A brief report on patrol activities:
On departing from Moorhead, with my refitted Avenger, I reported to Virginia for combat training with Mr Beumont. Suffice to say I had my ship handed to me.
Headed out to New York for a patrol, I was joined by one of our newer secondary fleet pilots, Patrol-Blue-3. No rest though; on making the rendezvous at Newark we picked up a contact on long range scanners. A Combat Service Freighter 'Rosenlut' making a run at the Zone 21 field. We moved to intercept, with Blue-3 attempting to close to Disruptor range.
'Rosenlut,'
The craft ignored repeated orders to halt and we pursued through the jumpgate. We followed Rosenlut along the trans-Alaska corridor for about twenty clicks before she/he finally complied with orders. I then escorted it back to the Jumpgate, before the Freighter tried to run.
Logs
We caught her just after she jumped out of the system, deeper in the Omicrons. The vessel was then disrupted and destroyed by Blue-3. We were unable to locate the escape pod. All praise to the pilot, he remained calm and considerably accurate.
After jumping back to New York to resume my patrol, with Blue-3 waiting for clearence to jump, we hit another ship attempting to breach Zone 21: Research.Drone. Unfortunately; I was unaware of the KoS order having been issued. The craft claimed that it was seeking refuge from Order and Nomad forces.
'Research.Drone'
Considering the trip across Alaskan space; I judged that Blue-3 and myself lacked sufficient resources for an engagement with an A.I vessel. We convinced the vessel to return to Junea shipyard on the proviso that we offer protection from aforementioned hostiles, such an arrangment also preventing it from returning to Liberty space proper. Halfway to the shipyard I was attacked by Nomad forces and separated from the patrol.
The starboard fuel tank was breached; resulting in insufficient range to return to New York, I set course instead for Fairbanks. Due to the unreliability of communications in such space, I don't know whether the Drone and Blue-3 made it. However; I'm confident from what I've seen that Blue-3 pulled through.