Recent decisions and idle threats from high command have made it painstakingly clear that our operations... which benefit Bretonia as a whole are not welcomed by the High Command. Despite our efforts and effectiveness during all of our missions. With Admiral Aleski gone, our... support within the High Command is null and void.
It pains me to come to this conclusion... but we will be activating contingency plan Omega. You are authorized to grab your gear and ditch to the rendezvous point as soon as possible.
Once everyone is accounted for, new orders will follow on these channels. Due to different use of protocols from the main fleet, this channel is still deemed secure.
I'm happy to say that contingency plan omega was a success, and that... I'm shockingly surprised more than just the Sabre pilots joined us. Now... as I said in an earlier transmission, new directives will be coming through.
1.) Bretonian Authorities; I will not lie to you. We are deserters and traitors in the eyes of the Bretonian Crown, despite all we've done and the potential we can do. Former friends and wingmen will be shooting at us if we give them the opportunity. We will not fire upon a Bretonian ships and will immediately leave the area should these pilots turn hostile. If fired upon first... you have the right to defend yourself, though I do not wish to see Armed Forces or Police Authority ships shot down.
2.) Liberty Authorities; It's only a matter of time until the Liberty Navy and Liberty Police catch wind that we've abandoned our posts. They'll likely side with Bretonia. The same policy for the Bretonian authorities is to be followed here, the right to defend yourself if fired upon.
3.) Regarding Rank Structure; As of now, our ranks are abolished. You're no longer Commodores, Captains, Commanders and so forth. Remove the ranks from your uniforms if you haven't already. The medals and ribbons you've earned are yours to keep.
4.) Capital Ships; Two capital ships have left the primary Armed Forces fleet. The Faringdon, a Crecy Destroyer, and the Venona, a Liberty Siege Cruiser. Their commanding officers and crewmen have excellent service records and pledged loyalty to the Fifth. However, we will not be using these ships on the front lines unless it's deemed absolutely necessary.
5.) Further Operations and docking areas; Naturally all of Bretonia is off-limits, as well as Liberty. I will be attempting to secure alliances with the Colonials and the Council so we can continue our operations against Gallia. These discussions are currently in session. I'll attempt to get in contact with some friends within the Privateers and see if they'll be more than willing to work with us, rather than against us.
Lastly, I'm letting it be known now... once I am summoned to the court martial, I will be attending it. Admiralty and the War Cabinet are, to put simply, idiots for wanting to stall our operations against the very enemy that invades us, and I know for a fact that the Queen wouldn't want her kingdom to be occupied, especially where she would be executed during the first week of occupation. I plan to approach the court martial with a simple and cool headed request. That we be left alone to continue the war effort against Gallia. Unhindered by the Armed Forces, Police Authority and Bretonian Government as a whole.
Maybe they'll get an ounce of sense once they realized this fracture can be easily exploited by the Gauls... and in time will.
I am making this report in regards to an... Asset acquisition operation Five and I embarked upon just recently. I know we were never instructed to do this, but last I checked, autonomy was sort of our "thing", so I'm going to assume we're not going to get yelled at for helping our cause.
In essence, we made the journey out to the Omicrons in civilian ships and poked around the Freeports to track down some odd rumours about a world inhabited almost solely by AIs, robots, if you will. We wished to ascertain a good place to look for an AI heuristics core, with which we can program an AI of our own, something Five has long wished to accomplish, if I'm understanding this correctly.
To our surprise, this place does actually exist, and it goes by the name of Planet Gammu. So what we did, like the heedless morons that we are was land on one of the AI facilities and poke around and tamper with one of their loading units so it went to fetch a core for us.
Of course, since AIs are if nothing else not stupid, their security systems eventually noticed the tampering once the core was on its way back to us.
Thus, the robots turned hostile, and we had to fight our way out. I'll spare you the details, but suffice to say we did manage to get out along with a core, with me and Five sustaining minor and moderate injuries respectively.
On our way back to Coronado, we even encountered a DSE trader who was happy to pay us a bit of cash for accompanying him to New York - while far from enough to cover all our expenditures, it should go a small way to helping us sustain ourselves.
Since most of the programming for the AI is already complete, we should expect to have it operational shortly once the code merge is finished and its personality settings are finalized - it should be of good use to us in a security and organizational fashion.
