An eventful day for me and my fellow officers. I began my patrol in Colorado, as my ship was stationed on the Rio Grande from last night's patrol. I took the tradelanes around Colorado, everything quiet until I returned to the Rio Grande and found Locrian - a coalition supporter in a Raven's Claw. I ordered him to leave but he did not. I asked again, but he just sat there. I opened fire, destroying his shields as I looped back toward him. I destroyed him with my magma hammers and he was gone. The funny thing was however, he never moved or fired back. After that interesting encounter, I jumped back to New York continuing my patrol.
I took the tradelanes around Fort Bush, into Manhattan and back into West Point. My fellow officers and several LSF Agents were in need of assistance as two Lane Hackers in Light Fighters were causing trouble near West Point. I arrived on the battle and engaged the fighters. Their missiles and weapons tore through many officers and I was no exception. One of their missiles veered and slammed into my ship, causing my engine to detonate. My pod escaped the blast, and I received medical treatment from the physicians on West Point.
After the Lane Hacker incident, I patrolled the rest of the systems, going into Texas and back into Colorado. For a few hours, there were no incidents I can report. I continued patrolling around the high populated areas and found nothing.
Much later in the day, Phantoms began asking people to play their "Hide 'n' seek". Vice Admiral Hale ordered everyone to search for these terroists. I began patrolling the Texas-Norfolk line when I found Locrian again. I was with Ensign Willian Talon at the time and again, ordered him out. He left without incident however, as he took the lane to the texas gate without a word.
I patrolled the Texas-Norfolk line but the phantoms were not there. Vice Admiral Hale was also headed my direction so I formed on his wing. We explored the perimeter of the Badlands but no sign of them. We continued searching above the plane, until we found them above the Rogue Destroyer. There were two of them- Delirium in a Corsair Praetorian Bomber and DarkBlossom in a Slipstream. It was 2v2 until more of our reinforcements came. I have no information on who came, but they were destroyed. Delirium's mini razor and torpedoes were the hazard in this fight. The Vice Admiral and I concentrated fire on the bomber. We damaged the shields and the hull, but not enough to send him running. Around 25 standard minutes, another phantom arrived by the name of Nightsmoke. He was in a Kusari Catarmaran Bomber, and attacked us as well. We also had another ship come in, Ensign William Talon arrived and replenished the Vice Admiral's ammo. Still firing on Delirium, we continued damaging his vessel. Suddenly, they began concentrating their attack on me. I dodged and weaved, as their mini razors and torpedoes shot out my shields, but no hull. Vice Admiral Hale ordered us to attack DarkBlossom. We damaged him severely, and the battle split in two. Ensign Talon and Delirium moved 5k out, while we were headed toward the Badlands, trying to catch the running DarkBlossom. He finally engaged cruise 10 standard minutes later, and one phantom had left. NightSmoke still remained and fought furiously. The Vice Admiral and I quickly shot his shields and his hull. Around 5 standard minutes later, he also engaged his cruise engines and fled. Vice Admiral Hale and I thrusted back to Ensign Talon, attacking Delirium. After the bomber began spirialing down toward the Rogue destroyer in hopes of getting more firepower, the Vice Admiral believed that Ensign Talon and I could take care of him. He left as the Destroyer's weapons fired on us. A few minutes later, Ensign Talon was suddenly destroyed by a torpedo shot by the Phantom. I continued firing on the bomber. 10 standard minutes later, I was suddenly shot with a razor and a torpedo. My ship exploded and I was again, sent back to West Point.