Liberty Police, Inc. Reporting Office

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Name: Art Collins
Rank: Recruit Officer
Report: 02

Shortly after I had started off at Denver I was contacted by Sergeant Aiden Maggard and also by Sergeant Seymore Justice and Recruit Officer Wouter Hemmeryckx.
I made a round trip in Colorado (uneventful) and then proceeded to Fort Bush where I met the others who were on the way to Connecticut. I followed them, as I could use some training, too.

I first trained with Seymore, that took a long time (nearly half an hour). Tired I finally stopped fighting, the hull of my fighter was considerably damaged, Seymores fighter looked a lot better.
In the meantime Recruit officer John Smith had joined us, too. After repairs I got some tips from Sergeant Maggard and tried to use these in a match against Jeffrey Falcon who was there, too. This fight was different and I had difficulties adapting to the other fighter. I was finished in six minutes.

After that I had enough of fighter training, replenished and headed to Ft. Bush. I then realized that Recruit Officer Zoey Wanderer was in New York, too; considerable LPI presence.
Then there were reports about an Outcast gunboat in NY. Sergeant Aiden Maggard left to fetch his bomber, Sergeant Seymore Justice, too.
We all met near Manhattan, then we started to search New York for that gunboat. Then Zoey had to leave. We had searched all the lanes already, no sign of the gunboat.

Then there was a report about two unlawful gunboats near Rochester, one being the Immense_Revenge. Shortly after that I saw the Immense_Revenge approaching Manhattan on my scanners. We all intercepted her in the Manhattan orbit.
It turned out that the news about the Immense_Revenge being an unlawful gunboat were not true, it was a Freelancer Recycler instead. But we were able to get the information that the Outcast gunboat was on the lane to Ft. Bush.

Immediately we turned that direction, Sergeant Maggard spotted the Tridente Crunchips first, close to a trade lane gate. We quickly disabled the gate to prevent the gunboat to escape. The Crunchips first did not react, but came to life soon. Sergeant Maggard told the outcast that we can't tolerate Outcast gunships in Liberty space. He then ordered to attack.

The fight did not last long. The Outcast soon was in defense and retreated towards the sun. When he entered the sun corona it became difficult to attack further with our smaller ships. But obviously the Outcast captain entered too deep into the sun corona, the sun eating away more and more of the already damaged hull. Finally the Crunchips suffered a self inflicted catastrophic decompression.

Wouters was able to save one civilian pilot the Crunchips had been carrying. I then had to go, refuelled my ship and replenished batteries and nanobots at Ft. bush. It was a good end to that day of duty.

Art Collins out.

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Fighter pilot: You follow my fiancee. You are my rival. I brook no rivals. At six o'clock I shall be in Connecticut, alone, with my Sabre. Do you understand?
Battleship commander: Oh, thank you, that's a fighter pilot's proposal. I'm into heavy ordnance, and I have the choice of weapons. If I go, I shall take my battleship. And there shall be no mistake about the ammunition this time.