New York was like doomsday again. As soon as I took off from Manhattan, I sighted a sortie of [color=#FF6600][font=Century Gothic]<span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:100%]Nomad ... vessels or whatever they are, fighting a bunch of Bounty Hunters near Newark station. The Hunters had it under control, it seemed at first, so I only focused on steering the civilian traffic away, masking the area as a place for weapons testing.
Soon enough however, more hostiles showed up. A rather large one, at that. I got readings on a [color=#FF6600]Nomad entity equaling the size of a whole gunboat! That right above Manhattan! Secondary fleet vessels and bounty hunters chiefly engaged it, while I still labored to make the civilians go out of harms way and remain there by making the fight drift away from Manhattan's high orbit, further down the lanes. The losses of the secondary fleet were rather heavy, on the verge of myself interfering, even more enemy backup, Outcast zealots arrived.
I honestly ridiculed at their claims to be assisting the alien entities at first, but they actually DID choose to take arms on their side and started firing upon my vessel. I somehow ended up with a fight conducted against a rather cowardly rookie, designated as red_fighter. The vessel, I managed to cripple rather heavily in under a minute, making it choose the path of fleeing. As the ship was already burning up, I threw myself after him, going in for the kill. However, I was blinded by temporary rage as I realized he again, runs better than he shoots.
As a few minutes of pursuit came to pass, I realized there are more important matters to take care of, so I went back to Manhattan. About ten clicks out of the planet, I was again struck with surprise as I witnessed a Geb-class Order light carrier, as well as an Order very heavy fighter combating the Nomad entities. The fight I witnessed was pretty one-sided, the aliens had the upper hand with an obviously superior level of armament and flying skills at hand, forcing the very heavy fighter to retreat.
The light carrier's interference however, caused the alien forces into disarray, and the capital ship also threw itself after them. I couldn't pursue, as I had numerous other distress calls to answer.
There were Outcasts near West Point, Outcasts near Norfolk, Outcasts near Manhattan. I went to the Norfolk-West Point lane first, which was already being secured by an individual called Durandal. The pilot told me the situation was being handled adequately, so I went back to Manhattan, where the pirates were regrouping. However, the presence of Navy capital ships was so high that the majority of the enemy forces retreated.
The ones who didn't do so were scared away by the sight of two arriving Gold wing pilots.
Following all these issues and that New York was secure again, I landed back on Manhattan to commence debriefing.
