Hey. I was sitting around Valravn talking with a few Auxo people and Platform's own "CS" when Commander Freud's probes in Kansas picked up a bunch of activity. We grouped up, and Leviathan jumped us through. We immediately fanned out, and soon Lt. Hideyoshi and Commander Freud found it: A Core gunboat, stuffed to the brim with pilots and guns and flashing a BMM IFF for some reason. We ordered it to stop, it opened fire, I caught up from searching the anomaly cloud, and we popped it.
On our way back, we ran into a Corsair who was on his way to help escort a convoy of artifacts—DTR-CC>Mors.Tenaci. He was friendly, and we had a nice chat. Not two minutes later, though, we got a distress call from him: Liberty Navy had intercepted his convoy. We went to help and came across a big one: A Carrier sitting over Erie. The LNS Faileas. Pretty prophetic name, really. It was pretty rude, though- the captain wouldn't give up his ship or crash it into an uninhabited planet like we asked, so we had to do it for him. It took forever, since he had some kind of illegal armor modification, but we got it eventually.
While we were fighting it, a Navy fighter and an LPI fighter came to intercept. Lt. Hideyoshi peeled off and was under attack by both fighters, and that's about when the Technocracy showed up to help. Yoruha came to help with the carrier, but Ravena helped with the Navy and LPI fighters. She got the LPI off of Lt. Hideyoshi, then they worked together to finish the Navy fighter. We finished off the carrier and tried to RTB, with Lt. Hideyoshi and Commander Freud on fire.
We caught the same Core gunboat in Kansas again on the way back. It ran to Pennsylvania, but we popped it again. I dunno how they got it repaired so fast, but that's not really my concern.
As we passed through Vespucci, a Xeno fighter swarm appeared behind us somehow. This is actually really concerning—I think they have a dock point in-system. They chased our bombers all the way to Inverness, where more Auxo ships were able to come resupply. I hopped in my fighter and we went to town. Commander Freud was still on fire from the fight with the Navy, so Xeno missiles took him down. Yoruha got chipped down too, but we worked through them one at a time: Fighter, freighter, fighter, fighter.
Amazingly, we still weren't done. Right as the last Xenos fighter fell, and Order fighter jumped into system. They ran to the NFZ, but after most of our ships RTB'd to repair, they drifted out of it. We talked for a while, then they opened up on me. Yuki- um, Lt. Hideyoshi helped, but she was still damaged, so she didn't last long. Ravena came back and dueled them to little success, and then they jumped on me. I was still almost completely dry from the Xenos fight, so Auxo's Venus helped finish it off.
After all of that, I talked to a freelancer patrolling around. His company, Castor Industries, works with Auxo, so we had a little negotiation and we're gonna set up a renovation contract for the El Alto project. I'm sending that message after this.
All told... I'm beat.
Hostile Kills
ARCHER1961 - The Core - Gunboat
LNS-Faileas - Liberty Navy - Carrier
Ofc-Michael.Garibaldi - Liberty Police - Fighter
5th|Alastair.Stedman - Liberty Navy - Fighter
ARCHER1961 - The Core - Gunboat
Xenos-Fighter - Xenos - Fighter
Bad.News - Xenos - Freighter
Gryphon - Xenos - Fighter
Jeremy.Kline - Xenos - Fighter
Yahmi - Order - Fighter