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Source: Battleship Derby
ID: Lt.Cdr. Alex Clarke

Priority Medium
Topic: Patrol report

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Patrol report, haven't done it in a while... Anyway, those are the results of my patrol yesterday:

After launching from Derby in my Challenger, Norfolk contacted me to inform about Corsair Legate roaming in Cambridge, I instantly plotted course to Cambride Jump Hole, funny thing is, the Legate jumped to Leeds just as I was about to use it myself, I gave him the chance to flee if he would hand over our pilots, to which he answered by opening fire, predictable.

What was more interesting however, is that two mollys, namely Blodwyn.O'Driscoll and Sarah.Bonny jumped out of said jumphole claiming they were chasing our friend, they flew a Barghest bomber and Werewolf VHF, since it would literally take forever for a lone bomber to take out a Legate, we joined forces and proceeded to SNAC the hell out it's hull.

The corsair tried to escape to Omegas via Dublin, but he was destroyed more or less 3k away from the jumphole. I retrieved all pods from the wreck, including our pilots and some mollys, whose I exchanged for some of our pilots held by those two mollys I just joined forces with, after that, we parted ways.

About 5 minutes later, a Kusari explorer along Roc bomber flew by talking out loud about some kind of business, I immediately got suspicious due to fact that tose two ships have an awful tendency to get into hands of independent pirates. As you can propably imagine, when I stopped them and asked what is their "business" about, I received a warm answer, very warm actually, those plasma cannons almost teared my shield.

I proceeded to land a Cleaver shot on explorer's hull, but the Roc was keeping me from making any serious progress in taking out the bigger threat, so I switched target. Despite my out-maneuvering of the roc, I couldn't land a clean shot on him due to explorer's fire constantly draining my shield, not allowing me to make a joust against the bomber that wouldn't end in my vapourization, few SNAC's flew too close to my cockpit for my taste.

Thankfully, a BHG Orca class gunboat showed up and offered assistance, which I gladly accepted. The hunter proceeded to engage the gunboat, which targeted him in return as well. This brought my fight against Roc to my favor, and shortly afterwards the pilot ate a direct Cleaver antimatter shot.

In the meantime, the mollys from before showed up along one of their gunboats, called Jimmy_O'brian. They seemed to have some sort of business with those two, a business that included killing a goldfish of one of the mollys or something, they seemed angry about it though, and proceeded to assist Hunter, which was losing his fight on his own.

I decided that wasting fuel and ammo is pointless, and watched the fireworks from safe distance.
Afther the explorer has been destroyed, I gave the mollys chance to leave our space, as a thanks for assistance, which they took, and left, leaving me with private comm channel frequency in case any more corsairs or frogs showed up.

I refilled at Essex and headed back to Derby, and after about 20 minutes of scanning trade lanes and ships for contraband, I saw Valor jumping out of the Edinburgh gate! I immediately called all available assets, but only Ensign(at a time) Johnson responded, and I gave him a short request: "Derby, Challenger, Now!", I decided to use that molly frequency to call for some additional firepower, and it wasn't long since everyone arrived.

The Valor shield took heavy damage from Derby fire while it made it away from the gate, trying to cruise in direction of planet Leeds, obviously he failed. I gave order to fire at will, and bombardment ensued, after a short while the commander of valor decided that the wisest thing to do would be to run back to Edinburg, we didn't let him. during which all 3 molly ships were taken out, with just me and Johnson standing, we took quick repairs at Derby, I unloaded all pods acquired during the patrol. About the mollys, I decided to give'em a ride to Hood for all the help I got from them, a knight honor I guess.

Afterwards we decided to make a quick scan of Bretonia core systems, which brought us with a very interesting catch, at New London gate in Cambridge we found a transport hauling Gaian Wildlife! Thankfully this one was very cooperative, paid the fine as per BPA regulations and unloaded the wildlife at planet Cambridge as ordered.

Afterwards we returned to our posts and signed off.

The mollys seem to be quite... inconsistent in their relations to us, some of them attacking us on sight, other treating us as allies against common foes, still, I found those three mentioned in my report as very useful, helpful even, to our cause, what does Admiralty thinks about that?

Uh, I hope nobody minds the lenght of my reports.

Signing off.


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