Overview: Mission to Liberty space Reason: Inspection of Maltese forces Date: 29/11/819
Leader: Me, I was alone. Wingmen: N/A
I will use a excerpt from my diary, as it contains all the information on this outing, what I found, encountered, and destroyed.
Quote:I had heard many many whispers of disrespectful and otherwise disruptive Maltese forces in Liberty, pilots whom come down to make quick dineros without even realising or caring who is giving them the comfort of someplace to sleep afterwards, somewhere to hide when the heat gets tough, someplace to go to eat and drink and basically live during their stay.
Two Falcata pilots causing trouble for the rogues, if only they knew just how close the Rogue pilots were to slitting their throats and giving them a second smile. I had no real intention of seeing my comrades be hurt but these people seemed almost unreachable. Still to avoid an incident I paid for their release from the rogues and spoke to them, they at least seemed grateful that I did what I did despite their insults towards me so maybe there is hope for them after all.
After that the main festivities started, lots of shooting and other colourful things. some hotshot hunter came along thinking he was a badass, I admit he was quite skilled for being a hunter, still he would often turn his back on me and would pay the price, to make the fight a bit quicker I got the rogues in on it and he ate a quad nuke sand which before long sadly the maker of the sandwhich was forced to eat it too in order to bring him down fast.
Moving on from there we caught up with the main body of the pirate forces, I have to say it was a little disappointing that the fight was over in about 20 minutes, oh and did i mention that about 7 liberty Dreadnoughts gunboats and Battle-cruisers chain undocked from Norfolk one after the other, quite the sight. I gave a Assualt some stick and then gave some pathetic freelancer bombers a hard time they both ran screaming back to Norfolk in the cover of the battleship, oh by that time everyone was dead.
Heading back to California seemed like the Hellfires and the navy were still fighting, hellfire bombers versus navy fighters, odd choice of dogfighting ship on he Hellfires part so I sat and watched the fireworks, when one of the navy whores were taken down much to my surprise the other navy looked done for, then again in came assault 1 to save the day, at which point two more Hellfires also returned.
after several long minutes a Xeno appeared, which was my queue to take him out. during the fighting, a hellfire gunboat appeared 2 more xenos a bounty hunter and a another navy gunboat. the Xeno was begging for help because the fighters kept breaking off assault one and chased me, like it would be better that way, Ha. The bomber was still dying but there was a really annoying civilian shuttle on my ass the whole time, not doing an awful lot apart from being annoying, so i led him away from the fight and after a minute or two I killed him and returned to the shooting, then the other Xeno light fighter was on me, eventually all the navy folks died the Hellfires were supplied by a repair ship and left, the hunter also left.
Which left me and two Xeno's fighting it out, they didnt have a chance.. i actually felt bad for them, and then some police ship came to destroy the xeno's. Eventually we took out the bomber and the light fighter began to run for its life... The police amigo had the aim of a dead walrus, so I didn't rely on him at all. Eventually I managed to kill the Xeno, at which point the police ship decided he didn't want anything to do with me and left.. which was fine.
I refueled my ship on Alcatraz and returned to malta at which point Salvador had the cheek to complain about me landing for a break, he better watchout when Horacio returns.
So much has happened in just a few days that reports have been slow, I will fill in the blanks as best I am able.
Overview: Summoned to Liberty space Reason: Incarceration of Maltese forces Date: 02/12/819
Leader: Claes Leslie. Wingmen: Marcio Castro
I was contacted on board the Fantasmi about the two Maltese bombers mentioned in the last report (~Maverick~ and FozBuoy), apparently despite my efforts to help them, they are not intelligent enough to live without being disrespectful to the Rogues. Lord Moka himself contacted me stating he had had enough, I was asked to remove them from Liberty and take them back to Malta immediately and so I set off with signore Castro at once.
We arrived at Alcatraz within an hour and the Rogues had indeed gathered in force for their extradition from Liberty space. As usual neither of them seemed to be able to comprehend why they were being treated the way they were even with mountains of evidence against them. I didnt care, Lord Moka wanted them out, and so out they were going, one way or the other.
I put signore Castro in charge of Fozbuoy and told him that he was to escort the ship to Malta, if he deviated in anyway he was to be executed immediately. I had the unfortunate pleasure of escorting the vessel ~Maverick~ back to Malta, where throughout the entire journey he continued to ask questions both irrelevant and personal ones like a tiny child until we reached the home world.
Before this however Marcio had reported that he had destroyed FozBuoys ship and was bringing his pod back to Malta. Maverick decided he didn't want to dock on Malta and face trial for his crimes, so I executed him in orbit and took his body to the planet.
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------------- Overview: Attacking a Gallic Facility Reason: Hostile, Unshielded and vulnerable. Date: 02/12/819
Leader: Claes Leslie. Wingmen: Marcio Castro, Camilla Petrucci
Marcio reported that he had spotted a base inside Tau 23 on the way back to Malta, after I was done with the cretino Maverick we both proceeded to the base location, we discovered that the base was not shielded at all.
The base was located at H6 in the vast Tau 23 asteroid belt.
The base had a Gallic name and was set to hostile for a reason, so I wasn't going to give it a chance to get stronger, not on my watch. We began to attack the station immediately while I called for back up, unfortunately due to the number of miner scumbags in the area, support was extremely limited.
Eventually Camilla managed to break through their blockade at the Tau 37 jumphole and join us, as well as the extreme fighter ship "Venganza" and Sebastian Cavani of the 101st, we proceeded to bomb the station with nuclear mines lowering its hull considerably.
After a while we were joined by a Maltese brigand gunboat named "Tutashkha" whom helped us finish off the base.
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------------- Overview: La Falange D'oro Inspection Reason: Donated wreckage from Signore Perez, Not previously checked since its destruction Date: 03/12/819
My request for a larger ship to call home was finally answered today, however what we were given was a less than shapely vessel that as it turns out had recently been boarded by Colonial marines. On the outer corridors there were not many bodies due to the hull breaches, they probably were sucked into space.
We split into 2 teams; team 1 was myself with Henrique, team two was Camilla and Esteban. Team 1 was tasked with finding the bridge of the ship and so that we could take control of the ship, team two was tasked with reaching engineering to restore power and potentially get the ship moving.
We both accomplished our objectives, dealing some minor issues on the way, on the interior corridors of the ship it was evident from the blood, bodies and scorch marks that a massive fight had taken place on board. I had ordered team 2 to keep the vessel powerless for the threat of a silent self destruct timer was too real to ignore given the peril the crew were facing.
team one reached the bridge, and as I thought, there was a self destruct mechanism as well as a deactivated IFF responder for all the automated defenses not on the bridge. meaning that anything that moved would be shot to ribbons, I deactivated both and team two then restored power to the ship, however the shields are completely ruined and the engines could not be activated, probably to make it harder for the Colonials to take the ship should they be successful in its capture.
Camilla reported her oxygen was running low so we all made our way out, and back to our scimitars, heading home and leaving our.. 'ship' in dry dock.
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------------- Overview: Contacting the Junker Congress Reason: Requesting Tow assistance for our disabled ship. Date: 04/12/819
Leader: Claes Leslie. Wingmen: N/A
With the engines of the La Falange D'oro completely destroyed internally, there is no way to move the vessel without towing assistance from the junkers, since they helped to tow it here at Corsica to begin with.
We need the ship desperately moving to Cartanega shipyard in Omicron 81 for immediate repairs, if we dont get the ship there soon we will miss out and have to wait for another ship to be repaired before ours, that could take months.
However it seems that no matter what I try, static communication or live communication the junkers appear to be simply too busy to comply with my request, which leaves us the other problem, how are we going to get the materials to repair the Falange D'oro if even the junkers are too busy... Id really rather not trust the ships fate to groups of wishy washy freelancers but if we don't then it looks like we wont ever restore it.
Patrol Report, 7/12/819 A.S. Route: Alcatraz Depot, California, to Planet Malta, Omicron Alpha. Pilots: Lt. Henrique Ferreira
Maj. Esteban Alvarez (comms only) Incidents: GMS know-it-all needs a lesson taught.
On the day before this report was submitted, at 22:40 hours SMT, my ship was running out of fuel in the California system, and I had to dock inside Alcatraz for refueling and spent the rest of the night and part of this day there.
Now, on this day, 21:40 hours SMT, I was in contact with Esteban, who was in Newcastle, returning to Cape Wrath. I thought not to bother him, since he said he was tired, and I decided to return to Malta through this route:
California -> Cortez -> Iverness -> Newcastle -> Tau-31 -> Tau-23 -> Tau-37 -> Omicron Alpha.
There were no incidents until the Tau-23 system, just next to the Indochine Outpost. I was greeted by a GMS Train, and since the station and the weapon platforms were in the way, I did not engage him, although I did... offend him, perhaps. He seemed very cocky about it, though. Just take a look at this:
Pitiful. He also said something about "informing command", but I can't find the log of that. I'm setting this little idiot as a potential target for piracy, he doesn't deserve any penny he's getting from the GMS.
That was it. I returned to Alpha and I landed my ship on Malta.
Patrol Report
Participants: Corporale Horacio Agulla, Recluta Alma Solitaria
I started my patrol by swinging around Galactic South of Omicron Alpha then headed to Omicron Beta. Arriving in Beta an IMG pilot by the name of Captain*Alamo flew passed me and jumped to Alpha before further scans could be acquired.
Entering pursuit I returned to Alpha as soon as the jump engines had refreshed, but sadly he was able to jump to Omicron 90 before I could get to him, so I continued back to and made it to Sigma 19. After swinging passed the Liner Hawaii and encountering a single GMG rookie patrol I proceeded to Okinawa where I assisted a wing of Golden Chrysanthemum rookies attacking an outnumbering Hogosha wing. Silencing the Hogosha I flew to Honshu, Chugoku, Hokkaido and Kyushu, and while flying to the Tau 23 jumphole three IMG vessels came on scanner. Following them I was unable to fully close before they jumped Hokkaido.
So I flew back to Alpha via the taus.
It was here that I connected up with Alma Solitaria and after a quick stop in the pub and quick chats with a Cardamine hauler and an envoy from the Gallic Brigands we started a patrol by heading back through to Tau 23, where we engaged a single IMG escort who was quickly assisted by a number of other pilots who launched from Java Station.
Unfortunately this did not go our way and we had to eject from our crafts, but luckily our escape pods were rescued by a returning Outcast trader.
Once we had returned to Malta, Alma headed to the medical wing and after a feed and checking upon her I picked up a replacement craft and started a third patrol flight out of annoyance and needing to clear my head.
I headed back to the Sigmas this time swinging round Yanagi in Sigma 17 only meeting a GMG rookie patrol which didn't last long. Then I flew back to Okinawa and helped the GC again with the troublesome Hogosha.
After a quick break with the GC I returned home to Malta and a feed and sleep.
"We started our patrol with the intention of flying to Cape Wrath base but upon entering Tau 23 a few IMG hid upon Java station so we dealt to a number of rookies sent out by the frogs to pass the time before they appeared again.
After this and checking the entire Tau23 sector we proceeded towards the Jump Gate to Tau 31 where we found a Gallic Bomber called "Almeida" flying with a GMS ID but mysteriously showed as a freelancer. After they hid close to the Gallic Battleship as we dealt to more rookies we engaged them and they were destroyed by Camilla's fine shooting.
Following this we proceeded home to Omicron Alpha."
"Starting from Alpha we flew to Sigma 19 taking out each rookie in our path.
After checking the Sigma 19 sector we proceeded to Okinawa and again assisted the GC with dealing to some Hogosha.
Following this we proceeded through Kusarian space where in Kyushu we engaged a large Samura (Rookie) convoy consisting of 3 of their 'big dragons' with escorts.
Unfortunately a malfunction in Ignis' Mine dropper, I'm guessing from the dust in Honshu, cause some damage resulting in Ignis needing to eject.
After securing his escape pod I made a quick exit towards the Tau 23 Jumphole.
At the Jump hole Alma Solitaria's brother Enzo appeared in the MNS Astor.
Together we flew back to Malta with not further incidents.
Ignis was seen by the medical staff on Malta and discharged without anything of note within the hour."
First, we started in Malta to meet Eduardo Garcia, a new recruit. We had to get him new equipment, as he was missing Debilitators and an Enhanced Thruster. We got one of those in Valetta, and we went to the Freeport in Tau-37 to grab the missing Debilitators. Unfourtanetly, the Recluta couldn't accompany us in our patrol mission due to a problem with his ship.
Moving on to Tau 23, Camilla went to "test something" on Cali and Horacio, Sathanarios and I went to take a look at Indochine. There, we found a sole Gallic Train, probably moored to the station. We decided to ignore it.
Resuming the patrol, Camilla had returned and we headed towards the Tau-29 Jump Hole and met a Colonial Nyx, callsign "Keytar", who immediatly opened fire on us slightly after we found him. Needless to say, he died quick.
At that time, we determined not to engage it, but he wouldn't get off our backs. Everywhere we went, we'd always find it. We were also overseeing an Outcast Pilgrim who was passing by the system, and it's captain suggested to call for backup from Malta. I personally objected, arguing that the Battleship meant little trouble for us.
The capitano del Astor warned the Nightfall to leave the system over System-wide communications, which I found rather silly, but it did not agree, and got ambushed by the de-cloaking Ranseur.
The Astor survived the fight unscathed, and there were no casualities on our part.
The Astor returned to Cali Base and we resumed our patrol, when Camilla pointed out that she had found a base in the system. We went to check it out.
It was a Core 2 base, with the name of "Gallic Metal Service", it was GMS owned (obviously), had no weapons platforms and had a shield. Specific details, such as coordinates and it's position on the nav map are in the picture files.
On our return, we found a very suspicious Gallic Train, "BillyJo", carrying Ship Hull Panels, flying towards the base's direction. We intercepted it and had a little chat. Milking as much information as we could about the base, we confirmed that the man piloting the Train was the leader of the base's project and for how long the base had been deployed. I made the offer of letting him live if he surrendered his ship, cargo and crew over to us, but he had denied that offer, saying that blowing the ship up would be the same thing. It also tried to bribe us to leave it alone, but we disagreed. It blew up, offering abseloutely no resistance.
That was all. We then returned to Malta with no further incidents.
ADDENDUM 21-12-819: The file paths in this report are broken as of December 21st, 819 A.S., and can only be accessed through accessing the complete file.
"I started my patrol by heading to Omicron Beta to fly with Katarina Moreno back to Malta. Arriving back at Malta Kat heading to bed while I started my patrol properly.
First I flew through Tau 37 to Tau 23 where I sweeped the system finding nothing. So I headed to Kirkwall Base for a quick break. After my break I came across a freelancer by the name of "Jacksin" flying one of the small freighters from Liberty. I found out that Jacksin was a freelancer who was looking for a Spatial, why I have no idea. But the young kid seemed decent and also scared when I warned him not to try anything stupid or he will face our wrath. Carrying on the patrol I proceeded to check out the GMS base that was found yesterday. Sadly, or fortunately, there were no supplies around so take from that what you want.
After stopping on Cali to restock my food supplies I headed to Kyushu where I encountered an independent trading group outside Tsushima Depot. The group flying under the name of "ND|" kept saying they bear no ill will towards the Maltese Nation. Their two transports were supported by two of their own escorts and a hired gun by the name of "Donovan Sykes" and with the Kusarian Naval Forces dispatching a Battleship Patrol Fleet I took ND| at their word and carried on my patrol.
From Kyushu I made my way through Kusarian Space to Sigma 19 and then Omicron Eta where I restocked and refueled upon Siracusa Base. After the break I returned to Sigma 19, then Sigma 13 and proceeded south to Yanagi where I spotted a GMG independent fighter under the name "Ignition.Not.Recomended" land upon Yanagi, sadly he was too far out of scanning range to get a detailed scan. So bypassing Yanagi I sweeped into Frankfurt before returning through the Sigmas and back home."
"Today's patrol started by heading to Tau 23 where I came upon an IMG transport by the code name of "[IMG]ErCaiman" from whom I acquired 500,000sc for our cause. From here I watched the movements of a few IMG independent miners before checking on the GMS base and then returning to Cali for a short break.
Launching from Cali a miner by the name of "MAXMINER" flew past in a hurried attempt to flee to Tau 29. I pursued him to the jumphole but was unable to engage him before he jumped.
After leaving him and sweeping Tau 23 for another time I proceeded south to Cape Wrath where I took another short break.
From Cape Wrath I flew through Inverness System to Cortez and California where the captain of the "LNS-Skyfall" somehow found the frequency our comms units operate on; we should sort out adjusting the frequency we use. After a quick conversation I carried on to Cochrane Depot in Ontario.
From here I flew to Colorado, and then to Kusarian space before returning to Tau 23 and Cali Base.
From Cali I sweeped Tau 23 then Tau 37 before returning home to sell off the rookies so they may work in the farms."
"I started my patrol by flying to Tau 23 from Malta.
From here I sweeped around the system stopping at the GMS base to 'check up on it' and then I flew to Cali. From here I jumped to Kyushu, circled Tsushima Depot and returned to Cali and sweeped Tau 23 for a second time.
Arriving back at the GMS base, and activating their shield, to my surprise a Gallic train by the codename of "Fredrick' " launched from the station and near simultaneously a giant Barge by the codename of "Phlegethon" appeared on scanners and flew towards the base. Keeping the shield activated I tried to extract all information I could from the train since the Barge captain must of had the mute on the communications.
After a period of time the captain of the gallic train drained his money pouch and wired over 14 million sirian credits.
After this I proceeded back to Cali to place this report."
"Launching from Cali and intending to head for home I sweeped Tau 23 as usual and headed to the GMS base to check up on it.
To my greatest surprise this time they had brought a Gallic Battleship called "BigKahuna" with them, and also outside the station was a train by the name of "GMS|Alpha".
Activating the shields I stayed in the vicinity as the frogs tried to inform me that this was Gallic space. The cheek and mis-informed of them was astonishing but due to them having a Battleship sitting there there was little I could do bar inform them of their incorrect information by reassuring them they are in Maltese Space and be a nuisance and keep their shield activated.
This upset the frogs and they bribed me with 10 million SC to leave the 5k area around the base for now. It was at this point that the computers on-board reported that the port dust filters were in need of replacement so I took the 10mil and left for Cali.
Having had the filters replaced I launched from Cali and then another frog by the codename of "EFL|Daverick" started shouting with his very small vocabulary of insults calling me scum over and over again. So I flew around running rings around his intellect and limited knowledge of words. It was at this point that Iggy joined in the fray.
After the frog got frustrated and left Iggy and I headed back to Malta for a break."