The Lane Hackers | Internal Comms

[Dreganius]

...hack.initiated...decryption.in.progress...
...Initiate.Georgi Koskov.recognised...transmission.encrypted...
...uploading.data...

As I awoke yesterday morning, I checked Cochrane Station's long-range scanning relay for activity to notice something quite interesting. A trio of LNS vessels were moving through the Colorado system. Upon further investigation, there was also a pair of LNS vessels detected inside the Kepler system, in addition to other vessels, displaying no callsign affiliation. Interested in the what operations the Liberty lapdogs were up to, I decided to gather intelligence.

I will simply upload the Ship's navigation log for events up until the time of arrival at my objective.

13:11 SMT: Undocked from Cochrane Base.
13:11 SMT: Waypoint set for Colorado Jump Hole.
13:11 SMT: Autopilot engaged. Cruise engines engaged.
13:12 SMT: Waypoint reached, traveling through Jump Hole.
13:13 SMT: Arrival in Colorado System.
13:13 SMT: Waypoint set for Kepler Jump Hole.
13:13 SMT: Autopilot engaged. Cruise engines engaged.
13:14 SMT: Waypoint reached, traveling through Jump Hole.
13:14 SMT: Arrival in Kepler System.
13:14 SMT: Taking fire from Xenos Weapons Platforms. Autopilot disabled. Cruise engines engaged.
13:15 SMT: Xenos Weapon Platforms out of range.

Leaving from the Colorado Jump Hole in B6/C6, I began to head eastward. At this point in time, I watched for hostile communications carefully on common Navy frequencies. Assuming the LNS had at least one capital ship accompanying them, I knew it was likely they would detect me before I did them.

After some poking around at the eastern fringes of the Dengo cloud, one of their craft detected me, and I caught a communication package notifying the other LNS vessels of my presence. Acting quickly, I triangulated the source of the transmission. It was transmitted from the direction of the Kurya cloud, so I began to travel in that direction from my location just outside the Dengo cloud, in grid reference D5.
Shortly after setting out towards Kurya cloud, I had made visual contact with a Liberty Battlecruiser. At 10km, my scanners detected the vessel and confirmed the LNS affiliation. IFF squawk of Liberty Navy, callsign of LNS-Santisima.Trinidad.

Vessel was moving on an intercept course with my Dromedary, so I turned to the left, roughly towards Ames Research Station, and began to circle the vessel, letting it slowly gain on me.
At 7km, I picked up the rest of the Liberty vessels as well as three other unknown vessels on my scanners, but failed to make visual confirmation.
The vessels were as follows:

Code:

LNS/LN vessels:
LNS-Santisima.Trinidad, LNS-Wickerton, LNS-JohnyWalker, LNS-Creighton, LN-Snake

Unknown vessels:
BonBon.McKhan, Psion, Ansgar.

At 5.5-6km out, I made my scans on the systems and cargo of the Battlecruiser LNS-Santisima.Trinidad, and broke off as I received another LNS transmission regarding aforementioned Battlecruiser engaging in "dissuasive fire". I escaped back into the Dengo cloud, and subsequently left the hostile LNS vessel's scanning range. Footage is as follows:

...data.recieved...decryption.in.progress...decryption.complete...closing.data.uplink...

However, my reconnaissance mission was not yet complete. I had not yet discovered what the LNS simpletons were up to.
Now that I knew the precise location of the LNS party, I looped up through the Dengo cloud, emerging just north-east of Ames Research Station, and cut across the trade lane towards the northern Matsua cloud for a few kilometers, before moving directly south towards the LNS group. The LNS picked up my signal again, but this time, I managed to get close enough to make visual confirmation of the entire LNS force, as well as most of the unknown vessels; the reason for the Liberty presence.
They had seemingly captured three spacecraft, two squawking Xenos IFFs, and were likely in the process of interrogating them. I had made visual and scanning confirmation of the following vessels:

Code:

IFF: Navy
Callsigns: LNS-Santisima.Trinidad, LNS-Wickerton, LNS-Creighton, LNS-JohnyWalker.
LN-Snake was not visually confirmed.

IFF: Xenos
Callsigns: Psion, Bonbon_McKhan
Ansgar was not visually confirmed.

To completely confirm my assumption, I moved into full cargo-scanning range and scanned one of the Xenos crafts, belonging to callsign Bonbon_McKhan. Footage is as follows:

...data.recieved...decryption.in.progress...decryption:complete...closing.data.uplink...

At that same moment, the LNS group began to open fire on my ship with various missiles. Although out of range of those missiles, I had the intelligence I needed, and broke off towards Dengo cloud rather than risking my life to more threatening LNS ordnance. Before I entered the cover of the cloud, the LNS vessels warned me that they will actively assault me should I approach again. A bit late for them; I had all the data I needed.

Georgi Koskov, over and out.

...encryption.in.progress...hack.terminated...