First off, I would like to commend each and every one of you for your dedication to setting Liberty on the path to justice and away from the reliance on foreign intervention. We still have our work cut out for us though, the atrocities commited by the LPI and the government are growing on a daily basis. We cannot falter in our resolve!
Because of this, our ranks have increased dramatically in numbers. With this in mind, I have decided to promote two of our own to positions that they merit.
So it gives me great pleasure to announce that.
Ava "Rattler" Reed has been promoted to "Royal" for outstanding duty and dedication.
I mentioned two pilots. For dedication going above and beyond his normal duties,
Ronald "Lancehead" Socha has been promoted to "Wing Commander"
I want each and everyone of you to come to the bar tonight to congratulate them. The first round will be on me. And no, this is not a request.
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:::Comms ID: Ronald Socha:::
:::Location: Ouray Base - Colorado System:::
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Lancehead here.
First of all, thanks for the offer, boss.
I'll make sure to have the second round on me.
Now... I took Black Rock for a ride today.
I got to Detroit munitions. Killed some Ageira there, hauling basic alloy.
So... the alloy was floating around... I wasn't really in mood to tractor it in as I wanted to get some guns.
Suddenly, some Albatross shows up on scanners. i stopped him and scanned. Basic Alloy too.
Asked him a few questions and seems he was a nice guy, Libertonian trader flying between Detroit and Trenton.
So I figured out that instead of forcing him to drop the loot, I'll offer him a deal.
I traded the loot from that Ageira for a full load of arms. He agreed.
In the meantime, a DSE light fighter showed up. He didn't engage me but shouted in system channel for help.
Fortunately, we were able to finish the transfer before anyone else showed up.
So... you can consider an Albatross named Detra as friendly towards us.
I am reporting in with information in relation to the Big Game Paths event.
Target: Kein.Lustwig, unaffiliated
Ship: CT-39X "Albatross" Civilian Transport
Cargo: 1965 Diamonds
Intended destination: He appears to have sold the diamonds on Denver, though he refused to answer my questions about his destination. When I decided he needed to be taught to talk, he fled to the New York System. A jump-gate malfunction of unknown cause prevented me from following (The jump-gate refused to allow docking, stating that there was a docking queue, even though I blew every other ship out of the sky; it took several minutes before the gate began to function properly again).
On another note, I took my Roc bomber for a practice run on a liberty patrol. I managed to knock out a generic gunboat that I separated from the pack. I went back for the cruiser, but things were too hot to maintain the attack (every generic trade vessel with their escorts were shooting at me, along with 2 more generic gunboats).
Well, it's been fun, hope to see some of you soon.
Silekar.Dravin
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Said the pirate to the merchant: Your money or your life?
Merchant: What was the question?
Pirate: Pay or Die!
Merchant: That's not a question.
Pirate: Hand over 2 mil you corporate flunky, or be atomically disgronified!
Merchant: Sorry, I can't hear you, too busy docking.
Pirate: Wha... Dang it. *Turns to the new recruits* And that is why you shoot the trader who refuses to cut his engines. You just have to make sure you asked them to stop, and threatened them properly before you space them. Also, record your conversations in case the dead come back to complain. That's how it works here folks. Now go out and cut yourself a piece of the corporate pie!
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*Comm ID- Ava "Rattler" Reed*
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This is Rattler, reporting in.
I've been busy for a bit with new duties, so this report is from action awhile ago. As soon as I undocked, I got word from Fred that an Outcast Battleship had been seen in New York. Not passing up an opportunity, I followed, and met up with Fred as he stopped the 'Cast. After exchanging a few words, another Xeno there, Silekar.Dravin, and the rest of us opened fire on it. Massasauga joined with us too for assistance. I already knew the Navy would be incoming, and warned them that we should leave as soon as it pops. After heavily damaging the ship with several SNACs and Novas, the Navy arrived and finished it off, taking all the glory no doubt. I immediately cruised away, and told the others to do so as well. It seems they were not as lucky as me, but I got them out. We decided to regroup at Ouray, myself getting a fighter, and went by the NY gate in Colorado. Mass' had plans and had to stay on Ouray, and so did Fred, but we picked up Golden Tree when we headed out. Soon a lone trader came, and immediately tried going back through the gate. I jumped through, cutting him off, and he followed. I found an entire convoy. They all had Helium in their ships- diverse ships, may I add. They had some of the Civilian line and some Kusari looking ones too, 4-5 in all. I asked where it was going- when I learned it was Kusari, I offered a chance to drop it. They declined. I went after the first trader who ran, and popped him. Next was two of the Kusari transports, I managed to get one before reaching Fort Bush. At that point, there was too much opposition, and I had to resupply from the battle. After going into Colorado again, the rest of the crew there, a small freighter came through. Golden asked it to stop, and it instead opened its arsenal onto me. I evaded before too much damage was done, and opened fire. I got the final shot, the battle lasting not fifteen seconds. I limped back to Ouray, deciding to call it a day from there.
***Kill List*** (Note: These are the kills I recorded, much of the time was battle and I may have missed something, do say so if I missed a kill.)
Rattler: Two transports, one freighter.
Assist: Everyone listed for heavily damaging the Battleship.
***Cargo Locations Reported***
Mass convoy of Helium all headed for Kusari.
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:::Comms ID: Ronald Socha:::
:::Location: Ouray Base - Colorado System:::
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Lancehead here.
Three of us - me, Rattler and Golden Tree - got to California entrance to Virginia system to hunt down the navy supplies. After some time of sitting in place and getting more and more bored, we've heard some interesting system comms messages. It seemed that something is going on. Golden Tree did the scouting.
He first found someone near Mojave. When we got there, there was some navy guardian patrolling only but after a while, some strange junker ship appeared. It looked like made of parts from many different ships.
We chased him quite some time. Very hard construction. Eventually, he descended towards a planet. I didn't see the explosion but with the damage he took, he probably burnt in atmosphere.
Then we moved towards California Minor.
Practically right after jumping off the lane, we got attacked by Liberty Assault Carrier and several snubcraft. Most of 'em navy too.
We've attacked that carrier and forced him into the atmosphere of the planet. Probably destroyed.
After that, I took down one Anki freighter and one Guardian. In the meantime, Rattler forced a transport to make an "emergency planet descend". Outcome: probably destroyed.
Golden Tree got shot up badly as first. He ejected. My arrastra took a few serious hits right afterwards and I had to hit the pod too. As the last, Rattler ejected.
One of guys from lower deck tractored us in and brought to Ouray.
Lancehead: :::Enemy engaged:::
Engagement location: California
Ship Type: Anki
IFF: Liberty Navy
Outcome: DESTROYED
Evidence: data corrupted
:::Enemy engaged:::
Engagement location: California
Ship Type: Guardian
IFF: Liberty Navy
Outcome: DESTROYED
Evidence: data corrupted
Flight: :::Enemy engaged:::
Engagement location: California
Ship Type: Recycler
IFF: Junkers
Outcome: PROBABLY DESTROYED
Evidence: data corrupted
:::Enemy engaged:::
Engagement location: California
Ship Type: LAC
IFF: Liberty Navy
Outcome: PROBABLY DESTROYED
Evidence: data corrupted
:::Enemy engaged:::
Engagement location: California
Ship Type: Big Dragon
IFF: Freelancer
Outcome: PROBABLY DESTROYED
Evidence: data corrupted
This is Silekar.Dravin reporting in on a very busy night. Other things may happen tonight, but I wanted to report the many events that have already occurred before they become foggy in my mind. Also, I can't go out and fly yet for an hour or so since the doc on Ouray is insisting on the "don't drink and fly" rule right now, but we'll get to that in a moment. First, the major event and combat reports of tonight.
In regards to the "Big Game Paths" event:
Target: Llama's_Luck, no affiliation
Ship: Heron Cargo: Neon (2890) from Erie
Destination: Rishiro
Notes on Llama's Luck: After a lengthy conversation, I determined that Llama is a Liberty born trader, taking cargo from Liberty and exporting it to foreign houses. As such, I spared Llama's cargo and escorted her/him to the Kepler jump gate. Correct me if I was wrong to help her out. If anyone spots Llama importing foreign goods, let me know, and I will hunt her down myself.
In regards to the "All You Need Is Guns" event:
Though my cargo space is limited to 62 units, I saw a gun shipment and targeted it. I spent the next couple of hours scanning every transport-class ship I could find, but unfortunately I have had no further luck tonight. I dropped the guns off at Ouray, and here is proof of the transaction:
Now that the event stuff is out of the way, I have two combat engagements to report, and one peaceful surrender of cargo.
[color=#FF0000]:::Enemy engaged:::
Engagement location: New York
Ship Type: Civilian Deep Explorer
IFF: None
Outcome: DESTROYED
Evidence:
Notes: Refused to communicate, opened fire, and attempted to escape twice. Carrying cargo, but I don't remember what it was (pirates were nearby, so I didn't have time to investigate, and my ship's computer didn't log the cargo scan).
[color=#FF0000]:::Enemy engaged:::
Engagement location: Colorado
Ship Type: Transport
IFF: None
Outcome: DESTROYED
Evidence:
Notes: Was carrying 8 Xeno pilots, refused to communicate, attempted escape, and fired on my vessel. Seeing as he kidnapped our people, I was more than happy to vaporize his ship.
Cargo Surrendered Peacefully
Location: New York
Ship Type: Transport
Cargo: Cobalt (2943)
IFF: Navy
Evidence:
Notes: Did not attempt escape, even cut engines without my prompting him. I took the cobalt I could carry, and destroyed the rest. Unfortunately, the cobalt I did take never made it back to base, as I dropped it in favor of carrying light arms (after dropping it, I destroyed it of course).
All in all, it has been a very busy night tonight. I don't know if I will go out again tonight, but if I do, I may file another report tomorrow. Also, if anyone reads this tonight, come to Ouray and join the party that those 8 Xenos I saved are throwing.
Silekar.Dravin
P.S. The bartender said all drinks are on the house tonight in celebration of our returned pilots, so really, come to Ouray before the party is over.
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Apparently my Comms device has issues transmitting images at the appropriate size, so I am uploading a link to a data storage unit where the images should be available for viewing at a larger size when accessed. Also, I have retransmitted the images with as much size increase as my comms system was able to transmit. I will continue to look into repairing this thing, and I apologize for the inconvenience.
Said the pirate to the merchant: Your money or your life?
Merchant: What was the question?
Pirate: Pay or Die!
Merchant: That's not a question.
Pirate: Hand over 2 mil you corporate flunky, or be atomically disgronified!
Merchant: Sorry, I can't hear you, too busy docking.
Pirate: Wha... Dang it. *Turns to the new recruits* And that is why you shoot the trader who refuses to cut his engines. You just have to make sure you asked them to stop, and threatened them properly before you space them. Also, record your conversations in case the dead come back to complain. That's how it works here folks. Now go out and cut yourself a piece of the corporate pie!
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:::Comms ID: Ronald Socha:::
:::Location: Ouray Base - Colorado System:::
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Lancehead here.
Todays first flight was consisting of me, Death Adder, Venom and Stan Sullivan.
We got to New York jumpgate and started to intercept traders to gather some supplies.
First target was a rhino which opened fire on us without a word. I shredded it with Hellfires.
Then, a junker frigate came through the gate. Silent aswell. Adder finished it off fast which resulted in cloud of manifolds floating around. I got to Ouray to swich from waran to Black Rock.
I transported all the manifolds as well as other supplies like basic alloy, super alloy, superconductors, pharmaceuticals, copper and some H-Fuel to Ouray.
When I was on my way back, Stan got one Kingfisher.
It was all going smooth until the Navy showed up. I can't understand why they show up in Colorado instead of defending our borders... anyway, I got away and took my Scraper from Ouray. When I came back, Stan podded their pilot named Alan Polstari but then, I had to hit the pod myself.
Luckily, one of our lower deck buddies tractored me in and got back to Ouray.
A few minutes later, I was back in cockpit of my bomber heading to Kepler to hunt down a destroyer. Outcast destroyer. unfortunately, they shot up Adder's Roc but he managed to eject safely.
We popped the dessie and then Racer showed up and popped remaining sabre escort.
The report I'm submitting now is on action from Yesterday relating to the Colorado Big Game Paths event, and one peaceful surrendering of Cargo.
Big Game Path Event Encounters:
Target:SM-Tsunami, Affiliation: SM
Ship:Stork Cargo: Furs (4960)
Destination: Pennsylvania
Target:Tuturutu, no affiliation
Ship:Ryuujin Kusari Train Cargo: Helium-3 (4920)
Destination: Unknown, but fled through the Colorado -- New York Jumpgate
Peaceful Surrendering of Cargo:
Target: AgeLiver, no affiliation
Ship type: transport
Cargo: Pharmaceuticals (4990)
Notes on AgeLiver encounter: AgeLiver was reluctant to turn over his cargo, but in the end he did. I took 62 units of the Pharmaceuticals to Ouray base, and destroyed the rest.
Silekar.Dravin
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Said the pirate to the merchant: Your money or your life?
Merchant: What was the question?
Pirate: Pay or Die!
Merchant: That's not a question.
Pirate: Hand over 2 mil you corporate flunky, or be atomically disgronified!
Merchant: Sorry, I can't hear you, too busy docking.
Pirate: Wha... Dang it. *Turns to the new recruits* And that is why you shoot the trader who refuses to cut his engines. You just have to make sure you asked them to stop, and threatened them properly before you space them. Also, record your conversations in case the dead come back to complain. That's how it works here folks. Now go out and cut yourself a piece of the corporate pie!
Comms ID: Malcolm "Venom" Washburn Location: Ouray Base - Colorado system
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Venom here.
We started to patrol around our Ouray base so we headed towards New York J.G.
16K from our base to TL we caught a trader with a full cargo of Kyushu Rice who tried to escape. Refused to cooperate with us... I had to destroy his ship. After that I came to NY J.G. there were some young navy pilots suddenly opened fire on me, especially annoying Navy pilot Name: HellJumper. and some other Navy Guardians How the fight progresses... we've jumped in New York, in an attempt to neutralize them.
I managed to destroy his "can of ship" but - Voilaaa, an Liberty Gunboat Name: Balrune has opened fire on us as well, but we menaged to destroy his flying toy, ye. We received notice that an Junker, Liberty Rogue and bunch of Outcasts located near Manhattan. When we went to "spy out" the situation, then there appeared a Libery Navy [LN], 36th and SFC pilots. Instead to clean the Rogues and Outcasts they are all together started to shoot at us - as usual. We managed to destroy some targets, but we eventually had to pull back to Colorado. When we have gathered, we went to California system and there we managed to stop some foreign traders.
:::Enemy engaged:::
Engagement location: New York
Ship Type: Spatial
IFF: navy
Outcome: destroyed
Evidence: [LINK]
:::Enemy engaged:::
Engagement location: New York
Ship Type: Liberty Gunboat
IFF: navy
Outcome: destroyed
Evidence: [LINK]
Information: When I went back to Ouray Base, there i met an freelancer in CSV Name: ThunderTumler who carried a three Xeno pilots in its cargo. I told him to transfer them to me immediately or 'am going to barbecue him... He didn't complain and he did it without the word.
Information: It seems that we have hmm... so many traders who carry on a Kyushu Rice moving through Colorado and across New York to Pennsylvania system.
Just going to elaborate on those rice traders for the Big Game Paths Event. Several of us flew that day, including XAs Rattler, Anaconda, Joshua.Kent, Venom, and several Xeno Independent flyers (If I missed your name, I apologize, I'm reading off of flight recorder images here, and I doubt everyone was in scanner range at the time).
Here are some specifics on two of those rice traders:
Target: Ted_Prescot, no affiliation, Freelancer ID
Cargo: Kyushu Rice (3401)
Ship Type: Series "DL" Border Worlds Transport
Destination: Pennsylvania
Notes: Talked too much, insisting that his rice be eaten, not destroyed. Well guess what, we destroyed what we couldn't carry. Grrrr, don't you just love humanitarians who sell out Liberty on one hand, and insist on food being eaten on the other?
Personal Opinion: Trader should be burned at the next opportunity for his hypocrisy.
And Moving On...
Target: Stipe, no affiliation
Cargo: Kyushu Rice (4930)
Ship Type: Stork Destination: Presumed to be Pennsylvania
Silekar.Dravin (AKA Egg.Eater)
P.S. Party is on me at Ouray:) and data relevant to the Big Game Paths event is at this data storage link: picasaweb.google.com/118388966437439004810/ColoradoBigGamePathsEvent#
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Said the pirate to the merchant: Your money or your life?
Merchant: What was the question?
Pirate: Pay or Die!
Merchant: That's not a question.
Pirate: Hand over 2 mil you corporate flunky, or be atomically disgronified!
Merchant: Sorry, I can't hear you, too busy docking.
Pirate: Wha... Dang it. *Turns to the new recruits* And that is why you shoot the trader who refuses to cut his engines. You just have to make sure you asked them to stop, and threatened them properly before you space them. Also, record your conversations in case the dead come back to complain. That's how it works here folks. Now go out and cut yourself a piece of the corporate pie!
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