Comm ID: Junior Lieutenant Anthony Kalen Encryption:Medium Target ID:Liberty Navy High Command Subject: Report #007
Greetings Command.
I have another report on hand. Mainly my report takes place in the New York system with a standard patrol route with my wingmen, Sam Underwood, and my commanding officer Remus Sius. We did a normal sweep up of the system and we found a hacker gunboat. He tried to hail the vessel but it was intent on running away into the local junk field so we targeted the vessel and it was destroyed. While in the field we also ran across a Rheinland class long-range bomber that was hiding among the junkfield. Given command to decide of the situation from my officer I engaged the Rheinland bomber one on one and it was destroyed without much resistance. Afterwards we RV'ed planet New York were we found BHG tagged vessels in orbit of the planet. We had a discussion for some time with the hunter, until another one came, we questioned them about their reasons of being in House Liberty and both of their stories did not match up. With orders from my commanding officer we asked the Hunters to leave and they complied. We escorted the BHG vessels out of Liberty space.
ID:Recruit Marisa Marshall SUBJECT:Hell of a first day. ENCRYPTION:Default PRIORITY:Default
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Marshall here. Just dropping this report in before I head off for the night. I hope it's not always this busy.
So, first things first, took off in my shiny mostly-new Executioner, only to get told by my CO, Reginald Lewis, that we had to go help out in Leeds. A supply convoy led by Gateway, or something, and their security team and the Armed Forces couldn't hold off the Gauls enough.
Reginald formed a strike team, which was really cool. Show of force, and all. Real impressive seeing a whole fleet lined up like that in Magellan, you know? Anyway, we went in, and - I'm gonna be honest, it's all a bit of a blur. I wanna write down details, but truth be told I was more focused on trying to make it through. I'm fairly certain I blew up something, though. An enemy something. And at least one of those Gallic dreadnoughts exploded.
So, yeah. CO said that our operation was a success, so that was good. I'm just glad I made it out in one piece, really.
Luckily, I got a bit of a break later in the day. Just some light embargo work at Houston, as ordered by Commander Wicks. Turned a trader back before the commander decided that was tutorial enough. Whatever, right? Once you've done one, you can do them all, huh?
Well, the commander hadn't been planetside for more than five minutes before some Military bloke showed up. I'm not even kidding, just flew right past Houston in high orbit as if he was on a pleasure cruise. I smoked him good, though, in this Executioner and all.
After that, I tailed a Junker for a bit - one of those Congress guys - cause of that "Ghost Town" stuff that the Commander put me on to. Followed him to the Cortez gate in California, where he hopped out. Didn't catch him up to anything untoward, though.
Went back to Houston, and helped a Samura transport find its way to Cold Bay in Hudson. Had to make sure he wasn't slipping by to Rheinland, you know? He was all clear, though. While I was there, some Bundie bloke showed up too. Eric, or something. I think I saw a footnote about those guys at some point. He talked a lot, but most of it went over my head, if I'm honest. I think he was a little disappointed that I was just a recruit. Not much scope for conversation, really.
So after that, I went back and docked on the Mississippi, which is where I'm typing this report from before I crash for the night. And I reckon I'm just about done.
Attaching all relevant image files and whatnot after all this text, because I really don't feel like sorting through them after a day like that. I'll be neater next time, I promise.
ENCRYPTION: MAXIMUM PRIORITY: HIGH TARGET ID: First Fleet Command Staff; Naval Quartermasters Corps. SUBJECT:------ SENDER ID: Fleet Admiral Rachel Baker.
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Effective Immediately the Gunboats LNS Bull Run and LNS Bunker Hill have had their hulls striken and subsequently transferred to the Bretonia Armed Forces at Southhampton Shipyard where they will either be stripped for parts or pressed into service by their new owners.
Naturally, the names of those ships have been reassigned to the Bretonian gunboats that will be replacing them in our service.
It has been brought to my attention that due to apparent contractor oversight some of the newer gunboats that have entered service are in fact unfit to serve with our armed forces.
I have received reports citing numerous operational concerns, including reactor leaks, malfunctioning targeting systems, misfiring weapons, sub-par armor plating, and numerous other issues on several of our supposedly "cutting edge" gunboats.
With that in mind, it is my recommendation that we move to acquire several new Gunboat type vessels from the Bretonia Armed Forces so as to maintain our military capabilities while our current-gen gunboats are cycled through the shipyards for inspection and refitting.
It simply astonishes me that ships in such a...depressing state, were allowed to leave our shipyards and enter service with the First Fleet, let alone any of the other fleets serving our Republic.
I will be making a formal inquiry with the Department of Defense, and I will be recommending that they review their contracts and replace any company found to be at fault for this outrageous situation.
Just checking in to report that I've completed my eight hours flight time. Lieutenant Commander Morse already authorised my requisitioning of a Guardian, but I thought I'd better make it official anyway.
Ms. Marshall, I would like to personally congratulate you for surviving your probationary flight period, and again I welcome you into the ranks of the best damned fleet in the Navy.
Effective immediately you are promoted to the rank of Ensign, a formal notice will be posted on the Rank Adjustment Board at a later date, but in the mean time, you are to be granted the appropriate authority and respect of your new rank, and you are authorized to modify your uniforms with the addition of the proper collar bars and epaulets.
ENCRYPTION: Moderate PRIORITY: Normal TARGET ID: First Fleet Pilots & Ship Captains. SUBJECT:Natalia Wolfer SENDER ID: Fleet Admiral Rachel Baker.
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Beginning as of the upload time of this message, the Rheinlander by the name of Natalia Wolfer is granted a 30 hour pass to operate her "Wraith" Fighter within the territorial space of the Republic of Liberty.
As far as I can tell, the woman has come from Rheinland seeking asylum and refuge, the 30 hour pass is to allow her ample time to make contact with the necessary branches of our government and what-not.
The point is, if you see her, do not shoot her, and if you see her being accosted by unaware authorities, do your utmost to clarify the situation.
COMM ID:Admiral Alan Polstari TARGET ID:Primary Fleet Bulletin SUBJECT:ZRV Capital Vessels ENCRYPTION:Medium PRIORITY:Medium
Greetings, pilots.
All personnel are to report any contact with ZRV: tagged capital class vessels operating in Liberty space. Two vessels, ZRV:Midas and ZRV:Alpha_1 were recently observed in the Kepler system after having registered on Long Range Scanners within the New York and Colorado systems. The captains of these two jump capable "Aquilon" vessels claimed to have arrived via their drive systems, but it is unlikely given our sensor data. While we lack the hard evidence to show contary to their claims, they acknowledged our laws banning transit of their vessels are not be considered "lost" if found operating in Liberty. The maximum spot fine per vessel is permitted and any such vessel is to be escorted out immediately without negotiation.
COMM ID:Commander Adrian Wicks TARGET ID:Primary Fleet Command HQ SUBJECT:Rogue No Fire ENCRYPTION:Low PRIORITY:Medium
Greetings, sirs.
I had the unusual pleasure of a Liberty Rogue captain attempt to avoid getting dusted by citing at our own laws and treaties at me a few days back. I thought I'd share the incident as a matter of both humor and inquiry.
It all began when Lieutenant Commander Wazowski put out a notice of having passed a Liberty Rogue destroyer on the lane to Philadelphia Station in the Pennsylvania system. Answering the call, the crew of the [LN]-LNS-Exeter and I moved to the system to find and eliminate the target. We made no contact upon the initial lane the contact was reported on, so we began a basic search pattern to see if we could find it in system. Moving along the lane to Bethlehem Station we found the target known as DeathCollector near the Zoner facility. Things got a little odd from there.
We were of course well aware of Admiral Malrone'snotice concerning the rescinding of the treaty, but it seems like not everyone else got the message.
The only question I had was to whom do we request this guy gets his docking rights revoked from? Things have been awfully quiet at Bethlehem these past months; it makes me wonder who's keeping the power on over there.
Today, a BDR-360Executioner heavy fighter has been transferred under meine control, papers released from Richmond Military Academy. I have begun the patrol from inside Zone 21's mining field, where in the same place I have spotted a Reaver affiliated vessel. After a few sharing of words I have been engaged in combat with the said target. I am proud to say that the enemy has failed to claim their bounty.
The day went smooth and quiet for a couple of hours until I received an emergency call from Manhattan. A Lane HackerWarran snub craft, one Liberty RoguesScylla cruiser craft have been disturbing the peace of our citizens. With the help of [*USI*]E.Jaeger[SO] and [*USI*]D.Matthews'[CLO] we have engaged in combat to stop their tyranny. While my USI support have engaged with the enemy cruiser, I have dispatched of the enemy bombers, however debries are due to fall over Manhattan, the hostile vessel has chosen a worthless death.
Comm ID:James Knocks Subject:First Patrol Encryption:Medium Priority:Low
G'day dear Liberty Navy,
I headed over to West Point, after I got my transmission about my approval, was a bit surprised to be honest, but I am happy to be here. I got my assigned Heavy Fighter, and new paperwork set up and headed out to get started. I did the usual and headed from West Point straight to Manhattan, and then do a loop to finish back at West Point to continue to California. When I reached Manhattan Orbit, I got a Rogue " Barghest " hitting the lane and then going after the transport. I stopped him, and he didn't seem to be very talkative, and then made a run for it, which is where he got blasted sky high.
After his death, I headed over back to Manhattan, and found a old Flare Mercenary, weird why I still see them....moving on, he obviously wanted my head for the spare change from his employers, but it ended bad for him, as he hit a dual mine, and ended in a huge explosion....that will be all for my first day. Also some more things happened before that, but it all ended bad...but I won't go into that, I'll upload the guncam shots I haven't lost.