Through the constant visits to the Medical Bay for radiation treatments has slowed the ability to create reports over my duties, I have drafted this report from my patrol today. An Artifact smuggler, callsign SirSprinkles, was spotted outside of Manhattan, attempting to smuggle the contraband into the area. He was quickly engaged and dispatched by LtCmdr Reeves and I, and his contraband turned into the Naval Customs department for processing. After that, I deactivated my vessel for later patrols.
The resumed patrol through Texas was stopped short by a freelancer piloting a Serenity who was in the wrong place, and was almost mistaken for a pirate. Luckily I was not prepared to fire an antimatter volley at him and he was safe. Upon the warning I gave upon him for hunting unlawfuls near the trade lane, a Xeno radical pirate appeared on sensors. Xeno PF|PhaIanx, was told to remove themselves from the area, and after a more forceful verbal warning, departed before he had a rocket pod forcing him to comply with orders. Immediately after, SirSprinkles was spotted once more with a cargo hold full of illegal munitions, was spotted traveling to Planet Houston. As soon as I ordered him to halt, he changed direction and began evasion. I pursued and engaged, aided by Secondary Fleet member Hellfire, through the Texas system, into the Bering system through a jumphole. After this failure to escape, he was quickly pacified and his cargo destroyed. After returning to Planet Manhattan for cargo duty, a Unione Corse vessel arrived, obviously out of place. The Corse, callsign Elise.Nuit, was not found to be breaking any known laws of Liberty, and was permitted to stay, and a small group gathered to converse, much to my dissatisfaction. After a large, unpredicted ion storm* passed through New York afterwards, forcing my own vessel along with several others to an early grounding.
*[23.06.2016 01:59:00] Ping: 135ms (Max: 1000ms) Fluct: 0ms Loss: 0% (Max: 70%) Lag: 74% (Max: 100%) Jason Hirlerman
Lieutenant, First Fleet
Liberty Navy