Hey, Mac here. It's good to be back. First I would like to claim one collective snub kill, as per the linked report. I also appeared in two convoys reported by others, once with the Piper Maru and once with the Silent Runner.
Convoy Reports
I have only one convoy to report that I participated before my vacation. It was a big one, with several transports.
On the way down to New Berlin we crossed with a crazy kusarian Barge captain doing some insane mooring maneuver at Neo Tokyo.
We proceeded with no problem to Rheinland, and then diverted to Lanzarote Base, in Omega-49, to get Hull Segments for a cargo bay expansion at Cameron.
We decided to finish for the day and docked at Aland after being chased in Omega-47 by a group of Corsairs.
I never imagined myself much of a mechanic, but thru the years I have had to make a few deep space repairs on the fly. That being said, I’m doing what I can on these guild ship retrofit / refits I am involved with at Singapore Shipyard. Here is my update:
IMG|Sisyphus - - - a Shishapangma has been launched and put into service. It has made a handful of Nio Ore runs. These dang ships are like giant cigar tubes with thrusters. This ship wallows all over the place, but behaves nicely in the trade lanes and gates. A permanent crew will be assembled and you will see this ship all over Sirius.
IMG|Merday.Morn - - - a Nanga Parbat piloted by Mel Collins has been refit with new transport turrets and will mostly be seen in the Taus.
IMG|Auximenes - - - an Annapurna piloted by Boz Burell has taken quite a beating in its time in the Omegas. So much so, that the team at Aland sent the ship up to Singapore due to their backlog. This ship has new mining turrets. Boz took delivery and test mined a load of Nio Ore, dropped it at Siloso and then he split for the Omegas. Boz made it to Aland safely and mined a load of Cobalt for Falster.
More ships are in the repair queue. I will give another update soon as more ships are finished. Meanwhile, I’m heading back to the bar.
Can’t wait to be done with this so I can get back to the Roid Fields.
After returning from my one-month break as head of the paramilitary lead, I have decided to assess the situation after my absensce.
First and foremost, I am extremely dissappointed about our paramilitary. Not only has the fighting capability standard of our pilots dropped, partially due to a lack of expirience, but the morale of our fighter and bomber pilots appears to be on an all-time low. After a talk with a delegation of observers, I've come to the conclusion that the current situation is unacceptable and mostly attributed to a lack of dedication in the ranks of our instructors and recruit supervisors.
Therefore, I have sent a request to the Guildmastery for us to conduct regular training sessions with our fighter and bomber personell. News on this will be sent via skyp-3 IMG messenger. Please note that I do expect every active member, especially in the ranks of recruits, to participate in these events. Failure in doing so will prolong anyone's status as recruit.
Winding up on this matter, the new generation of arms technology has hit the Sirius market and the IMG has, too, renewed its arsenal. In the following weeks I require our pilots to review our new ship and gun technology, for us to filter the unsuitable, but also the outstanding objects.
Combat Backlog
Since I was unable to properly archive my own combat achievements during my absence, I am attaching my ship's backlog on combat situations to this report.
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Good evening High Command, just reporting in something that was urgent for us. There was a distress signal from a vessel named “Viewfinder.” The vessel was a Percheon Transporter from Bretonia.
The ship was calling out for assistance in Tau 23 a few days ago. The Tau Fast Response Team was there to assist as quickly as possible. Have communitcations from this vessel. I was flying the Light Fighter aka Vampire to scout for the strandad ship, and we found it's location close to the Sun Corona on the edge of the Southern Asteroid Field near the Tau 31 Jump Gate.
Soon as we reached it and located it, our dromedary with a medical team onboard entered mooring with the ship to help all casualties and get them off the ship onto the Dromedary Freighter. After having all casaulties get safetly back to our medical ship we started to line up for the towing beam to contact with “IMG|GPV-Pioneer”. The Pioneer and crew started towing the “Viewfinder” towards Tau 37 anomoly to a safe location. We were heading towards the Freeport for repairs and to give the crew medical treatment due to the hospital the Zoners have there.
Our Dromedary that was assisting with this rescue was under the transponder off “IMG|Morning.Star”
I will upload mooring images from my on board camera when we reached the Freeport in Tau 37. They will be at the bottom of this report.
Combat Report
Just like to update you on my Combat Report of recent events and encounters within the Tau's and Omega's. If you have not noticed the Junker Marauders have cut down on there attacks on our convoy's and our pilots due to a recent fight between the IMG Security Force and there attack wing. The fight was within Tau 37, we had 3 fighters and 1 gunship and they also had 3 fighters and 1 gunship. Luckily for us I was flying like an ace that evening and managed to destroy all 3 of there fighters and we took no casaulties until we started to target there gunship. There gunship luckily took out one of our security recruits but we managed to destroy the gunship too. The only casaulty we took was Tess Mi'Lohk. She is safe and flying again though.
I have also just counted up the kills and assists which I have claimed or assisted with and they will be uploaded into the database at the end of my transmission.
There is also a Molly Destroyer flying around in the Omega's which will not communicate and if they do, all they will demand is 20 million from each transporter that flies under the IMG Banner. A bomber wing earlier this evening was engaged by this destroyer and we scared him off so he docked on the Freeport in Omega 3. I have a feeling this Molly and his crew are stationed on this Freeport and this is were he is attacking us from. So keep your eyes open and radars active. Weapons on stand-by at all times! The Molly Destroyer goes by the transponder off “Tica1”
Escorting the convoy
Also in my recent patrols I have escorted our convoy from the Omega's to the Tau's and back down to the Omega's. During this convoy I was flying the new ship that is apart of the Mckenzie family which is the Hulk. The ship type is a Pelican Freighter. It is setup for escorts and also security services. I would like to claim 2 escorts on this. Hopefully my good freind Julia will be able to approve of these escorts.
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Today I started my patrols from Java Station not knowing what I will encounter on my journey. I encountered a Junker Pirate Trains full of cardamine near Cali calling for reinforcements he docked on Cali to try and hide. Myself and one of our recruits waited around knowing he will come back to smuggle his stuff. We continued our patrols towards Tau 29 jump hole seeing this Junker tailing us. So we have countered his jump in Tau 29 forcing him to drop hi Cardamine. He would not drop it so we open fired and gave me heavy damage to his systems and engines. Scanning his cargo later in the fight noticing he dropped his cargo so we started to fall back noticing we had a Pirate Asco and a Blood Dragon Gunboat on our ass's. We managed to escape safetly.
The Junkers transponder was reading Metalist.
The Asco was reading Petter.Wolf
The Blood Dragon Gunboat was reading ShotB
We all returned to Java knowing we are out numbered and out gunned and waited for more reinforcements to show up. When Raymon Lister showed up right on time. Another Gunboat turned up by the name Cast, It was an Outcast Gunship. I have quickly scrambled to Java to switch to my bomber which is always on stand by, undocking it and location Raymon. All three of us managed to destroyed these very poor Gunboat Captains and having Tau's clear and secure once more.
Later on in my patrol I came across another Pirate Trains carrying a complete load of Cardamine by a different name who complied to dropping his load and leaving immedatily. His transponder was reading Alex_Junker.
There was also a very big operation this evening involving many IMG pilots and other pilots from different co-operations. I will leave that for someone with more detail to report.
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IMG|Fingal’s.Cave - - - a Serenity has been launched and put into service. Piloted by David O’List, it has moved down to Dublin to haul Gold Ore. Really impressed with how easy these ships behave.
IMG|Lark’s.Tongue - - - a Border World’s Transport piloted by Peter Sinfield has been refit with new transport turrets and will be seen Sirius wide.
IMG|Rupert’s.Lament - - - an Annapurna piloted by Gordon Haskell has completed its equipment retrofit and mining laser overhaul. This ship will be stationed in the Taus to mine Nio Ore
IMG|Crumbling.Land - - - a Hegemon mining ship piloted by David Cross has been undergone a complete overhaul and will serve in the Omegas.
That does it for the ship repair work. I will be heading down to Dublin to take supplies to Battleship Hood. Hopeful see a few old mates while down there.
First, I want to thank everyone for the warm welcome, I didn't expect that. Well, onto what I did yesterday. After I was welcomed here, I got set up with a Shishapangma transport. After that, a fellow miner mined some Niobium for me, and we took it to Rheinland for some profit. On the way back with Silver, I encountered a Corsair. I asked him to leave, so he doesn't bother the fellow miner behind me. After a minute or so, he decided to ask me for money, five million credits to be exact. I declined his demand, and he engaged me. The outcome was his death, and the Ore was delivered safely to New Tokyo.
What a wonderful day, eh? Anyway, back to why I am writing this. First, I thank you for the nice new fighter that was assigned to me, couldn't ask for a better one. I got it set up with some of our guns on Java, and set out to patrol. Did a couple circles around the system, and came across the Kyushu Jump Hole. There, some Outcast patrols were killed by the help of a wing of Miner escorts. I was checking some things on the Neural Net, and suddenly, a Contari Lance liner appears. I was being nice and greeted him or her, but the response was rather harsh. Some of the first lines he said, had to do with 'die'.
He then decided to engage, after telling me to leave, and I declining that demand, again. I then shot him back, but he managed to get the Cali Base, and told me to wait for him, so we can be evenly matched. I did so, even though I don't know why, he could of undocked anything. Oh well, when he undocked, it was a Borderworld Fighter, surprisingly. Then we were deciding whether to 'tango' or to 'salsa', guess he decided tango was better, since it takes more then one. After a good fifteen or so minutes, I finally managed to eject him, and his ship was destroyed.
Guess that is all for now, until then. Stay safe, and mine on!
I want to introduce myself, my name is Francis Drake. I'm or rather was the head of the Grunder Industries Company, which is now merged with the Reasearch Department. I'll stay in an important position as Communication and Fleet Manager, which is very important for the current project.
The Yuma Project.
A lot of work waits for us, the construction of the platforms, weapons, shipping platforms, logistic ...etc.
We did already our first steps for this project.
The Aigaion is back from the mission in the Omega and we moved her to Yuma.
She will give us the necessary equipment and scanners plus guarding the Orbit of Yuma.
Aigaon, will scan any transport ship/shuttle before they leave or enter the orbit.
I think, the Colonial will do the same with the Carrier which is in the Orbit as well.
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