Source:Planet Manhattan
Sender:Ensign Remus Sius
Encryption: Medium
Greetings Ma'am's and Sir's,
Upon being promoted to Ensign which I thank Admiral Anderson. I immediately hopped in my already-equipped Avenger Fighter and started patrol in Norfolk Shipyard, New York system. I took WP lane and found nothing unusual and then to Manhattan at which point, Vice Admiral Malrone contacted me to proceed to Texas about a disturbance. I checked the LRS for any signs of intruders and true to fact. Houston control reports of a RNC in Texas. Vice Adm Malrone together with several secondary captains were conducting training exercises in Connecticut. He immediately rallied them and proceeded to Texas. The Vice Adm stopped a smuggler carrying Artifacts:
Upon scanning the vessel, I found him to be carrying a Researcher ID to which he used as an excuse for transporting the previously scanned cargo. Vice Adm Malrone insisted that he dropped his cargo. The suspect, Hammerhead1487, engaged cruise and the Minneapolis immediately fired on the ship. Alas the ship was able to escape as I have equipped the wrong CD for the job. The Vice Adm allowed me to chase the ship. To my great gratitude, two other pilots helped me corner the smuggler: [LN]Chris.Elias and TF7|SK-M.Brown. When we cornered the ship. He was trying to engage cruise so we opened fire on it until it gave up. On a side note, he also spoke a language undetectable by any of our ships. The Gunboat opened fire when M.Brown was in front of it. He almost got destroyed by the ship but thanks to his quick reflexes he ultimately avoided destruction of his ship. The combined firepower of our ships plus the Nuclear mine made quick work of the ship.
After this Chris and I went for another round of patrol around NY. M.Brown had some papers to sign and had to dock at West Point. Near the Connecticut system, we found a Rheinlander by name of RM.Jarek. He was in a 19-ARKM-N82 "Mjolnir" Rheinland Super Heavy Fighter. We told him to either get back in the Arena System or go back to Rheinland escorted. He chosed the latter and upon entering Norfolk, He actually opened fired on Chris. The Mjolnir was too slow for our fighters and we got to damaged it badly. Sadly Chris' ship was destroyed by what he though were Cannonball missiles. Those missiles were actually Nova Torpedoes. Both of them we caught in the blast. After that I proceed to write this report.