To Cedric Richard, David Owens, Torin Marshal, Adam Spire

[Adam_Spire]

[] Transmission Received []
[] Ship ID: [FL]-Vigilance []
[] Ship Location: Omega-7 []
[] Sender ID: Captain David Owens []

On a patrol in Frankfurt we ran into a Kishiro transport, ID of Kishiro|Shinten transport under attack from a single Bundschuh IFF fighter, ID [Wraiths]-Desolator. I don'€™t think he was expecting a Freelancer to assist a transport. The kept close to the transport and a few of our missiles were able to EMP the fighter enough to perhaps trigger a faulty cloaking device prematurely. This was enough time for the Shinten to make way out of the system. When the fighter returned it eventually started heading off and out of range.

Sir'€™s the Reavers are back in the Rheinland system in full force. We first saw them assisting the FTU IMG guard and some very large transport through Rheinland space. We weren'€™t able to get a scan on the barge or what it was carrying. The Reavers were quick to dispatch us this time around.

The next day we heard reports of issues in Omega 7 with frequent raids on miners and decided to head into that region and see what we could find.

Captain Hunter Riley requested that we not assist in an engagement between him and two Hessians. I'€™ve never quite seen flying skills like his. What eventually became two bouts of 2 on 1 became four kills for Mr. Riley. What I found odd was the restraint the AGS had towards us, something about a debt.

More notably, one of the Hessians was flying in a fully armed Molly/Liberty rouge Hybrid bomber. As a note, there was an IMG ship standing by. It and a few others went to Omega 11 to head off an attack of their own against them.

Later that day, we headed upwards towards the northern locations of Omega 7. The regions have shifted quite a lot in the last few weeks. Two miners stated that there were Reavers in Omega 7. Being too close to the miners in the fields, we felt it best to draw the on coming fire away from them. With no time to spare the two Reavers summed up their position and opened fire on us.

I think it was a trap. We took the most evasive offensive stance we could adopt to and it seemed to work. We did not follow the standard pattern of missiling their shields and drawing gun fire and put all our energy into the guns. It seemed to throw them off. Silver is their best pilot hands down, and we knew this would be a long fight.

We managed to kill one of the Reavers ID of Shadow.Reaver, but he was quickly replaced by a hessian bomber who seemed to enjoy deploying one Nova class torpedo after another. I have a powerful suspicion that the zoner transport Jabberwock resupplied Silver yet I have no confirmation of this. The transport arrived nearby and simply left. That ship Name is also the name of one of Rorry'€™s gunboats. Again, nothing substantial to support this. At this point we were assisted by a Kruger defender Kruger|Epsilon-02. This gave us a chance to breath and send out a distress call. It attacted more bad than good. Silver was ever the more deadly and focused her attention on the defender. We were unable to prevent its destruction.

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Yet we could manage to focus our attention on Silver for a short time until another Hessian joined in. We assessed they were either over confident or a fairly new pilot. We were able to dispatch them next. We too were able to get support from a repair craft near by. It gave us a second wind for sure and we needed it. Unfortunately, it became clear the Hessians were not willing to let us go. We were able to get this last image before we were simply over run by Hessian forces, and the remaining Reaver pilot.
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The Vigilance is out of commission for a while.

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[] Communication closed []

David Owens: Half the universe is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

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Sometimes, when all you want is to gain your freedom, you must be willing to risk it all.