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

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--SAM HAGEN, HMS-BRISTOL--



For the past couple of weeks I have been hearing reports of Gallic attack wings around planet Leeds, so this evening the HMS-Bristol destroyer launched a patrol of our own. We did in fact encounter several of the low-level Gallic destroyer wings, and successfully dispatched them all.

I would not normally bother reporting this information, however a small group of Gallic civilian bombers with Mercenary ID papers also appeared and began to harrass the Bristol and nearby ships, and felt you should know the details. At first there was only one ship named Miaou, who tried to distract me from the destroyer wings by bumping my ship, shooting in my direction, and saying the word "Miaou" over and over in response to all attampts at discourse. Shortly another three ships with neutral civilian IFF appeared, among them were Eau.de.Toilette and En.Passant, another pair of Gallic civilian bombers with Mercenary papers.

Since the ships were becoming more menacing in their techniques and numbers, I decided to seize the momentum and fired a few shots at Miaou with my newly-installed Solaris turrets, rapidly dropping his shields, then told them to leave the area. Rather than take the opportunity to be smart, they decided to engage in open hostilities and began to attack. Within a couple of minutes, En.Passant had killed himself with his own Nova torpedo, and the other two fled towards the Tau-31 gate.

Below is an (edited) log from the ships communications ocmputer. I have removed the names of other ships that were in the area.

[12.01.2012 03:59:37] Miaou: Maiou.
[12.01.2012 04:00:02] HMS-Bristol: you okay miaou?
[12.01.2012 04:00:07] Miaou: Maiou!
[12.01.2012 04:02:45] Miaou: Maiou!
[12.01.2012 04:03:43] HMS-Bristol: want some more ?
[12.01.2012 04:03:48] HMS-Bristol: beat it now
[12.01.2012 04:04:03] HMS-Bristol: rendezvous yourself byebye
[12.01.2012 04:04:04] Miaou: Maiou maiou mauoi!
[12.01.2012 04:04:08] Eau.de.Toilette: Don't shoot that cat!
[12.01.2012 04:04:28] HMS-Bristol: looks like they got some backup
[12.01.2012 04:04:37] HMS-Bristol: know how to frogstomp?
[12.01.2012 04:04:44] En.Passant: Ooh. The Crown will pay pretty well for this one.
[12.01.2012 04:04:52] Eau.de.Toilette: Lets burn it.
[12.01.2012 04:04:58] En.Passant: A-yup.
[12.01.2012 04:04:59] HMS-Bristol: drop the pilots
[12.01.2012 04:05:02] Miaou: Maiou maimaiou.
[12.01.2012 04:07:31] Death: En.Passant killed himself (Missile/Torpedo)
[12.01.2012 04:07:44] HMS-Bristol: nice shot frogman
[12.01.2012 04:08:13] Eau.de.Toilette: Screw this.
[12.01.2012 04:08:15] Miaou: MaiouMaiouMaiou!
[12.01.2012 04:08:23] HMS-Bristol: smell ya later toilet
[12.01.2012 04:09:04] HMS-Bristol: well that went better than expected

Be on the lookout for these weirdos. They're not very good but they could get lucky.

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