My apologies. I am growing increasingly tense and hostile, even to those I call friends and allies. Constant threat and drama every time I take off. I think I need to take a psychiatric leave for a while.
--Incomming Transmission--
Sender: Vice Admiral Anderson
Understood, now for the sake of Liberty, and her people, lets just get along shall we? At the very least, before a raid, send us the message so we will be ready to act next time. We're all on the same side here and we allow this bickering to continue, hell, we've already lost. I have the utmost respect to Patterson, this battlegroup and hell, those that fight against those Rheinlanders.
Addendum: And this respect is mutual.. from -both- sides.
>>INCOMING TRANSMISSION<<
::Source: LNS-Champion::
~ This message has been handled by Vergil~
'Twas an interesting day, this one.
Began just on regular patrol, as innocently as any other day would permit. Upon its appearance, I contacted the LNS Groom Lake for orders, being a Captain of the Secondary Fleet. Instructed to move to Texas, I was told that the Navy was currently controlling the trade embargo "with an iron fist". Rogues were present in Houston, and I was asked to peacefully disperse them. Needless to say our ship's crew was delighted at being given the opportunity to peacefully manage the situation. With little to no effort, so to speak, the rogues dispersed and heaed off into the nebulae.
Monitoring traders in Texas can be tedious, but it's an important task. I was asked to hold the fort in lieu of the Groom Lake's presence, and I did so. Vergil received the Red Alert Code from the Groom Lake - it's purpose or correct usage we are yet unaware of, though Vergil continues to experiment. Following mooring for an ION storm, this duty continued. Texas' activity was null; completely empty. Our crew decided, also in communication with the Missisippi, that they would enforce the embargo, and that our mobile ship was better used elsewhere.
After yet more somewhat uneventful patrols, (at least not deserving of a report), we received information from the Zoner Freeport 2 in Bering that Rheinland Military ships were amassing, and were moving towards the Texas Jumpgate in Bering. We mobilised immediately, and requested assistance from several other ships. Entering Texas, we found the LNS Pacific had already engaged the Rheinland fleet (for an unclarified reason), composed of a Cruiser (RNC Belagerung) and two Gunboats (RNC Gerechtigkeit, RNC Beigeschmack). With the enemy ships failing our consistent pleas of a peaceful resolution and ceasefire, we opened fire on them. They received assistance from a Liberty Rogue ship, which was promptly destroyed for its irritation, however it distracted our fire enough for the Rheinlanders to get the upper hand.
Seeing imminent disaster, we began evacuation of the ship and left Vergil to the helm. Great thing about having an intelligent ship, is being able to use the tactic we used. Upon the completion of the evacuation (our crew's escape pods needed only a short burst to make it back to the Missisippi), Vergil feigned the 'destruction' of the ship. By simply detaching a few armour panels, dumping and burning parts of the remaining fuel, and allowing the hull to be decompressed by the enemies' fire (in a controlled manner, such as to maintain structural integrity) Vergil made the ship appear to have been destroyed. With the enemies now focused elsewhere, Vergil later made a covert escape to the Missisippi to be towed to Norfolk for repairs.
Reports indicated afterward that the battle was continued by the LNS Pacific and LNS Liberty Blast (Two Dreadnaughts) which were also hassled by a Junker Destroyer. The LNS Pacific is believed to have been forced to retreat, heavily damaged.
All in all, no loss of life or Vergil onboard our ship - a good thing. Vergil also managed to save some of this data of the battle.
***Incoming transmission...***
"Subject ID: Recruit Christopher Hood, Primary Liberty Naval fleet division"
"Source: Norfolk Shipyard"
Salutations, officers.
It started as a common day, full of patrol duties and side assignments.
In one moment I received a distress signal, coming from a trader. I quickly set a course to transmitted location. Upon my arrival I spotted a bunch of xeno ships. By the time when circumstances went shaky, the consistence of forces were: 3 Xeno and 4 Naval vessels. The battle has begun, we lost one vessel. By the end of it I was alone against 2 Xeno. It was a long battle against them, but when I took down one, another one fled away, into Badlands.
Today I've competed my trial and have totally been on my duty posts for almost 12 hours. My ship has all its paperworks and transponder is working correctly.
[color=#FFFFFF]Identification Processing... Lieutenant Samuel Zander
Salutations Commanders, Zander reporting in.
Today I received a distress call coming from the California system. Apparently several hostiles were conducting piracy between Planet Mojave and the New York Jump Gate. I sat course for said location and confirmed that a threat was present. From the very beginning I was heavily outnumbered so I hired two mercenaries, one flying a Gunboat and the other a Fighter. As the battle progressed we received assistance from a LNS Gunboat and a Cruiser who both were told to stand-down, however they were being critically damaged by the pirates and so I ordered them to return fire. Two Fighters arrived as back-up as well but they were quickly shot down when suddenly the two mercenaries I had hired double-crossed me because they were being payed more by a Pirate flying a Gunboat.
Eventually I was left alone against a few hostiles, but fortunetly received much-needed assistance not only from a very skilled Navy pilot named Chuck Peterson, but the Dreadnought Maryland arrived as well. However, by the mere sight of this devastating vessel the pirates scattered into two directions. Myself along with Chuck Peterson managed to track down one said group and neutralized all targets. Unfortunately the other group managed to escape.
Heading back towards the New York system, Sub-Lieutenant Virgil Redline and Lieutenant-Commander Shade Walker spotted several Hell Fire Legion members as well as a few Neo Terran Front members in the New York system. The infamous Ven'gyr was also at said location and so the Dreadnought Durango came to hold it down as our Fighter-crafts neutralized the enemy.
However, before our group consisting of: Myself, Redline, Walker and Peterson had arrived to the scene, the enemy had already been weakened by an unknown number of LNS and other Navy pilots.
>>INCOMING TRANSMISSION<<
::Source: LNS-Champion::
~ This message has been handled byVergil~
This is just a quick amendment to our earlier report. Following the hasty reconstruction of our ship (allowed by the aforementioned tactic), we investigated the Junker Destroyer Maelstrom as we thought it extremely unusual for the ship to act in any way against us; our previous experiences with its captain have all been very positive.
After communication with the Captain of the Destroyer, it seems that he was simply investigating our battle and was fired upon due to a hostilities recognition error on the LNS Pacific. Being a dreadnaught, it wasn't long before the Pacific 'accidentally' damaged the Destroyer to a dangerous level such that defensive action was necessary on the Junker's behalf. This was interpreted as an attack by allied pilots, however information beyond this point is unavailable to us at the moment. Vergil is working hard combing the databases of the Navy channels and, uh, the other ships' too.
As this was the situation, I recommend the Maelstrom be left alone and 'scotch-free' in terms of incrimination for a non-existent crime.
Cpt. Ian Thorne Vergil
- Message End -
::Source: Lost::
>>TRANSMISSION CEASED<<
[color=#FFFFFF]MESSAGE:[color=#FFFFFF] Greetings Admirals and Commanders of the Naval Fleet,
It's about time I made a report of the events that have transpired over the past few days. On the LNS Washington's maiden voyager we encountered a Rheinland Battleship and Cruiser attack fleet in Texas, being the man that I am I ordered all ships to engage the enemies at all costs. Our fleet fought well and we suffered light casualties while the Rheinland fleet was utterly destroyed. The Battleship was destroyed along with one of it's escort cruisers, the third ship another Cruiser surrendered after being cornered by the Washington and a few of our own cruisers.
After taking the captain aboard my ship we discussed a number of things, and he agreed to hand over the codes to his vessel for the safe return of his crew to Rheinland. I agreed, we returned the crew to their escape pods and took the Cruiser to Alsaksa where it currently remains. And if that was not enough of a victory the following day they made another attack on Texas this time with a larger fleet.
The Washington engaged a Battleship and it's escorts, once the battleship was destroyed we focused on the Enemy Cruiser and Gunboats destroying all but one. The last surrendered to us, it crew and captain captured and sent to PoW camps for interrogation. Unfortunately the ship wasn't salvageable and had to be scuttled. Attached is a number of images captured from the battle, I'd like to personally thank the captain of the Indiana and the Groom Lake for providing support and escorts for the captured vessels.
Today was a very busy day. I started off Planet Manhattan to get some action. Then I hailed [LN]Jack.Will to get to a secure comm channel. He then started to state that a Hacker BS was in the area. I went immediately to his location and found this:
Apparently the Battleship was doing nothing so we were ordered by Admiral Hale to not engage the ship. I then headed to Texas were the trade lane was disrupted by some outcasts. They were dispatched immediately. I met a Children of Conviction guy.... a mercenary. His name is [CoC]Schneider.
I saw him attacked LPI officers which he immediately tractored in his ship. I told him to drop the men. He drop them and immediately killed them right in front of me.... Then the battle ensued. His ship was too fast for my guns. He dodged most of my guns but my missile got his shield down. After awhile, another CoC by the name of [CoC]Beleren. appeared. The Schneider guy immediately told him that I attacked him w/o warning which I didnt and Beleren immediately engaged. I was up against 2 guys carrying Codename weapons with my shields going down.... I sought cover at Battleship Mississippi... I wonder why the Battleship didn't open fire on them.
I hailed Jack Will and he came to see what was happening after he saw that I was being attacked. He opened fire on the CoC. He was overwhelmed by the guns the mercenaries where firing. The Mississippi brought his ejection pod home. Another CoC came to their help, his ship suddenly exploded.... (I think the Mississippi fired at him... but I wonder why the Battleship didn't fire on the other 2) The fighting suddenly stopped for awhile... A LPI by the name of Reynolds came but he can't do anything since the mercenaries were too powerful... I survived thanks to my navigator. Mr Reynolds contacted to ships the, LNS-Liberty.Splitter and LNS-Liberty.Blast, a Dreadnought and a Carrier. The Mercs where appalled by the sight of the 2 ships but they continued firing on my gunboat. The 2 ships couldn't do anything since the Merc's fighters were fast. I think the models where a Waspu Renzu Corp. and a Raven Talon. I sought the cover of the 2 ships and they backed off. I docked at Planet Houston and rested.
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