Today, the Navy was required to shut down traffic to Fort Bush as a fairly large contingent of pirates were bombing the complex. As I arrived, I immediately engaged a pirate known as "Apricot". His/her fighting skills were formidable and found myself overwhelmed within a few minutes. To add to my misery, a Hacker gunship, Dream-Catcher, joined in the fight against me. Fortunately, Vice Admiral McTavish arrived just in the nick of time to help down the gunboat. Guncam003
Apricot bugged out, his status is unknown.
>Hackers assault Housten
Just after the Fort Bush invasion had finished, we were called to a suspicious ship lurking around Texas. Lieutenant Kapinos and myself went to investigate the matter and found ourselves quite the party... Guncam004
A Hacker battleship, VR-VCS-Ravager[C], escorted by a fighter, VR-Xavier.Fierceshot[F] and a bomber, Adish were about to launch a full-scale attack on Housten. I ordered Toliman and Kapinos to hold their ground until backup arrived. This time, Vice Admiral Harper came to our aid in the LNS-Arizona. A fierce battle ensued, leaving the Arizona critically damaged by the end of it. Guncam005
After the Arizona withdrew with extensive damage, the Hacker battleship was downed by our bomber force. Guncam006
One of the escorts managed to escape, but the other fell into the way of Agent Hawkins SNAC. A nice shot was made by Lt. Toliman against a single rogue that entered the battle late.
>Commendations
As always, the upper echelons of the Navy have proven their worth in battle, many thanks to Vice Admiral's McTavish and Harper for their assistance.
Lt. Toliman and Agent Hawkins proved their worth, chasing down and destroying two hostiles today - Well done to you both.
Comm ID: Agent Vash Knives of the Liberty Security Forces.
After getting my ship well equipped and combat ready, I began a patrol on New York as well as it's surrounding areas. A distress call form the LNS-Brookstone was received by me, asking for help in California. I got there as fast as I could, but the LNS-Brookstone was by then destroyed. I picked up a Lane Hacker ship "Solarius" and told it to Halt. The ship refused and began fleeing. Using my quick manoeuvrings and wits, I cut off the "Solarius" and cruise disrupted him. I engaged him, and he engaged me as well. After an intense battle I destroyed the Solarius, and was on my way back to New York when I was engaged by Phosphorous, an Outcast gunboat. I engaged the gunboat and was holding it off while asking for reinforcements.
My call for reinforcements was not answered as there were other distress calls coming from Alaska. Another Liberty Security Officer passing by, 'Claymore' , who was piloting a bomber assisted me. As I was on an 'Avenger', a very heavy fighter, and he was on a bomber, we couldn't exactly destroy the gunboat although we tried for quiet some time. However, we relentlessly continued. To our surprise, 'Mon'Star' an Outcast battleship showed up. Understanding that we could be destroyed easily, me and Claymore retreated to the New York system. There was a battle fought in Alaska, and me and several LPI officers were about to join those Liberty forces in Alaska, when Mon'Star made an appearance in New York. A fervent search for him was initiated, but he was not found. Exhausted from all of today, I docked my ship on West Point and am writing this report before heading off to bed.
~Lt. Commander Jack Malrone.
>Further Evidence for the LPI
I've obtained further evidence of a smuggling ring operating within Liberty - A character named "Finnegan's.Wake" was found to be hauling Cardamine through Texas. Evidence attatched. --Guncam007--
>Scuffle in California
Today a large Outcast fleet engaged in battle against some vigilantes; thinking they could take the law into their own hands. I arrived in the Indiana only to find myself hit by a pulse of dark matter. Our weapons and shields were paralysed, so I ordered a hasty evacuation of the ship.
The Indiana was destroyed, however all the crew survived.
[font=Agency FB][color=#FFFFFF]PRIORITY:[color=#33FF33] Medium. TARGET ID: Liberty Naval Personal. COMM ID: Admiral David Hale.
SUBJECT: The war with Rheinland.
Today Liberty forces managed to push a distance into the Bremen systems. Skirting round the battleship Westphalia we engaged a Rheinland fighter group under the command of Vice Admiral Johann Brunhild.
There were a few unexplained explosions of various ships during this battle, on both sides leading to a lot of confusion and disruption of combat tactics.
The battle continued and moved into a loose nebula near the moon Oldenburg. Visability was low and the fight became even more chaotic.
I personally destoryed my own ship and the vessel of a Rheinland fighter pilot as we attempted to torp each other at the same time.
We were eventualy victorious despite a gunboat arriving for the rheinland forces as both of the engament were on their last legs. Resupplying his repressive cohorts the captain of the RNC-Kaufbeuren.KC attacked the Liberty forces, but was eventualy destroyed
The composition of the forces were as follows.
Rheinland
[RM]Fl.Jonas.Alsburg {vessel destroyed}
[RM]Of.Pippart {vessel lost due to temporal anomaly}
[RM]Fw.Holger.Just {target fled}
[RM]Va/Johann.Brunhild {vessel destroyed}
Wenzel.Kreuzchen {vessel destroyed}
[+=]Adolph.Heim {vessel destroyed}
Marc.Richter {vessel destroyed}
Stephan Horst {vessel destroyed}
Jens.Brandt {target fled}
RSA|Cpt.James.Wilson {vessel destroyed}
COMM ID: Agent Vash Knives of the Liberty Security Force.
SUBJECT> Hackers in Liberty Eliminated.
I was performing my daily patrol today when a trade lane was disrupted by two Lane Hackers who were pirating traders. As was my duty, I asked them to give themselves up or be engaged and destroyed. They refused and opened fire on me. One lane hacker was VR.Alexander.Darius[F] while the other was VR.Xavier.Fierceshot[F]. VR.Xavier.Fierceshot was piloting a Liberty Rouge very heavy fighter, while VR.Alexander.Darius[F] was piloting a Lane Hacker very heavy fighter. The battle was very intense, and I was running out of nanobots. However, I managed to destroy the first Lane Hacker, and proceeded to destroy the second. They will not be returning to pirate in Liberty again.
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Sender:Willows, Sarah - Commodore Recipients:Liberty Navy, especially Recruit John Shepard
Well, ladies and gentlemen, time for a promotion.
John Shepard, you're hereby promoted to the rank of Ensign.
Looks like you've proven yourself to be a useful addition to the Liberty Navy on a couple of occassions, so that's your reward.
Your security clearance has been updated, your pay's higher, and we're giving you access to the Avenger and Guardian types of Very Heavy Fighters.
Furthermore, once you've been issued a Very Heavy Fighter of your choice, you're being stationed aboard the Mississippi in Texas.
Today I was patroling New York system, after Sergeant Joe Smith of the LPI warned me to use the trade Lanes.
He said the Fort Bush -> Manhattan and the Manhattan -> Westpoint Trade Lane has been sabotaged by the RNC-Sabatour.
The Rheinland Ship was destroyed in the Texas System, but then we had to deal with the problem of the unstable Trade Lanes.
Sergeant Smith soon called in the DSE ship Appalachian under the command of Captain Kevin Riley. I escorted the Ship to get the needed Parts and as it was doing the repairs.
I am happy to tell that the Trade Lanes of New York are stable ones more! ---Transmission terminated---
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Sender:Willows, Sarah - Commodore Recipients:Liberty Navy, especially Vice Admiral Valence Harper, Captain Curtis Elwood and Sub-Lieutenant Shade Walker
Evening ladies and gentlemen, here's some new things for you.
First off, we have four new Recruits today: John Tyin, Johnny Horton, Rachel Baker and Urielle Stelvin.
They have all been given their first orders by Vice Admiral MacTavish already.
Recruits Baker and Tyin have also begun to prepare their Heavy Fighters at this point, and are to be stationed on the Battleship Mississippi in Texas.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I expect you all to give them a warm welcome in our ranks, and to show them around as good as you can, so they get accustomed to their new way of life quickly.
To Vice Admiral Harper:You've been moved to the Navy reserve. Contact the High Command if you want to know why.
To Captain Elwood:You're back in active service Elwood, but it's been decided to put you in as a Commander on a trial period.
Your first order is to oversee the refit of the Carson City at Norfolk and to make sure all files and the database get updated accordingly afterwards.
When that is done we'll decide whether to put you back in with your old rank or not.
To Sub-Lieutenant Shade Walker:Due to lack of communications and knowledge of your current whereabouts, you're moved to the Navy Reserve.
If you wish to stay as a part of the Liberty Navy, I highly encourage you to contact us when you recieve this message.
>>>>Incomming transmission
>>>>Comm ID: Lieutenant Commander Casero
>>>>Destination: Liberty Navy Offices
>>>>Loading message
Yesterday, I suffered violent and sudden attack, perpetuated by two j u n k e r s. The incident happened at 23:00 STM, at the trade lane between planet Houston and the New York jump gate. The involved pilots were flying two junker bombers, the scanner revealed their junker identification, and the transponder was recibing a junker signal from their trans.
These men, disrupted the lane while I was passing near them. The only thing they said to me, actually just one spoke there, was "do you wish death?", which I didn't take it as a threat as normaly junkers are too high and don't know what they're saying. But, right after that sentence, they fired on me with a mini razor and a supernova. As I was not waiting for an attack it took me for surprise, and the bandits destroyed my ship.
I'd advice to contact the Congress of junkers, they must be informed about this incident, the last thing they (and we) need is junkers acting like pirates. The Congress should be requested with:
Permanent ban from any Junker station within Liberty, over these pilots.
They must submit the suspects to us, as soon as they meet the aforesaid.
Total cooperation with the Liberty Navy in this matter.
The name of the vessels are: SilverPhoenix, and Phase. Both of them spotted at the Texas system, they seem to fly around there lately.
Apologies to High Command for the tardiness of this report - A recent injury in battle has left me out of commission.
>Rescued Hostages
Some good news however, two civilian hostages were rescued after that hostage-taker, Jayde.Wolffe, had an attack of good conscience. Both civilians were transported immediately to West Point awaiting further medical inspection. When returning to confront Jadye with the charges against her, she had vanished.
I found a Junker, named Rusty.Check, sitting right outside Manhatten making a deal with weapons distributer. The deal wasn't exactly my issue - His ship was my issue. I'd seen Rusty's ship be used by the Rogues on numerous occasions and so I thought it best to ask him a few questions about how he obtained it.
I ordered the weapons distributer to cease dealing with the Junker under Part 5, Section C, Paragraph 1 of the Liberty law charter.
Quote:Dealing of Arms to Pirates, terrorists and Rheinland; Defined as dealing of arms to hostile entities. Most commonly applied to those who deliver Light Arms or Military Vehicles to Liberty Rogue, Lane Hacker, Xenos and Rheinland Government bases. Penalty for less than 2500 tons is 2,000,000. Penalty for more than 2500 tons is 4,000,000 credits.
The weapons dealer complied and this didn't please Rusty one bit. He proceeded to activate cruise engines and head towards the debris field. A Navy gunboat, Leopard, assisted me with stopping the Junker for further questioning.
After a number of infractions, I decided to arrest the Junker after he threatened my life.
Rusty didn't comply and headed deeper into the debris field. I initiated a pursuit, however, more hostile contacts appeared on sensors. I ordered Leopard to fall back, but it was too late - They'd surrounded us.
I was engaged against two hostiles, Damion"Killa-Kanga"Crow and AscendantLight. With both of them being of bomber-class, I thought I stood a reasonable chance at neutralising them. It was then that another two fighters appeared into the mix - An Order pilot named crta and our old friend, Rusty.Check.
Myself and Leopard struggled against the hostiles for a while until finally one of them was downed - The rest soon fell to Leopard's precision aim and good judgement.
For his bravery and dedication to the task at hand, I'd like to commend Leopard's efforts for bringing down all of the hostiles encountered - I certainly wouldn't have made it without his assistance.