The Lane Hackers | Internal Comms

[Liz Krest]

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Humiliation

Before going into the specifics on the above criterion, I'd like to mention that I've made a return from the shadowy depths of Mactan to have a look around Liberty - and Sirius -, getting myself up-to-date with the news, extorting corporate lackeys of their hard earned credits and decimating the incompetent Navy lapdogs that were sent against me. While I've already taken a part of a number of fights over the last week, dismantling a number of Interdictor-class and Archer-class warships - even forcing an Overlord-class to dock in order to escape certain death - one of them stood out as a perfect attempt to truly humiliate the Navy hypocrites.

It was earlier today, when during a normal and calm evening I decided I'd visit Pennsylvania. While cruising down the tradelane leading to Erie, I caught a glimpse of a ship who's signature I recognized to be an Interdictor-class that I just so happened to blow up not five days ago, in California. The ship was roughly in the direction of Bethlehem, so I decided I'd exit the tradelane and investigate; make sure the lapdog isn't bothering the Zoners.

Turns out the knave was destroying Rogue installations near the vicinity of Bethlehem, taking the prisoners back to the LPI for 'processing'.

I managed to steer the captain's attention away from the task at hand and lead him far from the station where we had a conversation that lasted a while. Among many, mostly useless things, it was revealed that the secondary fleet does not have the necessary personnel available to assign to warships, so they are prematurely promoting officers in order to assign them in command of such ships with little to no experience, sending them head-first into combat in command of a ship they've likely never been in before. Not a surprise, to be honest, but I did not expect the Navy to have gotten that much more incompetent since last time I popped my head around.

After seeing me cut the tradelane a few times, the captain got arguably pissed off and ordered his crews to open fire upon me. I escaped the vicinity and returned aboard one of the Retaliators to show him why he shouldn't bite off more than he can chew.

Suffice to say, the Interdictor-class stood no chance. Albeit outclassed and outgunned, I easily evened the odds by focusing down the warship's shield generator and disabling it while suffering minimal damage. The rest was history.

By the time I was done with his ship, it was being held together by the hopes and dreams of him and his crewmates, as they were continuing to vent atmosphere. With the warship's hull integrity practically compromised in every way, shape and form, the poor sob broke.

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[08.09.2024 22:42:53] LH~Mactan.Retaliator: Guess it's over for you already.
[08.09.2024 22:44:38] LH~Mactan.Retaliator: Any last words?
[08.09.2024 22:45:17] LNS-Upheaval: No.. Just end it will ya. I'm tired of the Navy.
[08.09.2024 22:45:17] LH~Mactan.Retaliator: Nothing at all?
[08.09.2024 22:45:27] LH~Mactan.Retaliator: Why?
[08.09.2024 22:45:32] LH~Mactan.Retaliator: What makes you tired?
[08.09.2024 22:45:34] LNS-Upheaval: All of my gunners are Driven by AI.

Aside from the humiliating victory and the captain's remarks after it, it was concluded that the warship was running on skeleton crew. Skeleton crew. The mighty and powerful Liberty Navy sending Interdictors manned with the bare-minimum crew chasing after Rogue installations in Pennsylvania, not twenty clicks away from Bethlehem.

At this point, my educated assumption is that they -want- the Zoners to win the war.

[∎] - Crippled Interdictor-class

I forgot to mention that a Forty-sixth fighter showed up to somehow threaten me. I ended up feeling a slight emotion of pity and had him escort the battlecruiser back to base.

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