Reporting: Sub-Lieutenant William Bishop Summary: Fighter configuration and recon patrol
After running all the necessary checks over my newly-appointed Partisan, I took to space from Zvezdny Gorodok and met Lieutenant Ben Warner outside Volgograd. Beginning at 0404 Hrs SMT, I followed Lt. Warner as he familiarised me with Omega-52, as well as with the SCRA in general and important considerations regarding operations and duty.
After this tour and tutorial was complete, Lt. Warner suggested I take a recon flight into Omega-5 and report all important structures during my patrol. At 0427 Hrs, I jumped to Omega-5 and began this sweep. The flight went smoothly apart from a run-in with some Corsair rooks toward the back end; they delayed me by a few minutes but were dispatched. As I made to leave the system at 0441 Hrs, I picked up two contacts on close-range scans - |ZoE|Ban'Eyk and |ZoE|Iowa.Fields. The ships exited from the Omega-41 Jumphole and headed north, past Cadiz Base. I was not in a position to intercept them to scan their holds, but I recognized one ship as a large Hegemon Miner; I imagine their business was as it seemed.
At 0443 Hrs I jumped to Omega-52 and met with Lt. Warner in flight between the Omega-5 hole and Volgograd. After reporting to him, I then continued on to Zvezdny Gorodk, where I landed at 0447.
The results of my reconnaissance flight into Omega-5 are available in full below.
Cadiz Base, Sector 5D, Corsair owned. An asteroid base, which would be well camoflauged amongst the rest of the rocks in Omega-5 if not for its considerable size. The station operates ten defensive turrets - seven standard and three EMP cannons.
Corsair Weapon Platforms, Sector 5D, 11 in total, arranged in a line to the north-east of Cadiz Base, the line facing north-east as well. They face off against a similar array of Hessian platforms on the other side of a field of fighter wrecks in the middle of the sector. Each platform is fitted with two standard laser turrets, no EMP. One Corsair platform was heavily damaged, suggesting that there may have been action quite recently, and that there may have been more platforms earlier.
Ronneburg Base, Sector 4E, Hessian owned. This asteroid base is smaller than Cadiz and blends in more easily as a result. Its firepower is also smaller; four defense turrets, two of which are standard and two of which are EMP.
Hessian Weapon Platforms, Sector 4E, 13 in total, arranged in a line to the south-west of Ronneburg Base, the line facing south-west as well. They face off against the wreck field just like the Corsair platform line. Each platform operates two standard laser turrets, just like the Corsair ones.
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The aforementioned field of Corsair and Hessian wrecks in the center of Omega-5, also complimented by a minefield.
Guncam is available to compliment all results if requested, and was used to uphold the accuracy of this report.
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