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

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Priority: Medium
To: BAF DIS
From: Admiral Sir George Richard Hall
Location: Southampton Shipyard, New London System

Report n°1828:

Not long ago I headed to the Leeds System in command of the Avalon, an Invincible-class. My target was the Sacre Bleu, a Valor-class. I found them at Planet Leeds. They requested me to move my ship back, or surrender her. I refused and gave them the counteroffer to evacuate their ship and let us destroy it, us leaving their pods at the place for their patrols to pick up, instead of taking them as prisoners of war. Following their refusal, we proceeded to attack them. They were under cover of an automated patrol consisting of one Valor-class and four Perilous-class, but our target quickly left their cover, perhaps confident in their advantage. or in the Poseidon, another Valor-class which appeared shortly. Our mortars were quick to penetrate the shield of the Sacre Bleu, while ours was holding. We damaged our target very heavily with controllable damage done to us by both ships when our target retreated behind the Poseidon in order to disperse damage. Both ships were firing mortars and Warwolves at us, mostly missing, but our mortars were out of range to finish off the Sacre Bleu and we were not able to get closer, as that would expose us to primary turret fire from the Poseidon. Instead, the Avalon commenced fire at the Poseidon herself. The ship was disabled after some time. The Avalon was very heavily damaged, but so was the Sacre Bleu. We were very close to breaching their hull, when a Warwolf salvo hit our engine, which we had to keep turned towards the ships in order to maintain range. The Avalon's lighting blacked out. We were lucky that the Sacre Bleu had to hurry for emergency repairs, otherwise we would have been prisoners of war. One of the Avalon's engines was eventually restored, but to barely enough capacity to limp the ship to Southampton. She is currently undergoing extensive repairs. Before our power generator engaged emergency shutdown, the radio operator had ordered the tea and personnel to be evacuated, by the procedure. The ship did not have enough power to tractor the tea back, nor the crew, so I regretfully inform the DIS that the Gauls, after tasting it, might want to take Curacao soon. After tasting the tea, of course. I doubt that they would be pleased with the men, at least in that manner. Men are an expendable resource anyways, so I am not worrying about them.

Allied Units:

1) BAF|HMS-Avalon (Invincible: Disabled).

Enemy Units:

1) RNS-Sacre_Bleu (Valor: Very Heavily Damaged);
2) RNS-Poseidon/SRB (Valor: Disabled)

Camera Shots:

1) Poseidon in flames.

Yours sincerely,.....................................................

Admiral Sir George R. Hall

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