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ID: Kaye Brutus
Call-Sign: IC|Kaye.Brutus
Location: Planet Manhattan
Recipient: Interspace Commerce
Subject: Patrol Report #1

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ENCRYPTION: #1NV1NC1.ble

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Hey-ya everyone, Kaye Brutus reporting on my first official patrol mission. Today was a crazy day in Liberty, as you can probably guess by looking at me... huh.

I started my patrol in the California system where i was immediately greeted by 3 Lane Hacker bombers that were traveling on the Trade Lane. The 3 Hackers were:
LH~Elliot.Carver
LH~Kage.Tenshi
Bobby.Bones

They seemed to be in a hurry to go somewhere else, but i stopped them and engaged them in combat.

I was doing pretty well initially, they could barely hit me and i was raining firepower hard on LH~Elliot.Carver. But it seems their head wasn't focused on the battle but rather on finding a way to escape it - they managed to distract me well enough and they all took the trade lane out of there and hacked it apparently, so that i couldn't follow.

I lost their trail and was unable to destroy them, but i hope i was able to scare them away from Liberty.

Next, i headed to New York and near the Texas Jump Gate i encountered a Lane Hacker and an indepedent pirate fighting with each other, they were:
Capt.Maxim
LH~Vladimir.Scorpius

This was a beneficial situation. If they both went down it would be one less pirate and one less Hacker in Liberty. So my plan was to wait for their fight to end and i'd pick up the winner.

LH~Vladimir.Scorpius was winning the battle when Capt.Maxim tried to engage his cloaking device to escape, but i wouldn't let a pirate get away just so he could come back to Liberty later, so I used my Cloak Disrupter and the pirate was exposed. LH~Vladimir.Scorpius finished him off.

I've heard about LH~Vladimir.Scorpius before and of how dangerous of a pilot he is, however i had a perfect oportunity to take him down now, he had no Shield Batteries left on his ship and half his Nanobots were used, plus, he should be pretty exhausted by now.

I engaged him and incapacitated his ship with in a magnificent blast! - I've already sent my bounty claim up to the board.



This was a win. But the day wasn't over...



Nothing much happened for some hours after this. But late in the evening - while i was patroling the Texas system to make sure the path was clear for IC|Delaware to deliver his load of Cobalt Ore, I was suddenly surprised by LH~Vladimir.Scorpius showing up fully recovered from our earlier brawl.

He was sharp enough to understand i was clearing a path for one of our transports and he intended to intercept it. I would never let that happen. I engaged him in battle.

This time things went very differently...

I no longer had field advantage. He was fully prepared for battle with all his equipment in check and it was clear he wasn't exhausted like before - i was having a lot more trouble getting good hits on him.

I was able to accomplish my objetive though, with LH~Vladimir.Scorpius distracted in battle with me IC|Delaware snuck safely, however the price i paid wasn't cheap. LH~Vladimir.Scorpius stripped my ship completely naked - all my guns, my thruster and even my shield were completely malfunctioning. There was nothing i could do anymore.

This was his victory.

Snapshot of the duel between Kaye and Vladimir

Kaye's equipment incapacitated

I'm currently on Planet Manhattan. A bit bruised but overall i'm fine.

Tomorow i'll be back in the game!

See you soon guys.

Kaye Brutus

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