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[Eduard]

Bonjour, this is Forlorn d'Autoine speaking.

I am transmitting this message so that I am able to forward the report concerning yesterday's fight in Omicron Zeta.
To sum it up, mes amis. We faced a large scale battle against a nomad fleet accompanied by Outcasts forces which directly assisted it in the battle.

Our fleets were alarmed by a number of hostile signals appearing on our scanners, this made us mobilize our forces and we had a great number of 141 tagged ships in space as well as ships belonging to the primary fleet and also support from other independent divisions.

Investigations revealed that the hostile signals was actually a Bounty Hunter Core ship, however, more we encountered more contacts which proved to be Rheinland Ships. Suspicions made us to target the Rheinland Ships as Wilde. Those very suspicions proved to had been true later.

That being said, a major organization maneuver was staged in hopes of preparing for the worse. All our ships mobilized at that moment of speaking regrouped in the asteroid field surrounding Meskenet. This was also the point where we decided to wait for the enemy as the location gave us a considerable advantage.

Moments passed and we finally got visuals on the Nomad Fleet. At first sight, it was composed of one Marduk Battleship classed Nomad and three Cruiser classed Nomads. But the nomad fleet had considerable reinforcements at its disposal. Reinforcements which were composed of Outcast, Samarran, and the Rheinland Ships I mentioned earlier which proved that they were Wilde indeed. Two Bounty Hunter Core fighters approached, one of them was the one we also encountered earlier. They offered us their assistance in eliminating the nomad threat. Considering that the fleet was possibly wanting to attack our home system... It makes me almost feel bad for destroying them afterwards, but like I said back then, there is nothing personal, but business, non?

Biensur, as the nomad capital vessels, especially the Marduk were hindered by the asteroid fleet, our group took the opportunity and engaged them. The Bomber squadron fell into the midst of battle launching salvos of torpedoes on the enemy marduk while the fighter escort was providing protection for us... Well ,,it" .

We also had two Osiris Battleships in our force pool, whose captains made the fatal mistakes of directly facing the Nomad Fleet in the asteroid field. That made them victims of the disadvantage we were trying to exploit as well. Needless to say, the Battleships got destroyed pretty fast as they were swarmed by the nomad cruisers.

Still, one of them gave enough damage to the Marduk, and so, with a few other blows, the bomber squadron managed to rip the Marduk apart. This came with a cost however, around half the size of the bomber squadron got lost because of the Cruiser escort the Marduk had.

At this moments, the balance was in the favor of neither sides. Our attention was faced towards the Cruisers but the fighter escort provided by the Outcasts, Samarrans and the Wilde gave us a hard time. Still, a SCRA cruiser vessel came out of no where in hopes of aiding us in combating the alien threat. I dare say, the cruiser support managed to give us an upper hand. We managed to greatly damage a cruiser or two until the SCRA cruiser honourably fell down, outnumbered by the enemy.

Still, it created a breach which we gladly used. Our forces swarmed the nomad cruisers which were ultimately destroyed as well. By the end of the destruction of the nomad fleet, there was almost nothing left of the bomber squadron. Just moi, and maybe one or two more agents from the Primary or the Independent fleet.

I took the decision to withdraw and comission a fighter vessel as the bomber became useless as the enemy had only fighters. That being said, I managed to use our well organized fighter escort as a distraction and fled combat. Back on docks, I took the liberty of piloting Hemuset-9 , something which I hope Commander Davids has no problem against heh heh, and came back into combat with the same efficiency I left.

The Outcast and the Wilde force was thinning but so was our force as well. We decided that it was best to turn against the Core et eliminate it now before it will prove a problem to us later. And so we did!

Now we started fighting the Core as well. It didn't take long before we slowly drew our victory. The Wilde and Outcast force was destroyed, with one Outcast ship left which managed to escape. Only the Core squadron remained.

We tried taking it down, but their skills proved more than matching, we lost Interceptor-2 which I do not know how, but he crashed into his own mine destroying his own ship. Moreover, Monsieur Golanski also couldn't withstand the Core anymore and his ship got destroyed as well, again, to a pile of mines...

By then, one Core fighter got taken down. There was only one Core fighter left which fought until the end. On our side however, from the fleet we had, only two fighters remained. Moi in Hemuset-9 and a member from the Primary Fleet, Grease was it? Or Greer?

Meh, negligeable...

Anyway, with his assistance, we managed to take down the Core fighter and so, the battle was over. There were no more enemies on our scanners and thus, I had decided to call it a victory. Still, it was a victory which came at a grand cost considering the losses we also sustained, only moi and that monsieur left the battlefield with our ships intact... mostly, but you get the point.

Also, mon gun camera managed to take data of the battle, for the curious ones, you will get the data attached together with mon report.

Before I end, I would also like to forward a suggestion, s'il vous plait. It would be tres bien to have training session between our own pilots the next few days if possible. Even though you rose up to the expectations and achieved victory, mes amis, we can still use a little training here and there to hone our discipline, organization, and moreover, fighting capabilities.

This was Captain Forlorn d'Autoine.
Au revoir!

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King Eduard is the greatest