I was siting around the hanger before my shift looking over my ship when an SOS came over the LPI Dispatchers channel that an Officer was in trouble in Manhattan orbit and needed help. I wasn't even in my uniform, but a pair of greasy mechanics overalls, but that didn't matter, I closed up the hatches and launched.
Officer Fredro Guajardo was engaged by a freelancer/mercenary, Name of Thomas ONeill. Said sleazeball didn't like it when he was informed that Liberty had a unregistered Mercenary ban in place and fired upon Fredro. I jumped into the fray to distract him so Fredro could get things together or dis-engage. This merc was a nutcase, he was outnumbered and yelling over the comms that we fired first, when several bystanders saw him attack Officer Fredro. We went at it for like 10 minutes,and he managed to shoot down Fredro. I kept on fighting ,hoping that this nutjob wouldn't try to nuke Fredro's life pod.
Now I am going to go out on a limb here and say that all of the sudden, my controls locked up, and said lockup made my ship fly straight and level, allowing the Merc to get a clean shot and cause me to eject. If I find out that the Mechanics are messing with my ship....
Anyways, as far as the Merc is concerned, someone needs to give this guy a <strike>Nova torp enema</strike> a severe fine.
After my Life pod and Fredro's was recovered, I switched over to my SWAT ship. My Libby was in pieces and had to be scrapped.
I launched and my scanners immediately picked up a Xeno, Ministick. A Naval Officer and I gave chase, but he must have hit an Ion storm or something, because he disappeared off of both of our scopes at a range of 2K.
Next up, we had a report of Blackbeards Pearl in the California system. Myself, a LSF agent, and a couple of Naval units responded. Blackbeard lit out of there in a big hurry, made a run for the California to Texas jump hole. He managed to get here and jump thru, we of course followed. He ran to some unknown destination in the Texas system, and we lost him.
At this point , the Navy and LSF agent detected ships in the Z21 area. We proceed to the minefield, I was asked to guard the entrance. They had a Corsair GunBoat cornered in there. That Corsair wasn't too smart, he started firing. I was asked to come in and provide assistance. The three of us took him down easily. His Name was He Mei Tan, a Corsair.
Almost as soon as the gunboat was dispatched, another ship came thru, a Viper! I failed to get the perps name because he started firing immediately, and most of it at me! Again, the three of us took him down easily.
I stopped off at the Missouri to rearm, when the call went out that a large contingent of Xenos were in the NY system, looking for a fight. The Navy asked for assistance from me, so I hoofed it down to West point and set up a road block.
Coming down the tradelane was XA Sidewinder! I shot out the tradelane in front of him, which caused him quite a bit of confusion. Bubbling out of the tradelane behind him was 4 or 5 more Xenos, followed by every Navy, and LSF agent on duty.
I had cannonball missiles loaded on the SWAT guardian, so I put them to good use. I made XA-Sidewinder eat a few, then I shot down XA-Metaxa (?) with a couple! I lasted awhile longer, denying the Xenos any bots/bats that may have come from anyone that was shot down. Unfortunately, my luck ran out and I was shot down too.
My lifepod docked with Fort Bush, but I was unable to see anymore of the fight. I doesn't take a great deal of imagination to figure out who won.
End Of Report.
Formerly known as LPI Police Chief Hull O'Brien.
Creator of Sgt. V. Price, 207th Precinct out of Chula Vista Station