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Comms ID: Major Tadao
Target ID: Hellfire Legion

Today, the Legion won a great victory!

Admiral LeBlanc and myself were on patrol in New York when we received word from our agents that the Navy gunboat LNS Lansing, captained by Commander Galen Anderson, was on patrol and in an opportune location for an interception. With the Admirals permission, I took command of the patrol wing, and Admiral LeBlanc's bomber and my own "Swooping Osprey" quickly moved to intercept the gunboat. Our plan was to destroy it and salvage as much as we could, but as we moved in, we offered the Commander an opportunity to surrender. He did not, and thus our Broadswords moved to engage the Lansing.

After a long and difficult fight that tried our endurance, we finally managed to disable the gunboat and destroy its engines. Finding himself outgunned and in no position to argue, Commander Anderson agreed to surrender his ship, as poor a condition as it was in, in exchange for his life and the lives of his crew. He and his crew ejected, and the Osprey tractored in their escape pods.

Admiral LeBlanc and myself then proceeded to attach grappling hooks to it, after which we slowly but surely moved it to Freeport 4 in Magellan. We had to reassure several Lane Hackers, a Junker, and a Rogue along the way, and later picked up an escort in the form of a Lane Hacker. After some time, we reached Cortez, where we had a momentary issue involving the grappling hooks, and then went on to Magellan, the Lansing in tow. With the help of a bit of diplomacy and a Heavy Lifter, we managed to convince the Guild miners that we were just doing a good deed, and they had aforementioned Heavy Lifter help the Lansing moor with the Freeport. Our of our own transports, disguised as a Navy vessel, is even now on its way to pick up the Lansing and move it to Fort ****** for deconstruction and use as fodder for the Project I have been assigned. I have reason to believe that much of it may be unsalvagable, but this is mostly a guess. The actual condition, and therefore usefulness, of the LNS Lansing won't be able to be accurately determined until our men at the Fort have a look at it, but needless to say, this is a great victory and will give the Project a massive push.

Meanwhile, true to our word, Commander Anderson and his crew were delivered safely to the Zoners on Bethlehem Station in Pennsylvania. I found him to be unusually reasonable, and he may yet be salvageable.

My flight camera captured the following images of this highly successful operation.


















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