Today sucked. It started off harmlessly enough. Stood pretty much picking my nose for hours with Officers Blackburn and Tomlinson. Begged, to no avail, to be sent out to do scouting and reconnasaince missions. Received a well meant lecture from some LSF agent telling me not to wish for conflict.
Finally, I was sent off with Officer Blackburn to patrol NY tradelanes, probably just to shut me up. Nothing happened during our patrol. Received some disparaging remarks about how poorly Liberty Navy is doing in the war with Rheinland. That was the same day Liberty Navy enjoyed a rousing victory against our enemies. He must not read the news much.
Received a distress call from Officer Tomlinson that several Indie Rheinland vessels bursted into Texas system, and Officer Blackburn and I beelined it back to Houston. I was about to state my intentions to engage the foe, however the enemy stated his intentions with blaster fire. Nothing else. I barely escaped immediate destruction, but in my efforts to be honorable and fair, my ship suffered too much damage to recover. I made a few more weak attempts to fight them off, but my damaged guns could hardly penetrate their reinforced shielding. Plus, there were so many against us. Strange that the Battleship Missouri didn't fire at them. The officer in charge of that Battleship should be courtmartialed for incompetance. Either that, or the Rheinlander intruders were masking their transponder ID's. May have to look into that.
Anyways, my ship was damaged beyond recovery and, to be honest, I lost consciousness for a long time. I don't even remember being tractored back to Houston and placed in the medical facilities here. Nevertheless, the doctor says I'll be out soon, so I will be back out there again fighting the good fight. No pics of the battle, as the indestructable flight recorder strangely went inactive.
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