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

[Thunderer]

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Priority: High
To: Bretonian Armed Forces Defense Intelligence Staff
From: Commodore George Richard Hall
Location: H.M.S. Thunderer, New London System
Subject: Defense of Port Talbot

It was yesterday's afternoon and I was drinking soda. Well, I ran out of tea, so I had to find something to moisten my throat. When I was thinking of a way to reduce the amount of those annoying bubbles which make hiding your burping an almost impossible action, I got a call. It was my mother asking me whether to buy a comfy armchair, or an ornate antique chair. I told her to buy a cheap folding chair and hanged up immediately. Suddenly, almost at the same moment, I got another call. In fear it was my mother again, I told the ship's first officer to answer. But it wasn't my mother. It was Port Talbot. They said they were under attack by three Legates. I quickly assembled a fleet of two Dunkirks and one Crecy, and headed there. We found only one Legate. For a moment I thought something about diopter and glasses, and that thought gave me some inexplicable unpleasant feeling, for some reason only God and the best psychiatrists know. I am neither of those.
So, we have found that Legate and blasted her. We've also found a Molly Scylla on the way, shooting at King's Cross, which shared her fate with the Legate.
The other two Legates appeared later, and both were heavily damaged, before somehow docking on Freeport 1.
After the area was secured, or thought to be, Bowex began bringing in the supplies. One of them told me their vessel has been attempted to be robbed by a Gateway ship. I rushed to the spot, but the Bowex transport managed to escape before. I was back to guarding the Port until it's safe on its own. The Bowex vessels got an Armed Forces escort consisted of a destroyer, commanded by Captain Darrow, and a Templar, piloted by Ensign Pearson. Gateway now didn't attack anybody, but they were following the convoy all the time and throwing insults at Bowex pilots. I didn't want to interfere in their feudal verbal clashes, as long as they stayed verbal. But they didn't. I heard three Gateway snubs and one Gateway gunboat have disrupted a lane to Aland shipyard, exactly where the Bowex transports were heading. But they didn't catch them. They caught the Armed Forces escort. As I had a higher rank and Captain Darrow was incapable of doing any serious business without me, I headed the Thunderer to the place. I found the Gateway ships with their pilots mocking at our chaps. Like they are enemies. Almost as harshly as the Gauls. The only major difference was that the Gauls were a bit brighter than them. The cause might have been intoxication. Namely, I have heard the Gateway pilots discussing something about weed an cognac, about lending someone's to someone else. Because the pilots might have been flying drunk and/or stoned, as they say, I've called them for an alcohol concentration test. They have, however, continued to jabber nonsense, and then even tried to run away. Most have succeeded, except the gunboat, the Reaper. I started the pilot's interrogation, but he kept answering my every question with "classified", so I ordered his arrest. He powered up his ship's engines and started to run away, but his ship was destroyed and he is now safely guarded in Newgate. Since he payed the fine for disrupting the smooth flow of trade to Captain Darrow, as I was informed, he can be accused of insulting Armed Forces officers, disobedience, flying while intoxicated, and as the worst, possible piracy. In order to accuse them for piracy, we need to wait for Bowex to submit their proofs. If proofs of prior are needed, they are stored in the Thunderer's computers. What we should do with the ones who have escaped, will be solved by our future discussion. Except if Admiral Havering has other ideas.

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