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

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Identification: Thomas Gordon
Reciever: BAF Defence Intelligence Staff
Encryption: Standard
Source: Planet Leeds, Leeds System
Subject: Battle in Leeds

Good evening,

As you are no doubt aware, the Gallic Royal Navy launched a major offensive into Leeds. Several Valor Class Battleships escorted by Cruisers and a small fighter wing. Against them, we had 4 destroyers, the Invictus, Redoubt, Pestilence and Richmond and a Dunkirk, the HMS Vindicator. Two Council Cruisers, the CLN Courlancy and CLN Liberte also showed up to assist. We also had a fairly strong bomber wing with fighter support.

The battle was fairly predictable. The Gallic Fleet was clearly commanded by an incompetent and seemed to rely more on firepower than tactics, their Valor's were unable to fight off our bombers, and our Destroyer's engaged them at range with long range weaponry. Their fighter wing was utterly useless in providing cover. We did suffer sime losses as the Vindicator was lost early on due to a cock-up in Fleet communications and the Redoubt was lost to the firepower of several Valor's. The Richmond was also lost. However, the entire Gallic Fleet was destroyed. The following ships confirmed destroyed:

• RNS Condor (Valor)
  RNS Albatros (Valor)
  RNS Le Vengeur (Valor)
  RNS Circaete (Cruiser)
  RNS Overlord (Valor)
  Compressor (Cruiser)
  RNS Moineaux (Cruiser)
  

After the destruction of the main Gallic Fleet I switched my Challenger for my Templar and assisted Ensign's Beaumont and Di Marco taking out a Corsair and Gaian that had decided to show up, as well as the remaining Gallic Fleet's snub cover. After all the trash was mopped up I docked on Leeds and signed off.

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Note: A rather large "Nomad" entity "-{-Aurora" appeared. It caused a localised Ion storm in the Leeds system and caused the entire fleet to lose power. It also seemed to be running some form of software which seemed to be malfunctioning, from what I could guess from it's nonsensical messages. Lt Cdr Arland guessed it was Windows Vista or somesuch. The alien entity aided us in destroying the Gallic Fleet.

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Thomas Gordon
Ensign
Bretonian Armed Forces

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