COMM ID:Admiral Alan Polstari TARGET ID:Liberty Navy Reporting Center SUBJECT:Harmony Encounter ENCRYPTION:Medium PRIORITY:Medium
Greetings.
My weekly patrol yielded an unexpected encounter with the traitors of Battlegroup Harmony this weekend. I had launched a standard patrol of Liberty's sytems, when SigInt reported a Harmony transponder in the New York system. I was operating in Zone-21 at the time where I had found an LSF Battlecruiser on station when the intel came in, so I requested the support of the vessel identified as Oversight and asked its commander to be on standby for when I found the traitors. A search of the lanes found the target, H|-SNS-Shamrock.Bay, near Manhattan just outside the effective range of Long Island Station's weapons systems. While I retrieved an operational Upholder vessel I commed the Oversight and gave its commander a request to join me over Manhattan. When I returned in the bomber the traitor's vessel was still in orbit. I offered its C.O. the opportunity to surrender, but of course she wouldn't yield to "infected personnel" like us. I was ready to engage, but the LSF agent in command wished to interrogate the traitor, and so I stood by while the largely ineffectual discourse took place. It didn't take long for the traitor's support to arrive in the form of a bomber identified as H|-Pink.Thunder, and as expected combat quickly followed. I made the decision that taking out the enemy support bomber was a more important objective than trying to keep the enemy cruiser engaged, and so I made it my target. Bomber duels feel like two knights trying to charge each either on bovines in my experience, but mine was nimble enough that I was able to land antimatter and take out the Waran. Unfortunately while this saved the Oversight from significant torpedo damage, the H|-SNS-Shamrock.Bay was able to out maneuver it and flee into deep space despite a spirited intercept attempt by available forces. In summary, I don't expect the traitors to ever see their error; expect to engage them in all situations.