Patrol: 4.0 Date: 10 April 822 AS Subject: Hacking their way to a life sentence Reporting Officer: Kyle Cosmo
What started as a calm patrol through New York exploded into a mess of violence. While passing west point I received a comm from a trader nearby that there was a rogue attacking traders near the Colorado jump gate. As I moved to engage the rogue however I found a LSF agent in a gunboat, a miner and a Lane Hacker fighter all having a bit of a shooting war. Choosing to intervene I tried to discover what the hacker was up to. He tried to play innocent claiming the LSF agent was extorting him for credits but after a scan of his cargo hold I discovered he had LPI pilots on board. No longer caring what the situation was I demanded he released the pilots to me. Being the Hacker scum he is he instead decided to get smart with me instead obviously thinking his fighter could out match my bomber needless to say he was wrong plus the LSF agent assisted in taking him down. After dropping the hacker off at Adirondack for questioning and rearming my ship I moved on to the Colorado jump gate with the LSF agent to deal with the rogue.
We arrived at the jump gate with no rogues in sight so we jumped through the gate only to find the rogue running from us back through it to New York. After our ships were able to we followed him back through to New York not having sight of him we agreed to split up in order to find him. Meeting up at the jump gate to California the LSF agent and I were going to do another sweep of the system in order to find the rogue when I was contacted by a member of Knight Industries informing me there was a hacker at the Texas jumpgate.
Arriving at the gate I found to Lane Hackers who followed a trader through to texas. I contacted the LSF agent and gave him my location as I pursued them into Texas. These two hackers also didn't seem worried about my ship and tried to extort money out of the trader. I was warning them to back off when another transport vessel approached the area the two hackers split up in an attempt to get money from both vessels. Thankfully the LSF agent arrived and we were able to try and deal with the hackers one each. The hacker I stuck with used the Liner he was pirating as a shield preventing me from getting a clear shot while he extorted money out of them. Unfortunately he was able to get money out of them and moved to assist his friend. The other hacker had less luck as the vessel they tried getting money from listened to us and wasn't responding to them. Both hackers chose to flee through the New York jumphole in an attempt to lose us. I had no intention of letting them go so we followed them through the jumphole. The badlands seem named correctly the place was a nightmare to try and fly through. The hackers noticed I was having trouble and even attempted to get money out of me naturally I told them where to go and engaged them. Sadly I wasn't able to fight well against both of them in the crowded field and my ship was destroyed. Lucky the LSF agent recovered my escape pod and brought me to west point. Besides my pride taking a beating and the loss of my ship I'm okay I even managed to download my ship comm logs before it being destroyed although my guncam and its evidence was lost with my ship.