COMM ID: Commander Helen Den [secondary fleet]
TARGET ID: Navy Command
SUBJECT: Beginning of service & First patrol
ENCRYPTION: Normal
PRIORITY: Low
Commander Helen Den reporting to Navy Command. You'll be pleased to find out that the refitting of LNS-Miami have ended ahead schedule and the ship successfully completed its first patrol.
We have departed from Norfolk Shipyard at 1745 hours. Destination: Northern Liberty Space, including the systems Colorado, Kepler and Galileo. Approaching Fort Bush we encountered our first tango: MNS-Comband, a "Tridente" class gunship. Destroying it was easy as it couldn't run. All those bounty hunters fighters, while lacking the firepower to damage it, they were able to disrupt it's cruise engines, giving us time to approach and engage. During the fight, the hostile tried to activate a lane and we were forced to deactivate it to prevent it from escaping.
We were able to rescue 5 bounty hunters, 10 civilians, 35 crew members, 13 liberty forces pilots (navy and police) and 124 prisoners. Looks like this ship intercepted a prisoners transport. We moored with Fort Bush in order to let all of them disembark.
After this incident, we continued our patrol and scanned the designated areas but found no one. This concludes my report.