Incoming Transmission..
Comm ID: Commander Riles
To: Liberty Forces
Reporting aboard the LNS Longshot
This evening several people in the New York system began experiencing nausea and hallucinating conversations in their minds. After ten minutes or so it became apparent that there was a Nomad presence hiding in the Badlands. Translations proved to be ineffective in getting much more than scraps about "light" and "dark", but it seems they refer to themselves as "?".
Long range sensors picked up one of the vessels, and the Longshot followed it several klicks before its companion join it. They slowed to impulse, I tried to make contact unsuccessfully. As a result I called Ensign Creed Neville in for backup, which caused the Nomad ships to open fire on us. A protracted battle ensued where my gunship proved somewhat ineffective in prolonged supressing fire due to a faulty nav computer. One Nomad ship was shot down by Ensign Neville, and the other one escaped into Alaska despite repeated CDs.
It would seem Nomad incursions into Liberty space are becoming more common, and I'd recommend increasing patrols around Zone 21 and the Badlands perimeter.