From: Detective Sarah Walker To: One Police Plaza Subj: Patrol Log #9
Report number 9, date: 18/11/824.
After finishing filing some documents on ongoing cases, I went ahead to gather more data and maybe find some evidence on the increasing transport of illegal substances like cardamine, and illegal goods like artifacts in Liberty.
I undocked from Forth Bush and headed towards Colorado system, since that's a system with high traffic of smugglers and other criminal elements. I also had to stop by at One Police Plaza to access some files on the library there.
I went to check first with the Battleship Rio Grande's sensors to cross-reference with our data, but when I got close, my radar picked up multiple readings.
When I exited the trade lane, a fight was going on between Liberty Navy and the Hellfire Legion.
After issuing multiple warnings to vacate the area I went and assisted the naval forces.
After heavy fighting, two of the Hellfire Legion ships exploded, I am lead to believe they had a miscommunication and their warheads detonated preemptive, both ships exploding in the blast. The naval forces either had to fall back, or got destroyed in the fight.
In the end, it was just me, a Legion bomber, fighter and a Outcast that came out of nowhere. I was too busy staying alive and I didn't saw him on my radar, but when I did, I immediately scanned his ship for our criminal records.
Please keep and eye on this "Rapier" pilot. He flies a CQV-Gen I Maltese Very Heavy Fighter armed with prototype weapons. He's very dangerous and should not be engaged alone or without backup standing by.
As soon as he entered weapons range, he engaged me. I broke off the engagement with the Legion, and targeted him instead. After a extensive battle, the Legion fighter's mine chamber must had been hit and suffered a internal explosion, igniting the other mines and destroying the ship. I did manage to see the other Legion ship pick up a escape pod and flying away.
At this point the Outcast vessel, being heavily damaged by both me and the Legion fighter, kept shooting at my ship. Myself being low on defensive batteries and cruise disruptors, I manged to do a hard pull to left while dropping a mine. After I almost blacked out from the G's that maneuver required, I noticed my ship being hit by debris.
I checked my radar for any targets in the area, but none were present. I scanned the debris and it belong to the Outcast vessel. I could not detect his escape pod, so its uncertain if he survived, or the mine hit him before he could react and eject from his flaming ship.
After I managed to lower my heart beats, and calm myself, I picked up something floating in space, near the battlefield.
It was a small cargo pod filled with something called Planetoid Ore. My scanner and ship computer could not analyze it and so I transported it to the Police warehouse on planet Manhattan. The warehouse clerk there told me he heard about this ore on the news. And that it came from Omicron Delta. I don't know if its worth anything, but I wanted to make sure I mention it on my report, just in case that ore "goes missing". After all, we had some samples gone missing from our warehouses on the planets.
That would be all.
Signed, Detective Sarah Walker, Vice Unit, New York Precinct.