Agreeable enough a day I guess. Went looking for trouble in T23 knowing His Hineyness Charles was busy enough playing in Leeds. And trouble I found, actually, trouble found THEM - Spotted a group of GMS miners in the Beryllium field, all serene and peaceful. Not for long - opened up at them and was generally being an annoyance (As much as one razoring fighter can be, whilst shooting up thick-skinned mining ships) until they apparently noticed being nearly out of repair kits and hurried to Indochine. Just to be replaced by the only on-duty fighter they had. Took me like... 2 minutes to blow him up.
Nothing more appeared. Too bad Alphie arrived so late, else we would have cracked those GMS miners too. Under the circumstances though - Costing them a fighter plus a pair of drained and limping mining ships was the best outcome doable.
Again - major annoyance at how thinly-manned the Hades detachment is. Seriously, can't HQ reassign some of those pansies in the 15th from babysitting heck knows what between Liberty and Bretonia and send them up here?
I took off and went looking for a fight in 23 as usual, there's been reports of some junker raiders, so thought I'd investigate - found two of them at Cali and was rather surprised, that they were more interested in looting the GMS. I decided to tag along and invariably encountered a big EFL-owned liner full of royal marines around Indochine. Frustratingly, couldn't make a dent without the bases defenses going nuts. So i waited, keeping him there for a bit and hoping it'd buy somebody somewhere some time. After about 15 minutes, the New Paris showed up from 31 and interestingly enough, the raiders and a GC seemed all interested in taking her out. We all chased them to about halfway between the Leeds gate and Holman, the liner evaded, but we managed to break the Valor.
Seriously, send more ships. And if you can - make some deal with those junkers. Because right now they rob anyone, our movers included. And they want the royals out about as much as we do.
After today's engagement we found an Outcast Ship in the Baffin System Maverick,Stuka and me went to investigate when we noticed that said Ship was a Small Arms trader headed to Tau-29.
We started to engage him with me Sucessfully destroying the Ship including is Cargo
here I was, looking for people to abuse when i got a lone royal ping in t37 - went there to investigate and discovered one of their fighters checking up on an IMG mining group in that small upwards from Malvinas.
Saw no reason to be too elaborate, but anounced to the whole world, that the Royal is now having a fight on his hands. And it lasted like... half an hour? The guy spent all his mines and boxed around like some reaver, but i got him in the end.
Firstly I would once more like to thank the fleet staff for entrusting me with the Magnesia. I am hoping, that her first cruise under my command you will find satisfactory.
We departed Sabah and set course for the upper Taus, under orders to engage primarily enemy merchant marine and other craft at discretion. The transit through Baffin and tau-29 proved uneventful and we were not sighted. Once in tau-23, we proceeded to the old BMM-exploited berylium fields past the much-neglected minefield. Once there, sensors detected a GMS-flagged cargo ship named Veszprem. As per procedure, I demanded that its commanding officer surrender the cargo comprising in excess of 3 thousand cubic meters of raw berylium ore and evacuate the area. The response was unusual, but nonetheless, a clrear refusal. True to my word - gunnery received orders to open fire and soon enough the enemy transport was destroyed. (Enclosing logs)
With the aforementioned cargo floating in space close to installations under Royal control, there was significant risk of its recovery, Therefore I took the liberty of contacting friendly cargo vessels in the region in order to prevent it. The first to respond and arrive was one operated by the GMG. Its captain happily accepted the berylium and voluntarily transfered 5 million credits to the ship's account.
After one additional sweep of the system I laidcouse back to Coronado. The return voyage was also uneventful.
Howdy, boys'n girls. It's me. Harry from Curacao wings.
Just came in from a pretty tense one in the Taus. Kicked the butts of some Goldy Cardigirls who thought they could roam Tau 23 and aid a Reaver. Don't know how many of the ladies' ships went boom, but with some help of the IMG, we blew a few tiny shippies to pieces. Their Pelican was an annoyance until an IMG gunboat trashed it.
Anyway, quite a successful run for me. Shot myself a Reaver and an XTF, both felt attracted to the explosive balls and kaboom they went.
Interesting little detail: The Commonwealth Zoners were bitching at us beating up the Cardi girls and the Cardi boys there. They seems pretty biased towards the Outcasts. Locking down the port, but one of the girls still managed to sneak in.
And then half the XTF undocked from their port. Which kinda shut the lad up for the moment. But later their speaker was kinda celebrating our losses. Might think about giving them some reminders, but that's just me thinking loudly. You command boys decide.
After about an hour of fierce fighting, XTF and Outcast piled on us and our own losses started rising, so we packed up and docked at Falkland after we held up waiting for reinforcement, which only came on the other side.
Oh, and here I found one old one. Guess that GRN didn't like the Flashpoints I put into his hull.
Anyway, Harry out. Gonna find myself a cool Pina Colada or something of that sort and look for someone to have fun with. That's just a rock base here, and belongs to miners. Anyway, I'll see you boys'n girls.
Greetings, fellow Colonials. Senior Officer Johnsons, leaving another report.
A quick sweep the other day in Tau 23, along with W.O. Kairos in her Nyx, ended up in the interception of a Solar vessel. What's quite interesting is that the said Gaul was carrying Nox in large quantities. After we offered him a chance to jettison the drugs and go back home, he bluntly refused - which convinced me to let go of a few SNACs, while miss Kairos kept his cruise down. We also dispatched of the chemicals.
Turning our view towards today's events, we had a rather overly long skirmish in the Taus. After hearing from F.O. Skalski, I arrived at Cali where the fireworks had already started. It was me, Jack Skalski, Harry Hudson, Evelyn Kairos and some IMG pilots against a number of Kusarian sniffers. Soon two of them were taken out, and a third made the ungraceful decision of bashing herself into my ship's hull.
Since the last of them ran into T-37 for the Freeport, we issued a pursuit, but eventually the XTF arrived in their defense. We were later on forced to retreat, but not before Hudson and the IMG scored some more points.
'23 seems to be more and more alive though. Later this evening i brought my Pytho at Fleet Officer Carmine's call, as we bumped into a group of outcasts, one of which was a Sarissa class capital. With some help from the IMG we took them down after the capital vessel attempted to hide in the star's corona.
Greetings, Colonials i brought some busy days for us!
I'm reporting this from the decks of the CFV-Elpis where i'm training for capital vessel duties. Along with captain Neil O'Sullivan we decided to fly into T-23 where we met with the Raphia and Horizon. Not long after, captain Carmine entered an argument with a slave transport. Officer Johnsons asked him to set them free so that one of our Movers can come and get them to safety. Captain Neil also tracted in a few, but the pirate shot the rest. We engaged him and the sad event ended in the Elpis destroying the transport and tractoring in the pirate's escape pod to get him in front of the Colonial justice.
'couple of hours later, when Elpis' crew decided to rest, i took my Nyx for a ride. To my luck, i meet with the Raphia and sir Johnsons who were attacking a Gallic transport carrying oil. After the transport was down, I remained to guard the cargo until Panzer and a Mover arrived to get it. After that Panzer and I escorted the Tranquility in a smuggling run to Auvergne to help the Council.
That's all for today. Thank the gods for keeping us alive today.
Warrant Officer Kairos, thanks to Panzer, Magnus Carmine and Officer Johnsons. *Kairos leaves the room.*
This is an extract from my latest intelligence report. I assume the following is relevant for the general Military frequencies.
17th Report Wrote:During this sweep i also encountered two transports. The first one was a Gaul, emitting EFL signatures. Although i gave the frog a chance to drop what cargo he had and leave, he refused - which lead to his demise. The second one was a Kishiro vessel. As per our orders, in an attempt to impede supplies going towards the KNF, i asked the captain to jettison his hold, but he refused and was quickly forced into the escape pod.
This morning I received word that my new bomber was finally ready for pickup at Freeport 4. A replacement to my old Pytho that had more patches than hull already.
So I booked a seat on a Zoner transport on the short flight from Cortez to Magellan, with a brief stop at Planet Los Angeles to drop off some cargo.
Arriving at the Freeport for the first time after the Liberty Navy took over the station from the IMG, it was awkward to have all those heavy checkpoints right at the docking bay. Luggage and other belongings searched, documentation checked three times to verify if my gun license was valid there... Luckly some officer appeared and told them to let me pass. 'Don'tya know they help us against the garlics, crewman?' the man said.
Anyway, wth the ship's vendor all was fast. The paperwork was ready, so a few signatures here and there and I was cleared to board and depart right away. The CTU-6b Waran class heavy bomber was fueled and ready at the docking bay.
After a quick flight through Magellan, I used the jumphole to Cortez and after a while I was landing at our pad in Curacao.
Our maintenance crews did a complete check on the machine, the ship was cleared and its ready for duty at the Command's discretion.