Thank you, members of the Admirality, for sending me upwards through the ranks of the mighty Liberty Navy. I shall set up an Upholder for myself this evening.
Well, gee. What can I say? Thanks for the 'kind' words commodore Robinson. I assure you, I had NOTHING to do with the state of my cruiser. I bet some of the guys took it for a joyride when I wasn't looking.
Also, I bet this means a raise? So I can finally get that loanshark off my back.
***Connecting with Liberty Navy Database***
***Connection aquired***
***Comm ID: Jadin Larsen***
***Begin Message***
Patrol report of Ensign Jadin Larsen. Today, I began my patrol by taking care of some Xenos that happened upon the Texas System, near the Bering jumpgate. While I was busy with them, a Special Operative by the name of Logan.Willows happened upon me and seemed eager to take my ship apart with his guns. I accepted his challenge and began to duel. Before the fight started, however, I could tell that my ship controls were sluggish. There seemed to be a delay causing gunfire to spurt seconds after I pulled the trigger. Logan.Willows must have encountered the same problem, because he broke off the attack soon after it started. Hopefully, whatever caused my ship these problems with lag, will be fixed soon.
Anyways, here's a pic of the Special Operative, Logan.Willows. I'll make a special note of him.
Looks like I'll be filling this report tonight. Relatively busy day throughout Liberty. My patrol began, along with Captain Casero, Lieutenant Winchester, Sub-Lieutenants Bueller, Thorn, and Reed, members of the Gold Wing, as well as an officer from the LPI responding to a report about the Joker near the California Gate in NY system. Sub-Lt. Thorn was first on scene and monitored their location and movements until our forces were established at West Point. At which time, Gold 11 took command of the fighter squadron, and moved to engaged the hostile forces down the lane. Myself and Captain Casero held back with our bombers until the gunboat targets were identified. After targets were verified, We proceeded down the lane to engage Michael Furndehold. After taking out the hard targets, we left the remaining enemy fighters to the fighter wing. All told, 8 enemy combatants downed, 1 who fled. 2 of ours were shot down.
The second part of my patrol this evening included Commander Kapinos, along with Captain Casero. A short patrol through Pennsylvania system turned up an outcast gunboat under the name "Silence" and was dealt with accordingly. Shortly thereafter, a report came in about smugglers entering texas. One of the ships DSE-Draggor managed to dock at Norfolk shipyard with a shipment of Boron. At this time Commander Ypsilantis joined us. We intercepted a trader by the name Mark Johnson. He had entered Texas VIA the Bering Jump Gate. We hailed him several times requesting that he cut the engines to be inspected. However, the Pilot failed to comply and was eradicated by the tradelane between Houston and the NY JG.
That's just about all there is to report tonight. I'm may have unintentionally left out some details and I hope that those who I've worked with could help elaborate tonight's engagements.
***Incoming transmission...***
"Subject ID: Lieutenant Christopher Hood, Primary Liberty Naval fleet division"
"Source: Battleship Missouri, NY"
Greetings, officers.
Today it was relatively calm, until I've got a distress message from LMC fighter. Upon my arrival to rendezvous point (and that was West Point), I've detected single Outcast gunboat - Tridente-class vessel. Our force also hooked along LSF agent Hansen and Bounty Hunter . Whilst LMC officer was recharging up from West Point we have decided to pursue fleeing gunboat. Right after it was caught, captain decided to make a sandwich from us. Of course, this attempt has failed and gunboat has been torn apart for scrap. In the middle of our fight with gunboat, another outcast joined the fight, though he was flying Sabre-class vessel. After Gunboat was dealt with, I dueled the outcast. After some time, he was dead as well. I paid hunter well for his work and then proceeded to dock with West Point and taking some rest.
Transmission; Start
Location: New York system, Battleship Missouri
Reporting here just to let you know I am alive still.. almost. Damn flu.. I am not flying in space often when I manage to sneak past doctors I am there. Anyway I should be better soon..
Incoming Transmission :Liberty Navy Secondary Fleet
Neural Identification :=[Neo]= I start my ordinary patrol and see something really strange...
Order ship...
And he want to I make him to leave Liberty.
-[Incoming Transmission]- Sender Identification:Rachel Baker, Lieutenant Commander, Primary Fleet, Liberty Navy Source:Planet Manhattan, planetside barracks, Manhattan central Starport To:Office Of Navy High Command Subject:I JUST ALMOSTDIEDor,NATIONAL SECURITYFAILURE -[Link Established]-
-[Signal Strength, Full]-
"Sirs...today, I almost died....I was, lured into a trap by a Rheinland Gunboat which seemed to be gathering intelligence...this vessel and the entire encounter took place a mere 20k above our CAPITAL planet of Manhattan...how this Gunboat got there, I do not know, why it was not destroyed by previous patrols...I do not know, what I do know is this: They were there, they were armed, they were gathering intelligence and I almost died..."
Rachel pauses slightly, looking away from the monitor and adjusting her uniform cap before looking back to the screen.
"I let my guard down today...I was lured to this Gunboat under the guise that it was a Bretonian civilian, I went to it foolishly, and when I approached the Gunboat engaged some sort of Jamming device, blocking my vessel from Naval communications networks so I could not call for help. I was also unable to record anything with my shipboard cameras...however the vessel appeared as "W-2" on Communications logs. Apparently it's crew wanted to get their hands on the Flight Logs and Navigational Maps from my Guardian, they were willing to spare me if I sold out my country and gave them that data. I can assure you though, that I gave them absolutely nothing, I was ready to die if I had to. I was not going to sell out our Republic to those damn Militarists..."
Rachel pauses again, shaking visibly as she takes a breath.
"Luckily, I was able to break away from the gunboat and engage my Cruise engines...I know I'm a soldier, I know that in times of war that means my life expectancy drops drastically but, this? This was bad...I want to know why and how a Rheinland Gunboat was able to get so close to our capital...and to my knowledge, that ship and it's damn crew are still out there, who knows who else they've done this to, and who they'll kill before we stop them. Something needs to be done to ensure that the Rheinland Military cannot penetrate our borders so deeply again...I might also make a recommendation that the coding in our Communications Networks and Data storage mainframes are reviewed and possibly changed in response to the potential threat from Rheinland ships engaging in the sorts of missions this one was..."
"I guess that's all for now Sirs.."
Rachel salutes the monitor, sighing softly as the screen fades to black.
Well, I was a bit lucky, or unlucky today. I descided to refit my bomber. I wanted 4 EMP cannons to deal with gunboats more effectively.
So I went to Verginia to pick them up at the batteship Petersburg and get them mounted. After my bomber was ready to go, I launched to head back to New York. That was the plan anyway.
As I cleared the dock I picked up 2 incoming bogeys. They were Order fighters. Seems they were a bit shocked by my apperance because they did fail to alter course to avoid me. I intercepted them and demanded what they were doing here. I got no clear reply. Seems hush hush business to me.
I called for some backup and<strike> that grumpy old batt </strike>the honorable commodore Robinson showed up. She ordered imidiate interception and hammer down. So we did.
I managed to shoot the 2 of them down with my antimatter cannon. Here are the images I took: