frank Horrigan. A Xeno then approached Manhatten, where the fight was occurring, and engaged Frank. Special Agent Horrigan was more than qualified to take on this crazy Xeno, and i began a full systems check whilst he fought the Xeno. Another Xeno then came onto sensors, a bomber. I immediately engaged the bomber, and with the excellent fighting of Special Agent Horrigan, we were able to take down both the fighter and the bomber with relative ease.
I proceeded to Norfolk to make repairs to my ship when a pirate Sabre engaged me when he hacked a tradelane i was traveling down. I stood no chance against the pirate who quickly leveled my shields and soon destroyed my ship. I ejected, and seeing as it was near the end of my shift, i took the rest of the day off to write this report and feed my cat and such.
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