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More fighting in Tau 23 and Tau 37. We attacked Renegades, Hogosha and Outcast, more or less successfully until they attacked Tau 23 in force. But that's not the important part of what happened.
I met [color=#FFCCCC]Her Highness, Aurelia DeFrance in space, she was commanding a wing of GRN fighting ships that assisted IMG efforts to get rid of Outcast and Hogosha forces in Tau 37. We kept clear of the GRN forces that were focussing on Renegades first, the Hogosha, and were also attacking the Outcast that came in during the fight against the Hogosha.
[color=#FFCCCC]The complete transscript of the talk can be downloaded here:
Her Highness, Aurelia DeFrance, talked to me later at Java and it was kind of frightening to be the voice of moderation, when lots of voices in my IMG comms group called for attacks and murder attempts. It was bad, really. We must somehow convince the people, IMG| and IMG, that it's no use dying in this war if we can survive.
This is a short version of the information I could get:
they chose the Renegades as targets because they use Gallic gunboats
they generally hunt pirates in what they see as their part of space, and their authority to keep it safe
they generally regard Hogosha as enemies
they generally regard Outcast as enemies
they offered ICMG the same deal as IMG if they cease hostility
they warned IMG to not cooperate with the Colonials and thus violently resist the Gallic invasion
I tried to be polite and defuse conflicts, mostly on our group comms, later also openly, when a full-grown Outcast warfleet jumped in. IMG defended, but GRN withdrew and we docked, with rather heavy losses. We also inflicted losses on them in T37, and GRN did some more damage, but in the end we lost this battle.
I am still trembling a bit, to be honest. That was scary with the Princess commanding the GRN forces, a battleship sitting near Java, everything red, as our scanners are not yet adapted to the GRN not being hostile.
I did as well as I could. I hope it was good enough.
Brigid O'Shaunessy
IMG Defense Pilot, Tau 23
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