Today occurred two of the largest battles I have seen, and one that is certainly one of the largest Liberty has seen.
The smaller fight began with a report of some outcasts. I arrived to find 4 outcasts, 3 bombers, 1 gunboat, attacking West Point. I immediately engaged. Reinforcements trickled in for both sides, but one of the most frightening was a outcast Destroyer.
Luckily, the outcast went down quickly, and victory was in sight, with our enemies possessing only two remaining bombers, when suddenly a ion storm struck. Our forces huddled at West Point, with the larger capital ships providing cover from the fierce storm. When the storm cleared, the pirates were gone.
However, that was not the end of it.
The Battle for New Moscow
The Sirius Coalition army, or the Red Army invaded Liberty today with a massive army. It was apparent they wished to take over our fertile planets, to establish their cruel form of government.
Seeing how I was the only LN on duty at the time, I gathered what troops I could at Liberty, gaining only a fighter and a gunboat. Luckily, most of the RA decided to slip around Manhattan for some reason. It was apparent they were targeting not the navy, but at the time, the largest threat, a giant outcast fleet, containing numerous fighters and bombers, as well as a destroyer. I quickly scouted for the battle, and found it at Norfolk, then I sent the call for as many men as I could find.
I was not disappointed.
Several Naval and police officers joined, and while the LN may not look upon the DW highly, we put aside our differences in the face of a bigger threat.
It appears the Red Army brought a Osiris. The Missouri was docked, and could only provide stationary cover, so we waited for the outcasts and Red Army to destroy each other.
But it appears not so, the outcast fleet was slaughtered. Their larger ships were easy prey.
Here is a recon image taken shortly before their defeat.
Meanwhile, our forces gathered. We decided upon a smaller strike fleet, to more easily avoid the RA bombers and the Osiris they possessed.
The Battle Commences
We launched our ships from Norfolk, and after a quick recon of the RA, we attacked, with the great naval hero Eddy Looper in charge, while I assisted directing our freedom fleet.
And so we fought:
The Havana, under heavy fire from our quadruple supernovas, fled, but managed to destroy my ship. I watched the battle proceed from my escape pod, until a Junker that was scrap collecting picked me up, and returned me to Norfolk (at a fee...of course...)
I soon learned afterwards, while the nurses were tending to my wounds, that the Havana fled. I known then, the battle would be won for Liberty.
Freedom!
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' Wrote:TDL Dark pretty much hit the nail on the head..