I have completed the promotion criteria Reconnaisance.
The route the convoy was set to follow was New York -> Texas -> California -> Cortez -> Magellan. Starting from Buffalo, and ending at Mactan. No tradelanes or jump gates were to be used during the trip, to avoid detection and unwanted attention.
The convoy consisted of:
Elliot.Carver, Lane Hacker transport
LH~Justin.Vek, Lane Hacker transport
LH~Kage.Tenshi, Lane Hacker bomber escort
Below is a summary of how the operation went:
I met with Elliot Carver outside Buffalo base. Justin Vek communicated with me to inform me that he was on his way, and i opened an encrypted communications channel so that we could talk there with no fear of detection. Justin Vek arrived at our location, he filled up on cargo, i explained the route to them and we started to go towards the jumphole to Texas. Notice the Bounty Hunter that is tracking us. After seeing this, i knew this would get rough.
We took the jumphole to Texas and proceeded normally to the next waypoint, which was the jumphole to California.
This, unfortunately, is the last piece of visual information i could gather from before the fight started. Notice that Elliot's ship is left behind, he had a malfunction and his cruise engines wouldnt start. I immediately headed back to him to help out, and asked Justin to stay where he is. At that point the Bounty Hunter jumped to Texas. Elliot managed to get his cruise engines to work. I told both transports to continue their journey, and i stayed back to buy time for them. I knew that the Bounty Hunter was there for them.
I managed to attract the Hunter's attention, and he engaged on me. After a long 10 minutes of playing cat & dog with the Hunter, his 120 Cruise Disruptors were gone. I intentionally acted like i would fire my cruise engines every 4-5 seconds, to make him waste a disruptor on me everytime, scanning his cargo from time to time to check out his reserves. When his ammo was empty, i knew that this is my chance. I activated my cruise engines and headed to the California jumphole. He, of course, followed me. So i thought i would engine kill, turn the ship around, and fire one of my own disruptors on him. So with him a bit far behind, i continued my way to the jump hole. At the jumphole, there was backup waiting for me, the Hunter scum called for help cause he knew he would never get me. The second Hunter kept the jumphole busy so i couldnt dock, as seen, but he mistakenly assumed id take the jumphole myself, and he went throuh, to wait for me in the other side. At this point, the first hunter is sure im dead, but he doesnt know me well. I open my map and set a route for the closest tradelane, while dodging his fire of course. This is a chatlog of our talk. Using the same engine kill technique described before, i manage to reach the tradelane with the Hunter being 3K away from me. I dock with the lane, and drop a mine as i do so. Here is a piece of visual proof of the Hunter watching me being in the lane that i just disrupted for him.
After this, i knew i was gone. I did the same meneuver on the next tradelane, and after finishing that tradelane journey too, i headed back to the jumphole to California, using my cruise engines of course. Here's a few more chatlogs of the convoy's conversations, and me going to Mactan after all of this to celebrate the successfull operation. Visual proof of Cardamine reaching Mactan provided by Justin Vek Visual proof of the entire route, that i was unable to have myself because of the fight, provided by Elliot Carver
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