Liberty Forces Message dump

[VincentFerrex]

|::Incoming Message...
|::Comm ID: Lieutenant Commander Valence Harper - Liberty Navy
|::Opening Message...

Greetings.

I won't bother to repeat what Ms. Casper stated, however, I will add more evidence to her report.

Over our communications channel, Mr. Eddy Looper contacted me that there were some hostiles at Texas, near Sugarland, and that they probably needed assistance. I jumped into my Havok bomber and proceeded to his location.

Casper on my wing, I was 25k from their location when I recieved a message stating that one of the LSF fighters were downed by the hostiles.

Nearing the combat scene, Looper informed me that the current target is a Rogue Gunboat, Zamfir, if I'm not mistaken. Firing my Debilitators until his shields went down, I then powered up my SuperNova and fired it. A direct hit made the Gunboat's hull buckle.

A few more shots from the other fighters, and the gunboat exploded.

There were still 2 more hostiles left. A Rogue Barghest bomber, and an Slipstream fighter. We firts proceeded to destroy the Barghest. After a few missed shots, I managed to land a MiniRazor hit on the unfortunate bomber, which destroyed it.

Turning towards the Slipstream, I fired several Debilitator shots, which tore down his shields. I activated my MiniRazor and started to fire it at him. Several minutes went by without us managing to significantly damage its hull.

Looper then asked us to stand down, so he could take the Slipstream by himself. I agreed, and ordered the rest of the ships to halt their firing for a second.

A little over 20 seconds, and Looper landed a critical hit ont he Slipstream, destroying it completely. After congratulating him on his wonderful shot, we then headed back to New York.

I recieved reports of some pirate activity in California, so, under Admiral Talon's orders, I flew with him to California. Completing a full round of the tradelane route, and finding no hostiles, Admiral Talon and I proceeded to head back to New York. Just as the Admiral jumped through, my sensors detected a Rogue in a Falcata. Turning towards it, I engaged my cruise engines and closed in.

Coming within range, I killed the engine, and fired a cruise disruptor towards the Rogue, disabling his cruise. A few minutes of fighting, without the Rogue landing any significant hull damage to me, I managed to destroy him, only to find myself surrounded by Rogue Gunboats and a Barghest bomber, 2k out.

Before I could engage my cruise engines, they had closed in and were engaging me. I tried to fly evasively, taking potshots on the Barghest, but it was no use. The Gunboats were missile platforms, and my Avenger couldn't out-maneuver the missiles. I soon ejected before my Avenger was destroyed.

I was picked up by a passing trader and he kindly dropped me off at Norfolk, where their engineers had another Avenger waiting for me, all fully prepped.

=LSF=Fluid then informed me that they were engaged on the West Point - California Gate lane, so I headed over there.

Imagine my surprise as I found that Admiral Talon, LSF Fluid and Sarah Willows were being attacked by at least 5 of them, perhaps more. So, after a few taunts aimed towards the pirates, I engaged.

All of our fire was directed towards a HellFire Legion Falcata. However, LSF Fluid first got rid of a Lane Hacker. Finishing off the Hacker, he turned his attention back towards the HellFire ship.

Severely weakening, the HellFire ship made his way to the heavily fortified Rogue Destroyer nearby, with us dead on his tail. Evading fire from the Destroyer's guns. A minute later, the HellFire ship exploded, its hull shattering under the firepower of our combined weapons fire.

We then aimed for Koverias Haevarion, another pirate. This one we took down swiftly.

Turning our attention to the last remaining pirate, a Rogue by the name of Anthony Crowley, we started to fire on him, but he evaded many of our shots, in what seemed like a last ditch attempt to escape. Eventually, he got tired of it, and tried to engage us.

Out of the blue, an Order Gunboat captained by Kaize Soze shows up, and starts firing on us. He proved a bigger threat, so we engaged him.

Crowley then stated that he had nothing to do with the Order vessel showing up.

A few minutes passed with us continually firing on the weakening gunboat, imagine our surprise when 4 more Rogue Gunboats popped up on radar.

Smugly, Crowley then confessed that he had something to do with the bringing of the additional Rogue forces.

Admiral Talon then noted that 2 of the new gunboats were missile boats, and ordered a retreat. We all then activated our cruise engines, and made our way out. However, Talon was under heavy fire from the rest, and his engines were being disrupted, as his supplies were running out. I then tried to draw away the fire from him, but it was no use. His ship was destroyed. However, we were near West Point, and his pod managed to safely escape and dock at that station.

The Rogues then turned their attention to me, and disrupted my every attempt to escape. Once again, the missiles were too hard to out-maneuver, and my Avenger was destroyed again. As with Talon, I managed to safely escape to West Point.

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The beginning of the day was great. We were winning, and suppressing the Rogues. However, nearing the end of the above combat scenario, I am ashamed to say that we were out gunned, and outnumbered, as 5 fighters, including LSF Serpico, who arrived towards the end of the battle, were no match for the missile boats.

I am currently unable to show the last recorded images of the fight, as the engineers on the Missouri are trying to pry it from my ship's blackbox. Rest assured, I will be able to show it when it is done.

That's my second Avenger today... I have a hefty bill on my hands...

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