I was called out today by Captain Bauer, who was tracking two Hellfire legion battleships, the Ven'Gyr and the Invictus. Deputy Chief O'Brian joined us, but we lost the battleships in the big scary thingy the navy flyboys call the badlands. You'd be suprised how easy it is to lose a huge object like a battleship when you scared out of your wits by the 'badlands'. A little bit later we came across a Vagrant Raider who had captured 2 of our pilots. He refused to drop them but unfortunately escaped when a rouge gunboat attacked Deputy O'Brian and myself. O'Brian would be sitting in his escape pod if it wasnt for me taking 3, count 'em, 3 razor barrages from the gunboat, while he sat still drinking coffee or something. I hereby request a decent bonus for that. I then went back to Manhatten for some exorbident repair costs thanks to O'Brian and the gunboat and filed this report.
Evidence:
End of Report
' Wrote:Come on, everyone!
Hark, the Bounty Hunters si-ing,
Death to all the pirate kings...
Goals: To be interviewed by Chris Hansen on Dateline NBC.
Bo wants to do all Bo can do for Liberty since Bo loves Liberty more than when 'e was bum on Pitts. And Sunbucks too. All Bo misses from previous lif' 's the big gun o' Bo's Waran. Bo now only has puny waterguns on Libby. Bo want shoot 'em troublemakers with 'em big Hammers and stuff. So he-re-by Bo app-li-es to be one o' 'em SWAT. Bo even wears helmet if 'e has to, but Bo no realy wants. Please get Bo in SWAT chief.
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SWAT Application Granted. Welcome to SWAT.
Formerly known as LPI Police Chief Hull O'Brien.
Creator of Sgt. V. Price, 207th Precinct out of Chula Vista Station
I was called out today by Captain Bauer, who was tracking two Hellfire legion battleships, the Ven'Gyr and the Invictus. Deputy Chief O'Brian joined us, but we lost the battleships in the big scary thingy the navy flyboys call the badlands. You'd be suprised how easy it is to lose a huge object like a battleship when you scared out of your wits by the 'badlands'. A little bit later we came across a Vagrant Raider who had captured 2 of our pilots. He refused to drop them but unfortunately escaped when a rouge gunboat attacked Deputy O'Brian and myself. O'Brian would be sitting in his escape pod if it wasnt for me taking 3, count 'em, 3 razor barrages from the gunboat, while he sat still drinking coffee or something. I hereby request a decent bonus for that. I then went back to Manhatten for some exorbident repair costs thanks to O'Brian and the gunboat and filed this report.
Evidence:
End of Report
Indeed, those {HF} 2 Battleships were playing hide and seek near The Badlands, which makes me wonder how they did it and didn't smash the heck out of their hulls. It was quite a trick not to smash my Libbies hull on those rocks.......
Also, in reference to the VR member , I believe that He / She was acting as bait for the HF Battleships. They had 8 LPI officers in their hold and was making quite the spectacle of themselves in system comms... Shame that we weren't able to get them back......
That LR Gunboat came out of no here......
As for Sgt having to take a couple of shots for me, all I can say in my defense,
Don't buy the Anti-Histamine meds from Sunbucks, they mess with your head.
Formerly known as LPI Police Chief Hull O'Brien.
Creator of Sgt. V. Price, 207th Precinct out of Chula Vista Station
Comm ID: Officer Cho Sprinks
Subject: Patrol Report
Date: 13.06.818 20:00-22:00 SMT
Location: New York, Pennsylvania, California, Colorado
After Action Report:
I started my patrol at 20:20, initial objective was to escort the Democritus class LPI-Recruitment.Office during its first voyage and test patterns. After initial system operational tests were concluded in the vicinity of Norfolk Shipyard at 20:35, we moved on to Pennsylvania, testing the gate jump compatibility as well as sensory equipment in the Badlands and Pennsylvania asteroid fields.
At 20:40 I received an anonymous message over private comms that a contraband transport has been spotted at Philadelphia Station, hauling Synthetic Marijuana and just entering the lane to Betlehem Station. I immediately left Eerie and doubled up to manage to intercept the smuggler. Sadly, I was a tad too late: When I arrived at Betlehem Station, the smuggler already had commenced the automated docking routine and the control station was unable to abort it. Nevertheless I managed to get a quick, but thorough cargo scan and proper log of the contraband and quickly informed the station security to interdict the cargo when the ship was being unloaded so it couldn't reach the local dealers.
Simultaneously, the Zoner gunboat "Zoner.02" showed up and gave me some intel on the suspect after I informed him about the smuggler.
I chose to wait a bit in orbit to see if the smuggler would leave the station again, and my instincts were correct: At 20:47 he finally docked off and I immediately ordered him to stop and open communications with me. Sadly, me citing the law and explaining his faults didn't impress him much and I only received two very short comms as a answer throughout the whole conversation.I explained the complications that would follow his incooperative behaviour and fined him 4 million credits for hauling 650 units of Synthetic Marijuana, especially because he already had them dropped off. Still not much of a reaction. I even offered him to cut the fine in half if he would honorably swear to cease smuggling operations in the future. Still no reaction. I gave him verbal warnings that I would give warning shots if he refuses to comply.
Finally, at 21:02 I disabled his shields to force a reaction. No use. I did it again. No use. I followed up with shooting some armor plates off, still no reaction. As he still didn't react at all, I decided at 21:05 to file the vessel and pilot in the Liberty fugitive list.
As Betlehem station is zoner territory and his vessel was still in the direct docking path, I handed over the authority to handle the vessel to Zoner.02, who gave some final warnings and then activated the failsafe ejection mechanism: Destroying the vessel. He assured me they would search the wreckage for the lifepod and hand it over to the LPI once found. He continued to clean up the station's proximity from debris and I had to excuse myself, as I received an emergency comm from a trader in California, who reported 4 Liberty rogues interdicting traffic along the Mojave - New York Jumpgate tradelane: 2 VHF, 1 Bomber and 1 Gunship.
On my way there I stumbled upon yet another rogue, Lusty.Wench along the Philadelphia-New York Jumpgate Lane at 21:15. Once I discharged from the trade lane to interrogate him about his reasons for disrupting the lane generator, he immediately fled into the asteroid field. I decided he wasn't worth the pursuit and continued to California.
However, after jumping to New York, I immediately stumbled upon the next rogue, Wolf_3...flying a Civilian Roc class bomber and hunting local security patrols. Again, I only greeted him and was about start the interrogation when he also used cruise engines to flee into the Badlands. Again, I had to abort pursuit, obviously.
I arrived in California at 21:20 and did a full patrol of all trade lanes. There was no sign of any pirates whatsoever, so I left the system at 21:30 and continued patrol in Colorado. Again, I didn't find any sinister ongoings, so I decided to end patrol and return to Fort Bush for debriefing.
On my way back on the tradelane between Planet Denver and the NY Jumpgate, my scanners picked up two readings just before entering the Silverton Field at 21:40. I decided to turn around and check these signals out. And in fact, I could discern visual proof of a firefight about 12k from the lane. Upon closing, it quickly became apparent that a police officer was fighting a Rogue named Palacha here, and he immediately asked me for assistance in keeping the rogue at bay. Not that Ofc. Tyme needed the assistance, he did pretty well on his own. Though the rogue tried to run several time upon my appearance, and as Ofc. Tyme was missing cruise disruptors, I made sure the rogue wouldn't escape the police force, but stayed clear of the fight as per Tyme's request. Well, apparently the rogue pilot got a bit insane in there and just started fleeing from us using his thrusters. Straight towards the sun, which was about 30-40k away. Tyme and me obviously were aware of the dangerous radiation, but the Sabre pilot decided to rather commit suicide, being grilled by the sun at 21:45, than being taken into custody by us. Odd.
After we were done there, we returned to Fort Bush, where I ended my patrol at 21:55 after sipping some coffe with Ofc. Tyme, cheering the highly successful patrol both of us had finished.
My patrol started off pretty quietly. A little while in I got a call from a Marine about The Joker and a few accomplices on the West Point to Norfolk trade lane. I arrive just as the shooting started. LPI on the scene were Bo and a gunboat captained by Frank Serpico. The Joker went down pretty fast and I took down a bomber shortly after. The other assailants fled.
The next engagement was against some Rheinland capital ships in Texas. They had set a trap to catch reinforcements coming through the New York gate. A couple of Navy ships were destroyed, but we turned the tide with our bombers and the help of several Xenos.
Sender ID: Officer Colin Sinclair
Time: 3:52 SMT+1 - 13/06/818
Subject: Patrol Report
Location: Riverside station, California
I think I just had the shortest and most disappointing patrol in a good while today. I was heading for New York after my previous patrol in California, and proceeded to Planet Mojave, where I heard someone screaming about
the lane being disrupted. I swiftly headed for the New York Jumpgate, where I was, well, swiftly vaporised after
meeting a Lane Hacker gunship who was indeed disrupting the lane.
My replacement Liberator will hopefully be here ASAP and I'm going to try heading for the New York system
again, I just recently recieved an emergency call from Officer John Smith.
Sender ID: Officer Colin Sinclair
Time: 9:50 SMT+1 - 13/06/818
Subject: Patrol Report
Location: Planet Manhattan, New York
After the previous patrol and when I'd gotten my replacement Liberator shipped out to Riverside I headed straight for Officer John Smith in New York after receiving an earlier emergency call about a cruiser in distress.
I and some other LPI officers on duty picked up John at Manhattan after the pirates had fled, and we headed on patrol.
We first did a complete patrol of the California and Ontario systems, encountering no major criminal elements
except a minor Xeno assault on Toronto Station in Ontario, who were quickly dealt with. We then headed back to New York, where John finished his patrol and I continued with the Recruit Officer who patrolled with us, Alexis Monorov. We met up Sergeant Aiden Maggard, who asked for assistance at the Fort Bush -> Planet Manhattan Trade Lane, where we fought two Rogue Barghests(?), who fell under the combined firepower of our Liberators. Sergeant Andrea Berkeley and two Freelancers, "N-205-R" and "Shiro_Soare" arrived later on.
The recruit officer with us, Alexis, was, however, not that lucky. He got blown up about halfway trough the fight by a
shot from one of the Rogue vessels, but managed to eject and be tractored in by us.
After finishing my patrol I went back to my second office at Manhattan to write this report and have a cup of coffee.
Sender ID: Officer John Smith
Subject: Patrol Report 05
Location: Liberty
My patrol started today around 12.45PM, at a quiet Manhattan. I almost fell asleep while scanning people, when after a few minutes, a hostile contact showed up on my senors. It turned out to be a mental Rheinland Military Wraith, all by itself. I tried to call for some backup, but there was no response. After killing a overly brave policemen, I decided to engage the fighter. It turned out to be a coward aswell, since he was fleeing the Battleship patrols around manhattan. A nice little force gathered at his new location, including a Lane Hacker, Dante's Inferno. He disliked the Rheinlander just as much as we did, so he was a good ally in the fight. He stood by and watched while we slowly killed the Wraith. He was a horrible pilot, an easy pray for my Liberator. The Wraith came to close to the hacker, so he finished the suicidal pilot off at 13.07.
After that, I got some hostile targets on my scanners again. Outcast this time. They were just looking for a fight, and found one. After first killing a Navy Gunboat, they thought they could handle the Navy Cruiser that was present as well. I decided to assist the cruiser, but it would not help, after a long and boring fight, the cruiser was shredded to pieces. The Outcasts were not interested in a fight with me, and I knew I could not take on 2 Sabres.
Some LPI backup arrived, but we decided to let the Outcasts to be finished by the forces present already. From there on, see the report made by Officer Colin Sinclair.