From: Recruit Jack Turner
To: Liberty Navy High Command
Source: Planet Houston, Texas
Status report.
Today there was a lot of action. First, on my patrol from Texas to California, i encountered a Corsair gunboat pirating the lane Norfolk Shipyard --> Texas Jump Gate. I asked him to leave. We made a prisoner exchange: 7 Pirate pilots against 3 Navy, 3 LPI and 5 Civilian pilots, plus he would have to leave the lane. Unfortunately, i couldnt deal for the remaining Civilian Pilots, he still held 17. I am very sorry for them.
Then I moved on to Planet Manhattan from West Point Academy. The same Corsair was there. Well that was a bit annoying, because my "Executioner" class Heavy Fighter could not even scratch his shields. I called backup from LPI, but i encountered a global failure (// I lagged out), so i couldnt fight. Then an ADMIN ship, namely JihadJoe, came and using unknown powers, he made the Corsair vanish while saying "Looks like the 'Sair is going to the Omicrons where he should be.". It was the first time i saw one of these ships. And personally, I wouldn't mess with them. Anyway, I continued my patrol, back to Texas. Where i saw Jarek, a Rheinland Military "Wraith" class Very Heavy Fighter.I couldnt really do anything against him. So i went to Manhattan and called some backup, LNS-Hussar, an assault battlecruiser, and two dreadnoughts, LNS-Ice.Shield and another Dreadnought which I forgot its name, I send my excuses to it's commander. These ships where going to raid Rheinland anyway. But i was the only fighter, so Jarek blew me to bits. It was my first experience as a Navy pilot against a Military ship. I think I learnt some tactics from that fight, which could help me alot later. LNS-Hussar tractored my escape pod in, saving me from sure death. I thank him again for that. Afterwards, i began re-patrolling in Liberty, but this time skipping Texas, there were already Navy ships there.
Unfortunately, i encountered an Hacker ship on my patrol, and her pilot jammed my guncam shots.
That was a long report.
As a side note, I think the mandatory 8 hours in flight of the "Executioner" are largely met. So I hereby ask High command promotion to Ensign grade.
Recruit Jack Turner out.
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Greetings, as I never filed a report while flying the executioner, here is list of ships destroyed while under recruitment process. File A
This was a Outcast IFF freelancer, shooting naval ships near the California gate. After being requested to drop the navy pilots and leave the area several times, it just flat out ignored me. With the help of Epsilon-2, and Police Liberator, we drove it off to the badlands, and destroyed it just before it could escape. File B
This was a lane hacker scimitar, which was near the lane from Hamilton to Planet Huron. It was also carrying several bounty hunters, police, navy, and civilian pilots. After being asked to drop them, it turned more hostile and engaged me. Luckily, I managed to down it before real damage was sustained.
Greeting's Once again Fellow officer's. Today was pretty light on my patrol. When I undock'd from West Point I received a SOS from a Trader. He was Under Attack by pirates at the Colorado gate,when I went on site there were a Liberty Rouge gunboat and a Broadsword Lane Hacker bomber. When I arrived they engaged the Trader.The Broadsword was Flying strait so I took the shot and shot him down. The Rouge Gb withdraw from the battle cause it was afraid. I meet commander Hood near the battleship Yukon and went to patrol California some Freelancers mark us, Me they think'd I was a communist. But the commander deal'd with them as it shod. So we went to NY gate in California and a Rouge made a run for it to NY he reach'd NY but that was all I jumpt after him and CD'd his engines. he didn't stop and he didn't cooperated. So the commander order'd me to take him down wich I did. After that we dock'd and So on . Attaching Gun cams
Recruits Daniel Carter and Jacob Beumont are promoted to the rank of Ensign as of now. The windows of the LNS Chicago, Captain Casero's ship needs cleaning, and so you two are ordered to get into the zero-G suits and get going. I would recommend bringing a bag if you have not had the 'enjoyment' of floating in space.
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.
Recruit Jack Turner, I require a guncam shot (//screenshots) of your Guard ID and IFF, along with your 8 hours of flight time, all for protocol. I'm sure Captain Casero will find a job... I mean, your promotion will be processed.
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[Pilot: Tia Whitehall]
[Space Report: 001]
I undocked from Manhatten, and within 2 minutes there was a pirate transport attempting to dock on the planet with a hold of diamonds, I asked him to halt at once, asking him where he bought them from, he refused to answer me, and stated that "he bought them fair and square" when asked to drop them. Then he changed his story and said he got them from a dead Bowex vessel he ran across. somehow i didnt believe for one moment that the vessel was dead before he got to it. I then told him that his ship was illeagal to fly in the republic of liberty, he didnt care about that either, saying that he had done nothing wrong. he then mocked me and proceeded to land anyway, undocking moments later without the diamonds.
I moved away from manhatten and moved to california, moving along the first lane a Lane Hacker by the name of Zwei seemed to be talking to a Liberty Officer, so i left them alone and continued my patrol around the system, with everything green i was at riverside and saw an explosion back towards the New York gate, Zwei had killed a trade vessel.
I arrived, and was not happy, the Hacker didnt budge, didnt even see my liberator as a threat in his Werewolf, I asked him to leave and he didnt, so i was forced to engage him, eventually i destroyed him with no damage to myself, before he died he managed to say "that he didnt like fighting" which made me feel sick, because he seems to be ok with killing people, just as long as they dont put up a fight, a true coward!
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//images will be added when im able to upload things again.
Firewall Status...Online Verify Encryption Keys...Ok Confirm Identity...Morgan Donald Initialise Video Uplink...Established
Today we are proud to stand together against the great threats to our space, we won the great battle. I have to commend Mr. Scott.Robinson tactical abilities and he is largely responsible for our victory.
Name: Matt Smith Rank: Sub Lieutenant Location: Battleship Missouri Subject: Strange unknown technology
Sah's.
First o'all, I wanna make it official tha' I'm done wi' ma posh Libertonian accent, a'ight. I know I gotta posh name n'all that jazz but first n'foremost, I'm Bretonian 'n I'm sticking tae my ancient Scottish roots y'hear?
Good, when I file me reports mind, or if I'm meeting some VIP or need tae put a point across - I may dabble back intae the posh accent. Does my nut in mind.
Right, some freelancer Kusari Explorer last night gave me some weird looking weaponry. It didnae mount on my ship and the megnetic support's were all scewed. Som'fing wrong with the power coupling n'all. I ran a scan on this "Bastard turret" seem's like their Gallian!
Knowing full well tha' I didnae want such... weird... stuff.. on me ship - I gave them to Wilard research station. Hopefully tha' techies thar can dae som'fing more wi 'um.
Tha' LSF boy - Scott Robinson - He gotta few of them n'all. He's sent them down tae his lab fae'r testing.
Firewall Status... [color=#33CC00]Online Verify Encryption Keys...Ok Confirm Identity... Scott Robinson Recognised Initialise Video Uplink...Established
I think today's engagement was fairly well covered by Agent Donald, so I'm going to keep this brief.
I commissioned an Executioner fighter last night, a ship I haven't flown in almost eight years.
The ship handles very well considering its age, and it responds very well to control input. It isn't by any means the most technically advanced ship in Liberty, nor is it the most powerful, but it does its job very well.
I will be spending no small amount of time in the simulator, as I plan learning how to fly this ship properly.
Scott Robinson
Supervisory Agent
Department of Combat Training
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Started by a small patrol around Manhattan before the San Francisco was called to respond to a threat in the Texas system. The [HF] Battleship Ven'Gyr was spotted, engaged, and subsequently damaged out of commission. We anticipate a long repair job for the Hellfire Legion before they can use their Dreadnought again.
[color=#99FF99]Texas currently safe. Gun Camera shots attached. We look forward to our next outing.
[color=#FFFFFF]Identification Processing... Lieutenant-Commander Samuel Zanders
[font=Palatino Linotype]Salutations Admirals,
[color=#FFFFFF]BATTLE REPORT
- HUDSON SYSTEM (Coordinates: Delta-Six)
Scouting-party:
• Lieutenant-Commander Samuel Zanders, Li-117 Liberty "Upholder" Bomber
• Lieutenant Angelina Dimitrova, Li-117 Liberty "Upholder" Bomber
• Sub-Lieutenant John Smith, BDR-804 "Guardian" Liberty Very Heavy Fighter
• Sub-Lieutenant Matt Smith, BDR-804 "Guardian" Liberty Very Heavy Fighter
Briefing:
Long-range scanners identified a certain Felicia Drum, high-profile Rheinland Military Soldier positioned somewhere in the Texas system. A scouting party consisting of the aforementioned pilots was sent to investigate the area. Myself and Sub-Lieutenant Matt Smith managed to spot the target for a brief period of time but unfortunately never managed to pin her down to cargo-scan range.
Target bypassed our defensive measures and managed to return to the Hudson system. However, Lieutenant Angelina Dimitrova was able to catch up with the Rheinlander's pace and successfully intercepted the target. We gave Felicia Drum a chance to return to Hamburg unharmed if she immediately did so without firing. Target complied for a while, but eventually disengaged her engines at which point I gave the permission for our two Fighter-crafts to engage combat. No more than three minutes passed before Felicia Drum received back-up in the form of another standard issued Rheinland fighter-vessel.
I responded by sending in Lieutenant Angelina Dimitrova to the battle, meanwhile I monitored the Hamburg jumpgate in case more hostile units would arrive. No more enemies came to their assistance during the fight.
Results:
• All of our units retreated due to heavy repair-damages.
• None of our members was shot down.
• Felicia Drum's ally received a medium-level damage.
• Felicia Drum herself received minimal damage.
Feedback:
• Sub-Lieutenant John Smith performed well-established evasive manoeuvres that bought the bombers a considerate amount of time.
• Upholders proved to be very ineffective towards Rheinland Fighter-crafts. Bad decision-making on my part for sending them in despite this knowledge.
• Low-ranked Navy Pilots could use more training in small-scale group fights of similar nature to the one experienced today. I believe that the more we place these pilots into these kind of situations, the faster they will improve in combat. ____________________________________________