Greetings, and salutations, to all fellow hackers! I'm here to post my mission status of Mission #8, the one Mission about Virginia system:
After accepting the Mission, I headed from Magellan system, to Kansas, where -from Mr.Aristotle's Mission- I learned a direct Jump Hole is connected to Virginia.
After jumping into the system, I've carefully observed the near, and far regions, on my visual sensors. There was no sign of any Navy Guard patrols, tough I was prepared to some very serious laser fights out there. Maybe they were on a quick patrol break... still strange tough. Also, I must mention, that the Kansas-Virginia Jump Hole is the ONLY thing in Virginia wich is not installed by navy weapon platforms, therefore it's the only safe way in-and-out of the system. The hole itself is located in sector D6. http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/47/screen112.png This was the way, I started my Recoinassance mission.
The first thing I beheld was the Concord Asteroid Field. It is a large, barren asteroid field, wich hides most of the Navy's bases, as well as two of the three Jump Holes located in the system.
It took some time with a full cruise speed, to reach the first space station, called San Jacinto Station. The station itself is well-protected(just like the whole system...except them missing patrols), and located inside the Concord Asteroid field's sector A4. I took out a weapons platform to cause a bit of ruckus for the stations technicians. There are a number of four platforms in close vicinity to this station. http://yfrog.com/j3screen117qp http://yfrog.com/jdscreen113p
I proceeded after doing this, to further explore this system. Still in the Concord Asteroid Field I found a Jump Hole to California system. The Hole itself is protected by two navy turrets, thus it is dangerous to enter the system this way. It's located in sector B/C3 http://yfrog.com/juscreen119p
The next thing in line was another station, called Richmond station. Differs from San Jacinto, this one is also heavily protected tough. It's the nearest Station to the Kansas Jump Hole, so tread lightly when you enter, or exit from Kansas. The Co-ordinates for this installation is C5. Three weapon platforms reinforce the protection of this station. http://yfrog.com/jnscreen122p http://yfrog.com/2tscreen123fp
After taking out one of those pesky platforms at Richmond, I continued on my trail, to find the Texas Jump Hole, along with a navy Battleship, the Battleship Petersburg. This is the most dangerous part of this system, because the ship will fire on everybody who gets even near the Texas Jump Hole. It took me some nanoids, to fix the hull breach it's gunners caused to my ship. I recommend you fellow hackers to AVOID the Texas-Virginia Hole. The location to both the Battleship and the Texas Jump Hole is C3. http://yfrog.com/2pscreen124p http://yfrog.com/joscreen125p http://yfrog.com/2tscreen126p
I almost finished with my mission, when I noticed an Ice field, not too far from my main route, so I decided to check it out.The field's name is Arlington Ice Field, and my tactical sensors showed me that it's a restricted area in this restricted system, so I got real curious. It turned out to be the location of a hidden military base, one base I've never seen before, at least not ran by the navy, it was a functioning asteroid installation! The rock runs by the name Radford Base.
Could not believe my sensors, so I flew really close to it. First of all, I must say, that was the least armed base in the system, however something was amiss about it... it's location is E2, and I still can't believe I saw an operational asteroid base in the hands of the navy! http://yfrog.com/1sscreen127p http://yfrog.com/bfscreen129p
On my way out of the system, I had my time to scan the system's star, wich is a Medium Blue Green, thus a rare solar. Above that, nothing seemed to amiss about that star.
I left the system, before those guard patrols were back up operational.
I hope some day these gathered data will help us achieve our goals, and with superior information, we can beat those navy dogs in their own grounds...or at least avoid them with great results.
