I was contacted by a 3rd Assault wing Gunboat about a pirate group lounging about the lanes... I undocked from Manhattan were I hooked up with a 3rd Assault wing fighter, [font=Lucida Sans Unicode]3rd|Tom.Mason. We proceed with haste to California.
I gave them a warning to leave the lanes ,which to our amazement, complied.
Afterwards, they left but came within 13k of us. It was not enough, then Vice Admiral Stephanie Gray came and took command of the situation, for us to assure the safety of ships passing through the lanes. Some of them began to talk nonsense about the situation. We assumed they had recently taken Cardamine and are currently high.
Vice Admiral Stephanie Gray deemed it necessary to remove these addicts for good. She ordered us into attack positions and it soon began...
One of the pirates got destroyed earlier in the skirmish: <.>
Soon a gunboat appeared as mentioned above, which also got poofed in a matter of minutes: <.> <.>
Next target was called at the Spatial, which killed himself in an attempt to take himself with us: <.> <.>
The lone figher was left for the Vice Admiral to finish off: <.>
We were preparing to leave until a Hacker Gunboat showed up, he too didn't manage to evade our wing and got poofed after a couple of minutes: <.> <.>
After the battle, the Vice Admiral explained how she effectively picked the targets, how she managed to prioritize which targets where most dangerous, and how in some cases it is better to minimize your losses for use in future skirmishes.
I personally want to thank you for this promotion and Vice Admiral Stephanie Gray for the first lecture in leadership.
For Freedom and Justice,
Lieutenant Commander Remus Sius