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[Sol]

Sol Fenrir of the Lost Star Vigilantes, with the latest reports from the Taus.

I and my pilot Veera Allen were on a usual patrol in Tau 23 in what seemed like a usual day; didn't take me long to start a usual engagement, with me taking on an Outcast. It took a while for me to finish it, until I could finally realize that hell breaking loose all around me as I was fighting.

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While I was concentrating on defeating my opponent, apparently there was another engagement going on right next to me. One of your pilots, namely Anna McCarthy, assisted by one Coalition Gunboat named CPW-Mayakowsky, attacked the Order's Admiral Michal Golanski.

My vigilante Veera Allen gave a hand to Golanski in this engagement.

Before I could finish my opponent off, Veera and Golanski destroyed the Coalition boat, and the engagement was continuing with Anna fighting them both. As soon as I could focus on that matter and told them to stop their engagements; they immediately stopped firing.

The scene was rather creepy. There were two outcast gunboats and a pirate vessel in their immediate surroundings; they were watching them go at it, and they were even joking about the whole deal among themselves. Them and a few IMG indies kept on encouraging Anna to attack my pilot and the Admiral, and Anna remained incredibly hostile to the Admiral. A member of your primaries was also watching the fight, but he was either disinterested in stopping this idiocy, or was unable in his efforts.

From what I could gather from this mess, I learned that your pilot Ms McCarthy ordered the Order Admiral to leave the area rather rudely, then she started her insults on his person when he refused. It didn't take long before Anna started to engage the Admiral, and with the assistance of a Coalition boat, it turned into a serious firefight.

My pilot Veera Allen says that she thought Anna and her Coalition friend were not in their right minds, so she decided to assist Golanski. I am behind her decision in this, because I think Anna's actions bordered on treachery, if not that already. I know and I like Anna, but one has to be really out of their minds to cause such a scene like this. The saddest part was that, all of this was happening while Java's immediate area was surrounded by the outcasts, and meanwhile I was trying to defend the area.

That's when a nomad battleship appeared, passing right by us. We were disorganized, and the outcasts were using this chance to pave a way for the battleship. It all started to make sense for me, how we were played and thrown into confusion. I will sound it here again, this was all a set up for this passage, and Anna, either consciously, or unconsciously tried to aid the passage of this battleship.

It didn't work for them, though.

We were pissed off, I have to admit. The defense hole that was created around Java was huge, it was ridiculous. It was an insult to me and my people who were sworn to protect this area and to block any nomad and outcast influence passing through. I rallied my people and started an emergency broadcast to the rest of the IMG forces in the immediate area, and I got a pretty good response after a bit of delay.

The Outcasts caught up with the nomad battleship and started to shoot us in its defense. We focused on them first, didn't take long to deal with two gunboats. Your pilot Anna also assisted the nomad battleship, and the Admiral shot her ship down as the battle was still lively.

The Lost Star forces, and the Admiral chased after the nomad battleship inside Alpha. The nomad let out cries of agony with the holes we dug on its shell; it sought refuge and warmth within the sun of Omicron Alpha. It didn't work for it, the sun appeared to be my ally in the end; the nomad's shell burned bright as it got close to the cruel heat, turned to ashes and smoke.

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After we were done with the nomad, and set things straight, we would go back. But some of my members and the Admiral were still furious after the insults we were made to suffer right next to our home in Tau 23. The Outcasts sallied out a force made of battleships and cruisers, we took down many of them one by one, until we felt that it's enough punishment for the time being.

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As we got back from the front, we heard that Anna was apprehended by the IMG forces for a questioning. I was asked to appear for questioning, alongside my pilot Veera Allen, and the Admiral Golanski. As you know, it ended with Anna being taken to an Order vessel for scans, to check if she's infected. I am not aware of the outcome as of yet.

No matter what the outcome is, please... do not allow this to happen again. Many lives were risked before we could push back the Outcast forces. Take measures, and don't be too soft on those who should be corrected at least, no matter who they are and how close they are to yourself personally. Being a pilot charged with the safety of human beings, especially of your own people who rely on your paramilitary to survive the day, deserves not to be taken lightly. Risking those lives for a nomad never should be accepted, nor be empathised with.

That was dangerous...

Vigilante Sol Fenrir