Today's patrol started with a random Outcast in the Texas system, a silent one who just blasted a transport when I found him next to the Houston tradelane. Well yes, he/she/it exploded.
After that was done I joined a patrol with Commander Sanders and Ensign Wilmott. At first the Liberty core systems seemed safe, but then we found some pirates, one flying a poorly armored Sabre, the other one was flying a Marauder. Both were pretty annoying and we of course dealth with them.
We were sent into the California system once we were done with those two, apparently some pirate gunboats. They were found next to the Mojave lane, two Ahoudoris, whose pilots were not some brainless monkeys. But that did not help them much, it just took us longer to blow them up.