The Phalanx

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Comm ID: Henry Scuttari, captain of the Perseus, personal log, 25/3/whatever

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This sunday was a great day for our crew. We had victories and defeats, and lots of fun.
First, we came out through Texas and destroyed [SA]-Tod"Maniac"Marshal, who was flying a fighter. He ejected his escape pod and was immediately hospitalized. Pity on this ensign, one day he will discover the dirty in the navy and will open his eyes. But we were just passing to Rheinland space. Fact is, I was heading to Hamburg for the stupid deal that Moire send me to do there with a ALG executive. The moron director gave me a data file that I cant access through my neural net without having a password, and those who try to access it will have their brain burnt. There is nothing in Sirius, in matter of codes, that we cant break into pieces. So I send word to Raphael Thames, but he was busied in Cortez. According to the director this data file contains important information about the rheinland military and should be delivered into junkers hands at Sigma 13.

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Oshima was taking drug again in the toilet. Pity on this lieutenant, one day he will discover the dirty in the use of cardamine and that the hackers dont rise to power because of this s**t. Tanya raised him and put him back into detoxication, he soon got better and was back into the bridge full of energy. So I received word from Moire the moron again, saying about re-creating the Phalanx. Looks like Witz released the files onto his hands and he started his delusions over again. I said no to his proposal and turned down the comm.
Well entering rheinland space we were attacked, or we attacked first, I dont remember. But we destroyed the RNC Weser, was a great vision to my tired eyes after a slepless night. We did a lot of havoc, gunboats and cruisers were destroyed.

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Then we headed to Sigma 13 and delivered the data file safely, but was not just that, we returned to New Berlin and a Helghast junker, named Olsav, helped us in engaging a rheinland police pilot named [RFP]Franz.Eberly. Both of them were in fighters. Franz ejected his escapepod but soon returned with his ship repaired, and was joined by a rheinland military pilot called Meric Freelamen, also in a fighter. Soon we had navigational problems (ooc: lag due to the presence of too much npcs) and tried to atract the two pilots to the Frankfurt gate, after Olsav was forced to retreat back into Sigma. But they dont followed the Perseus, and we returned to Sigma through the trade lanes in Frankfurt.

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Arriving in Sigma 13 we faced the SA doing a expedition in the border worlds. Four of them were detected in this expedition, all capital ships. One of them was in Sigma 13 and called Olsav to battle. We passed to Sigma 19, but before enter the hole the presence of another SA ship was detected in that system. Oshima asked me, maybe he is in the other side of the hole, but I answered, he is probably near the hole to Omicron Beta. And he was really there, not much far from the hole. [SA]-Interceptor started to chase the Perseus, and was a very exciting chase. He shoted lots of cruise disruptors but our pilot evaded all of them. We lost visual contact in the cloud in Beta, but soon he appeared again. Arriving in Alpha we lost sight of him again, perhaps he was spinning in the asteroids, we dont known. But as we landed on Malta, another capital ship was detected in the system. The SA was going to siege Malta to get me. I sold all the pilots into the slave trade and took a break.

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In Malta I encountered Erasmo, one of the best code-breakers in the outcasts. We had some talk about the data file. Erasmo said to me about the grave news concernign the upcoming war against the corsairs. Everybody is being called: the junkers, hessians, unioners, blood dragons and mollys. He said quite clearly: this war will show who are the real pirates, and who are the poseurs.
It not ended yet. We got back to California through the Tau systems, and soon were attacking Texas again. This last one involved a engagement with a gunboat, the first one, who showed new possibilites for our ship in matters of configuration of weapons, something that John, our technician, liked very much. We engaged [SA]-LNS-Washington near the Virginia jump hole. He did heavy damage in our ship and we were forced to retreat back to Beaumont. The control of the missile guns was damaged and we had to do a quick refitting in the positions, something that took some time but soon revealed to be a better option. Second engagement with the navy gunboat resulted in his ship exploding and he ejecting with his escapepod, soon being rescued by navy patrols near. First we lured him into the debris field to avoid the help of navy fighters, and the rogues appeared to help us. He keep firing with his forward gun but our infernos, now reffited in the backs, got his shields down, and then we proceed to damage his hull until he exploded.

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Now Im writing this from the junker base, thinking on a lot of possibilities. If we will be called to the war against the corsairs we will have to drop these attacks. For now I want to rest after this very tiring day.

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