Recon mission complete. Filled form sent to Sr. Director Moriarty
As I jumped to NY from California, I atomized all LPI and Navy patrols in the area, to leave no witnesses. An Orbital Armored transport crossed my way ... too bad for the pilot. 100 units of luxury food acquired, VIP aboard will be brought for interrogation.
After a very quick sweep of areas around Manhattan and West Point, I positioned my ship in a small debris field near Fort Bush, to get a bit of stealth. Lurking in there, I scanned some LPI ships passing around. One of them was so fat that he lost control of his ship and accidentally jumped into me. When he woke up from the shock, seeing my Dromedary, armed to the teeth ... he attempted to demand dropping the captured naval pilots.
Looter: "And you don't care about your fat fellow Policemen?"
"... drop all lawfuls, please"
"Whatever I have to do ... *laughs loudly* ... I think I'm gonna bribe you."
"Bribery in an open channel?"
"Here, have these doughnuts. Tasty, eh?" [dropped the luxury food]
Burn.
All he could see was the ion trail of my cruise engines.
Using tradelanes, avoiding Missouri and West Point, I passed back to the California gate. There I vaporized an enemy Transport and jumped away.
Dropping a few mines right under his nose as I was entering the tradelanne proved to be very effective.