Xeno Alliance communications (iRP) (FO)

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☠ Incoming transmission.
☠ Signal source: Milford Base relay, Pennsylvania
☠ Opening video feed...

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Sender: Volunteer David West
Recipient: Xeno Alliance Communications
Subject: Baptism of fire

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Hello brothers and sisters. First day "at work" so to say is finished and it was quite a fire show.

But I should start from the beginning. After I received the message about my acceptance into the Alliance ranks, I moved to the designated location on Pittsburg and was picked up by the shuttle which delivered me to Ouray. Got my room, took some sleep, ate something and then went to the hangar. I wanted to refresh my piloting skill on Falcon, unfortunately all were either in space or being repaired. But the guy in charge there, I forgot his name, told me why not learn something new, because I will probably need it anyway, and gave me starting codes to a Roc. Sure, why the hell not, right?

*West opens a bottle of ale and takes a gulp*

So I took off to Colorado space, trained piloting bomber near the base and also shooting from all those cool weapons equipped on Roc, murdering some rocks in Silverton field with them. Then I returned and the guy asked me if I´m good. I said I am. And he answered it´s time to show I can be useful out there. So I got refuelled and took off again for my first cleaning shift. But Colorado was empty, so after some time I decided to move elsewhere.

After quick sneak through New York - I didn´t feel that good to take my chances there yet - I flew around Texas, but nothing was going on there either. After some time some ship slipped near me so I tried to catch it, but I lost it near New York jump gate. During an attempt to find it, I ran into a jump hole in the Pequeña Negra and after using it I found myself in Kansas.

*he takes another gulp of ale*

Now because it was my very first visit of this system ever, I flew all around it to get a little more familiar, and nice colours of the Tuttle Creek Nebula caught my eye. And deep inside it, I ran into a ship, a Zoner IDed Corvo explorer named Zoner|Bluemoon which was full of fancy expensive s**t like Minified Spyglass Scanner, Anomaly Scanner and even a Cloaking Device. I opened the communication channel and started talking to the captain, but he stayed silent and after a few moments started his cruise engines. Two seconds later I realized why after I scanned his cargo hold. The f***er was holding almost twenty of our people inside! I used cruise disruptor and ordered him to stop or I will turn him into a scrap, but his answer was opening fire. Fine by me!

Unfortunately, taking down a ship equipped with cruiser class shield and armoured with the Mk8 capital armour upgrade is really hard for a lone bomber. Despite my best effort and many hits, which landed on the f***er and kept Zoner|Bluemoon turned into Purplemoon or Yellowmoon most of the time, I was unable to damage the ship enough to prevent him from reaching Fortaleza Base where he docked.

*West finishes his ale*

I stayed there for some time just in case he will try to sneak out, but he didn´t and I didn´t want to meet Rogues welcoming committee, so I continued on my way around the system. Now you would say I cannot meet bigger fish than that in such a short flight. Wrong! When I flew near the Planet Topeka, nothing smaller than an Insurgency battleship showed up! Though it had weird name Blue|Gunny and even weirder captain, judging from the conversation we had. Read yourself...

[26.08.2020 16:27:09] Blue|Gunny: Hello Captain West
[26.08.2020 16:27:24] Blue|Gunny: Stop
[26.08.2020 16:27:26] XA-David.West.: What´s up
[26.08.2020 16:27:37] Blue|Gunny: I wish to scan you
[26.08.2020 16:27:48] XA-David.West.: Really...
[26.08.2020 16:27:56] XA-David.West.: Are you scanners that bad?
[26.08.2020 16:28:12] Blue|Gunny: No I want you stopped first
[26.08.2020 16:28:28] XA-David.West.: As I said, are you scanners that bad they cannot scan moving target?
[26.08.2020 16:28:36] XA-David.West.: What s**t did you buy?
[26.08.2020 16:29:31] XA-David.West.: Anything else you want?
[26.08.2020 16:29:42] Blue|Gunny: Maybe your hide!
[26.08.2020 16:29:53] XA-David.West.: Interesting proposal. I will think about it.
[26.08.2020 16:31:02] XA-David.West.: Is that all?
[26.08.2020 16:32:36] XA-David.West.: Seems so. Well, I prefer my hide attached to me, so maybe next time.

After this, I cruised away and later stumbled upon jump hole to Pennsylvania. Because I started to be low on fuel, I rather used it and subsequently docked on near Milford base where I´m taking some rest now...

*he opens another bottle of ale and takes a gulp*

I hope next time that Zoner f***ker meets more than just one bomber and we tear him apart.

Anyway, West out.

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☠ Transmission signal lost.

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