Comm ID: Alban Jankowski Recipient: One Police Plaza Internal Network Subject: Patrol Report (Texas) Encryption:Moderate
Today was a weird one, in more ways than one.
I started out my patrol from Houston after I got my orders to do a sweep of Texas, do the rounds of Sugarland, Huntsville and the Jumpgates. A typical shift for a typical day. Things started getting atypical however, once I set course back into Houstan's orbit. As I neared about seven clicks out from the docking ring my scanners picked up a Seperatist ident hovering nearby, not necessarily out of the ordinary, just surprising to see them that far from the Bering gate. It turned out to be a lone BDR-804 Guardian fighter and figuring it to be a scout sent out to get a read on the local conditions I set course to intercept. When I closed the distanced towards the suspect, they turned out to be a pilot hailing from the rouge Battlegroup Harmony and despite my expectations wasn't overtly hostile to my prescence.
Conducting a scan of his cargo hold revealed the tractored in escape pod of one downed Navy pilot. What was more interesting to me however was the fact that his ship was equipped with several variants of Gallic military and civlian line weaponary instead of the usual kit bashing of normal Libertonian military or civilian hardware. After issuing a demand for him to transfer the pilot to which he complied to, I engaged him in conversation to try and drag some information out of him. His name is Captain Justin Waldhar, former Navy as is the norm for these guys, and oh did he have a tale to spin. I won't bog down the report with most of the stuff conspiracy theories he tried to feed me but I will emphasise these two parts of our conversation.
"H|-Sigma-1: ?:We were in need of weapons. And we found several wrecks with still 'intact' weapons."
"LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: How are the Unioners coping with your prescence?
H|-Sigma-1: ?: The Unioners? We don't have kind of cooperation with them. They vanished in their paraonia.
LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Sounds like some sort of past tense there?
H|-Sigma-1: ?: Perhaps. But they don't care so much now. As we do."
Past experience has tought me never to look over the minor details and it doesn't take much to put two and two together. My guess is that the Seps have found themselves a new supplier, and wouldn't it be really handy to Gallia if most of our civies were convinced alot of House and Military officials were "comprimised" as Captain Waldhar so insitently put it. I'll leave this up to people more in the know to figure out. All I know is I am getting one hell of a feeling that there is more to this than simple reclaimed salvage.
[29.07.2019 15:10:05] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: What the...
[29.07.2019 15:10:11] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Alright H|-Sigma-1, would you mind halting for a moment I have a few questions for you.
[29.07.2019 15:10:12] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Contact on scanner. Greetings Liberty Police. I guess you don't mind my presence here?
[29.07.2019 15:10:26] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Depends on what you plan on doing.
[29.07.2019 15:10:55] H|-Sigma-1: ?: So what are those questions?
[29.07.2019 15:10:58] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: I'd kindly ask if you handed over those Navy pilots.
[29.07.2019 15:11:29] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Aha. This one was a bad guy for sure.
[29.07.2019 15:11:35] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Sure, sure.
[29.07.2019 15:11:55] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: I think his family would rather seem him alive and well than stuck in a Sep cell.
[29.07.2019 15:12:25] H|-Sigma-1: ?: His family...Sad you are not entirely aware of the situation.
[29.07.2019 15:12:48] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: And what situation would that be, that your a bunch of traitors to Liberty?
[29.07.2019 15:13:00] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Traitors. *Laughs*
[29.07.2019 15:13:28] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Not all the Navy pilots are responsible of what's going on.
[29.07.2019 15:13:38] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Thats what they all keep saying about you, you got cold feet when the Frogs rolled in so you packed up and left for Bering.
[29.07.2019 15:13:40] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: No?
[29.07.2019 15:13:52] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Then "enlighten" me, sure this will be good for a laugh.
[29.07.2019 15:14:37] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Whatever you think. You are only police. I guess you've been only told about us. 'Traitor'.
[29.07.2019 15:14:52] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: I'll admit, I have only heard a little.
[29.07.2019 15:14:58] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: What so your not all cowards?
[29.07.2019 15:15:47] H|-Sigma-1: ?: The Navy propaganda continiously repeating our betrayal from Liberty and call us coward. While we are trying to save
[29.07.2019 15:16:00] H|-Sigma-1: ?: The Navy from a bigger threat than the gauls.
[29.07.2019 15:16:34] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: I hardly can imagine there is a bigger threat than Gallia breathing down all our necks.
[29.07.2019 15:17:12] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Meanwhile the Liberty Police is not of our concern. Though you obey and do as the Navy. You fire on the "enemy of Liberty".
[29.07.2019 15:17:39] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Care to be a bit more specific?
[29.07.2019 15:17:46] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Liberty has alot of enemies.
[29.07.2019 15:18:15] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Remember of the Nomads War right? Or did you never hear about it?
[29.07.2019 15:18:44] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: I was around yes. Though I was stationed on Pittsburgh when the majority of it happened.
[29.07.2019 15:18:47] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: It was...
[29.07.2019 15:18:50] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Something.
[29.07.2019 15:19:14] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Hell of a way to learn humanity isn't alone in the universe in anycase.
[29.07.2019 15:19:44] H|-Sigma-1: ?: The Nomads are one of the bigger threat that Sirius had to face. But that threat has been contained.
[29.07.2019 15:19:57] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Until recently.
[29.07.2019 15:20:04] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Yeah that Freelancer Edison Trent got a medal and everything.
[29.07.2019 15:20:08] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: I saw the news reports.
[29.07.2019 15:20:18] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: President Jacobi gave a speech and all.
[29.07.2019 15:20:27] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Former President.
[29.07.2019 15:20:50] H|-Sigma-1: ?: And what if now I tell you that the Nomads might have infected again the big heads of the Navy, hm?
[29.07.2019 15:21:10] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: I call that a real load of bullcrap.
[29.07.2019 15:21:18] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: The admiralty infected?
[29.07.2019 15:21:28] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Some of them.
[29.07.2019 15:21:28] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Is that story your trying to spin?
[29.07.2019 15:21:55] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Your a bunch of crackpot conspiracy theorists then... great.
[29.07.2019 15:22:05] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Believe what you want to believe. But ask you the good question: Would have been worth for an entire former Navy Battlegroup
[29.07.2019 15:22:19] H|-Sigma-1: ?: To leave suddenly and start to fight their old friends?
[29.07.2019 15:22:34] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Stranger things have happened.
[29.07.2019 15:22:45] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Alot of people go missing on Pittsburgh.
[29.07.2019 15:22:49] H|-Sigma-1: ?: For what reason? Piracy? Only in the matter to become criminals?
[29.07.2019 15:22:56] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: But that can be chalked up to the slavers.
[29.07.2019 15:23:11] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: If that were true, there would be signs.
[29.07.2019 15:23:22] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: .....
[29.07.2019 15:23:48] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Signs? Our simple presence and status isn't enough?
[29.07.2019 15:24:40] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Harmony is not sure about a potential Police infection. Nomads prefer the main structures.
[29.07.2019 15:25:00] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: People have tried the same lines on me before back when I worked planetside, they always turned out to have blood on their
[29.07.2019 15:25:03] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: hands either way.
[29.07.2019 15:25:13] H|-Sigma-1: ?: So I find that normal that you haven't noticed signs. But we have proofs.
[29.07.2019 15:25:43] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Like what?
[29.07.2019 15:26:03] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Like reports. Pictures. Battles.
[29.07.2019 15:26:32] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Heh, right, if I went anywhere near that stuff I would lose my job.
[29.07.2019 15:26:54] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Sadly.
[29.07.2019 15:27:10] H|-Sigma-1: ?: That is correct.
[29.07.2019 15:28:50] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: And Gallic tech on your fighter.
[29.07.2019 15:28:56] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Its all falling into place.
[29.07.2019 15:29:04] H|-Sigma-1: ?: We captured that Gallic tech.
[29.07.2019 15:29:15] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Has Harmony found themselve a new friend have they?
[29.07.2019 15:29:17] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Because we are indeed fighting the Gauls aswell.
[29.07.2019 15:29:30] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: What you ripped them off a wreck?
[29.07.2019 15:29:40] H|-Sigma-1: ?: That is correct.
[29.07.2019 15:29:45] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Right...
[29.07.2019 15:30:03] H|-Sigma-1: ?: We were in need of weapons. And we found several wrecks with still 'intact' weapons.
[29.07.2019 15:30:16] H|-Sigma-1: ?: But aswell we attacked some transports.
[29.07.2019 15:30:30] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: I'll admit, it is weird seeing an entire Battlegroup turn.
[29.07.2019 15:30:37] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: But your story is something else.
[29.07.2019 15:31:00] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: The LSF would have routed out any kind of Nomad prescene in Liberty years back.
[29.07.2019 15:31:01] H|-Sigma-1: ?: You get there is something behind all of this isn't it? That's already that.
[29.07.2019 15:31:13] H|-Sigma-1: ?: What if they didn't?
[29.07.2019 15:31:19] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: I'm not agreeing to anything.
[29.07.2019 15:32:12] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Regardless if there were, you still turned on your own damn comrades. Killed your own people. Your no better than thugs in my book.
[29.07.2019 15:32:31] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: That blood is still on your hands.
[29.07.2019 15:32:36] H|-Sigma-1: ?: We don't have the choice sadly. We failed to eradicate the infections few years ago.
[29.07.2019 15:32:52] H|-Sigma-1: ?: While Harmony was still a Navy Battlegroup.
[29.07.2019 15:33:10] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Many people have blood on their hands.
[29.07.2019 15:33:33] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: And what is happening with Harmony now. All we know is that you fled through the Bering gate and that was that.
[29.07.2019 15:34:18] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Currently we are still facing the Navy. Gathering forces. Trying to build a new future. Few months ago we succeed in
[29.07.2019 15:34:32] H|-Sigma-1: ?: A major operation against the infectees within that system.
[29.07.2019 15:34:48] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Infectees that were Libertonian or something else?
[29.07.2019 15:34:53] H|-Sigma-1: ?: But the LSF is now in Bering.
[29.07.2019 15:35:06] H|-Sigma-1: ?: A high Navy ranked officer.
[29.07.2019 15:35:08] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Sounds like you folks set yourself up then.
[29.07.2019 15:35:22] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: How are the Unioners coping with your prescence?
[29.07.2019 15:35:55] H|-Sigma-1: ?: The Unioners? We don't have kind of cooperation with them. They vanished in their paraonia.
[29.07.2019 15:36:19] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Sounds like some sort of past tense there?
[29.07.2019 15:36:41] H|-Sigma-1: ?: Perhaps. But they don't care so much now. As we do.
[29.07.2019 15:37:07] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: You got any non-combatents with you on the otherside of that gate?
[29.07.2019 15:37:33] H|-Sigma-1: ?: We have plenty of civilians.
[29.07.2019 15:37:42] H|-Sigma-1: ?: They are counting on us.
[29.07.2019 15:37:49] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: They all from the Battlegroup?
[29.07.2019 15:38:15] H|-Sigma-1: ?: The Battlegroup members are all former Navy or LSF officers mostly.
[29.07.2019 15:38:43] H|-Sigma-1: ?: The civilians decided to come in Bering. Some are under our protection.
[29.07.2019 15:39:00] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: What about you, whats your name?
[29.07.2019 15:39:17] H|-Sigma-1: Justin: Captain Justin Waldhar.
[29.07.2019 15:39:36] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Pleasure to meet you Captain, the names Alban Jankowski.
[29.07.2019 15:40:01] H|-Sigma-1: Justin: The pleasure is mine Mr.Jankowski.
[29.07.2019 15:40:29] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Thats alot of interesting stuff you have relyed to me, definitely alot to take in.
[29.07.2019 15:40:40] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Regardless there is still one more thing I got to sort out.
[29.07.2019 15:40:45] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Drop the pilot, now.
[29.07.2019 15:40:53] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: I won't repeat myself.
[29.07.2019 15:41:05] H|-Sigma-1: Justin: I hope now you have another vision of Harmony. Oh that pilot. He's certainly not infected anyway.
[29.07.2019 15:41:27] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Bet his family will be glad of that.
[29.07.2019 15:41:45] H|-Sigma-1: Justin: No doubt on that.
[29.07.2019 15:42:03] LPI-Alban.Jankowski[O]: Now get out of here, if I see you shooting at any civilian or even Naval personnel. I won't be so friendly next time.
[29.07.2019 15:42:31] H|-Sigma-1: Justin: Fine. *Laughs*
1.0 - Possension of Liberty personnel (Primary Fleets).
1.4.8 - Military espionage (scouting operations within the Texas system with the aim to ascertain information on Primary Fleet manevours).
1.7 - Affliation with known criminal and terrorist organisations (Battlegroup Harmony).
3.1 - Possession of restricted technology (Gallic Military & Civilian weapons tech and possession of an unregistered BDR-804 Guardian fighter).