Incoming Transmission Liberty Navy, 1st Fleet Admiral Rachel A. Baker
5-OCT-830
This morning, myself and Commander Lillian Olson successfully conducted a checkride flight with Cadet Paula Beasley, who I'm pleased to report has now completed that phase of their training and orientation to the First Fleet. A short patrol of the New York System was conducted, before we moved to the California system and then onto the Magellan border system.
Upon reaching Magellan we assumed a defensive position in the area of the Universal base that exists where Freeport Four once did. After remaining on station there for a short while, we proceeded to the Cortez Jump Hole anomaly, encountering a hostile pirate outpost along the way. An image of this outpost was taken utilizing my cockpit camera system, and was meant to be attached to this report, however the data appears to have been corrupted, and my shipboard scanner suite couldn't pick anything up either.
Once we broke off from the pirate outpost, we moved into the Cortez System, and then back to California, after examining the wreck of the Gallic Valor "Bethany" and discussing our role as the bulwark against such enemy incursions into The Republic.
In California, we encountered a ship codenamed "Gelb-1", which seemingly belonged to the Rheinland Marine Intelligence Bureau (MND), while attempting to pursue this ship our patrol was ambushed by Outcasts, but I was able to obtain a couple of images before that -- no thorough scans though, unfortunately.
As for the Outcasts, we were eventually forced to withdraw to Norfolk, after our ships took heavy damage. Thankfully we took no casualties this day. It's unfortunate to see that Outcasts have become so brazen though, we'll need to dedicate patrol assets to deal with their presence more effectively in the future.
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