After-combat action report
I'm happy to report last night's patrol within the Liberty Southwest was concluded successfully. Delayed by a dockyard inspection, I departed from Valravn Citadel at 2148 hours, taking the short route through Coronado to regroup with Commanders Locksmith and Bellamy Crowe in the Magellan system. I found them concluding their public outreach duties upon a solitary snubcraft flying a Liberty Navy IFF. The pilot claimed their IFF was going to be fixed soon and retired to sleep upon docking a local asteroid outpost. Commander's Crowe ship began experiencing technical difficulties, which seemed to originate from a substandard hullpanel fixing. We discussed options for field dressing the ship. Commander Locksmith suggested we requisition those from the Liberty Navy in the future.
After collecting our party, we began our patrol duties in earnest and completed a loop through the California, New York, and Pennsylvania systems. We failed to encounter resistance, beside two bombers with a Liberty Navy ID. An Upholder and Raven's Talon. I expressed my suspicions that they were local scammers pretending to be officers to the rest of our wing. The pilots in question were tight lipped and gave no indication on what their purpose in the system was, even when questioned directly and through more forceful means. The commander made the call to incentivize them with a few warning shots. The initial target, marked on the combat log as Fighting Falcon appeared to freeze in panic and took no evasive action, somehow vaporizing with the initial salvo.
I'll admit I was still processing the situation, when I was ordered to pursue and destroy the secondary target, whose transponder held the Jhon.Week tag. The pilot attempted to gain distance and saturate my flight path with semi-active missile salvoes. The speed at which the opponent corrected their vectors and the accuracy of their shots would indicate that either these ships were indeed not part of the actual Liberty Navy, or that the service's training levels have reduced further than anticipated.
After inspecting the wreckage for useful maintenance components, failing to find any, we completed our patrol path and returned to base through the Ontario-Inverness junction, which also concludes my report. I hope the language used was satisfactory to my senior officers, unlike before. I would like to avoid further reeducation to focus on combat efficiency.
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