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

[Backo]

Message Class: Textual
Encryption: Medium
To: BAF DIS
From: Ensign Thomas Murphy

---

Ensign Thomas Murphy reporting,

On 23.1.824A.S. at 22:00 SMT while me and Captain Dagon were escorting HMS-Sovereign, the Captain received a distress message about Corsair activity in New London and so we broke formation and headed there with utmost hate. While making our way to New London our frequencies were joined by Commander Seeley French who was apparently already in New London on his Challanger-class bomber. We chased the enemy combatants, a Titan, a Corsair Train and a Gunboat into Cambridge. I only got visuals on one of them when I was nearing Norfolk, a Titan fighter to be more precise. I chased it towards the Omega-3 gate alongside Captain Dagon but once in Omega-3 they managed to slip us and escape into a jumphole which the Captain described as leading to Omega-5. Being out of our jurisdiction we returned back to Bretonian space and headed to New London.

At roughly 22:40 SMT we received another distress call about Corsair forces gathering in Omega-3 again so me and the Captain departed yet again there. This time we had the pilot of Havoc IV, Lieutenant Commander Cuttingham and Lieutenant Graves with us. We arrived in Omega-3 and found the enemy forces gathering near planet Sprague. 5 Titans along a Corsair Gunboat by the callsign C::CNS-Perseus were there. Luckly we got more reinforcements - Admiral Evyn Wildcat in her Guardian and Captain Brennan in another Templar. Seeing that with our reinforcements we can match their strength we quickly engaged the enemy forces. Our orders were to focus on the Gunboat as it was a priority target. We successfully chased it off to Omega-5 inflicting heavy, but not critical enough damage to neutralize it. In the mean time Captain Dagon was under heavy fire from the Corsair forces, but lucky two Auxesians showed up (callsign Pezhetairos and callsign Krauklis) to try and relief the pressure off the Captain. The Admiral ordered us to split up and provide as much cover to Dagon as possible, but her craft was already heavily damaged beyond what the nanobots could repair and we couldn't relieve the pressure off her from the Corsair pilots in time. At 21:12 SMT she was forced to eject but things soon after turned in our favor. One of the Titans split away from the fight as me and Captain Brennan alongside a single Auxesian chased it off. I managed to take it down with a reckless torpedo attack and apparently, judging by the damage my Templar sustained and the the Corsair fighter left in a in a complete wreck, either two torpedoes colliding or my torpedo hitting her mine. We then returned to the main fight where the rest of the Corsairs were being hit hard. Soon after another Titan was eliminated by it's damaged nuclear mine dropper malfunctioning and causing an explosion. What followed was a really brave move by the pilot of Havoc IV where he rammed another Titan and discharged it's anti-capital weaponry leading nothing but smoldering dust of the unfortunate Corsair. The last Corsair standing fled to the Omega-5 system and so I was forced to disengage.

This engagement left us with one Templar turned into a wreck and light to medium damage on the rest of our fighters. The Corsair side suffered heavy but not fatal damage to the Gunboat and 3 destroyed Titans with 2 forced to reroute back to Omega-5.

Following this engagement I requested from the the engineers at Ark Royal to switch one of my EMP guns on my Templar with a "Enfield PB4" as the engagement showed that EMP capacity was of lesser importance than hull damage in the fight against their heavily armored ships. I'll see how this new loadout performs in future engagements and adjust accordingly if needed.

Carina, Regina, Imperatrix!

Thomas Murphy
Ensign
Bretonian Armed Forces

---

Open for Replies

---

Republic of the Sword and Sun