Independent Miners Guild Comm System (GuildComm)

[Adam_Spire]

*****GuildComm Activated*****

TO: IMG Defense Division
FROM: Adam Spire Raven Talon Pilot
RE: Increasing organized activity of Outcast / Cartel in outer New York area, California Jump gate space.

I flew out of range, not engaging three Outcasts VHF loaded with Kraken Type 2 and cannonball rockets, these are simply no joke and those Kraken guns put our Vampire guns to shame. They have a tactic where one fighter stays within the gates of the Jump gate waiting for a runner from the other two to try to jump system. It is impossible to run as the fighter, just within the access of the Jump gate causes a navigation error, forcing the running ship to correct course. This leads to the ships destruction with no chance to defend or even run. Be warned they did not care that I was an IMG member nor that I was warning any other systems of the impending ambush.

The Outcasts are getting very organized and their fighting abilities are not to be underestimated.

I have devised a flying pattern that should be very effective upon fighter vs fighter combat. The Outcasts and their Cartel counterparts are experts at the thruster slide maneuver where they get in front of you, hit the engine cutoff, and with their momentum still keeping them going, spin around and fire a single Mini razor shot that takes out a fighters shields. This done a few times places any fighter into a defensive posture rather quickly.

The only way to combat this is to fly in wings of three. Side by side fighters that stick in close formation and concentrate on one and ONLY one fighter at a time. Even against more than one combatant, the Outcasts do not fight as a group but in trained patterns. With a three fighter attack wing, the fighter that becomes the most damaged, switches to the interior of the pattern, leaving the two fighters on either side to provide continual cover. Repeat this process and the Outcast/cartel fighter will have it.

NoI have not tested this maneuver, but the theory is sound. I call upon any IMG defenders in a good fighter to join me to try this out. The transport groups are pretty good at organizing, but the Defense force of the IMG is painfully unorganized. As I said before, I am not the best nor do I claim to be some fantastic tactician, but we have to send a message as a Guild and as a family, we will not allow this activity from the Outcasts or any faction, openly seeking to take our livelihood from us.


*****GuildComm Deactivated*****

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