Comm ID Fleet Captain Mori Tadao Target ID
The Hellfire Legion
Today, Liberty suffered a catastrophic loss.
While in the midst of a mission into Liberty to spread information among the people, Lt. Curtis Initiate Bennington, and I received word that the Libertonian Dreadnought LNS Epsilon had been sighted within the system by a pair of Lane Hackers. Our fighters, of course, would have been useless against the beast, and as such, I called in and took command of the HFB Incursus for this mission. While Initiate Bennington began a patrol to find out where the LNS Epsilon was, the Incursus moved into position in a secret place near West Point Academy.
Unfortunately, the brave Initiate was found, and was subsequently chased down by no less than two LSF Upholders, a Navy Upholder, an LSF Avenger, the gunboat LNS Furious Absolution, and the LNS Epsilon - a Dreadnought! All this for one little Sabre. I was shocked. A waste of resources indeed! The Initiate retreated into the Badlands, and to our great surprise, the Navy and LSF ships followed him! Thankfully, they broke off, but our relief turned to dismay when we found out that they'd only changed the target of their attacks to Taskmaster Novak of the Vagrant Raiders. Unfortunately, there was little we could do, and the Taskmaster's ship was destroyed.
Eventually, however, with the help of the Lane Hacker Phate, we managed to gather a sizable force to avenge the fallen Taskmaster. Lt. Curtis' shift was over, but Phate proved himself to be invaluable by personally finding the LNS Epsilon and helping set up an ambush for the ship. Its massive numbers of re-enforcements were scattered about New York, searching for the Incursus. There were not where they were most needed.
The Epsilon took damage quickly. Its hull soon began to buckle, and it turned to run. Its escorts began to do their jobs, however. One of Phate's Lane Hackers lost his ship.
With the fall of their leader, our foes began to fall with alarming speed. The Incursus pulled off, as we couldn't risk hitting our own, but we remained idling in the area.
However, one of the Navy fighters, for some reason or another, decided to try riding the Incursus's bow wave. Of course, the Incursus makes no bow wave, as there is neither air nor water in space, and after a short blast from our guns took down his shields, his fighter was cleaved completely in two by the sharp bow of the Incursus.
Oddly, they seemed to think throwing a Battlecruiser at the problem would help. It didn't. At this point the Incursus began once again returning fire to mop up the remaining capital ships.
Gunboats, too, appeared popular, making them popular as a target in our books. Of course, no day would be complete without a bounty hunter making a nuisance of himself and subsequently burning up.
Several more of our foes fell and, eventually, we had finally mopped all the repeating waves of hostiles up. They didn't have the sense to all come at us at once, oddly.
But just as we were leaving, one last wave of bombers appeared from the direction of Norfolk Shipyard. Among them were those who had chased our Initiate down in the first place. The Incursus pulled out - the bombers were too much of a threat - and our men finished this last wave off.
With our job done, the Incursus lead the way to safety at Cochrane Depot on Ontario. Phate hastened our way by hacking into the Jump Gate and holding it open for us. We later learned that a second Battlecruiser had tried to catch us, but had proved far too slow. The Incursus moored with Cochrane, and our job was done.
The Legion performed specatularly, taking down a fleet larger than our, including several capital ships, and coming out of it safely. Of course, it would never have happened without the assistance of Phate and his Lane Hackers, nor without the much-overestimated tactical ability on the Libertonians. Sending their ships in a few at a time for us to pick off? Our job could not have been easier.
