A very busy and eventful shift today; Pirates, Battleships and even Phantoms.
>Rogues in California
My shift started with two rogues being sighting in California. Although I hadn't received any reports of pirating or other illegal activities, both rogues had prisoners in their cargo holds. AscendantLight gave up the hostages immediately, however LR-Stow.It refused to transfer two VIP's over to my hold. After giving him the silent treatment, the rogue quickly saw I was not fooling around and handed over all of the hostages.
Although Flaming.Bess violated numerous laws, disobeyed orders and personally refused to answer any of my questions, I believe if a member of High Command sat the arrogant Captain down and told him whats-what, he would learn from his grievous mistake.
As such, I disapprove of the KoS order and will not enforce it unless lives are in danger. Another enemy is something Liberty does not want at this time.
>Hostage-Takers
While en-route to meet up with the Brookstone in Pennsylvannia, I came across two Rogues who had downed the lanes in the Badlands. Fearing the Brookstone's safety, I ignored them and took guncam images of their holds for proof of their illegal activities.
When returning from the Zoner incident, I encountered the second hostage-taker, Bunting.&.Blagging.Inc. He was already pirating a trader in Pennsylvania and I took it upon myself to neutralise the threat. Guardian.059 assisted with the ship's destruction.
The Gateway Captain that disobeyed direct orders to cease fire on the Gallic gunboat was Gateway)Skipsea and the Corsair mentioned was Cristobal.Cortez.
When returning from Norfolk, piloting my bomber once again, I noticed an unusual signature on the sensors. I went to investigate and found the target, Hemat had numerous civilian, Police and Navy hostages on board. I attempted to close in, but it was no use - He was already too far into the Badlands and I was forced to discontinue my pursuit.
Whilst patrolling Texas, I came across an Interspace Captain who was headed to Colorado. The comms were buzzing with reports of pirates left right and center, so I thought it prudent to make sure the shipment of Alloys got to Pueblo safely. I escorted the ICT-112.Captain to Pueblo with no incidents.
Spero, a known Outcast, was spotted by the Brookstone nearing West Point. Fortunately, I was nearby and proceeded to assist the Captain in stopping him. At first he refused, however he soon saw he was outgunned and was in no position to bargain. I ordered Capt. Kinney to escort the Outcast to the border of California. The Captain misunderstood me and only escorted him to the jumpgate to California.
Knowing Spero wasn't going to simply leave Liberty of his own accord, I quickly moved to California to give him a nudge out. However, I immediately received a mayday from a ship at Mojave - He was under attack from a pirate. I moved out and engaged the pirate on sight. Within thirty seconds of weapons fire, he succumb to a SuperNova shot.
>Phantoms
After taking a lunch break, I came back only to find two Phantoms causing a ruckus at West Point. Both had already destroyed several lawful craft - I attempted to arrest the one known as Dark_Blossom, but it didn't respond nicely to it. That one and Gloom continued to engage a Bounty Hunter who was fighting a losing battle. I decided to engage them in the best interests of Liberty.
The scuffle got interrupted by a massive ion storm that blacked out everyone's ships. After it passed, the ions left a magnetic imprint on my reactor, which scrambled both the enemies targeting systems as well as my own. My only option was to dock and let backup take care of them. As I'm writing this report, they are still in New York, only hiding in the shadows.
Gloom., Dark_Blossom --PHANTOMS-- --STILL AT LARGE--
>Commendations
Although Captain Kinney did misunderstand my orders for the escort of Spero out of New York, he did quite well in pursuing the Zoner battleship who disobeyed orders on numerous occasions. Well done, Captain, try to better understand orders in the future and we'll get along just fine.
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