Comm ID: WO J.Snow Destination: Colonial Military Reporting Facility Encryption: HIGH NOTE: For Urgent Attention of High Command
Subject: Zoner Summit in Baffin
Greetings to high command, please find below after action report on assignment from Blitz of the 15th Squadron.
Colonial Units Involved in Engagement:
Blitz (Nyx, 15th Sqrn) Operational
Racer (WO, Nyx) Vessel Lost
J. Snow (WO, Nyx) Operational
=VG=Triton (Zephyr Class) Operational
Under orders from Blitz fighters were requested to investigate reports of Galian units in the Leeds/Tau area. Racer and myself were available and were assigned to his flight.
We were also joined by the Zephyr class Triton. We started a standard patrol heading to Leeds via the Magellan system.
In Leeds we ran into some mollies who had not seen any galian units in the area. Blitz ordered all craft to the Tau 31 system. As the contacts now appeared to be in Tau 29.
Upon arriving at the freeport in tau 29 we were faced with a large flight of spacecraft some of whom appeared to originate in galia. However the galian named vessels were flying under Zoner IFF and appeared to be peaceful.
One of the vessels claimed to have the head councillor of the commonwealth aboard. I also find it important to mention that there was also a mixture of craft including outcast and GC vessels that appeared to be part of the flight.
After a discussion with the commonwealth vessels we turned to RTB via the Baffin system.
The Commonwealth flight followed us through moments later and soon got involved in a discussion with TAZ. Blitz ordered that we stay and make a record of the proceedings. This discussion was extremely long so I will relay the most vital information; gun camera evidence of the rest of the discussion is available if requested by command.
The Commonwealth flight had brought somewhere in the region of 3000 - 5000 marines as protection according to themselves. Due to their Gallic origins our flight was obviously concerned about what would occur if these marines docked with the station. Communication between the Commonwealth pilots such as these (message from Achille's.Skiff) also increased our concerns. It is clear the TAZ vessel Persephone also shared these concerns as we were requested to follow the commonwealth vessels and ensure they did not dock at the Pueblo Bunito station. If they attempted to dock we were authorized to open fire.
We were forced to open fire on one Commonwealth transport that attempted docking. We were unsuccessful in destroying the craft. However the situation was made worse when Racer engaged one of the GC escorts named Komachi Kurosawa without authorization from flight lead. Drawing us into a battle with enemy fighters. Attempts to resolve the situation peacefully failed and we withdrew after loosing Racer's nyx in combat. There was also loss of one spacecraft on the opposing side.
We then returned to Coronado where our vessels were checked for damage. Racer was successfully tractored in by the Triton.
Finally may I say even though I am fit for duty this was one hell of a welcome back party.
