FROM: LtCmd Romeo Darkbeat TO: 46th Strike Force High Command SUBJECT: Smuggler problem + Our tech shortcoming Esteemed Admiralty,
My last report paints a bleak image of what might be happening on the ALASKA system. Since we have moved to the heart of Liberty assisting and conduction operations in NY, LA, TX and PN, I have noticed a pattern of smugglers coming from and going into the trade lane to Chadwick Station, fully violating restricted space. In my last attempt at tackling this mystery I even managed to capture footage of one going into ALASKA and another approaching me to talk near the Jump Gate. This one then entered the system and CLOAKED in there, not before mentioning a SMUGLING RING.
I know I only have the word of a criminal here, but this intel might mean that they have a BASE hidden somewhere in the ALASKA sytem.
It's not just Nomads and Order vessels threatning our House, it's Insurgents zooming from their corrupt hideouts, or som AI Drone "studying" us for his "Mothership" or the possibility that smugglers may be hiding a base right in our no-fly zone, our most no-fly zone. If small time drug dealers and arms runners can laugh at the face of Liberty, imagine what other Houses might plan, what that AI thing can report to whateverhunkofcircuits it calls a "Mothership"?
I've been informed through liaison channel of Rear Admiral Van Leer's idea and I humbly endorse it even though it's discussion in officially above my rank. Some cloak disruptors or more advanced tech would surely help a long way in protecting Liberty. What is within my rank and I will do now is to humbly request our directive to avoid ALASKA to be lifted.
Furthermore I hope you fine officers can later approve the development of a scanning operation around the system, in hopes of finding that base if it exists or at least learning their routes and scare them out of restricted space.
That can take the new operation class we devised, the LONGBOW Class.
An operation like this in ALASKA would first need multiple pilots in fighter vessels, equipped with the longest range scanners available, performing a sweep patrol at the same plane as objects of interest such as the Jump gates, Juneau Shipyard and Battleship Minneapolis, as well as 10k above and below it. This can be codenamed "ARMED INTEL MANEUVER" (A.I.M.).
If we manage to assert the existence of the base and find it's location, I suppose HC will be able to coordinate with the rest of the Navy, possibly even LSF, the planning of a second phase, Codenamed "FINAL INTENSIVE REPELLING EXECUTION" (F.I.R.E.).
I obviously know that a goose chase, and a failed one at that, would be an incredible waste of the Strike Force time and taxpayer money. For now, no Operation needs to be devised as our intel is just a lead. That's why I suggest we just return patrols to ALASKA for now and try to locate the smugglers routes.
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