[101st] Flight Operations Records

[Ceoran]

***Incoming Transmission***
***Comm-ID: Nero D'Ortona***
***Subject: Patrol and events in Alpha***

Hola Admiral,

Today I'm sending your two reports packed into one. The first one covers a rather long patrol we had yesterday. After undocking from Cali I grouped up with Devon Xaero and Arturo Salieri in Tau-37 to escort the BLS transport Caltu'Re down to Liberty. Sadly we didn't make it very far, upon entering Tau-23 we already encountered a group of four Colonials who decided to chase the Syndicate transport. The transport escaped into Orkney and made it safely to Kirkwall while we were following it and the Colonials.
In Orkney, when the chase ended it turned into a rather long exchange of words and a strange discussion about dancing and friendship. We almost managed to convince one of them to hug one of the rocks, but sadly his comrades managed to avoid it. I'm sure the pictures would have been amusing. Meanwhile we had enough time to take a closer look at the colonial forces. They consisted of a gunboat, a bomber as well as two fighters while Captain Carrera arrived and we could field four Sabres.

Later on it ended, as expected, in an exchange of gunfire instead of words. Minor damage occured to our vessels, none went down. About the colonials, well let's keep it short:

The last one was allowed to retreat and deliver the message of their defeat to his superiors. In an unexpected move of intelligence he decided to do so and not to waste his ship in a hopeless combat. Afterwards Carrera and Xaero left us so Salieri and me continued the patrol alone. The Caltu're stayed at Kirkwall meanwhile to wait for a reduced colonial activity before continuing the trip to Liberty.
We continued our patrol towards Tau-29 and patrolled the asteroid fields near the trade lanes, observing the Kusari traffic and military strength in the area. Instead encountering larger amounts of the Kusari Naval forces we stumbled about some Kishiro Miners.

It seems the Kusari are feeling safe in the Taus these days considering the present amount of military. Apparently most of the military has been moved to the borders to Bretonia. Maybe we could use the situation and hit their supply lines to prevent them from turning on Tau-23 again soon.
Once we finished scouting the system we decided to move back towards Alpha as we received word about trouble with the gas miners in Beta. Even though our forces seemed to outnumber the enemy we decided to be not too far away if the tide would turn against us. But as soon as we had Malta on visual sight again our victorious forces returned from Beta. Meanwhile we received word from our Guards at Bastia about an (at that time) unregistered Battleship of the Maltese Navy in Omicron-85.

Said vessel turned out to be the MNS Malevolence. We were able to receive their comm-signal upon entering the system, just as stated in the reports from Bastia but didn't get any response to our hails and identification request. According to the recent entry of said ship into the Capital ship database and another encounter I assume someone just forgot to switch off the comms while the ship was moored with Corsica. I suggest to order an investigation about the incident though.
As we could do anything and the comm transmitter disappeared later on from the channels we decided to move on towards the Sigmas in scout into the gas miner controlled space. we jumped into Sigma-60 and there from to Sigma-59, expecting heavy resistance upon entering. Well, if we expected the Gas Miners to have an eye on their backdoor we got heavily disappointed. Nothing, no weapon platforms and no fighters right next to the jump hole. We then moved further into the system and at least encountered some minor patrols. As we could see a station in the distance we decided to take a closer look at it. Apparently the station is named Niigata and to our surprise had some Storage Depots right next to it.

It wasn't hard to decide what to do. the storages weren't defended very well so we disabled the surrounding weapons platforms first and then blew up the depots.

After doing so and filling our cargo hold with some additional fuel from the former storage depots we ventured even deeper into the system as we had spotted another station. upon approaching it we discovered a jump hole nearby. This time it was guarded by weapon platforms and the stations defence turrets.

We still decided to jump through and see what would be on the other side. We ended up in Sigma-19, not far away from the jump hole towards Beta.

as we had already arrived there we decided to proceed towards Sigma-13 and listen to some rumours on Yanagi, maybe we would find something of interest for us. Upon entering Sigma-13 we jumped right into an ongoing fight between one of our patrols and two gas miner wings.

Of course we assisted in the fight and destroyed the gas miners before proceeding towards Yanagi. I exchanged some words with the leader of the patrols, his name was Juan Carlos Buxo. He told me he had decided to had back towards Sigma-19 and then further towards Ruiz. Any further details about the fight we stumbled into might be found in their database, if needed.

Then we proceeded towards Yanagi as planned and stayed at the bar for a while, listen to what the junkers and other travellers had to tell us. Sadly we didn't find out much of interest except that a slave convoy passed by earlier heading for Malta. As we would be on overtime anyway once reaching Malta we decided to head back home and follow the convoy in case they would encounter any trouble on the way. We reached Ruiz without catching up and they confirmed that the convoy passed through safely so we decided to end our patrol and head back home. Upon reaching Malta I talked to the captain of a present battleship about his registration papers, pointing out a mistake in the call-sign and then docked at the planet after the captain promised me to take care of said issue.

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Now as promised the second report:

Right before I started to write these reports I docked after responding to an emergency call. We had a bounty hunter incursion in Alpha. When I arrived at the scene all I could see were 3 hunter bombers on the enemy side, but several capital class vessels on our side. the first comm signal I received originated from Manou Revida cursing at some obviously stubborn or deaf captains.

[06.12.2009 20:04:53] Manou.Revida[101st]: have you no ears? caps, cease fire

As none of the captains reacted as we expected them to do I backed Senor Revidas orders for the capital ships present, especially a destroyer with the call-sign "Garrett." as well as the Battleship "Galileo"

[06.12.2009 20:05:36] Nero.D'Ortona[101st]: Garret, you have been ordered to cease fire, don't risk our own ships
[06.12.2009 20:05:54] Manou.Revida[101st]: hombres, cease fire!
[06.12.2009 20:06:07] Manou.Revida[101st]: stop wasting precious cap recources
[06.12.2009 20:06:41] Nero.D'Ortona[101st]: Garret, I will pin your head on Maltas slave market personally if you keep disobeying orders
[06.12.2009 20:07:05] Manou.Revida[101st]: this is an outrage...
[06.12.2009 20:07:30] Nero.D'Ortona[101st]: The same goes for the captain of the Galileo, cease fire, you idiots will blow up our own fighters
[06.12.2009 20:07:42] Manou.Revida[101st]: caps cease fire NOW

The Galileo finally reacted, ceased its fire and moved back towards Malta. The Garrett. however did not.

I decided to turn a faster end on the fight to be able to deal with this certain captain. Everything worth to be mentioned about the fight can bee seen in the following guncam shot.

afterwards I turned on the destroyer captain and reasoned with him. As it seems he wasn't able to respond to any comm attempts during the fight. the voice records about the conversation are attached. Even if he seemed to comply today I suggest to keep an eye on him.

[06.12.2009 20:15:55] Nero.D'Ortona[101st]: Alright, now that the situations is solved... Garret, we will have a word.
[06.12.2009 20:16:15] Nero.D'Ortona[101st]: You were ordered to stay out of the fight, give me a good reason why you didn't comply?
[06.12.2009 20:17:07] Garrett.: out of the fight?
[06.12.2009 20:17:52] Nero.D'Ortona[101st]: All capital ships were ordered to leave the fight, multiple times.
[06.12.2009 20:18:32] Nero.D'Ortona[101st]: Just tell me why you didn't left?
[06.12.2009 20:18:43] Garrett.: why left
[06.12.2009 20:19:30] Nero.D'Ortona[101st]: Because you are in a capital ship against a bunch of bombers. you are risking expensive outcast technology
[06.12.2009 20:19:42] Nero.D'Ortona[101st]: And this is a job fighters should handle
[06.12.2009 20:20:07] Garrett.: yea ok, now i understand
[06.12.2009 20:20:09] Nero.D'Ortona[101st]: not to mention that you are risking your allies who are in close combat with the enemies
[06.12.2009 20:21:58] Nero.D'Ortona[101st]: Next time spare your ship for bigger targets. And if you are receiving orders by the 101st I suggest to follow them
[06.12.2009 20:22:05] Garrett.: ok i do like gallileo, i remember next time
[06.12.2009 20:22:58] Nero.D'Ortona[101st]: Good to hear that, thanks for your cooperation

Furthermore I have to add that Captain Ryan Baker on the MNS-Malevolence actively backed the orders given by us. Captain Carrera who was also present talked to him about the necessary paperwork but as I can see his ship registered now I'm willing to think the incident before really was caused by a simple mistake.
Afterwards I checked my cargo hold to see what those Hunters might have brought along and discovered two spirits in my cargo hold, of course I plotted a course to Siniestre immediately and released them, leaving them there for their relatives to pick up.

Afterwards I headed back to Malta and docked to finally get my paperwork done. Reports are filled now. I have to admit, the last 24 hours were quite eventful for me.

Nero D'Ortona out.

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