The Liberty Raiders

[Zane Kato]

NAME: Zane Kato
CURRENT LOCATION: Aboard of the Liberty Raiders vessel LR|CV-Crazy.Horse in Colorado

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That strange feeling after a battle...the tension is gone, the roaring battlecry of the war machinery silenced, and you can't help but think "oh, I guess you get to live another day Zane - thanks to the impressive strangers you just met no less."

Allies. Hard to get them. Even harder to find reliable ones. Especially for someone not afraid to go after his own path passoinately. Zane searched long, with an open mind. From the Shikoku Nebulae to the Vespucci exoticness, he searched and searched. And it was near the dark rugedness of the Velacruz planetary ring he just might have found what he was looking for

They call themselves The Insurgency and Zane caught them just as they were preparing a large millitary operation. He had little understanding of their plan... It involved

• An Undercover Operation
  
  
• A beacon
  
  
• A fake cry for help of undercover officers
  
  
• A gathering of a fleet
  
  
• And finally =>A surprise jump attack to ambush The Navy, in full starlight, in The Colorado system itself.
  

Zane was both impressed and puzzled - to this day the most advanced tactic he could think of is telling his pack to cut a tradelane away from sight to catch traders without being spotted instantly. Who the hell are these people? How did they manage to organize all this without their crew getting high, breaking their cover or running off after some women?

He wanted to know more, he wanted to learn, and to his surprise The Strangers let him join their impressive scheme and their jump ambush!

But when they actually jumped...

"WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO" Zane cried, as he stared turning his ship, expecting the Insurgents to follow suit - there was no way they would face a fleet like this in the wide open, was there? He was wrong, Zane was stunned by the calmness of his newfound allies. They acted as if this was just another sunday, and calmly proceeded to assault the large fleet without flinching an eye

Zane was overhelmed, he was never part of such a powerful fleet, not on his side anyways - and the daring thought crossed his mind: "can we...actually win this"? The roaring engines of war started churning

And then sure enough, the strange calm of his new found friends was justified, as, one by one, those that usually bully and chase Zane to the darkest corners of LIberty started feeling the taste of their own medicine

It wasn't long before they started falling like flies. First 46th|LNS-Ulysses crew met their maker

And then another...and another...one by one The Navy were falling like flies.

46th|LNS-Tomahawk, 46th|LNS-Lady.of.Leeds, LN-AGS|CV-"Justice",5th|LNS-Akhetaten all couldn't stand the power of the ambush. Zane's emotion turned from panic, to fear, to puzzlement to...Encouragement! He slowly started turning towards the heat of the battle, and to his bewilderment he even managed to have the last word agains the ship he fears the most - the terrifying Liberty Assault Battlecruiser

He felt a natural intoxitation he's never felt before, not even from Cardamine! He faced a large Navy fleet, moved straight at their might and walked away victorious! He was feeling ecstatic, mystified and anticipative of what this might mean for his future he failed to notice one of his impressive allies' vessels of war, INS-Oblivion received critical damage by the hand of one 46th|James,Reyna at the cost of both Reyna's ship and the Dreadnought Spire.

No matter what will happen next, Zane Kato knew he will remember this day for the rest of his life, and he knew that he wants nothing more than to call these intriguing Insurgents his allies one day, far beyond one (impressive operation).

It is time for me to meditate while getting hammered off my ... about what I just witnessed and just think about one thing - how on earth can I make it so that my discheveled packs of screwball Rogue brothers in arms can come anything close to achieving these feats on their own?



Zane Signing off.

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