COMM ID: Commander Jane Hartman
TARGET ID: Liberty Forces Reporting Centre
SUBJECT: BDM| Incursion
ENCRYPTION: Moderate
PRIORITY: Low
Good Evening All (Excusing Rank).
Forces were scrambled earlier today in response to Rheinland warships in Texas. I was late to the party, but we managed an intercept of the hostile force approx. 15km from Planet Houston, toward the Hudson gate. Friendly forces engaged the Rheinlanders, as the hostile cruisers crawled toward the Hudson gate. Without heavy support of our own, our gunboats drew most of the enemy fire, resulting in the destruction of The.California, one of our gunboats. However; The.California was able to buy the remainder of our force sufficient time to down the Rheinland Cruiser Thoegn before it was able to jump.
This is where things get mighty odd. The Brynhilder (Rheinland Cruiser) broke away from the gate, with our ships in pursuit. 14km out from the gate, the ship came about and, after declining requests for his surrender, opened up on our forces. Lieutenant Teerin's Upholder caught the enemy barrage, and he had to eject, followed by the gunboat LNS-Lankin. While the Captain of the Lankin put up an excellent fight, I was unable to draw the cruiser's fire for long enough for him to pull away.
Now; that was about where I expected to be shot to pieces. Instead, the two remaining hostiles turned and set course for the Bering jump gate. Claimed they "had Hessians incoming." I trailed them to the gate, and can confirm that they both jumped. Still not quite sure what to make of it. Damn odd behavior, for a Rheinlander.
Quote:Patrol Strength [2]
[LN]-Jane:Hartman [Upholder]
[LN]-Rohj.Teerin. [Upholder] - Destroyed
Additional Friendlies [2]
The.California [Liberty Gunboat] - Destroyed
LNS-Lankin [Liberty Gunboat] - Destroyed
Quote:Hostiles [3]
BDM|RNC-Brynhilder [Rheinland Cruiser]
BDM|RNC-Thoegn [Rheinland Cruiser] - Destroyed
Valkyrie [Mjolnir Super-Heavy Fighter]
After the Rheinlanders departed, I returned to LPI Sugarland to resupply. Can't say it's the nicest place I've ever stopped at.
To: Primary Fleet Command HQ
Subject: Reporting for Duty
Encryption: High
Priority: High
Admirals,
I am contacting you today to introduce myself. I am Lieutenant Steven Falkland, and I have just been reassigned to Primary Fleet.
My last assignment was as a pilot aboard the Battleship Alma way out in the Quebec system, serving the Secondary Fleet as a wing leader. Our work mainly consisted of maintaining our supply lines to the front with Rheinland. I suppose my superiors saw some promise in me, as I received a promotion and reassignment back to the core systems and the Primary Fleet. I am thrilled to now have the opportunity to work with Liberty's finest men and women and defend our proud nation.
I understand we have access now to some Bretonian vessels, and I am eager to perhaps try my hand behind the controls of a Templar at some point in the future. Regardless, I will get myself set up and out on some combat missions as soon as possible.
I look forward to meeting and working with all of you.
Over this past week, there have been two Coalition raids on New York. The first was a largebrawl at Manhattan, where the SCRA lost two snubs and a cruiser before retreating to Kepler through Colorado. Our losses included two capital ships as well as a pair of fighters.
The second incursion was just a single Coalition ship which was prowling about the Pittsburgh Debris Field. However, our forces were unable to catch the ship.
Teerin out.
****TRANSMISSION TERMINATED****
"You see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing. ... how, what you think the universe is, and how you react to that in everything you do, depends on what you know. And when that knowledge changes, for you, the universe changes. And that is as true for the whole of society as that is for the individual. We all are what we know, today. What we knew yesterday, was different; and so were we."
- James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed (1985)
COMM ID:Captain Alan Polstari TARGET ID:Primary Fleet Command HQ SUBJECT:Security Violations ENCRYPTION:High PRIORITY:High
Greetings, sirs.
I submit the following report concerning security issues I've encountered over the past few days.
Subject:Cpt.S.T.
I found this Junker in violation of the Alaska system. His initial trajectory indicated entrance from the Omicrons, though he overshot his exit at first. I hung around and he returned, to the gate, where I attempted to question his reasons for being in restricted space. Unfortunately he began to flee, so I opened fire upon his vessel. Due to unfortunate circumstances, he was able to outrun me at first, though he did suffer fire from myself and severe damage from Melbourne Station. I was able to get assistance from the pilot of LN-Interceptor-23 who caught the vessel at West Point Military Academy. I proceeded to terminate the target when it unexpectedly crash landed on West Point's landing platforms. I'm not sure of the current status of the vessel, but I believe that the captain has shown sufficient disregard for Libertonian security to be considered a valid threat, and I recommend treating him as such.
While returning to Manhattan after inspection of a Council Transport vessel I ran a routine scan on this vessel before I intended to put in on Manhattan. Imagine my surprise to see a Light Cloaking Device aboard. I immediately hailed the vessel's captain with respect to the device, but it completed an emergency landing on Newark Station and refused further comms. I am requesting an investigation into this vessel, and associatively the Judges to whom it belongs, as to the manner of how they obtained this device and why they refused to heed our publicly available laws on the matter.
COMM ID: Commander Jane Hartman
TARGET ID: Liberty Navy Personnel Centre
SUBJECT: Leave Request
ENCRYPTION: Low
PRIORITY: Low
Leave Request Follows:
First Name:Jane Last Name:Hartman Service Number:NF403198 Rank:Commander Posting:Logistics Corps HQ Start Date:07/12/819 End Date:12/01/820 Leave Type:
Sick/Injury
Recreational
Long Service
Other
Reason: The recent destruction of the Clearwater has aggravated injuries sustained in earlier service with the LMC. Fleet medical personnel have recommended temporary withdrawal from active service to recuperate or withdrawal from service altogether. I intend to take the former option, and aim to return to active duty as soon as possible. In my absence, Command of the Logistics Corps falls to CAPT Polstari.
Hartman, out.
****TRANSMISSION TERMINATED****
// Heading off on holiday with the folks. Y'all take care, and Merry Christmas/Non-Religious holiday period.
COMM ID: Recruit Tiffany Markley SUBJECT: Patrol Report ENCRYPTION:High PRIORITY:High
Admirals,
upon having received reports about a Council battleship in the Alaska system, I took the initiative to check it out. I joined up with Lieutenant James Lambert and together we entered the Alaska system. Gosh, I was so glad that the Lieutenant was there with me. It was my first time in the Alaska system after all.
Anyways! Once we reached the Alaska system we began with our patrol. We split up to be able to find the vessel easier. Ultimately it was Lieutenant Lambert who managed to find the intruder. Surprisingly the reports were right! It was in fact a Council battleship!
I immediately changed my course to head to Lambert's coordination. As soon as I was there the Lieutenant had already began to interrogate with the Captain of the battleship. Without any success, though! The Captain seemed to be somewhat confused and always repeated the same sentence, that he was coming in peace to hunt down aliens.
It was even clear for me what had to be done. However, we lacked the needed forces in order to fulfill that. So we tried to nail the Captain with questions until reinforcements would come, but... what then happened, did really no one of us expect! A Nomad fleet came and attacked us, eventually taking down the Council battleship in a mere seconds. Due to our lack of forces we had to retreat. The only loss was the Council battleship, no losses on our side.
COMM ID: Captain Alan Polstari
TARGET ID: Primary Fleet Command HQ
SUBJECT: Security in New York
ENCRYPTION: Medium
PRIORITY: Medium
Greetings, sirs.
Over recent days, the Liberty Rogues have been making regular incursions into New York. Today they had competition in the form of the Church of Jiob, who cause a ruckus and then flooded the comms systems with religious sermons.
During this, some Liberty Rogues cause a bit of trouble around Manhattan, which I moved to assist our forces there. The hostile was a civilian Heavy Fighter, but he was joined mid-way by a Werewolf VHF (ID'd as the "Very Funny Wolf"). Despite my best efforts, I was shot down in short order, but recovered by an S&R tractor team from Newark Station.
Suffered minor injuries, but passed fit to fly after a day or two to recover.
Oh and still awaiting details for training from HQ.
COMM ID:Lieutenant Daler Mehndi. TARGET ID:Anyone with ears in the Navy. SUBJECT:I'm in trouble. ENCRYPTION:extremely angry. PRIORITY:It's #^#%@$ Important.
Looks like I'm in trouble.
I was just minding my own business and chilling out with a friend of mine, when these guys decided they wanted to mock me and then knife me in the face.
I introduced them to a lamp post. Some civilian had recording equipment
around, so I won't waste more time talking...
***Encryption Active, following is for High Command eyes only.***
I interrogated the criminal, and it turns out there's a fairly large conspiracy
out to hurt us.I'll have to go undercover, so I won't be around for a while.
Wish me luck...
A couple of events happened today. I'll start at the beginning of my day shift where I encountered a mix of the Hellfire legion and SCRA forces. Lt. Rohj Teerin was already engaged in the California system with these forces and I gave him aid, making me score a direct hit on one of their fighters.
When I returned to New York after the first incursion I ran into a Outcast who was going by the name "Tachyon" was executed at the California Gate in New York when he failed to accomplish simple orders to nuke himself.
Second part my patrol involved some bigger vessels. After getting the word of a Police officer that a Outcast Carrier (Carrier.Kalinderu) had been sighted in the region around Norfolk I moved to check this out and informed the bigger assets of the Navy. Several vessels grouped up and made a interception on this Carrier who was already engaged with one of our Liberty Dreadnoughts. A bomber wing was helping out the hostile carrier to take down our vessel.
The dreadnought was saved and it managed to reach port without too much heavy damage. The Carrier had jumped out after supplying its bombers with decent supplies to keep us busy with. When the Carrier returned we managed to lay down a heavy barrage and caught the vessel exploding right in a second jump which it failed to complete.
After completing the Carrier threat, a Order patrol vessel ran by at high speeds, who was heading for the Alaska jump gate. An interception of this vessel failed but we did manage to catch the name of the Pilot. The ship being a Guardian by the way and it was flown by our ex LSF director Anna Brown.
It's been quiet a day again. I've picked up an Upholder Bomber from Battleship James, it seems to be quite a decent craft. But for some reason it doesn't come even close to the Nanda Devi I've used to fly in. Which was heavier but still easier to manage against smaller targets. Never the less I think the Upholder still does a good job.
Ran the normal patrols with the Upholder across the lanes of New York, once at Norfolk I got my first contact, which was a Nomad organism. A local LSF vessel was assigned to take it down and I observed together with a few other officers at the scene. However when the LSF agent didn't seem to manage the bug, I head to get back to base and rush myself into my Avenger. After a brief fight and later on chase the bug managed to run into its own explosives.
On a side note, an Order agent was at the scene but his interest was only with the Nomad, so I let him go since I didn't see him do any harm. This decision was mainly made to keep the officers who were dealing with the Nomad out of harms way. Since I don't like things to get chaotic. Terrance Chamberlain was the Order pilot's name.
With the Upholder I continued my patrol and once in California another red target, at first it was a Outcast gunboat which was soon followed by a Destroyer. I called in one of the Dreadnoughts that was around, the Arrogance. Together with the support of him, a Bounty hunter gunboat and me in the Upholder we managed to take down two Outcast Destroyers and one gunboat in California.
On my way back I ran into a local pirate. Cutlass bomber, stock equipment. He didn't dare to touch a trader that was passing as the Dreadnought and the Bounty Hunter were also still around. The pirate tried to bail, but I caught up with him and eventually took him down.
After that I returned to New York where I found two hunters and a Navy vessel fighting some Outcast Fighter who belongs to their 'Extreme Fighters' party, also known as XTF. He managed to cruise of however as the hunters were equipped with Razors rather that disruptors. Lucky me however that I found him a while later and successfully made an interception. Moments later his ship was disabled.
With that I completed my trip for today and now I'm off to find me a bar and relax.
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