LN Comm System: OPEN
TO: LN Command
FROM: Ensign Matthew Ramsey
RE: Patrol Report
Sirs:
Quite an eventful shift: Xenos successfully resisted, a nut-job overcome, and 70 hostages rescued, all without firing a shot!
The shift began with a nut-job called Ace.Combat over by West Point spewing utter nonsense into the New York comm system. He was unable to be persuaded to depart, so most of the system - even with an increasing amount of traffic - just came to ignore him until he left. At one point, he was demanding chickens, to which I replied he should try Planet Stuttgart, and be sure to tell the Rheinlanders that we referred him with our compliments.
During Ace.Combat's nonsensical ramblings, a group of Xenos entered the New York system from Colorado. One of them, XA-Radio.Free.Liberty began issuing typical Xeno propaganda, aided from time to time by his compatriots. I managed to engage the Xenos in a rhetorical-political duel at this point, and I'm proud to say I held my own throughout. Their message of anti-foreigner propaganda was effectively neutralized.
Finally, in league with a quality navy independent, Reno.Ashford, I stopped an Outcast Tridente gunboat carrying 70 lawful hostages through New York. We were not in any position to take him down, not at least without a brutally exhausting engagement, and so I proceeded to negotiate. The Outcast was surprisingly agreeable, and after promises to let him leave unharmed so long as he left Liberty immediately, Mr. Ashford and I were able to take the hostages in their pods to medical facilities at West Point. The Outcast was originally going to keep the Kusari pilots, but we convinced him to turn them over as well. I hope the Kusari ambassador will be pleased. All hostages, I'm told, are suffering various injuries, but are expected to survive.
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