I have a couple of reports to log from today's patrols. The first is a rather disturbing incident in which I was fired upon by a Kusari Naval Force bomber and two trade ships he was escorting. The bomber and one of the transports were in transit through the Texas system when I stopped them to ask the KNF pilot why he was in Liberty. They proceeded to stall me until the second transport arrived. At that time, they opened fired upon me with little warning and proceeded to blow up my ship and leave me to float in my escape pod. Thankfully, an LPI patrol passed through rather soon and took me back to the Missouri.
Later, the same group was caught molesting a Bowex convoy in New York. The convoy wasn't having much of it though and destroyed the KNF bomber as the transports fled.
Enemy Ship Names
Echo_Alpha, KNF Bomber
Foxtrot_Ashley, Trader Transport
Ghost_Joe, Trader Transport
With my ship a total wreck, I was forced to sit around on the Missouri for awhile filling out reams of paperwork, but I was finally able to get into the cockpit of another Guardian. I went back out on patrol and heard about a developing situation in the California system. When I arrived, there were two lane lackers within scanning range of the New York Jumpgate. The first, a Heavy Fighter, was flying circles around the vessels situated there and occassionally knocking out the tradelane while taunting us as the second, a gunboat, stayed mostly out of the way silently.
Eventually, we were forced to engage the heavy fighter and the gunboat moved to assist its brethren against us.
The battle was rough with the HF and Gunboat initially targeting Recruit West and brutally gunning him down. The three of us remaining friendlies with the help of some nearby patrolling defenders focused on the gunboat as the HF and gunboat targetted me. We were able to destroy the gunboat, but I was badly damaged in the process and soon was forced to eject (ship log of both events) due to the Hacker Anderson. Now just down to a two on one, Guardsman Dragon and Mr. Alquist had little trouble destroying the Hacker fighter.
