COMM ID:Commander Adrian Wicks TARGET ID:Primary Fleet Command HQ SUBJECT:Pirate Night ENCRYPTION:Medium PRIORITY:Medium
Greetings, sirs.
My last patrol turned up a rather consistent theme involving Pirate Train vessels and some actual pirates.
To begin, I was operating embargo duty over Houston aboard the LNF Paradise a few days ago. Beginning a lane check, I came across a vessel tagged as Husker heading towards the Bering system. We tailed and managed to catch up to the vessel near the destroyed Jump Gate in the Bering system. The vessel turned out to be a Junker operated Pirate Train vessel hauling Helium. After questioning the captain and getting him to admit to his wrong doing, he claimed to be heading to an affiliated station in Hudson to sell his cargo. Seeing the potential to discover a possible Junker there, we allowed him to proceed and followed him via anomaly into Hudson. Turns out that probably wasn't for the best as he led us to a Liberty Rogue station. I ordered the captain to drop cargo and turn from the base, but he chose the quick bucks over a lawful order. Everything necesary for prosecution is given below.
We returned to the New York system after this where we took up watch over Manhattan for a bit. And what would you know but another Pirate Train vessel tagged Matt.Scales appears launching from the planet. Thankfully he was quite clear on his desire to depart Liberty, so we let him go with a warning.
Of course during the middle of this discussion what should appear launching from Planet Manhattan but yet another Pirate Train vessel, this one a JM|-Rust.Bucket. I attempted to hail the vessel's captain, but it turned around and landed before I had the chance to complete my sentence. Given what Captain Hartman reported previously it seems like they're jumping the gun quite a bit here. I'm sure that'll end up well for them. Here's the record we got.
And last but not least I received reports of a Red Hessian warship wandering around in the Colorado system. Switching to my "Challenger" class bomber, I teamed up with the LNS-Watchtower and we sent the vessel straight to "Hel" in a rather swift fashion.