Filed by : Marcel Lee, Recruit Officer
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While patrolling New York, I came across a Behemoth transport ship. I immediately informed all LPI ships in the area of it's presence. Chief Myers informed me that we "do not shoot traders just because they are in Rheinland transports," or something to that effect.
However, upon closer inspection of Liberty laws; specifically, Section Three: Ships and Weapons, Subsection IV. (Transport ships); we realized that the Behemoth model was not permitted within Liberty space. I raised this issue up, and the ranking officer at the time, Officer Lisa Hunter, decided to enforce the law, as per my suggestion. We then attempted to contact the ship, the State de RO. Multiple attempts to contact him went unanswered, and Officer Hunter decided to destroy said ship. After a brief firefight, the State de RO was destroyed by Officer Hunter, Recruit Officers Zanero and myself, and Mr Griff Almoon IV.
Afterwards, as stated by Recruit Officer Sturm's May 12 patrol report, we encountered two Nomad Morphs. Their ship transponder identified it as the Lulz.Da'Nub and the Lulz.Le'Geio. IMPORTANT : It appears that they were able to manipulate ion storms for their own benefit. During the battle, we encountered a huge ion storm, and our targeting systems went haywire, making it neigh impossible to engage. We attempted anyway, and I got destroyed.
After getting retrieved and transported back to the armory, I resumed my patrol. Soon, I received word of a Xeno presence in the Pennsylvania system. Upon arrival, there were two Xeno ships, the XA-Canebrake and the XA-Coral. As I was alone, I felt that I had insufficient firepower to decisively engage the ships, if the need arose. I then started negotiations, requesting that the ships exit Liberty space. Using the negotiation, I attempted to stall for time as Officer Sturm requested Navy assistance. A Navy gunboat arrived on the scene, and again attempted to get them out of the system. However, during negotiations, there were reports of a Rheinland battleship in the Texas system, and we were all forced to disengage in order to rush to Texas.
However, even before we managed to get there, we got reports that the Rheinland battleship got destroyed. (Huzzah, Navy!) I then followed Officer Sturm to Illinois to get equipment upgrades, before calling it a night.
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