Itasca Station, owned by the Interspace Commerce division was sieged by two of our own Retalators as well as two other Lane Hacker Stortas. This allowed us to destroy the station, with half hull integrity in less than an hour. Our strike force managed to stay unseen and we left no trace of our doing. This is one for the history!
March 15.
Recon flight in Bretonia. Nothing of importance to report, except for a hostile base, located deep in the fields.
March 17.
Started a regular interdiction routine in Badlands. I encountered a transport ship with Drill Bits. Captain ignored me and failed to respond, thus the ship deconstructed.
Later on, I intercepted Universal weasel, transporting human bodies to the Planet Miura. No life signs were read and after lengthy discussion, transport was allowed to pass.
Once we moved to Shikoku, and KNF Chimerea was spotted near Junyo and I engaged it. Moments later an Umibozu bomber showed up and our Professor joined the dogfight. I shot down the bomber, while professor put down Chimerea.
After Brokenclaw joined up, we proceeded back to Liberty, only to intercept Universal scamp for extortion. Captain failed to comply and was quickly disassembled.
Seconds later, Interspace hoodlum, smuggling Sorted Artifacts was spotted, but was too close to Battleship for us to destroy it.
We decided to allow Brokenclaw to perform Lockdown. He chose to New York system and I was assigned to Badlands. An independent merchant was intercepted and extorted for 100.000 credits. He paid eleven times more.
A ship affilated to Corsairs was spotted there, but no action taken due to call for reinforcements near Fort Bush.
An hour later, Universal Shipping vessel was intercepted and forced to pay 3.333.333 credits.
March 18.
Chose Manchester as traffic was common there in the last few days. It was great decision as I had ALG trashman pay me 333.333 credits, while BMM lackey was departed with 6.666.666 credits.
A bit later, DSE Titanic was intercepted but since no cargo was found, I extorted only 333.333 credits.
However, once the same ship was intercepted in Cortez, it was hauling Heat Sinks. Mania Interogation revealed that it was meant for DSE owned station with a name of Home Station. Transport failed to reveal the location of said base and was disposed of.
Hours later, it would appear that another Titanic was already deployed to continue supplying the station. Target headed to Coronado, even after my demands. I followed it through and with the vector of travel known, I stopped it halfway. A Zoner Cruiser showed up and captain's attitude revealed that this Cruiser was meant for defence of Home Station. After lenghty talks, I had to destroy the transport once again, for failing to reveal the location and as expected, the Zoner attempted to protect the corporate cad.
I proceeded to extend the distance between two ships until I was safe to cruise. Calculated vector showed no sight of station, thus I made a circle around the system while the Cruiser was on my tail. After a second circle, once I expanded search pattern, I found the base located behind Planet Baja. With vital information recored on the ship, I quickly turned back to Cortez system, but was intercepted by Colonial Gunboat, who would appear was working with Zoner. By extention, Colonial Republic is protecting Home Station too. Gunboat opened fired without any time wasted and I had to shoot back. Once in Cortez, I engaged the Gunboat without support of Zoner Cruiser, but once Colonial ship was cripple, ION storm hit the system and all ships were disable and drifted apart.
Weaponry tests.
Solaris weapons were tested in numerous battles and proved to be valuable asset. Due to high speed, the projectiles are easier to aim and increased fire rate gives a chance to hit stray missiles or mines, launched or dropped by foe. However, low damage output inhibits the possibility to damage opponent quickly and forces the dogfight to continue longer.