My day report for my shift yesterday. I began my shift in Texas and began and finished my patrol of that system. After this, I moved to New York where Phantoms were starting to make their appearance. Luckily, they were nowhere near the populated areas and were probably in the Badlands spewing their lies and propaganda. During this time, I had several Liberty Cutters on duty and just in time, had both Vice Admirals arrive with forces of their own. Our forces consisted of Vice Admiral Harper, Vice Admiral Hale, LC Daniel.Mathis, Nolan.Wolf, Lieutenant Darkmoor, and LC Poseidon. (25% chance of incomplete data). A [KoF]-CHiEf-O'AppLES! also arrived and assisted with his Viper MkII.
We were up against 6 Phantoms whose names were: Dark.Blossom, Glock., Nightsmoke, Banshee's.Wail, DarkStar and Shock. DarkStar was in an Outcast Destroyer, Banshee's.Wail being in a Liberty Rogue Gunboat, and others were in Sabres and 1 Falcata.
We found the Phantoms on the Fort Bush-Colorado Gate line. Our forces led by Vice Admiral Harper, concentrated fire on the Destroyer and it was quickly taken out. Another Phantom was also destroyed, however I have no information on that. We began taking losses as well, as the Rogue gunboat's 2 Dragonflys along with the other Sabres' fire took out Vice Admiral Hale and Lieutenant Darkmoor. Slowly, the oppressors were gaining the upperhand and overwhelmed us with the gunboat's missiles. I was eventually destroyed by the gunboat and later, Nolan.Wolf and Vice Admiral Harper.
Much later in the night, the Phantoms leaving and many of my fellow officers retiring, I took command of a force that complemented the LC Matagora, =LSF=Garmen, LNS-Lexington, and later the LNS-Santa.Fe and [LN]LNS-Repentence. I ordered all systems be checked of any pirate activity, however surprisingly there were none. There was a Z21 violation however, and I went into Alaska to check it out. I found junker named Fred.Sanford around Fairbanks killing nomads and claiming he was visiting his "cousin". I curtly ordered him to follow me and that this was restricted space, however he somehow landed on the station and managed to elude the LSF agents on board for an hour. I left Alaska, hoping to catch him another time and began a patrol of New York.
After the incident in Alaska, the Santa.Fe's long range sensors gave an alert that there was an Order Battleship by the name of [THC]BigFatty in Omicron Delta. At that moment, he was of no threat until he showed up on long range sensors in Omicron Minor. He was accompanied with a [Merc]KJ. Due to our past experience with this ship and what he enjoys to do, I ordered Condition Yellow on the Assault Battlecruisers. I gave command to Commander Winston in the Commonwealth as he began his shift and we continued to be on high alert until the threat had left.
After this, and my shift at its end, I spent the end of my shift in Texas on Embargo/Interdiction duty and found Fred.Sanford's comm signature again somewhere in the system. He was not caught however, as I did not have any intelligence on his whereabouts. An interesting ship by the name of GTFM (I believe Commander Mctyre had a run-in with him as well) stormed into Houston space and drew the fire of the Missouri. This happened quickly and I did not have time to capture any guncam shot of his ship, however I do remember his loadout. He did indeed affiliate himself with the Asgard Warriors and was in an Orca gunboat with a complement of Nomad turrets. I hailed him several times, however all he did was move into the tradelane and jump out to Hudson.
With the [LN]LNS-Repentence checking in and responding with an "All Clear" of the Texas system, I retired on the Missouri, ending my shift. Long live Liberty!
