Liberty Forces Message dump

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COMM ID: Engisn Robert West
TARGET ID: Naval Headquarters
SUBJECT: Patrol Report
ENCRYPTION: Medium
PRIORITY: Low

Whew, hello there sirs. Still getting used to logging in with the "Ensign" prefix. I'm damn proud to have these bars on my shoulder, but they're still something to get used to--no doubt about that. Nonetheless, work to be done--here's the report, as promised, from earlier today.

[color=#FFCC00]Patrol #1
Boy did I hit jackpot today! I was paired up with the LNS-Feathered.Pond|36th in the Texas system today, in search of a few Rheinland craft who were getting nosy along the neutral systems. Sure enough, RIGHT outside of Planet Houston, we stumbled across a Marinenachrichtendienst vessel cruising just out of range of the Mississippi! Unbelievable!



My Executioner was no match for the flying green brick, but my Train Cruise Disruptors were a welcome addition to an arsenal that, prior to my arrival, lacked stopping power. Huginn, the kraut, came to a hault after a prolonged chase right near the center of the system.



For whatever reason, it was taking way too damn long for our transport arrive for us to take this Rheinland captain into custody. In the middle of comm relays with the naval transport San Jose, the Rheinland craft made a break for it! I couldn't believe it, and I genuinely thought he was going to fly his craft right into the sun! The Feathered Pond and myself pursued into the sun's corona, but I was forced to pull back due to the lack of armor on my ship. The two capital ships were able to endure, and took off in cruise around the back side of the sun.

Just when it appeared all was lost, and with no way to stop his cruise, some A grade gunnery on behalf of the gunners of the Feathered Pond took some lobbed shots at the Rheinland Gunboat, and--believe it or not--blew him out of the sky!



Our patrol stopped for some repairs (courtesy of the ARL-1.LNS-Achelous) back at Planet Houston.



Patrol #2

I'll go ahead and formalize this into a separate patrol report, since it certainly seemed like an entirely new deployment. Heading back to the New York system, I came across two Liberty Police Officers (Officer-Steven.Harris and Officer-Frank.Levensky) who had caught wind of some trouble near Norfolk Shipyard.



Sure enough, on my long range scanners, I picked up sight of a Nomad craft! This craft wasn't long visiting though, and escaped back through to Alaska, for one reason and one reason only--between myself and the gate, stood the towering hulk that was an Osiris Corsair battleship, flying under the name of TheHarbinger.

When the Corsair vessel couldn't explain his presence in Liberty, nor why he had violated the Zone-21 Restricted Area, the LNS Feathered Pond made quick work of him.



//The guy was there to escort his nomad friend... talk about some absurd ooRPness

This, unfortunately... is where the report gets a bit sour... We quickly became informed that three Rheinland Buro Der Marineintelligenz vessels had penetrated Liberty space, and were perusing around the Colorado system freely. The three vessels (believed to be gunboats) were later identified as:

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• BDM|U-19
  
• BDM|U-80
  
• BDM|U-571
  

Talk about a problem... we quickly moved ourselves to the Colorado system to locate and exterminate the threat to Liberty. We were lead on a 'wild goose chase' from the Colorado system, all the way to the California system. We were unsuccessful in destroying any of the vessels. We did, however, catch a brief glimpse of the three intruders on radar in California, and were able to give pursuit on one.

As we began closing in on the Rheinland craft, we received reports of an oncoming ion storm. The storm was upon us in no time, and the three ships vanished amidst the ion storm, never returning. Their location, and status, are unknown at this point in time.

Successes, failures, while we always aim to improve, I don't think there's anything wrong with a little bit of the good and the bad. That's it for this evening. Erm, "Ensign" West, out.

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