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

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ID: Ensign Jeff Bloom
Location: Battleship Essex
Subject: A rescue and an escalation

Good evening officers of the fleet,

I was on patrol today together with Ensign Derek Kerr. Ensign Kerr had the lead and we moved to Dublin to start our patrol. There were many contacts there but nothing significant. A calm and silent Dublin, but what only turned to be the silence before the storm.

Via an encrypted comm channel I received a distress call from a Cryer transport caught behind enemy lines in Edinburgh. During the Gallia raid on Perth station the captain and his crew managed to evade the Gallian marines after a short firefight on board. They undocked and went for cover, contacting us.

After we had established contact, the captain stated that he wanted to jump out via the Leeds gate. Knowing that a Gallia battleship was guarding that gate we advised against it. It was Ensign Derek Kerr that came up with the solution: Let the Cryer jump into Dublin.

So we jumped from Dublin into Edinburgh and secured the jumphole. After securing it Ensign Kerr went out the collect the trader as the trader was already seeing a GNF on his scanner. However, the GNF did not pursue at first and sent out an order to patrol the system. It was clear we needed to get out in a hurry.

We soon met up again at the Dublin jumphole and jumped. On the other side the captain thanked us again and again for our work. Satisfied, we both turned towards the Essex and bid the trader farewell.

Trader ID

Soon after the trader jumped toward New London, the Essex contacted us. The bridge informed us that someone had followed us through. We turned back and came into contact with a Gallia bomber. Hostilities immediately erupted as another contact turned up on the scanner.

The bomber was backed up by a much larger battleship the "Esprit_immonde". Immediately the flaks of the large ship opened fire on us. Amazingly we managed to stay up on our feet under the rain of flak, presumably the gunnery crew of the ship was not well trained.

To bring the battleship out of balance we lured it into the asteroid field at Battleship Hood where the escalation began... Soon two bombers with Labrise| signature joined the fight targeting us. The fight became harder and harder but we managed to damage the Gallia bomber real good.
More and more contacts now appeared on our scanners. The cavalry had arrived! Two molly snubs a molly bomber and a molly gunboat had come to help us.
Unfortunately they couldn't best the Labrise| bombers as their snubs and bomber were soon taken out.

The remaining Molly forces soon ran toward Londonderry, leaving us to fend for ourselves. Together me and ensign Kerr made a last stand but in vain as our ships were both destroyed.
Fast response teams from the Essex were able to recover the following data from our wrecks:

Data Files


I am still recovering from the wounds of today's events. I have some burns on my hands and arms from my console that short-circuitted just before I ejected. The medical officer says that i should rest a few days but I will have none of that!

Regards

Jeff Bloom, Ensign
Bretonia Armed Forces


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