Please check the Encrypted Network on a regular basis, I'd like us to get ready for an operation (special event). Here are the details: ENCRYPTED
From my personal log:
[19:26:40]
I love this job! Heh, now I know what routine patrols are good for...
Keeping those sneaky civilians out of our favourite fields.
I specially took my Scimitar for this.
Task 1: Check if the Vespucci jump hole is secure. Checked, no buggers.
Task 2: Check if there is everything okay on Freeport 4 with the supply deals. Checked, OK
Task 3: Get to California along the lanes and try to find anything interesting. Aborted.
I didn't even get out of the FP4 area. There I saw a Civilian Armored Transport with faked ID papers (was way over rank 40).
I followed him and tried to get ahead of him in near Manchester gate ... some Gateway slow-backs were stuck in the queue. Before I could do a thing, I felt neutron impacts on my rear deflector! I flipped around and behind the Ar.T. and scanned. Guess what, neutron guns mounted. No word at all. I went behind/ahead him through the gate and the next lane, which he aborted and headed for planet Jersey. I almost thought he's going to try landing there. Overall dissatisfied by the fact that he said absolutely nothing at all, I nuked his turrets off and went back to the Magellan gate, because I noticed another contact back then.
The second civilian, well ... I tracked him down easily. He was busy shooting at some of our daggers, and scans indicated that he's a rookie civilian. (Under 30 this case).
I detected 2 Hacker escape pods in his hold and was about to say something funny, but ... only thing I managed to say was a greeting. I stopped my ship and waited for his answer.
He must have mistaken me for one of the Daggers, because he turned around, flew close and opened fire. My shields reached the 30% mark in two seconds and there was nothing else I could do ... I pulled the trigger. He had a defender and must have been very surprised that ... well ... the Hackers do shoot back. I was accurate and his cockpit was incinerated by my two Hellflurry guns. I brought those Hacker pods back to Mactan, but in one there was a voodoo doll, and in the other, well ... was nothing. I guess the remaining two daggers got the pilots before I arrived. Still, it's funny ... those pods show up as "Lane Hacker Pilot" on sensors. I guess the Hackers outsmart themselves sometimes, too.