This evening has been a little active than my usual patrols, I just missed out on our convoy to the Coronado system to I provided escort duty for the return trip from the California to Cortez jumpgate to Cochrane Depot. The escort and return trip was rather quiet, not much to report. Once all our transporters got to Cochrane Depot safe and secure, I proceed to rendezvous with Nicole Hunter and Trigger at the New York jump gate in Colorado.
Upon approaching the gate, my sensors picked up a common face to us, Mr Alan Pace and his beloved Heron Transporter. Mr Pace was very cooperative with us this evening, especially after having to fire upon his ship to get him to fear us a little more. We forced him to move away from the lanes into a unknown area of the western asteroid field of Colorado, where he was demanded to jettison a large sum of Food Rations. A rough estimate is two thousand five hundred. After Mr Pace complied, he then kindly returned three of our pilots that he openly admitted of firing upon because they were working on the lanes and the lane was disabled. This is not a bold move, but it was his lucky day and he was free to go.
We then proceed towards Baltimore Shipyard and the Fort Bush vicinity when we came across two Bounty Hunters, one by the name of Exe and the other was a Domino Harvey. They thought it would be a bold move to try and claim some money on us, targetting Trigger first. Trigger was being covered by myself and Nicole Hunter while we were under fire from Domino Harvey, the captain of a Orca Gunboat. Not long later both Bounty Hunters decided to leave towards Planet Manhattan which gave us the chance to proceed to the eastern field, where minutes later they returned to try and shoot us down.
They successfully shot down Trigger and then Nicole got the final hit on Exe. But moments later Domino Harvey hit the forward gun of the Orca on the hull of Nicole causing her ship problems. Luckily both our pilots got to their escape pods in time and where picked up by myself who managed to escape, leaving the gunboat on it's own.
All evidence is being attached as my report comes in.