The S/D Agency Files

[Agmen of Eladesor]

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From: Special Agent Max DeVirgo

Patrol Report

I'm officially taking a day off after this night.

Took off on what I thought would be a routing patrol in Cambridge. First thing I noticed on my scanners was the presence of Phate: hanging around in Cambridge. Aside from wondering what a Lane Hacker was doing down in Bretonian space - I figured it was, if nothing else, worth investigating.

Well, I ran the lanes first, and found nothing. So I headed up towards the Leeds JH. That's where the little bugger was - just sitting there, right by the JH. I scanned his ship from range, and figured that my ship was worth more than he was - especially since he had an escape path right there - so I just told him to get out. After a couple of taunts, he did.



I started heading for Cardiff, to resume my patrol, when I saw on scanners a couple of 'friends' entering the system from Leeds as well. I thought we were going to have a re-match from before - and the silly buggers changed ships on me. So there were two Barghest bombers and a gunship out there for me to deal with this time.

Since there's STILL a huge bounty on Mollies - I asked the crew, and they said, let's go for it.

I wish I had gun camera footage of the whole thing. It would be a GLORIOUS video to play, even without actually killing any of them. I concentrated on the bombers, trying to down their shields, and did a darn good job of keeping them hopping and running. We fought - and fought - and fought some more. After almost an hour of holding my own against these three, two BAF pilots and another hunter pilot came to Cambridge, and the Mollies ran away.

During this time, also, a group of Corsairs entered the Cambridge system as well, as well as an APM ship, the Virgo. The APM-Virgo called me and said that he'd seen Corsairs near Cardiff, and was running for the protecting guns of the Battleship Norfolk. Since the Mollies were gone, I headed that way as quickly as possible. Just shy of the Norfolk, I spotted two Corsairs in the lane, towards Cambridge. After telling these guys that I'd like to collect the bounties on their heads, I headed towards them.

Well, this didn't QUITE go as they thought it would, apparently. On basically their second run at me, I took One-Eyed Jacks shields down completely - and his torpedo shot at me ... backfired on him, to be polite.



His compadre ran away with his tail between his legs, and I left the BAF in pursuit of him. I then escorted the APM-Virgo to New Berlin, checking in with the RM that I was just passing through. The Surma is currently docked at Rostock, undergoing minor repairs and a slight change in weapons loadout.

I don't know if Sir Andrew Stuart would consider any of our actions for either a bonus for routing the enemy or not - I wish I could outright claim the kill for the corsair but stupidity on his part is ... well, his fault. Either way, I think that the Surma has come through THESE combat trials with flying colors.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.