Bretonian Armed Forces Defense Intelligence Staff (DIS) (iRP) (AO)

[Azan27]

This is Ensign Richard Hastings, reporting in.

Today, I have only a small incident to report. I was just engaging in a patrol of the Dublin sytem (bloody mess of a system, that) when I got wind of a forigen engine signature on my long range scanners. With the help of the Essex's scanner array, I was able to triangulate the signal to a point where I was within hailing range of the vessel. From then, I could pick up faint signals of the pilots voice. It took me a small time to realize it, but after a while I indentified the pilot as a blasted Corsair! I engaged my engines to give chase, but the Corsair soon manuvered deep into an asteroid field, and exited Bretonia via a jumphole.

I have the transponder recording here:

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Normally, A corsair showing up and singing wouldn't be worthy of a report... However, when I talked to several of the miners on the scene, they reveiled some strange information.

The corsair I had seen was part of a larger group of raiders who had been repelled, all of whom seemed more intent of slaughtering miners then actually stealing the chap's money, as Corsairs are more prone to do, usually. Whats more, attacks of a similar nature have been seen more frequently in Dublin, steadilty growing in sevarity. Whats more, I could swear that the corsair that I bumped into had a TD-80X High Frequency equiptment scanner mounted. I didn't get it close enough for a full equiptment scan, but I know those signal emissions like the back of my hand... They used them all the time on the Cambridge line, in scouting parties preceding a large Corsair raid.

However, the exact implications of this intelligence is not for me to decide. I leave that in the capable hands of the Intelligence analyists.

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Let it burn.