- - Sender: Det. Captain Isaac Hartley - Recipient: Liberty Police Inc. - Subject: Report - Engagement over Denver - Encryption: Unbreakable
Hartley, reporting in from Freeport 12, Galileo.
This is a bit of a strange one. On patrol, the Sheridan discovered the INS Discovery and a Gallic Navy battlecruiser, the Mirande, in the Pittsburgh debris field. By the time reinforcements in the form of the 5th Fleet's New Jersey, the Leavenworth, a 46th Fleet bomber, and myself arrived, the Discovery had escaped, leaving us with the Gallic ship. Its captain claimed the ship to have suffered a jump drive malfunction, resulting in it ending up in New York. Not wanting to cause unnecessary bloodshed or a diplomatic incident - very mature, surprisingly - Commissioner Nazumaki aboard the Leavenworth 'offered' the Mirande an armed escort to the Galileo system. With myself taking point, it all went nice and smoothly.
Returning to Denver, our task force was intercepted by the INS Discovery, INS Fremont (battleship), and a number of Outcast warships. The traitors and their sniffing friends engaged us without much warning in high orbit, focusing their firepower on the Leavenworth. I conducted several torpedo runs on the Fremont before being intercepted by two Rogue fighters. I was able to dispatch one of them, but my bomber was severely damaged in the fight. Through what I can only imagine to be sheer luck, I managed to limp away from the battle and jump to the Galileo system, where I found refuge and emergency repairs on Freeport 12. Good people, these Zoners.
How the battle turned out, I can't say.
That is all.
Det. Captain Isaac Hartley Liberty Police Incorporated