Incoming Transmission...
...Decryption in Progress... COMPLETED
Sender: Rudess, Jordan (Vagrant Raiders, Warlord)
Target: Vagrant Raiders Intel (Vagrant Raiders)
Greetings fellow Raiders. After approximately a week of reconnaissance missions where no contact to the Raiders' comm channel was available, I returned to find myself in a somewhat tense situation.
Immediately upon accessing the Raiders' comm, which at the time the Hellfire Legion were sharing for fast information relay, I was greeted by calls for help from the New York to California Jump Gate. I immediately went to assist the Hellfire legion who's comm signature I had picked up.
Upon returning to standard flight on the New York side of the jump gate, I noticed (and it was hard to miss) a Liberty Cruiser firing upon several Legion bombers and fighters. I immediately announced my arrival, and moved to assist. I landed several SNAC shots and participated in the final barrage of gun fire that did the cruiser in. Unfortunately my guncam was acting a bit faulty after its long term of non-use, so no images are available.
At this point, the Legion ships divided, and three were left to continue some operation which only they knew of. I offered my services to hack lanes and shoot down Navy. They accepted.
I hacked open the nearest trade lane, and we headed towards a liberty base, but as we came to a stop at the end of the lane, two Liberty gunboats moved to intercept us. We quickly dispatched the first with a concentrated barrage of SNAC fire from the four of us. The second had a more skilled captain, and multiple uses of my Inferno were instrumental in keeping his shields down long enough for one of the HF boys to land a SNAC.
The Legion pilots then loosed a stream of Nova torpedoes at the station. I hacked the lane and we fled before reinforcements arrived.
We then launched several Nova assaults at various Liberty military institutions.
Heading towards Planet Manhattan, we were joined by a Hacker who expressed interest in the destruction of Military property we had participated in so far. Upon arrival at Manhattan, we were intercepted by multiple fighters, and the situation quickly became a turbulence of gunfire. The legion fighters and myself concentrated fire on targets while the hacker ran interference, picking fighters off our backs. In this manner, no less than seven fighters were destroyed. Then the LNS Capehorn gunboat arrived with more fighters. We attempted to destroy at least the gunboat, and were succeeding despite the captain's brilliant piloting of the craft, until a second gunboat arrived. The hacker and Legion squad leader were immediately destroyed. Me and the other HF attempted a withdrawal. My ship was destroyed, and in the confusion of the ejection process, I lost track of the others.
The total tally for the day was:
1 liberty cruiser
2 liberty gunboats
7 liberty fighters
1 VR bomber (replaced)
1 Hacker fighter
1 HF bomber
2 HF bombers (assumed destroyed)
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