[Sender ID] Fleet Commander Randall Santiago, Task Force Imperium
[Recipient ID] All Combat-Ready Fleet Personnel
[Subject] Operation Cortar
[Encryption] Beta Level - High
[Priority Level] Gamma - Medium
[Transmission Begins]
Good afternoon pilots and captains.
If you are not already aware, the situations in the system of Omicron Delta are dying down. The Core's military activity against the Zoners of Freeport 11 has been rarefied, and sightings have been uncommon. This does not mean that our operations within the Omicron Sector are over, but the focus has been shifted.
With the recent Gallic push into the California system, and their subsequent domination over the Libertonian forces, the Gallic forces within the Magellan and Leeds system are worn from the recent engagements. However, the situations in Delta and the Omicrons have taken much longer than we had originally anticipated. The Royalists have gained some breathing room, but now that the focus has been taken off of Delta, we can resume our original goal.
With that, the Fleet Command has approved the initiation of 'Operation Cortar'. This op will be a multi-step action against the commercial forces of the Kingdom, and will be centering on any Gallic commercial ships that enter the Tau systems, Orkney or Languedoc. In effect, this operation will legitimize 'piracy' against the Gallic commercial forces, and lethal force is authorized when given no passive choice.
Once the Royalist Naval forces are sufficiently depleted of resources for their 'war', then the combined forces of the Fleet, the Bretonian Armed Forces, the Council and the Crayter Military can use this advantage to destroy what we can of the resource starved Royalist forward fleet. This operation, with hope, will begin to sow the seeds of defeat for the Gallic war machine, and in turn, allow for us to focus on the liberation of Malta from the misguided Cross.
My prayers go with you, pilots and captains. This operation will be the defining moment of the Fleet on the Western Front, and the time for you brave pilots to shine. This war has gone on long enough, and I'd say it's time we helped end it once and for all.
Good luck, pilots and captains. May the ancestors go with us, and lead us to victory.
