Well...where should I begin? Today on a daily patrol, this time aboard the Eclipse, we encountered a Marduk in Omicron Delta, that was on it's way to Omicron Minor like it seemed. We were not able to prevent it from jumping and gathered forces at the Minor jumphole in Delta to attack that monster. Once arrived in Omicron Minor, we were able to locate the Nomad Battleship quite fast. We took measures and took it out as fast as we could. But somehow it barely shot back, something I was wondering about. Then, when I got back on my Talon, we got some reports from our agents in New York, that there would be a growing nomad presence. I took another agent, Taelon, with me and went to New York, to search for that threat. We were flying along the lanes between Norfolk and West Point but didn't find anything...useful. But when we moved into the badlands, following the lanes, we have found another Marduk. It was heading to Manhattan and Taelon and I followed. It wasn't really...in the 'mood' to care about us, like it maybe seemed. Arrived above Manhattan there was a real...odd case. It seemed that the nomad, the Marduk, thought 'different' than the other Nomads around, the fighter- and bomber craft. The Nomads opened fire on each other and in the end the Marduk got destroyed by the few other smaller Nomads, that were showing anger and hate for that apostate Nomad.
Unfortunately some civillians and fighting men and women lost their lifes...it wasn't preventable from my side but everything went better after that Marduk was gone. With the help of the Liberty Navy and the LSF we were able to take out the other fighters of the Nomads, and also that Scorpion gunboat. It was a long and hard fight but in the end every single Alien got blasted away, back into the hell. Sadly I lost my wingman, Taelon, but was able to tractor his escape pod after his ship's destruction.
Then...when only one Nomad fighter was left, Lily Hale told me, that it might be the best decision to leave, during the final engagement on the last fighters of the K'Hara. Well...I used that chance and moved away from Manhattan, back into friendly space.
I brought Taelon into the infirmary on the Isis and had a last look on all the happenings, that occured that day. Luckily I was able to get Miss Hale's database hacked with a....special program and was able to save one important visualisation while she has spoken to me. Sure...not the nicest way to handle things, but because my own gun camera was broken I needed to access her files.
I collected all possible data about that 'incident', including the visualisation file from Hale and the logs.
Both can be found in a seperate saved transmission: