Stoat - A log

[Stoat]

Yesterday was a good day. My hammerhead was repaired much faster than had been expected, and I was able to return to Leeds early in the morning. The work on my gunship had been completed, so I took her out. I'd heard early reports, before I'd left California, of heavy pirate activity, so headed back there in search of a hunt.

It didn't take me long to run across a couple of LN pilots under heavy fire from a Rogue gunboat and Falcata bomber. One of the navy pilots was Admiral David Hale, no less. When I hailed them, they immediately requested I engage the gunboat, Jones.Rowe, while they concentrated on the Hacker in the bomber. As I engaged, Jones.Rowe disabled the Liberty gunboat that was there, its' crew ejecting to safety. Jones.Rowe was no match for me, and I soon despatched the ship. Hale and his wingman, Toliman, chased off the Hacker, breaking off pursuit soon there-after. Netted me a cool million, that little piece of work. Very nice.

I returned to Leeds, as reports suggested that California was clear of any threat. As I arrived, I heard reports from the York of a Hogosha incursion. A lone Corsair gunboat had been spotted in the vicinity and was being hunted by Lieutenant Commander Blake Owen of the BAF. I immediately headed for the area to see if I could assist. As I traveled the trade lane from Stokes to Glasgow station I picked up the Hogosha and Owen on long range scans. When I hailed him, Owen requested my assistance. He'd been taking a pounding from the gunship, and only his exceptional piloting skills had kept him alive. When I engaged the Hogosha, Owen had lost all guns apart from his SNAC. Again, it was a short fight. The Hogosha was poorly equipped to deal with a gunship, its' missile turrets useless against me. The ship was destroyed in short order, though the crew was able to get to safety in the escape pods before I was able to find them.

Owen advised me to apply for a reward from the BAF contracts.

Returning to Leeds, I switched to my Hammerhead and headed for Cambridge. Reports were flooding in detailing a Corsair incursion from Omega-5. As I approached planet Cambridge I picked up several Corsair ships on scans, and several BAF pilots moving to intercept them. The fight began as I arrived. I had planned to leave the 4 corsair ships to the BAF, but they engaged me, so I returned fire immediately. The Corsair ships consisted of an Eagle, a Spatial, a Corsair gunboat and one other that I failed to get a direct scan of. The gunboat was poorly crewed, and fell easy prey to Commodore Nelson and myself. I was able to get the killing shot in. The other ships soon fell to the rest of the BAF pilots.

Commodore Nelson transferred 400k credits to me in thanks for my assistance. I shall still be claiming bounties from their channels though!

I returned to Leeds again. It was time to apply to the bounty contracts channel. It was then I found that the scanners on my gunship had malfunctioned, and I had failed to get a record of the Hogosha, Desert.Snow. Still, I had the logs of my conversation with Owen. I trust these will be sufficient for me to claim the bounty. I am awaiting a response from the contracts office.

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