Okay, it's Bastian. Neurath roused me for a patrol of the 47. Casablanca's array had talk of some Corsair cruisers so we thought we'd better investigate all that.
We'd barely started our patrol when we came across two OPG craft in the Melilla. It got hot pretty fast and my adrenaline was pumping. Felt like I was half my age. I managed to down one and Neurath got the other.
We turned back to Casablanca to stock up again and check our ships for damage, when the cruisers we'd heard about pinged our scanners. They pulled back when they saw us, but we knew what had to be done. We tapped shoulders on Casablanca until Major Gryneus started prepping the Jeschke to assist us. With that, and news of Dennis Koppe coming down from the 5, we were ready to set out.
We found them deep in the Walker, by the Fes. It was scrappy: the four of us against the two cruisers and the Fes' gun batteries. Jeschke got a hull breach and had to pull back, but she'd done so much damage that the rest of us could clean up.
We crippled one of the cruisers, whilst the other limped back to the Fes on its last legs.
We pulled back up to Vernheim to finish our patrol, and the rest of it was quiet. After that, the bar became more appealing than the cockpit, and I think I earnt my keep for at least another day.
Still, the corsair presence in this system is stronger than I'd have thought it would be by now.
