I was on my way back to Liberty, carrying some of the Unioner pilots that had interrupted our flight. I stopped at Huntsville to drop them off.
I then decided to run a short check on Zone 21 and Alaska before ending duty.
Zone 21 was ok, but when I started to check Alaska I quickly ran into an Order Agent, Ensign Chris Leigh. He was flying with cruise and I followed him. His cruise flight led to the NY jumpgate where I stopped him and asked him whether he was lost.
Leigh then asked me permission to enter NY system. I asked him what he wanted there and he told me he couldn't tell me that. He assured me that his presence would not interfere with any Liberty forces or Civilians. Also told me that his mission was in the interest of both our organizations.
I told him I couldn't let him enter NY without official mission that has previously been announced to Liberty authorities, also offered him to inform LSF to eventually take care of his issue. He then tried to dock. Unfortunately I was unable to kill him before he docked.
Don't know how he got the code for the gate, but he had it. I followed him, he knew exactly how to proceed after the jumpgate. He was in full cruise speed and I followed him.
Followed him this way through the whole system, he took a path above level. There was not much I could do at that moment than following him in cruise to check where he went and what he was up to. He told me he was looking for the Ghost.Of.Black.Icarus, an order recon ship.
Later, when analysing the logs I saw that the Ghost.Of.Black.Icarus was trying to lure me away ("LSF James T, Agent Death Hand needs immediate assistance around Norfolk"), but I did not pay attention to that. All sorts of support requests came in which I had to ignore. As usual New York was a mess, with criminals all over the place. I tried unsuccessfully to contact the Navy ships to inform them of the problem, but they all were busy. All I got as reply from [LN]-LNS-Groom.Lake was the advice to shut down the Alaska gate.
I continued to chase Leigh, he finally went out of cruise at Rochester station, right in front of two Outcasts (-Stuka- and ChaosS_TerroR). He openly admitted that he wanted to get rid of me this way.
Fortunately the two Outcasts complained about us showing up there but did not attack. I then ordered Leigh to give up and told him that I won't ask again. I did not want to wait until -Stuka- might make up his mind to attack me.
I engaged Leigh. Later I saw in the log a rather rude request for support by the CBC-22-Iwo.Jima (never heard about that ship before). I was busy fighting Leigh, commented by the two unlawfuls.
The fight did not go too well and after less than three minutes I was out of shield batteries and nanobots. But I did not want to lose the ship, I wanted to see what Leigh was really up to, wanted to follow him. Then I made a wrong decision. I hit the cruise, still flying around Leigh.
When I saw Stukas comments I remembered that that counts as fleeing. I was so mad at me, that I slowly continued to Manhattan without paying much notice to what happened around me.
When I arrived near Manhattan there was fighting going on and the [LN]-LNS-Groom.Lake told me to dock. I slowly docked and then told them that I had left Order Agent Leigh near Rochester and that he had been looking for the Ghost.Of.Black.Icarus.
Later I saw in the logs that a guy called Patterson on the CBC-22-Iwo.Jima got very emotional, obviously thinking that my top priority would be to assist any untagged ship that asked me to (probably thought I was Navy).
// log analysis showed me that I stumbled into an RP involving at least Leigh, the Ghost.Of.Black.Icarus and the CBC-22-Iwo.Jima (J. Patterson)
I hope it still was fun
Agent James Turtle
Division Homeland Security
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She: Some soldiers, I know, are afraid of death.
He: All of them, dear lady, all of them, believe me. It is our duty to live as long as we can, and kill as many of the enemy as we can.
