The S/D Agency Files

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To: Directors
From: Rookie Cletus "Banjo" Behn
Subject: Patrol and engagement report


The first scalp is taken now for the Agency. But let's not jump ahead of things.


Contact in Omega-3

I flew transit from California to Cambridge since it seems the targets are more doable in Cambridge. I had been chasing this Hacker Phate for a better part of a week now and had gotten him in the edge of my radar but no closer. I needed a change. Cambridge turned out pretty quiet. I got a request from Norfolk to check out a radar contact Dark_Iniquity, but it managed to slip to Omega-3. I followed the ship there.

Dang!

I had lost him again. I put a searching flight path into my nav-computer and started looking for this mysterious ship. I docked to Rugen Station for a quick stop at the loo and loaded with questions if they had seen the ship. After undocking I heard a system wide bulletin coming from BAF|Ens.Karlson that there was a pirate in the system. I asked the location and he reported the ship in the vicinity of Freeport 1. I immediately set my course to FP1, but moments later he said that the ship had fled. And it was coming towards me. It was the missing ship Dark_Iniquity. We came to a stand-off and eyed warily each other. I noticed that I had not jurisdiction over him, since he was sporting a pirate ID albeit flying a Corsair Praetorian bomber. And I, nor Ensign Karlson, had not caught him in an act of piracy. So, I did the next sensible thing and talked the pirate into leaving the system. To top it all of he actually was relieved and amazed to see a hunter not coming at him guns blazing from the get-go. Even though I did basically nothing except playing my mouth I got compensated very generously by the Ensign Karlson.





Search and Destroy in Cambridge

After talking the pirate into leaving I got into a conversation with a Zoner and Ensign Karlson had left for Cambridge. I noticed that Ensign was engaged to a Corsair Vybz_Kartel and asked if he needed help. To which he promptly answered yes. I scanned the ship before opening fire and he was loaded with lawful pilots. I proceeded to inform the Corsair it was time to face the music.



Ensign had already almost disarmed the bomber leaving only Nova torpedoes. After wearing him down together with Ensign with constant Mini Razor and Splitters fire the Corsair seemed to suffer an enGineFailure as you can see in the video him stopping and saying in the video I managed to grab from the situation when the mine I had released homed on his wrecked hull putting an very effective end to his struggle. And of course I made a mess and sent the wrong message to Ensing after he thanked me for the help.

I tractored in the lawful pilots and loot. To my amazement I could not find the pod containing the Corsair, but at least there one ship less ruining the scenic Vista of Cambridge. I flew to Norfolk where I delivered the rescued pilots to the medical personnel I had alerted before landing.



So, all went well today. I have to remember to check the bounty offerings if this Corsair was more worth than the regular bounty posted by BAF.


- Cletus "Banjo" Behn


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