Dear Imperator,
I have been a proud member of the UEE for many years now. My parents raised me to love the UEE and to respect the fundamental rights of each and every citizen. I found my calling as a fighter pilot and just recently graduated from the academy. I was super excited when I found out I would be posted on the Liberator a Bengal class carrier based in the Stanton system. I had heard of the ships reputation for top gun pilots. My friend Zen and I were really surprised on our first patrol mission when we realized we had no control of our anvil hornets. At first we fought the sticks with everything we had as the ships seemed to be acting on their own. On lift off Zen's and my hornets even clipped each other's wings as Zen's fighter made a hard roll to avoid a damaged Buccaneer trying to land. It was quite a disturbing experience, especially when we ran into some pirates on the first leg of our patrol and Zen's ship just turned off its engine's and went into a flat spin while still headed towards the pirate ships. My hornet had a mine of its own and flew into a snipping position several clicks away near an asteroid. We still had ship to ship radio and were able to tell each other about our ships strange behavior, but it was little comfort as we were not able to radio the Liberator for help. Just as the pirates were bearing down on Zen both our ships com systems had this computerized voice that told us to calm down as Orac had control. It was not the ships computer's as we had extensive experience in the academy and we recognize the onboard computers voice. Whomever this Orac was he was very smug, and when we would ask a question he would give us a reply as if he was too busy to waist his time on our unsuitable questions. As the fight with the pirates pursued Orac started saying that the pirates needed to visit a criminal therapist. Apparently he was replying to the pirates threats. Both Zen and I were knocked out several times during the dog fight only to awake and see a pirate ship blow up right in front of us and Orac would be making some comment about how fragile we were. At one point the pirates actually managed to get a hit on Zen's shields Orac complained that Zen's starboard thruster was not producing the correct amount of thrust, and that Zen should log it upon return to the Liberator for repair. After all 10 of the pirates ships were destroyed Orac released control of our ships back to us, and we did not hear from him again. Zen and I went about the rest of our patrol without incident and returned to the carrier. When reporting what had happened to our commander she ordered us to log the flight as normal as it was not the first time she had heard this story, and that it would not look good on our records if we wrote about it in our reports. I will say, " I have never seen flying like that!"
Sincerly Loyal UEE Citizen
I have been a proud member of the UEE for many years now. My parents raised me to love the UEE and to respect the fundamental rights of each and every citizen. I found my calling as a fighter pilot and just recently graduated from the academy. I was super excited when I found out I would be posted on the Liberator a Bengal class carrier based in the Stanton system. I had heard of the ships reputation for top gun pilots. My friend Zen and I were really surprised on our first patrol mission when we realized we had no control of our anvil hornets. At first we fought the sticks with everything we had as the ships seemed to be acting on their own. On lift off Zen's and my hornets even clipped each other's wings as Zen's fighter made a hard roll to avoid a damaged Buccaneer trying to land. It was quite a disturbing experience, especially when we ran into some pirates on the first leg of our patrol and Zen's ship just turned off its engine's and went into a flat spin while still headed towards the pirate ships. My hornet had a mine of its own and flew into a snipping position several clicks away near an asteroid. We still had ship to ship radio and were able to tell each other about our ships strange behavior, but it was little comfort as we were not able to radio the Liberator for help. Just as the pirates were bearing down on Zen both our ships com systems had this computerized voice that told us to calm down as Orac had control. It was not the ships computer's as we had extensive experience in the academy and we recognize the onboard computers voice. Whomever this Orac was he was very smug, and when we would ask a question he would give us a reply as if he was too busy to waist his time on our unsuitable questions. As the fight with the pirates pursued Orac started saying that the pirates needed to visit a criminal therapist. Apparently he was replying to the pirates threats. Both Zen and I were knocked out several times during the dog fight only to awake and see a pirate ship blow up right in front of us and Orac would be making some comment about how fragile we were. At one point the pirates actually managed to get a hit on Zen's shields Orac complained that Zen's starboard thruster was not producing the correct amount of thrust, and that Zen should log it upon return to the Liberator for repair. After all 10 of the pirates ships were destroyed Orac released control of our ships back to us, and we did not hear from him again. Zen and I went about the rest of our patrol without incident and returned to the carrier. When reporting what had happened to our commander she ordered us to log the flight as normal as it was not the first time she had heard this story, and that it would not look good on our records if we wrote about it in our reports. I will say, " I have never seen flying like that!"
Sincerly Loyal UEE Citizen
