Commissioned shortly after the destruction of Red Deer Station in 817 A.S. due to a Rogue attack, the Red Deer II is the current acting home of the 602nd precinct operating in Alberta and Yukon. Day-to-day operations on the ship and in the precinct are usually led and overseen by Deputy Chief Colin Sinclair, as on Red Deer Station.
Currently the Liberty Assault Battlecruiser is awaiting a scheduled refit to install docking modules, to easen the job of deploying and recovering patrol vessels.
The vessel is seldom seen outside the edge systems of Liberty space, though it is occasionally deployed wherever the hand of the law has gotten a bit short outside of the 602nd precinct's home systems.
The 602nd occasionally makes forays into Yukon and Freeport 14, when not stationed elsewhere - patrols usually assigned to the 602nd are in these cases relegated to the 601nd precinct at Fort Severn in Ontario.
Sender: Deputy Chief Colin Sinclair Date: 30/01/818 - 2015 SMT+1 Location: <strike>Red Deer Station, Alberta</strike> The Red Deer II, Alberta Subject:Entry #0001
So. Some changes around here, I see. Got instated as the Captain of the newly commissioned - partly by myself, I must admit - Red Deer II, built to order for us to house the few remaining lucky officers of the 602nd precinct who didn't die during the attack on Red Deer station, transfer to the 601nd (who now run most of the patrols in Alberta) or leave the force altogether. I'm one of them, and still their leader.
We weren't planning on reusing the name of the station so soon - some may even say "too soon", it's only been a year since the events at Red Deer - but those who remain of the 602nd who weren't on duty that fateful day came to the conclusion that the best way to honor the fallen was to get out there again and pick up where they left off.
Which brings us back to the Red Deer II. Our new home, a Liberty Assault Battlecruiser roaming around the outskirts of Liberty wherever the hand of the law has gotten a bit short, though mostly in and around the Alberta system except on special occasions.
The occasion for this specific first entry is the first patrol and extende-
*Blaring klaxons can be heard in the background. *
Sorry, looks like I might have to cut this one a bit short. Incoming contact on scanners from the Ontario jumphole - the proximity alert has been set off. I'll have to reset this thing myself, just hold on for a second...
-Colin Sinclair, Deputy Chief of the Liberty Police, Inc.
Sender: Deputy Chief Colin Sinclair Date: 30/01/818 - 2119 SMT+1 Location: The Red Deer II, Alberta Subject:Entry #0002
That went better than expected.
The contact that arrived from Ontario turned out to be a lone HFX-F2B-type "Broadsword" Lane Hacker bomber with hostile intentions, arriving in the middle of our first few diagnostic runs of the weaponry and other shipboard equipment (docking bays, launching modules, coffee machines), plus the first deep scans and surveys of the system.
Therefore, we initially powered up our cruise engines to attempt to outrun the craft while we finished powering up our weapons and targeting systems, and halted to turn and open fire at the vessel after we were about a hundred k out from the wreckage of Red Deer Station.
The bomber was subdued after a firefight lasting for roughly one hour, with only light hull damage inflicted on the Red Deer II and approximately half of our nanobot and shield battery supplies burned through. Alright for the first burn-in and proper test of the ship, I suppose.
We're currently once again stationed at our usual perch about five k out from the Ontario jumphole after a brief visit to Fort Severn to pick up supplies and swap out a few damaged hull plates for fresh ones.
All in all, good first shift.
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Sender: Deputy Chief Colin Sinclair Date: 16/08/818 - 2119 SMT+1 Location: The Red Deer II, Alberta Subject:Entry #0003
Morning. We're currently headed for our first routine half-year checkup and armor refit at the Police Plaza shipyard. The last half a year aboard the Red Deer II has been a bit of a mixed bag, to be honest. There's been quite a few hiccups with everything from the nav systems to the water recycling systems aboard since we first (and last) left port at Springfield for the Alberta system, all of which have been rather inconvenient, or even outright dangerous this far out from the core systems.
On another note, I've had a chat with the ship and equipment engineers at Police Plaza and it looks like I'm finally getting the armor upgrade I originally asked for half a year ago after convincing my accountants that an armor upgrade is indeed cheaper than rebuilding an Assault Battlecruiser from a pile of molten slag in a remote system.
*sighs*
About time.
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