[color=#33CCFF][font=Agency FB]Comm ID: [font=Agency FB][color=#FFFFFF] Lieutenant Commander Natalie Cahoone Target ID: [color=#FFFFFF][font=Agency FB] Liberty Navy High Command Subject: [color=#FFFFFF] [font=Agency FB]Hostage Situation Encryption: [color=#CC0000] [font=Agency FB]High Priority: [color=#CC0000] [font=Agency FB]High
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Good evening High Command,
Today, on a patrol with Lieutenant Cooper, we had the pleasure of meeting the CEO of Orbital Spa&Cruise, he was flying by with his liner next to Norfolk. Normally that short meeting would have been over by that moment, but since Mr.Bellingham was talking rather unfriendly with us we ordered him to stop to answer some questions about his passengers.
It actually took him a while to stop, and during that time he insulted us quite often, no idea if he wanted to look like a strong man, for me he just looked like a pathetic moron.
Anyway, he eventually stopped his Shukensha liner, with rougly 2000 vacationers aboard, next to the Pennsylvania Jump Gate. I've let Aleesha to deal with him, as she knows how she has to talk with such persons. She requested data about the vacationers, data which we never got.
The refusing of Mr.Bellingham to give us the data made him suspicious, as if there were passengers aboard who might want to stay hidden, was just a guess from our side. Bellingham would only give the data to the LSF, as in his opinion the Navy should not deal with national security matters. I laughed.
And even after the LSF was there he still refused to hand over the data about his passengers, he even tried to run away into Pennsylvania after some time. We were forced to open fire on the liner, but the Captain was smart enough to realize that we only wanted him to stop his engines. He thankfully stopped in Pennsylvania and yes, the same discussion happened there as well.
He kept his defensive attitude up to the point that we had no trust in him and decided to call in the LLS-Blowing.Rock to transfer all the passengers, yes, we expected a terrorist attack and did not allow the liner to proceed towards Planet Erie. Even in that moment Mr.Bellingham kept his attitude, and desperately searched a way to talk himself out of the story. It was then when he got interrupted and we heard a Rheinland accent talking to us over the comm systems.
We were right, it was a terrorist attack and the liner was under control of some Rheinlanders, they sounded more like pirates, they were too stupid to be considered to be in the MND or something like that.
The LLS-Blowing.Rock returned to West Point to pick up a group of Marines in order to board the liner. The small group of Marines managed to rescue a large group of hostages, but it were not enough men to advance further on the liner. They even got separated during the mission, however, they were able to sabotage the engines of the liner, which made it impossible for the Rheinlanders to run away. When they sabotaged it, they sadly damaged the powercore of the ship, and it would blow up after some time, therefore the participants of the operation had to hurry up.
More Marines were called in to rescue the rest of the hostages, but they were not able to get all hostage-takers. When the Rheinlanders announced that a bomb was planted the Marines were ordered to evacuate the ship immediately, and did so with the last remaining hostages. They safely left the area aboard the LLS-Blowing.Rock.
The Rheinlanders were given a last chance to surrender, a chance they did not take. Their bomb would not cause any damage to us, in their desperation they decided to attack us with the liner weaponry, but due to the damaged powercore they were not able to sustain fire for a while.
We were forced to destroy the liner, no survivors were found.
