The Sabres have been operational for little more than a week, and with the various operations that we've conducted as of late, all of them have gone exceptionally well. Out of these sorties, we've yet to lose a single ship to combat.
With that said, I'd like to make a brief report about a recently missing Gunboat. A Bretonian Gunboat by the name 'Mandy' was originally found in Kusari, and was reported directly to one of our own officers, Commander Wayne Johnson.
Upon receiving this information, we were dispatched into the region to hunt down the vessel in question and bring it home by any means necessary. It was clear that we would be breaking the unsteady peace we had with the Kusari Republic should we be caught operating discretely in their space.
The target was initially located in Liberty, where we presued it through Keplar and into Shikoku. Prior to us jumping, I had personally hailed a Kusari Naval Officer about our presence in Kusari proper, shortly after we were given the green light.
With aid of this Kusari officer, the operation took two minutes. It turned out the vessel in question was not a Bretonian Gunboat, but a Rheinland transport. Three minutes into the operation, we had additional Kusari forces on top of us - and they weren't exactly friendly.
In an attempt to avoid a diplomatic incident, or a firefight, I explained the situation and why their High Command wasn't informed about a foreign military squadron being deployed to Kusari. One of the Officers happened to listen, the other... was absolutely stubborn.
Thankfully, we were escorted out of Kusari.
I'd like to request that our Admiralty issue orders not to trust intelligence from foreign military assets until we can back it up ourselves, to avoid such a careless mistake in the future.
On the other hand, a contact in the black market stumbled across a Bretonian Gunboat... and it has just been returned to Southampton.
