Incident Report Your callsign: Kelly.O'Brien Shiptype: Guardian Short report:
My squad, consisting of Ensign Thistle and Lieutenant Junior Class Moose, arrived at Rio Grande at 20:15 as planned. Lieutenant Lexy Hawkins was accompanying us and offered to support the planned exercise. Moose' ships had to stay grounded on Rio Grande for emergency repairs and thus we lost the time for the actual practice and went straight to the patrol.
Lieutenant Hawkins, Ensign Thistle and I then went on patrol into the copperton asteroid field. LPI forces accompanied us for a reason they didn't want to share. The whole area was clear and devoid of any hostile contacts. We checked the gate to Galileo then but even that one was clear and the trade lane was suspiciously safe as well.
After taking the Lane back to Rio Grande we realized why it was so clear.
We received a distress call by the OSC liner Atlantis soon after arrival. It's engines had failed and they had hostiles closing in. We organized the LPI and our forces and went to assist. A group of Lane Hackers, supported by an Outcast was already there when we arrived and after they denied to surrender we engaged them. After a long fight we managed to fight them off without a single casualty if I may be so free as to discard my guardian which was basically totalled.
After securing the liner we made our way back to Rio Grande for emergency repairs which I couldn't really take just yet since we managed to intercept an illegal Software smuggler. After forcing him to drop the cargo and pay his fine we made our way back and I dismissed Ensign Thistle. He was doing a great job out there. Maybe better than I when you can count the state our ships were in after the combat.
I can also recommend Lieutenant Hawkins for future training sessions and in general too. Her combat skill was exemplary. Although it also seems to make her a bit cocky I believe that it is pilots like her that we need to support if we want to stay strong in the future.
