{SOB}Pluton as well as {SOB}Pinz and myself encounter Icecold_45 slaughtering and harvesting the spirits for weapons. Pluton and Pinz were already requesting this individuals compliance with our laws regarding actions such as this when I came on the scene. Icecold_45 refused to drop any of his acquired weapons and proceeded to flee into Omicron 80 where all three of us gave chase. After a great deal of time pursuing the individual, much of it even off the registered nav maps, we informed him that his noncompliance will be brought before the 101st command. I feel this Icecold_45 has gone far enough to earn himself Kill on Sight status for his willful destruction of the Spirits as well as his blatant defiance of requests to drop his cargo.
The scans provided by {SOB}Pinz are as follows to provide evidence of what transpired. While we don't have scans of the procured weapons the 27 nomads in his hold should speak to his actions.
From: Raul Sanchez To: Commander Mia Bonello Subject: Patrol report
During a patrol yesterday i was contacted by Ibiza base. It looked like they had a corsair problem over there. I quickly set course to Ibiza. Several minutes later i got a hostile target on my scaners. The target was a corsair praetorian, piloted by a corsair known only as <<KOV>>. Target tried to run, but my train CD killed his engines. After a shorter battle his ship was destroyed.
Several hours later we had another intruder in Alpha. This time it was a bounty hunter battlecruiser, callsign <SNAKE3>. The captain tried to hide his ship in the Sinistere Cloud. Sadly for him that plan failed and we found him quickly. After he saw we found him, captain tried to run. Another failed plan, as his ship became just another wreck few minutes later.
No more intruders were found so i returned to Malta for some much needed rest.
**Incoming Transmission**
**CommID: Angel Baraja**
**SourceID: Planet Malta, Omicron Alpha**
**Subject: Patrol and Engagement Report**
My first assignment was to procure and outfit a Z Series "Sabre" fighter, and so I proceeded to Malta and purchased one from the shipyard, before heading out into space and to Omicron Beta to pick up some weaponary. Upon docking on Ruiz Base, I was alerted, by the Reapers of Sirius pilot Dante Todorio to the presence of a Bounty Hunter battleship that had somehow bypassed the defences of the outer systems and entered Alpha. Outfitting my ship with haste, I returned to Malta to link up with [101st] Rodrigo Morales, Raul Sanchez and the flagship MNS Alhambra, as well as Dante Todorio. The encroaching vessel fled Alpha into Tau 37 upon seeing the full force of the Outcast defences. Upon gaining permission to pursue and enter Tau 37, we followed the bounty hunter ship back to Freeport 10, where the target slowed and we engaged. The battle was tense and on more than one occasion I thought my ship was about to be blown to pieces, but my new and shiny Sabre held strong. Unfortunately Rodrigo Morales' ship was struck by an inexplicible control failure, and he was thrown into the bounty hunter vessel, just about managing to eject his escape pod. Raul was able to tractor him in quickly enough. Eventually the firepower of the Alhambra and combined efforts of the plucky Outcast fighters was too much for the bounty hunter battleship, and his ship lost life support to several decks and sustained heavy hull damage causing systems failure.
My image processing device picked up this image as part of the battleship is blown.
Damage report on my ship was minimal, minor damage sustained to my hull, but nothing that the boys on Malta couldn't fix.
My first day in the 101st has certainly been eventful, and I hope I can continue to serve the Orange Dream to the very best of my ability and defend my homeland with my very life.
Angel Baraja, signing off.
**End Transmission**
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
~H. L. Mencken
TO: Commander Mia Bonello, Corsica, Omicron-85
FROM: Miguel Sancho, Malta, Omicron Alpha
SUBJECT: Corsair Spydrone in Alpha
*Begin of Transmission*
Today (//at 16:30 GMT//) a Spydrone (with the ID "86A0") sent from Planet Crete arrived at Omicron Alpha with the obvious objective of collecting information about the situation in this system, especially about the strength of the local garrison and details about the Maltese defense systems.
I have uploaded a photo of the drone to our database.
Unfortunately, even with united fire power, we were'nt able to destroy the drone because of its high speed and agility. Altogether the drone returned about five or six times within about 15 minutes in order to gain more detailled data. It periodically sent the gathered data to Crete on a long distance frequency. Finally the drone was able to leave Alpha heading towards Gamma again.
We don't now yet what the Corsairs try to achieve with the collected information and what we have to expect in the near future but we hope that the data aren't sufficient to provide the Corsairs a big advantage against us.
Last night was mostly uneventful. A good number of supply vessels came to Malta, all of which were scanned by myself, RoS, or 101st pilots. Mostly fuel and engine components, but some new workers came in as well.
Then some fool named Xerxes decided to fly in. Giovanni Cordova began chasing him, and knowing how many people fly without disruptors, I followed. Eventually, Xerxes lost us in Omicron-80. Giovanni, his sister (whose name escapes me at the moment), and myself waited outside the jump hole and ambushed him when he finally came back. He did manage to flee to Tau-37, but I came out of the jump hole just in time to see a missile detonate on his ship.
I have to admit, Xerxes is very good at running away. It's like he spends his whole life doing nothing but that.
I don't have logs of the incident, but Mr. Cordova can fill you in. Reportedly, Xerxes' ship is a model commonly used to fight the spirits. There was something else, but all I really caught was the chase, the explosion, and the attempted taunts.
Who knew you could actually fail at coming up with a good taunt?
From: Raul Sanchez To: Commander Mia Bonello Subject: Patrol report
Another day, another patrol...
Few intruders were found in omicron 85, they were all informed about your orders and asked to leave. All intruders complied and left. One pilot had Spirit weaponry mounted, when asked about it pilot docked to Malta where we lost him. Also my scanners picked up a signal from one of the Spirits. After taking several lifes, most of which were identified as desecrators, Spirit went back to omicron 90.
Also during my patrols in tau 37 i found two hostile ships. First was found near tau 23 jump hole. Ship was a praetorian flown by a unknown pilot, callsign Liutukus7. Target first tried to evaide and run, but a cruise disruptor killed his engines. Few minutes later his ship was destroyed. Liutukus7
Second target was found near Freeport. The ship was a viper, second version. And the good part is it was a Colonial ship. The worst kind of miners... Pilot was known as Jettx, from the =CR=. Target was engaged and his ship was destroyed quickly. Sadly the pod was picked by a passing zoner convoy. After this i returned to Malta for some much needed rest. =CR=Jettx
Few hours later, while i was off duty i was contacted by Jameson. It looked like a stolen ship, dreadnought class, was blocking the mooring fixture, callsign MNS-Indipendenza. I quickly took the command of the ship Dies Irae and opened channel to the captain of the said ship. He was once again informed about the registration, and given a chance, but the captain refused. His ship was then disabled and is now waiting on Malta. Hopefully the captain will see reason and comply to Rainerio's orders. MNS-Indipendenza
[Incomming Message]
[Communications ID : Kain and Billeh]
[Subject : Ye'z shootin' us!]
[Subject 2 : We'z dun' likin' it!]
[color=#FFFFFF]Waaazaaaaa!
Shutup foo!
*Ahem*
Bonello! Why'z ye lads shootin'us?! Da Kain n Billeh ! Why oh why....*Ping* Pizza! Billeh! Get it foo, now!
Yeah, why?! First we'z bein' taxed by yer lads, now, dem be organizing a hunt yesterday te get us! While we wus in bloopi....No, no ketchup. In bloopin' Eta!
From: Raul Sanchez To: Outcasts, 101st; RoS Subject: Battle report
We had a great day yesterday. A strong outcast fleet invaded gamma and won. Corsairs together with their order, zoner and colonial friends were beaten with only several destroyed ships on our side. Sadly we failed to destroy the traitor Julio Salvada. Also an amazing thing happened, one of the Guardians came and watched over us.
Our forces gathered at Freeport 8 in Theta, and proceeded to Gamma hole. From there we went to Triopli. Few minutes later we were at the corsair shipyard and some of the outcasts planted several explosives to it's outer hull. Sadly it looked like the shipyard was only lightly damaged from the explosion. No doubt the corsairs will repair it soon.
Then the corsair fleet arrived, several titans, raven talons, praetorian bombers, and a gunboat. Also we saw an Osiris and a battlestar near the planet. They were closing in slowly.
Sadly we lost few ships early, but all pilots were saved and brought back to Malta after we finished in Gamma. After the corsairs sent in even more ships, we lost the Guardian. His ship shell was badly damaged and it it had to move back to their systems. The loss of the guardian made us fight harder, and soon few corsair ships were destroyed. Corsairs then called in their zoner and order dogs. The battleships entered the battle too. Lohingren ordered all of us to concentrate our fire on them. They didn't last long, and were destroyed without us loosing any ships.
After what looked like hours of fighting we destroyed most of their ships, and were concentration on the traitor, Julio Salvada. At that moment Corsairs got new reinforcement. This time it was the colonials. One was killed several minutes later, and the other was to afraid to face us. The pilot rather made a crash landing on Crete then to fight us. After some time we destroyed few more corsair ships, and lost some sadly. We then again turned on the traitor Salvada. His dodging skills proved too much, and he managed to reach Omicron 94. Out of our reach.
The Crete's defenses were too much for us so we decided to return to Theta before they bring even more ships. We resupplied on the Freeport and left back to Malta. The traitor Salvada escaped, but even with that it was a great victory for the Outcasts.
My data is sadly incomplete, and some pilots might be missing from the list.
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