From: Colonel Mehmed Selim, CPW-Lenin
Security Encryption: ABSOLUTE Report transmitted to High Command and Commissariat Officials ONLY.
This report is to detail events which have transpired following a request for imminent backup and heavy suppression issued by the Commissariat. A rapid-response stealth deployment to Omega-49 to detain OSC artifact smugglers was authorized and our firepower was levied against them. Although they had disposed of some artifacts to the Commissar on duty they had not surrendered all artifacts by the time we had arrived and we were forced to take action despite the presence of a large civilian contingent -- no one is innocent when Crete's marks are involved. The pursuit took us through Bretonia until the Commissar was shot down and we could no longer maintain interdiction. Not all was lost however -- the OSC escort vessel countering us was shot down and its own cargo seized for transit to TOR-ONE forthwith.