Bowex InfoNet (inRP)

[jammi]

Incoming Transmission from Planet New London, New London
24/03/822 A.S.

To: Bowex InfoNet
Priority: High
Topic: Convoy report and debrief for 22/03/22.

Convoy Participants:

• BES Leeson - Andrew Peterson.
  
• BES Sheridan - Aaron Clarke.
  
• BES Charles.Hitchen - George Grenville.
  
• BAF Capt.H.Pearson - Captain Heather Pearson

Convoy Information:
Righto, Mr Clarke has covered most of the salient facts for Sunday's initial runs, so I'll pick up where he left off (after abandoning his co-workers and Leeds to go haring off after some women in Planetform). The remaining members of the convoy who were still actually doing their job consisted of myself, Mr Grenville and Captain Pearson.

As before, the Charles Hitchens popped over to the CRI to pick up some Medistasis Bands, while I returned to the Suffolk to collect the remaining troops of the 104th New London Fusiliers regiment. From there, myself and the Captain proceeded to Southampton to await the other two. Of course, Clarke can apparently sniff out estrogen through the void of space, and was busy shirking his duties elsewhere.

In any case, we all proceeded to Planet Leeds, where the orbital space was clear. With the Captain on lookout and the Hitchens stowed away in a nearby smog cloud, the operation begun. With the Fusiliers on the ground and helping to unload further supplies as I landed them, we cleared about half of the Hitchens' hold, while filling her up with Lanthanum. And that's when everything went to pot. See below.

Convoy Incidents:
Halfway through the medical runs, hostiles turned up. Honestly, I'm surprised we got away with it for that long. With the duo [M]-Blodwyn,O'Driscoll. and [M]-Tristan.O'Connor. on an intercept course, I ordered the transport to book it and requested Captain Pearson act as a screening force. As per the prior outlined SOPs, I burned towards the Hitchens where I was to lock on with tractor beams and provide a speed boost. This is where everything breaks down and reverts to the aforementioned pot.

Personally, I blame myself entirely for this, seeing as the involved personnel hadn't undergone any prior training for this specific sort of operation before we dragged them out to the most dangerous spot in the universe (for us). "On the job learning" likely isn't appropriate for running GRN blockades. In any case, when a hostile appears on scope, the transport should "book it" immediately towards the pre-arranged exit point (in this case Magellan) without requiring prompting. Similarly, the jump should be made without further commands needing to be issued. The preservation of lives and materiel is of the utmost importance in these operations.

Due to some hesitance in the escape procedure, the Mollys caught up to us (one Barghest and I believe a Greyhound) and disrupted the Hitchens on the other side of the hole. I'm not sure if it was simply due to the convoy's combined firepower providing ample discouragement to escalating the situation, but no monetary or material demand was issued. Instead, a pair of Molly pilots Captain Pearson had arrested for attacking the operation were requested for transfer instead. During this time, I provided cover for the Hitchens, who successfully scarpered while the Mollys were distracted. I then returned to the Captain to see what needed to be done. After the prisoner transfer, we both departed without shots being fired. This concluded the day's actions around Leeds.

Other Notes:
I feel there are a few things that can be learned from the day's events:

1. Clarke is a chauvinistic berk who doesn't seem to know who's employing him.
   
2. External parties should only be added to shared communication channels when they have physically merged into convoy order. Planetform and Clarke having a pillowfight outside Harris while we were busy dealing with our own nonsense wasn't particularly helpful.
   
3. Personnel participating in Leeds blockade runs should go through "dry runs" to practice escape and evasion protocols in the event things go "mammaries up".

Other than this, I can only praise the bravery of both Captain Pearson, Mr Grenville and his crew for heroically putting themselves in harms way at short notice in order to make a real, tangible difference to our lads on Leeds. You have my praise and admiration, and I can only hope we can continue to do work that has such an impact in the future. Carina, Regina, Imperatrix indeed!

Andrew Peterson
Post indeterminate
Borderworld Exports

Transmission End