Comm ID: Ensign Richard Bong, Southern Alliance, Liberty Navy
To: Liberty Forces
Sirs, Madams, I welcomed a new member of the Southern Alliance today, Ensign Gideon Ravenor. I had picked him on on long range scanners while performing tune-ups on my Avenger and proceeded to the Texas system to assist him. I also assisted him by directing him to the only available source of BDR-804 "Guardians", the LNS Missouri.
While approaching the Missouri, we observed an Order terrorist fighter codenamed "Massada" on short range scopes. However, the commander and captain of the LNS Grand Canyon assured his men it was alright, and I took that to be a Level 2 All Clear, despite his command authority ranging to patrol groups of the Northern Alliance.
We then proceeded to take an assignment against a wanted Rogue pilot in Bering. The mission proceeded quickly and well with both the target and the pilot destroyed, albeit with several Rogue reprisal attacks along the way. We then proceeded to the LNS Missisipi, and Ensign Ravenor then began to take further assignments to fix his IFF codes.
Also, I encountered an unaffiliated Navy ship identified as the LNS Scottsdale. I questioned it's captain as to his presence in Leeds given the recent Rommel-Queen Carina's Own incident and he replied that he was there to acquire a rare IFF fibre optical weave that his ship required for propery communicatory operation and general protocol.