Transmission; Start
Identification: Commodore Christina Robinson
Location: New York system, Planet Manhatten, Fort Bragg
Battle Report;
Today was a fairly hectic day, as usual. Criminals of all colours and stripes, everywhere. That I'm making this report however, means that something more unusual happened.
The incident started with an Independent Miners Guild Zephyr asking for permission to escort a Barge through Liberty space to his destination in Pennsylvannia. After a small amount of consultation, this was denied. Instead, I organised a small force headed by the Maryland to act as a screen for the Barge. Progress was slow through Cortez all the way to Pennsylvannia. As we entered the destination system, we went our seperate ways, but no sooner than the Maryland had broken off had a force of assorted rogues and hackers bore down on it.
Of course, the Maryland scrambled over to the location of the Barge as fast as its cumbersome engines could take it, and we arrived to a highly charged situation. The fighter escort, which had been busy with a seperate rogue force in California, was ordered to make their way to the location of the Barge too.
Ultimately, the mission to protect the barge was a failure. Though the barge was not lost, it was forced to pay off a large part of the attacking force with a fair sum of credits to protect its cargo hold. Fortunately, without the bulk of their force, the Hackers, which werent paid off, could no longer put down the firepower needed to bring it down whilst under fire from the Maryland. Also after that time, the three-fighter formation of Mike Ypsilantis, John Smith and Matt Smith appeared on the scene. Just too late to save the captain of the barge his credits.
There was, however, a small sliver of success. Phate, the well known and infamous Lane Hacker, finally met his maker. It took a disproportionately large amount of firepower to do, but the fault was ultimately his lack of attention in the presence of such a daunting tower of bristling weaponry.