COMM ID:LT IRVING, Jerome TARGET ID: Liberty Forces Reporting Centre SUBJECT:Naval Forces Operations - New York ENCRYPTION:Moderate PRIORITY:High
Good Afternoon Sir/Ma'am,
Yesterday, in the course of routine resupply runs, at approximately 2247 hours, Sentinel Peak and Fort Wayne (under the command of ENS Jones) detected the presence of a Naval Forces freighter in low Manhattan orbit. The craft, flashing Kusari Naval Forces identification and operating under the reporting name Kagoshima, was observed on a polar orbit. Encrypted communications bursts from the freighter to the ground were detected, but fleet intelligence has not informed me as to the nature of the encryption or whether we're aware of their content at the time of this transmission.
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[22:46:42] [LN]-LLS-Mount.Sentinel: Irving: Er, are you picking this up?
[22:46:59] [LN]-LLS-Fort.Wayne: Jones: What exactly..?
[22:47:10] [LN]-LLS-Mount.Sentinel: Irving: Take a look at that signature.
[22:47:26] [LN]-LLS-Mount.Sentinel: Irving: Naval Forces boat, low Manhattan orbit.
[22:47:31] [LN]-LLS-Fort.Wayne: Jones: That Naval Forces IFF? Uhh..
[22:47:40] [LN]-LLS-Mount.Sentinel: Irving: Bearing 293, 4.9 clicks out.
The freighter did not respond to hails or orders to halt from Mount Sentinel and began an exit burn shortly after Mount Sentinel and Fort Wayne set intercept courses. In the course of the burn, Kagoshima was observed launching what appeared to be sidewinder-type missiles over the North Pole of the planet. No fighters were available for disruption duty, and with the freighter capable of outrunning our Bisons, we abandoned the pursuit at the Colorado jump point (New York System Sector 3C) rather then risk losing our cargo the fields.
I've been in touch with Major Horen at Mt Davies Air Force Base, and he's had sub-orbital flyers out to look over the impact sites for those munitions. I'm sure the Major'll have his own report to submit, but at the time of writing, they've found nothing at the pole to speak of.
While we were unable to catch the freighter, ENS Jones and I were able to take scans of its equipment and cargo.
Without breaking the encryption on those bursts, it's hard to speculate on what that bird was doing out there. That said, I think someone'll want to be having a serious talk with the Kusarian Embassy. This one smells like something for our brothers and sisters in the LSF to me.
Regards,
Jerome Irving
LT
CO MOUNT SENTINEL
1FLT
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