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

[QuestionZ2]

Message class: Textual
Encryption: Low
Priority: Medium
To: BAF DIS
From: Ensign Charles Victor XII

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I was sent a distress call from a DSE Trader "Kusoakuma" about a "Vidar" class Hessian cruiser with ID 'RHA-Frankfurt' lurking around the lane to Cambridge jump gate from Freeport 1. I took my "Challenger" bomber and set out from Battleship Norfolk in search of the enemy. He was found engaging two freelancers two clicks away from the jump gate. I ordered him to stand down and leave the system but the fight carried own, not wanting to lose such helpful freelancers I engaged him as well. Finding himself outgunned the cruiser began to flee but so did freelancers who had been engaging him, on the ground that they were too badly damaged to carry on. I continued the pursuit on my own but soon was contacted by 'HMS-Destroyer.Firefly', a Crecy who said he will be providing backup soon. The cruiser kept trying to flee but my disruptors prevented that from ever happening.

Conversations with him made him claim that he had been hunting nomad activity in the system but Bretonian pilots' and Civilian Pilots' pods in his cargo hold spoke differently. There might have been some sort of truth in his claims as he just kept retreating, heading towards the Omega 7 gate at thrust speed, the best that he could do. I demanded a release of the officers and Civilian Pilots, he was reluctant at first on the grounds that they were infected but eventually gave in and I tractored in their pods. A few minutes after he had jumped to Omega 7, the Crecy came into my scanner range, seems he had some navigational issues on the way.


Summary: The Hessian was removed from the system but not eliminated, not that I complain, either way safety of Omega 3 was restored.