For the fine efforts of those under my command during the patrol the other day, I had... elected to do the report. The patrol started with the Jokers' thugs making some trouble at the California jumpgate in New York. Joker's Thug Muddy, Swifty, Happy, Loopy were present, one with a Rogue gunboat, another with an Outcast Trident, then two with Raven's Talons, all with interesting Molly technology. Our force consisted of myself, Captain Kreagan, Lieutenant Commander Corraine, Commander Malrone on the Indiana and LNS Flinders. Two kills were awarded to me, however should be accounted to the whole group due to a concentrated fire.
After both gunboats were taken out, along with a fighter, one more remained however, an ion storm hit and we lost all sensor contact. During this time, the thug seems to have made his escape.
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Yesterday, I had Blake Bane, Ensign Bishop, Lieutenant Commander Toliman, and Chris Lansen for the fighter group along with the LNS Norad and LSFC-Port.Royal for capital ship support. During the patrol, we stumbled on a peculiar person by the name of "Gforce" who had illegal goods in his cargo bay.
Gforce was having fun testing our patience.. and at one point, seemed to have gone into a seizure due to Mr.Bane's strobe lights, however snapped back to reality and eventually dropped the contraband for destruction.
After the debacle, I recieved a distress signal from a civilian in the Kansas system, claiming the NTF were firing on neutral vessels. Our strikeforce assembled and we headed over with clarification from High Command. Once we arrived, a Navy gunboat along with a bounty hunter Orca were already present. We sighted the NTF and they claimed that the miners shot them first. With this dilemma, and neither side providing evidence, we left the independent systems, requesting actual guncam footages next time.
Later, with Ensign Bishop and Lt. Commander Toliman on my wing, we were scouring New York until we stumbled upon a freelancer named Dietmar Brunhild who was having a verbal fight against another officer. The officer opened fire, and was destroyed, with Brunhild apparently running back to Rheinland. We pursued and Bishop and Toliman fought until Brunhild surrendered. A cartel ship by the name of Don Bendak arrived and the fight continued, until both ships were destroyed.
Fine work by Ensign Bishop and Lt.Commander Toliman along with the Norad, Port Royal, Bane and Larsen.