Thank you Vice-Admiral for the promotion, this promotion is only further motivation in my effort to protect Liberty. The following report compiles the last two days of work.
A couple of days ago, the Order once again launched an attack on Liberty, however seeing as it was but one battleship that came, i suspect he was acting alone. The threat was soon neutralized with no apparent loss of friendly life.
A little while later i encountered a Mercenary in New York, but he seemed not to be harming anyone, and it looked as it was leaving anyhow. In accordance with that, I didn't order him to leave, however i was about to get a rude awakening. I went to California to check on a known Smuggler, Astronomical, when the Mercenary hailed me and asked me if i knew Merc's were banned from Liberty. The cheek! I wasn't going to stand up to this coming from a Mercenary, so i politely asked him to leave, at which he replied "You gunna make me?" As you can see, i quickly realized where this was headed, and as i was about to power up engines, the mercenary shot a Supernova squarely at my ship. Shields were down instantaneously, one more shot from that thing, and i was a goner. Using the skill taught to me in the Academy, i was easily able to dodge his weapons fire, and terminate him.
After encountering the Mercenary, i was called to another incident in the California system where two [Maf] pirates were attacking Naval officers. Myself and other Liberty Navy officers were aided by some DarkWings who had already engaged the targets. The fight was long and drawn out, and just when we thought we had the last Maf, another one had come. Long range scanners also picked up an Outcast Destroyer heading directly for us, and given the damage we had taken, we were no match for it. We attempted to put down the last Maf's before the destroyer came but were unable to. The destroyer quickly moved in and slaughtered all the lawfuls there. I managed to dodge it's fire, but only to be hit by two Supernovas (or so i am told by other officers in the battle, i was knocked unconscious shortly after). Luckily i managed to eject, and a nearby gunboat tractored my escape pod in. I remained unconscious through the night, and woke up the next day good as new, the doctor told me i was lucky to have sustained only minor injuries.
I reported for duty, and thought i must still have a concussion, there was no way so many smugglers could be in Liberty at one time! One after the other, they all attempted to smuggle their illegal goods into Liberty, but nearly all failed, and ALL paid their dues either with their life or with a fine. Astronomical was first, hauling artifacts, however he complied fully with my orders to stop, drop the cargo and pay the fine. Unfortunately, this would be the last of the 'easy' smugglers.
Logan Grimnar, a new name to smuggling attempted to evade being caught by not using the trade lanes to Manhatten, a useless countermeasure. I saw him going to Manhatten, and took the trade lanes straight there, and met him half-way. He didn't respond to hails, and was fast approaching the planet. Myself and another Navy officer opened fire on his ship, and he sustained heavy damage before making a hasty landing on Manhatten. I doubt his ship made it through the atmosphere in one piece, as we received word from Manhatten Space Control that ship debris had been picked up in the Gilledean Ocean on Manhatten.
Tobias Vaughn was the next one i picked up near Zone-21, however i gave him the benefit of the doubt, and didn't shoot him on sight. I ordered him to drop his cargo and pay the fine, which took him AGES to do. He was likely stalling for backup to arrive; which it never did.
The next smuggler proved to be the dumbest of them yet, the [OTC] tagged smuggler failed to heed to my warnings to halt, drop the cargo and pay the fine. Instead, he proceeded to fire on me, at which point i returned fire with the full force of my weapons. Backup came in the form of LNF-Derek.Applegate and many other Naval officers. Hopefully this will teach him not to smuggle again, however i seriously doubt it.
After all the smugglers were dealt with, a rogue by the name of Lovac was encountered in Texas space, he was in a heavily armed pirate bomber, and so i retreated to Battleship Mississippi for her to provide cover fire. As the Rogue approached, i was shocked to learn that Mississippi was having a critical reactor failure at the time, and all weapons were offline, just my luck. He approached me, then immediately opened fire with an unknown type of weapon, it obliterated my shields in one hit, and left me wide open for an attack. I initiated evasive manoeuvres, however the Rogue left shortly afterwards.
The day came to a weird end after asking two transports to halt. They both carried gate/lane parts, and thinking back to Liberty law, i remembered that they could only be held by Ageria Licensed personnel. After asking repeatedly for them to drop the cargo, an LPI officer came by and ordered that i let them both go, or else. I was shocked at this blatent disregard for house security by the LPI officer, and ordered him to stand down at once. He did not, and the situation was about to get explosive, i requested my C.O at the time (Lt. Matt Pregur) have a word with them about the goods. Both transports fled, and i pursued, and then the LPI officer engaged me! I quickly returned fire, as did Agatron, another Naval officer. Thankfully Lt. Matt Pregur was on the scene very quickly, and brought things under control. One transport dropped the cargo, however the other one fled back to New York, at which point we lost him. The gate/lane parts were returned to Detroit Munitions for delivery back to Ageria HQ.
Day Summary:
Mercenary Zane Fraizer --DESTROYED-- Reason: Attacking a Naval officer with intent to kill
Encounter with Maf Pirates --TWO DESTROYED-- --FORCED TO EJECT AND RETREAT--
Astronomical --SMUGGLER-- --FINED--
Logan Grimnar --SMUGGLER-- --DESTROYED--
Tobias Vaughn --SMUGGLER-- --FINED--
[OTC]-LA-484 --SMUGGLER-- --DESTROYED--
Lovac Na Glave 2 --ROGUE; FLED--
Karsai_V, jozsik --VIOLATING TRADE SECRETS-- --WARNED, FORCED TO DROP THEIR CARGO--
Unidentified LPI Officer --SUSPECTED OF BEING CORRUPT, INVESTIGATION PENDING--
Well, i'm back on duty soon, will be weird being a Sub Lieutenant, but it is an honor to be given the chance to serve as one. Sub.Lt. Jack Malrone out.
Note: Camera systems on my ship were down, so no shots could be taken of the offenders
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