Earlier today the promotion criteria named Lockdown was completed under my command.
With the help of the Spyglass Network Scanner, I tracked the vektor of a few transport vessels, and figured they would be headed to, and from, the Pennsylvania system. I carefully contacted Operative Elliot Carver, along with an Independant Pirate, under the callsign Bobby Bones, and explained to them how we would execute the of the system. I assigned Elliot Carver to guard the Jumphole that leads to California. Bobby Bones was sent in the trade lane from Philadelphia Station to the New York Jumpgate. I positioned myself on the Kansas Jump Hole. Our positions are also visible here.
The Pennsylvania system was in complete Lockdown.
Around 25 minutes after our lockdown was engaged, pirate Bobby Bones was under attack. He successfully stopped a transport at its tracks, on the tradelane he was set to. Bobby extorted the transport and requested a toll of 1million credits, to let it pass by. It turned out the transport pilot was buying time, he bribed a Freelancing Gunship to come in for the rescue. The gunship opened fire at Bobby Bones, and a distress call was sent to both me, and Elliot Carver. We immediately headed to his position to help sort out the situation.
The Freelancer would not cease fire after being told many times to do so, and after 9 minutes of intense combat, he was brought down. Immediately after his death, me and Elliot Carver headed back to our guard locations and proceeded with the lockdown of the system. Unfortunately, it seems that the transport pilot was disrupting our communications channel and scanners at the time of the extortion, possibly to hide the Freelancer's entry to the system. Therefore, not much visual proof is left from Bobby Bones' conversation with the transport. This is what we were able to salvage from the communications. Right after was when the Freelancer arrived and opened fire. Thankfully, pirate Bobby Bones had enough time to scan the Freelancer. As already mentioned, a distress call was received by me and Elliot Carver, and we went there as soon as we could. Here is visual proof of the Freelancer's death.
After the Freelancer's death, the transport pilot sent the credits to Bobby Bones. Giving an end to our first extortion on the system.
Minutes later, another transport appeared on Bobby's scanner. This time he specifically told us we should not get there, and that he had everything under control. Thankfully, he informed us that the Transport was successfully extorted by him. Visual proof of the conversation, and extortion of credits.
At that point, all 3 of us knew that the system lockdown was successfull. And we headed to Niverton base to rearm, and celebrate our success.
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