»UPLINK: ICN FIRESTORM, INCURSUS NODE

[Amy West]

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[SECURE - YELLOW]

Took Flush out for a spin with Crowe, Scerri, and Walters to do a sweep of New York. First contact was some Core drone operating within Liberty, though the big prize came up in the lanes after we hit Manhattan. One of ours, Mark IX Arbiter that the Navy thinks they call New Jersey, strolling around Manhattan orbit like it owned the place. Got some words in, some local resistance started flowing in, and we moved into the Jersey for cover from the pursuit. Walters got caught by a wasp fired into the scrap, and Crowe and I jumped in to cover.

All targets but one went down sequentially, though one of the spooks did have a bit of systems erraticity, so he elected to pull the ol' cyanide capsule and blow his ship to prevent capture. The last one Scerri took up in a duel while I went back to grab more ammunition at Rochester. When I got back, things had deteriorated. LSF and Navy goons all over the place, a dreadnought, gunship, the works. Walker went down first to the geek squad. Crowe, Scerri, and I held our own, with the call sent out across the network, but then Moretti came in.
Cobra and three of his mates jumped into the fray, on our side to boot. Helped ease off a lot of the pressure, but not before Crowe and Scerri bit it. The cover squad iced one of the 46th's aces that jumped in, but then Moretti went down.

Next was one of the secondary Navy pigs, who I swear was out to collect every Firestalker and Sidewinder I had aboard my ship. Pattern repeated, and another Xeno went down, then one of the spooks. Pattern broke when another spook followed, but returned when another Xeno fell. At this point, cover squad was down to two people left, and the Navy decided to roll in a second dreadnought to keep the other one company. They took their chance and left, so I followed suit and made out while I could.

I gotta hand it to Moretti and his boys, I wouldn't have made it out without 'em, so that counts for something. Flush is gonna have a dings and scrapes to patch out, but nothing that can't be fixed.

Report filed under YELLOW level encryption.

Libera te ex Infernis.

West, out.

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