Source: Ouray Base, Colorado System Comm ID: XA-Falcon (Glenn Thacker) Subject: Status Report
I haven't been logging much flight time lately, thanks to administrative duties, but I decided that I've had enough of paperwork and datapads for a while, and bumped my name to the top of the patrol roster. I undocked, and headed towards Pueblo to give Aegira a little Xeno hospitality. There must have been something big going on there,. When I arrived, I found a very large Navy force, consisting of a dreadnaught, two cruisers, and an entire squadron of fighters holding station outside Pueblo. I took a few shots at the dreadnaught, but not being suicidal, I decided to head back towards Ouray and come up with a new plan.
It seems that the Navy had plans of their own, though. One of their elite pilots, id'd as [LN]-David.Hastings broke off from the main group and pursued me. He wasn't much of an elite, it seems, as after I fired a supernova in his direction, he decided to run. I let him and got back on course towards Ouray. After I entered cruise, I noticed that Mr. Hastings wasn't getting any further away from me, so I take a look at the rear-view. Yep, he had second thoughts and had taken up pursuit. Since I had no interest in taking him all the way to Ouray, I dropped cruise. As I did that, I dropped several mines, hoping to get lucky with one. It wasn't meant to be, however. He also dropped cruise, and I immediately engaged. After a couple passes with my Black Widows, he decided to run again. I smelled blood in the water, though, and disrupted his cruise this time. As he was trying to recover from my cruise disruptor, I let fly with another round of Black Widows, and was treated to a satisfying fireworks show.
After that, I returned to Ouray to let the maintainance techs buff the scratches off my hull.
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