The Brookstone started in 805 A.S. , as a Liberty Gunboat. The captain was Captain Alex Kinney, father of Jeff Kinney current captain of the LNS Brookstone. Alex Kinney served with the Liberty Navy for many years before becoming the captain the the Liberty Gunboat called the Brookstone. On January 1st 809 A.S Alex Kinney was awarded a Liberty Gunboat.
Alex Kinney proved himself a valuable member of the Liberty Navy capital fleet in a short time. After single handily take on Rogue, Xeno bomber groups and other gunboats and the occasional cruiser he became a feared captain of the Liberty Navy Capital fleet.
On one faithful day the unthinkable happened, Alex Kinney went missing. Upon this the Liberty Navy and Police sent search parties out to try and find him. The search parties never found him.
LNS Massachusetts one day received a message from a trading vessel that they saw debris in space that seemed to be a Liberty ship. Massachusetts' captain sent out a fighter wing to investigate the report. The investigators looked at the wreckage and was able to make out on the side panel "Brookstone". As soon as they saw this they called the Liberty Police to send a team to move the wreckage out. Only 1 body was found and that was the ships navigation officer which got into a pod but it was to late to launch.
Back on Planet Manhattan the news networks were going crazy with this report. Family members were interviewed and a memorial was made to remember the 15 crew lost on the LNS Brookstone. Family members made statement about the crew of the ship during the memorial service for all that were lost.
Jeff Kinney was only 7 years old at the time but took the full impact of what was going on. Jeff was very upset and did not know how to handle himself. As he grew older he became more and more aware of all that had happened. At the age of 18 he enlisted into the Liberty Navy. He served as an fighter pilot for 8 years. Than we was awarded, like his father, a Liberty Gunboat to take command. The ship was named, LNS Brookstone, we remained a gunboat for 3 years.
In 817 A.S the LNS Brookstone was updated to it current ship a Liberty Siege Cruiser. It current crew of 25 and its captain, Jeff Kinney, have a mission to protect all of Liberty people from any harm. Brookstone does it job the best way it can be done and always come out with a victory.
Captain's Name: Jeff Kinney
Ships Name: Brookstone
Ship Class: Liberty Siege Cruiser
Main base of operation: Battleship Mississippi, Texas System
Patrol Paths: Texas System, all trade lanes. New York System, all trade lanes.
Activity Log: Two Pirates spotted in Houston Orbit. I suffered from an Ion Storm and the other ran. LNS Brookstone followed close behind, and eventually stopped the ship. The Liberty Rogue Gunboat was taken out and his escape pod taken to LPI Sugerland.
In New York I was downed by a bomber squadron. My pod successfully lunched and went to Norfolk Shipyards where the ship was repaired.
Overall Report: I started to Pilot the Brookstone to head on patrol in the Texas system. Patrol of the tradelanes was not a hard job, in fact it was the easiest part of the day so far. While keeping in orbit of Planet Houston I witnessed Sarosen violate the trade embargo. I let him know what he was doing and he just blow me off without a care.
Captain's Name: Jeff Kinney
Ships Name: Brookstone
Ship Class: Liberty Siege Cruiser
Main base of operation: Battleship Mississippi, Texas System
Patrol Paths: All 5 main system patrolled. Quebec, New Hampshire as well in the Patrol paths. We also patrolled with =LSF= Fortunate.Son.
Activity Log: While patrolling we followed Project.X into Cortez system and gave up chase. WE found Order flying around the Alaska Shipyard. We were also called by Captain Patterson to assist w/ "out of house" battleship.
Overall Report: I was joined by the LSF while doing my normal patrol routes. We found pirates that we took out and some ran away. We also came into Order vessels in Liberty Space. Our final call was to assist on 2 "out of house" battleships. They a [TAZ] Juggernaut and a Zoner carrier named Yoda-[T]. LSF and I deiced to let them go because of Yoda's current relations with thew house of Liberty.
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