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

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Priority: Medium
To: Admirality Board of the Armed Forces
From: Commodore Jacob McIntire, BAF
Location: HMS Essex, Dublin System



Honorable members of the Admirality Board,

Today I report a battle in Omega 3 that took place yesterday in the late evening. I was contacted by Commander Dagon, who reported that she got informations about a Corsair warband moving towards the system.
When I arrived there, calling for backup while on the move, the Corsair fleet already entered the system alongside some Gaian fighters.
Gladly we got backup by vessels of the Battlegroup Auxesia, with wich we posessed the numbers to hit on their strike wings while our capital forces were forming in Cambridge under the command of Sir Admiral Hall, this time in command of the Avalon. When the fight began we were fewer in numbers, but not in an unmanageable situation. What really weakened us was that our communication was not optimal. That led to Commander Dagon and me chasing another target than the Auxesian vessels when the fight began. When our target went in the vicinity of the enemy capital ships, wich held us away by point defense fire, we reorganized and joined the Auxesian forces.
After that the fight moved into the asteroid field near the Freeport, making it more close and unpredicteable, wich led to Commander Dagons ships destruction by an unlucky placed mine.
This gave a nearly destroyed Corsair fighter the chance to get hand on her nanobot reserves, making our position more difficult.
Soon after Ensign Jefferson and an Auxesian fighter ( A/)-Serpentis) were destroyed as well, along one of the Corsairs fighters (La.Piranha).
At this point a Freelancer with the callsign The.good.Ole' came along the way and was paid to help the Corsairs.
The fight went on, evenutally leading to another Corsair fighter bursting in flames (El.Acosador), when LtCdr Sutton and A/)-Raven came to help us against the enemy's force and after a hard fight we were able to gain the upper hand, leading to the destruction of nearly all of the enemies strikecraft (Cornelionada,The.good.Ole',GG-Daxos).
One of the Gaian fighters was able to retreat, and we did not follow its trail to not get into an ambush.

For the capital battle I can only report what I was told and read in the communications in the Armed Forces channels, But the enemy capital fleet was forced to retreat, suffering heavy damage. The Avalon was hard hit hard as well, she will have to spend the day in a dock.

In short:
A mixed fleet of Corsair and Gaian ships entered Omega 3; We were able to overwhelm them; losses were moderate in the capital battle, bigger in the strikecraft fights

BAF/ A/) strikecraft
A/)-Raven (joined late)
A/)-Paradox
BAF|Lt.Cdr.W,Sutton (joined late)
BAF|Ens.Noa.Jefferson (fighter destroyed)
A/)-Serpentis (fighter destroyed)
BAF|Cmdr.Kaze,Dagon (fighter destroyed)
BAF|Cdre:Jacob.McIntire

Sair/GG strikecraft
GG-Daxos (fighter destroyed)
GG-Black.Lion (fighter destroyed)
GG-Robert.Doms
La.Piranha (fighter destroyed)
Cornelionada (fighter destroyed)
El.Acosador (fighter destroyed)
The.good.Ole (joined late ) (fighter destroyed)


BAF capital assets
13th|HMS-Argosax
BAF|HMS-Avalon (heavily damaged)
Howe

Corsair capital assets
Falcon.Negro[TBH] (heavily damaged)
Memoria[TBH] (heavily damaged)
"Ghost.Ship"-S.Spiegel

Visual evidence: GG-Daxos's fighters destruction

yours sincerely,
Jacob McIntire