Sender ID: Officer Colin Sinclair
Time: 20:33 SMT+1 - 22/04/818
Subject: Patrol Report
Location: Fort Bush Medical, Manhattan
Hi, bad day today. My Liberator, new armor upgrade and all, is "mildly" damaged after todays patrol. I started my patrol about twenty minutes after my previous report, when I got my secondary electrical system online and finally, after some furious kicking of electronics and machinery, everything was up and running. There was, however, a minor problem when I managed to wipe the fog off the windows after life support failed: I was somehow 120 kilometers over the central plane of New York. I got an invite to a Neural Net group a bit later from Lisa Hunter, a fellow LPI officer. She was waiting at Manhattan, so I got my Liberator running at the best speed it could keep without exploding on the way there. While flying Michael Zanero also got on duty, who was heading to Illinois to try his luck at finding the way to Attica. I kindly offered myself to guide him there after my trip there earlier today, and in the end we all headed to Illinois. In the end we all got to Attica after some "mild surprises". We also met up with the Devil's Island, an LPI Grizzly, at Attica. We headed out and around the field where Lisa showed us another entrance to Attica. I then had a minor friendly-fire incident involving Lisa, McNeil Island, and a malfunctioning CD that blew up in my face, which I will not mention here. We then proceeded out of Illinois after our patrol there and continued outside towards New York. We were planning on heading to California first, but were first interrupted at Manhattan. Here there was a standoff between a Bounty Hunter and a Freelancer, who we tried to break up, until the Hunter requested that we left the fight (more credits for him). I and my party headed to Norfolk where I got some supplies. At that time we were five on duty (we were Jim Markey, Lisa Hunter, me, Michael Zanero, Aiden Maggard). After I was done resupplying we headed to Manhattan, where there was a fight between a Lane Hacker, Go Crazy, and the hunter I met earlier today, Will. We did not assist as again the Hunter requested that we did not join. We continued our patrol to West Point. Here we found a pirate with a Kusari Explorer, The Joker, who resupplied the hostile forces with nanobots and shield batteries in the Lawful-Unlawful standoff that later ensued. Many died and joined throughout the fight, and casualities on the unlawful side counted only one throughout the whole one-hour and thirty-seven-minute fight, disappointingly, as we were powerless against the Gunboat. Two recruit officers were killed and I was the last man standing (or, rather, not yet having fled) in the fight. Until my poor Liberator got blown up, that is. I luckily managed to explode and eject in the middle of a trade lane (as I was docking), enabling me to flee the area quickly by trade lane while in my pod. There were four "casualities" on the LPI side, but all managed to safely eject and flee the combat zone. Now I'm in medical at Fort Bush for observation over the night, and I'm hoping that I am able to be back on duty by tomorrow.