To Cedric Richard, David Owens, Torin Marshal, Adam Spire

[Adam_Spire]

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I was a bit restless from that skirmish with the Wilde thing last night so I pulled the crew together and we went out to the Omegas to see if we could run into an issue that needed solving. Sure enough we wound up hearing a Bowex transport in some dispute with a few Corsiars about arrangements to live or die. The bloody Corsairs had already surrounded the transport and they had given a warning that if I or the other two'€¦that reminds me, there was a Copper 21 and Silver out there. Copper 21 said he was part of some Kruger Raider party. I have no clue that Kruger had raiders. Now I'€™ve heard the vigilante thing but there they were. Anyway, there was no way I could pull off attacking the bombers before they had time to hit the Bowex transport with everything they had. I ordered the Vindicator to pull a 180 back to the IMG base, but we didn'€™t land. We took a course up 16k above the standard plane and headed over the Corsair raiding party then back down towards the Kruger base. I don'€™t think those raiders had any intention to protect the Bowex transport, but their attack got the attention of two of the bombers, leaving the one to finish the transport. I communicated the Bowex transport to head to me as we provided cover fire. The Bomber pulled off seeing that our Gunboat was heading straight for them giving room between the transport and them. The moment the Bowex transport hit 4k I told them to get the bloody hell out of there. Apparently, they had the same thing in mind.

Clear of the battle I ordered the Vindicator right into the mix of all the fighting. Those three bombers would either focus on me or be too concerned with the raiders to see me as a threat. Both were a mistake. Unfortunately, Copper-21 took a SNAC shot to the engine and was destroyed. Those Corsairs we'€™re having a hay day with that one as they turned to focus on me for a while. One of them didn'€™t learn and he never made it back home. With it down to one Corsair and Silver-21 and myself, I pulled off to asses the situation and get ready for what I thought would be more corsairs. The remaining corsair panicked and opened a system wide broadcast, '€œYes.'€ I had thought to engage him and when I did, I noticed he wasn'€™t engaging as much as before. The damaged raider saw it first then I got a glimpse of a Corsair Gunboat, bearing down on us and headed off. I had fought a Corsair Gunboat before and they were no joke. Even a fully armored Rheinland Gunboat has issues taking those blood things down. The Corsair bomber said we could leave or be destroyed. Funny how that works. I looked at the crew and they smiled. It was all or nothing. We engaged and pulsed the Corsair Gunboat'€™s shields down before it had a chance to face us. I don'€™t think it was expecting us to actual attack it even though we said it. The Raider seeing us haull the Gunboat away from the bomber, turned back and fired on the pirate.

We pulled every trick in the book to avoid the full spread of primaries that Corsair boat was tossing at us. In the end, slightly less for wear, we took the thing out! That Corsair bomber ran to Omega 5 and we presued and finally it ran deeper into the Omegas. Without knowing what would happen, we choose to quit while we were ahead and return. I slept rather well that night.

[color=#FF0000]8/10 & 9/10

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Sometimes, when all you want is to gain your freedom, you must be willing to risk it all.