The following report may be a little fuzzy in places due to the server crashing before I could retrieve the data that my automatic recorders captured.
Today I (XA-Python, formerly Joshua Kent) met up with XA-Lancehead and XA-DeathAdder. Despite both of them being vastly superior in rank to me, they wanted me to get some valuable experience in command. ( I think they were just being lazy'¦)Once the three of us got together, we went to NY Jumpgate in Colorado, to perform some customs checks, and to do the Big game paths Event.We first encountered a Shire with a Universal ID that said it was saving up for a Liberty ship, perhaps a Buffalo. A Zoner fighter/freigter flew by, but we let him go. Seeing as how he wasn't bothering us. We noticed that he was carrying Rice, but he was gone before we could say something. We then let the Shire go, with a stern warning against foreign ships. Next came a Reds, a Kusarian Whale carrying Neon. He did have a recruit ID, and said he was gonna get a Liberty ID, don't remember which one, and a Liberty ship. Curse these bad memory banks! Anyway, we let him go to, after a stern warning.
Soon after that [99%]Spazzydragon and [99%]Ulfsark.Huskari came along, and also took up a position at the CO jumpgate. Soon, we had a chat with them about why they blew up a Liberty ship, which lead into a discussion of Xenos Ethics'¦ We did not agree with them, and I won't get into it all here. While we were discussing, a mining ship Malac, came along, and declined to stop. It was chased by both Xeno groups present, and [99%]Ulfsark.Huskari got in the killing shot. Soon after this, we decided to get away from the 99% guys, and I made the tactical decision to go into New York. XA-DeathAdder then experienced an unexpected engine problem and had to back out of the mission. It was my mistake to push us on into NY, with only two fighters'¦ I will never make that mistake again.
Outside Norfolk Shipyard, we encountered two empty DSE Transports one of them DSE)Kittyhawk. Also there was a Bounty Hunter Fighter. Lancehead engaged it, and didn't need my help, so I sat by and watched. Lancehead had the fight in the bag but ran over one of his mines'¦ Another BHG showed up, and both of them engaged me, and I died after a putting up a nice fight. Lancehead decided to end his fight then, but I flew around Colorado a bit longer, and encountered a Junker Bull Dog named Scraper2000. He bit the dust soon after our engagement started. The sever then crashed. I little later, I got on with my Waren, and stopped a crane outside the CO jumpgate. It was a freelancer, named risingsun:. It was carrying 2100 tourists from Curacao to somewhere in Kusari. It counts for the big game paths, because tourists take up 2 cargo space. It refused to drop it's cargo, so it got vaporized, and the tourists destroyed. I hope I made the right choice doing that. They had a quick death. I then landed at Ouray, to type up this report before my memory got bad.
