Shalom comrades.
Today we received a report of a Corsair gathering in Omega-7. Nothing too fancy. A couple of us hauled our behinds in that direction, but apparently the Corsairs had already been dealt with, according to some Military pilots present in the area.
When I was idling in O-7 however something else came our way. Have a look.
That's a Liberty Siege Cruiser belonging to the Liberty Security Force and one of the Military's resident Turtles, -not- shooting one another.
At first I was just following the Siege Cruiser on my own, and it was on its own as well, having come from Omega-11 badly damaged and low on supplies. Upon questioning the Captain wouldn't reveal anything about his business here later on, and during the whole chase and afterwards he tried to pay me off so I'd "go away". I didn't. I called for light artillery.
It wasn't really that odd, until the Turtle showed up. Not only a Security Force Cruiser now which had taken a weird back-door route into our space, but one that showed no hostile intent towards the Military. I'm sure some kind of exchange must've taken place, but the only thing scans revealed was that, in fact, the Military Battleship -resupplied- the Cruiser for whatever reason.
A short while after that the assistance I had requested earlier started arriving, and the Battleship and Cruiser split up. The former headed to Stuttgart while the Cruiser began a long-winded run towards the Omega-3 jumpgate. We pursued the Cruiser, on the grounds that it had still been a hostile warship trespassing into Rheinland's borders and Hessian territory. I've to add here that we unfortunately lacked the necessary forces to pursue both, and seeing higher chances at making the Cruiser explode if it were to become necessary, we opted for that one. Another thing worth mention is that according to the others, the Cruiser even showed signs of Nomad signatures aboard, giving us one more reason to pursue it.
During the chase the Captain would now and then try to negotiate for a peaceful outcome in a way, later insisting that he couldn't talk while under fire. Well, I see no reason why and I don't think we're really into falling for old tricks, so I requested we kept shooting it as it kept trying to run.
This ended with it exploding. However so in Leeds after having led us on through various jumpholes. Aside from some stray IMG pilot though nobody really saw us, so it's not that big an issue I hope.
Still, I've no idea why it was in Omega-7, I've no idea what the hell happened between it and the Military Battleship, nor do I know how it managed to slip through the Omega systems the way it did. Pretty clear that something fishy went on no matter how you look at it. As for any Corsairs, the others can probably tell more about that as I wasn't much engaged with any during the whole flight as it continued later.
On a lighter note, is that Jonas Hessler guy really Adolph's brother or son or something? I mean he's just weirding me out a little with his talk about "sepukku" and "honor", and I'm not quite sure how I'm to understand it when he tells me he would like to "show me his Katana".