COMM IDCommander Thomas Logan (Acting Captain) Gunboat LNS-Black.River :Secondary Fleet TARGET ID:Secondary Fleet Command SUBJECT:Status Report ENCRYPTION:High PRIORTY:Medium
Sirs,
I report that the hull of the Black River has been recovered by Liberty Forces, and a through damage assessment is underway, through initial reports indicate the majority of the hull is intact, and is believed to be refittable.
Recovery elements of the [**Censored**], escorted by a security element from [**Censored**], entered hostile space, under cover of an ongoing incursion by other Liberty forces. The recovery element was able to locate and recover several downed vessels, and finished demolition of vessels deemed unrepairable. The recovered ships were towed under guard back to Virginia, where I was notified of the successful return of Black River.
In addition to others recovered, the remains of two of the initial seven missing Black River crew have been delivered to San Jacinto, and their status has been updated accordingly.
T.Kennedy, Engineer, -Killed In Action
J.Kitel, Gunnery Officer,-Killed In Action
On a personal note, this skirmish was the first loss of personnel under my command, and it's harder to handle then I thought it would be. I'm mad as hell. I can't wait to get back in there and pay back in spades.
Recruits Anna Veers and Gabriel Hawk are promoted to the rank of Ensign as of now. Caped Crusader Captain Casero would apparently like to speak with you two in his 'private' quarters, however there was a 'slight' mismanagement of orders. Unfortunately, Captain Casero will be assigned to patrol Virginia for the day so there is little to no chance you two will be meeting him, even though we all know how wonderful our captain is.
Continue to show the Navy's qualities and you two will go far. Both of you may now fly the Avenger or Guardian class vessels. Congratulations and may the two of you have continued success.
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From: LSF Agent Kalanark Yakermato
To: LSF Agents, LN Pilots
Subject: 2 Intruders in Alaska
Message:
Greetings, Liberty Forces.
During my patrol with =LSF=Nikasha-Jinko, we have spotted at least 2 intruders in Alaska.
Unfourtnately, we only identified one.
The one we identified has it's Comm ID "Deep_Cerberus". If my memory isn't failing he flies a Junker Frigate.
We also got his confession on tape:
He had outrun us when we jumped into the Alaska system, and later he was confirmed to be in Omicron Minor. However, we did not follow him into that system.
Well I just did a patrol and after being picked up by freindly forces. I was dealing with a Freelancing Trader Comm ID Trader. He has broken the law of the current embargo with Rheinland. And has fired upon Liberty lawfulls after I ordered for him to drop his cargo.
Law's broken
Embargo
Failing to comply several times
Assualting a LSF operative
Fines to be made are 5 Million Sirius Credit's, or destruction of his ship. Approach with caution
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Good Day,
Today I did my patrol with Scott Robinson, and Norman O'connor, and we were about to enter Texas, when I spotted a Nomad ship, it seemed that Scott and Norman didn't notice it..
Anyway, we tried to capture it but all attempts failed, and now with Jake Logan in-bound we couldn't leave it in space any longer.
Shot-1
Also we engaged Jake, in-case he spread the word of the Nomads.. I got taken out by my own mine.. luckily Norman beamed me in..
The Liberator is an excellent ship for taking out little ships like Nomads, I;m sure as hell that I'll be ordering a replacement.
Name: Emily Anderson
Rank: Advisor
Department: Internal Affiars
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CommID: Ensign Chris.Elias
Subject: Patrol report for the past few days...
Hello again. Because the past few days have not been worth writing about individually, i'm writing about all of 'em now. So, the day before yesterday started with me and Anna.Veers going on patrol, but as we all know, there are hours when nothing happens in New York. We decided to go to Penny to see whether everything's ok there, and it was, until some guy started talking about "pirating transports" over system channel. We did not know, where he was at first, but then a freelancer informed us of his location. As the subject (commID: Makc) recieved info about our ships on his scanner, he engaged cruise engines and started running. Both of us were using Mini Razor, so we had to follow him. Makc made it away from us, but i had a feeling this guy isn't a criminal, he was just confused, so i started talking to him over system channel. I said that i was going to report him to the criminal registry, but he did not want that, so i offered him freedom from the registry for an apology to us and a chance for me to scan him... he complied, it was a dromedary freighter, all clean.
Anna.Veers had to go then, i decided to patrol a little more, so i went to california, went through the whole system, fought rogue and outcast rookies that kept stopping the lanes, and decided to head back to missouri, for some dinner, plus i had some business there, and then i would head to LPI-Huntsville to give up the pilots i had gathered. I was asked to stop near the cali-NY gate, and a freelancer offered some more pilots that had to go to prison. Because i am a little short in money, all i could give him in return for those pilots was a "Thank You" which seemed to be enough for him.
this is the kind fella, who gave me the pilots.
So, i docked on missouri, had a delicious lunch, finished my business, and went to Huntsville prison to give the pirate pilots up.
And after that i met up with miss Dimitrova and Anna.Veers, and the details of that patrol are already on Dimitrova's report, but i left them after we killed that rogue destroyer near virginia jump hole..
Another guncam image of Dimitrova killing that GB:
And that was it for the day before yesterday:D
Yesterday began boring too, but then i heard about some rheinland capital ship seen in Texas. The rumors were false, and i had spent over half an hour in texas, just flying around, so i headed back to NY. On Texas gate -> Norfolk lane i was stopped by a Rogue bomber, who was killing our rookie Defenders, so i decided to stop him.
That thing had a strong shield/hull, but it didn't stop my Mini Razor tearing through them.
so i patrolled some more around liberty, and was at fort bush when i was told that a civilian has been seen piloting one of our ships, and that he has gone norfolk way. I caught up with the suspect, and offered him a chance to give up the ship (or change it where possible) and the weapons, but he did not want to co-operate with me, so i had to prepare for opening fire. The suspect, hearing my mini-razor charging, tried to run.
Scans of the suspect:
I pursued him through all of Texas system, and managed to catch him only in the independent worlds, where his ship was destroyed in a matter of seconds, but weirdly i didn't see an escape pod floating away, i did not care, our ship was removed from the wrong hands, and that was all that mattered.
A while later, when i was back in NY, i was contacted by the suspect once again, he was angry, and tried to insult me, but i am a very calm person, and cannot be insulted that easily, so i replied to him without reacting to him flaming about the loss of his ship.
And that was it for yesterday...
By the way, miss Dimitrova: It's Elias, Chris Elias, not Chris something:)
ID: Andre Ramirez "Death Hand"
Ship: Liberty Gunboat "Spitfire", callsign Assault 6
Affilation: LSF
Location: Texas system
Good day, today on my duty I spotted Rheinland battleship on Houston orbit. Unfortunately carrier which was already engaged was destroyed but with help of other gunboats we managed to anihilate threat.
As we ressuplied and gathered more forces together with other assault gunboats decided to harrass Rheinland fleet from behind. Sneaking though jumpholes we managed to lure out Rheinland battleship and three gunboats far enough from planet Hamburg defences to engage safely enemy forces. At this momenth we destroyed three gunboats (including one stolen Orca) and damage Rheinland battleship. Soon enemy received reinforcments. Encounter turned into great battlefield but we managed to damage their bombers and destroy another gunboat. We counted some losses on our side: Assault 1, Assault 11, Cpt.Qwark and friendly navy fighter. Remaining gunboats escaped to Bering being pursued by two Rheinland battleships and multiple hostile fighters and bombers. I survived and escaped with Assault-10 to Houston planet. I expect they won't recovery quickly from chaos we caused in Hamburg. I noticed 3 battleships at once but one pulled out quickly after moving into battle. Seems the only way to beat us was overhelming with ultimate firepower.
Name: John Xiger.
Rank: Capitan of LNS-Assault1 ( navy gunboat ), Commander of Assault gunboat wing.
Raport from frontline in Hamburg.
As Andre Ramirez, capitan of Assault6 report already, I m just going to put update to his report.
Everythink what Andre Ramirez told in his report is true, however I would also inform that we managed to shot down 2-3 of enemy subcrafts.
Here are proves how 2 of tham are shot down:
Operation was succed.
Later 1 of enemy BS moved to texas, name Recruit, but was fast shot down.
What I saw was that alot of navy forces gathered to make heavy attack on rheinland, lets hope that after my wing attack, they will be able to break enemy defense and move Liberty foward in winning this war.
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...To: Liberty Navy Primary Fleet Command...
...Encryption: Moderate...
...Origin: West Point Academy...
Sender: Recruit David Ripper (NM124327)
Subject: Patrol Report (08/10)
Sir/Ma'am
Below is the patrol report for date 08/10.
After issuing of a BDR-337 'Executioner' class heavy fighter; via the Battleship Mississippi, I set course for New York, and a reported Rogue presence near the California Jumpgate.
En Route I picked up an unusual transmission (the sender seemed to be making use of some sort of scrambler). I asked the source to identify him or herself, but they were less then cooperative.
As my newly-commissioned ship was not fitted with tracking equipment, I opted to leave the situation be until the signals origin could be deduced. As it turns out, that wasn't necessary as I stumbled across the vessels responsible en-route to the Jumpgate.
Just as I arrived the Hackers fired upon the Secondary Fleet Gunboat, 'Rose's Thorn'. I offered my assistance.
Hell, it was different from training, I'll give you that. I did a fair job dodging fire from the Rouge but was unable to get myself into a position to return the favour.
After a brief skirmish my shields were bought down. The Pirate fired on my unshielded wing before I could to initiate auto-repair systems, causing detonations in the starboard fuel tank. The Executioner lost primary drive systems, as well as weapons batteries, I was lucky to limp back to the trade lane.
I don't know what happened to 'Rose's Thorn', however the situation didn't look too good when I was put out of action. I hope she made it out, I'll be watching the Neural Net for reports.
Anywho; I made it back to West Point and my ship has been under repair for the past day. It looks as though she'll be space worthy again shortly (A few hours, according to the engineer. That said; he's still in training'¦ Not that I can talk.)
It's certainly been an active first patrol, and I'm not likely to underestimate the Rogues again.
At about 1801 SMT I spotted a Phantom Cruiser (ID: Scimitar) floating by the Norfolk - Texas Jumpgate Trade Lane, about 8k from the Shipyard. I immediatly contacted the LN-Big.Cannon (Siege Cruiser) and informed the Captain about the Phantom's presence. While the Big.Cannon move toward out position, I kept a recon position about 6k from the enemy.
At 1804 SMT, the Big.Cannon and I engaged the Scimitar. While the B.Cannon move in as close as possbile, I stayed at a distance to aim my 4 Sunslayer torpedoes. I was able to launch all of them, but they didn't have much of an effect on the enemy cruiser.
During the engagement, 4 Outcast Daggers joined the fight. Shortly there after, the LN-Big.Cannon was destroyed, and, mere seconds thereafter, I was hit by a volley from the Scimitar. I was able to eject my pod just as my engines, which had been hit, overloaded and blew. Luckily, the battle had been close enough to Norfolk and Battleship Missouri that I was quickly recovered by a passing Navy Patrol. My Executioner was also towed back to Norfolk. The techies say they can actually repair it, but it would take a while.
Whether there were any survivors from the Big.Cannon, I can't tell.
My GunCam was defect, so that no shots can be shown.