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

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Message Class: Textual
Encryption: Earl Grey
To: BAF DIS
From: Admiral Sir George Richard Hall

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This is a report about the battle that took place in Dublin several hours ago.

The defenses were alerted that there was a Coalition carrier in Dublin, probably followed by a number of their strike craft. The BPA patrol on the spot confirmed this and engaged the strike craft, with the help of Quicksilver from the Bounty Hunters' Guild. The closest available capital ship that was available was the HMS Dover in Cambridge, an Invincible-class from the reserve fleet scheduled for transfer to primary. Due to the procedure, I had to complete the transfer before departing to battle. Meanwhile a BPA fighter was lost, but it is more important that the procedure was followed. We then hurried to the spot as quickly as we were able to, but despite that, the other BPA fighter was also shot down, this one by the carrier. That left the bounty hunter alone, but instead of doing what most mercenaries would, they stayed on the sight and kept the enemy carrier fixed. The Dover then finally arrived and proceeded to fire upon the Lenin, as the enemy carrier was called. Nevertheless, they managed to stay out of our primary turrets' range, and as we had two Cerberuses and no artillery, we were not able to fire. Meanwhile they ordered a bomber on the Dover and fired three salvos of two heavy mortars each at us. The first two missed, but as the whole third hit, owing to us being focused on fending off the bomber, they turned, encouraged by our complete loss of shield, and closed in to land primary turret shells. At last our armament was in range too, so we returned fire. This is where our Cerberus turrets, which the enemy also had two of but did not use for whatever reason, paid off. Seemingly discontent by the rate at which they were damaging us, the enemy then showered us with their unnecessarily numerous secondary battery which, I admit, did make a few scratches on our hull, but also murdered their powercore. This was when they remembered to use their Cerberuses and also when we ran out of reserve energy as well, so we switched to the Cerberuses only. When they saw that our frugality had paid off and that they would lose the battle, they stopped firing and diverted all remaining power to their cruise drive. However, using only two Cerberuses had let us replenish some energy, which we then poured out at them with our primary turrets. That was enough to overload the Lenin right after they had charged their cruise drive in a desperate attempt to escape, causing a violent discharge through not only the exhausts, but also windows, weakspots and the holes in their hull which we had created. The Lenin's engines ceased to function and the ship continued to drift at the same speed, until it hit an asteroid of the Hood Field and then another two, when it relatively stopped. I consider myself lucky, as the Lenin appeared to be a better ship than the Dover, sporting more light turrets and twice the number of heavies, but their captain appeared to have reached his position by having connections rather than merit, which also, and rightly, marked his downfall.

When the critical phase of the battle was over and our victory was clear, a Liberty Navy cruiser, the Michael, appeared on the scene, but I ordered them not to fire as their ammunition and fuel were more expensive than the remaining enemy fleet. Following the destruction of their mothership, the remaining Coalition fleet scattered. One of them was caught by Quicksilver and later shot down, while another was caught by a certain self-appointed "Sir", called Ernest Shackleton, and employed by the Privateers. Shackleton's fighter was shot down, but another bounty hunter happened to be on the spot, flying a Moray called "Death by Glamour". The Coalition fighter, whose pilot was a certain Lukas Riemann, then took flight all the way back to Omega-49, where they were chased by the two bounty hunters. What happened later is unknown to me, but Quicksilver certainly survived, as they applied for the bounty later today, albeit not claiming Riemann.

The Dover is currently undergoing extensive repairs at Southampton, while I am intending to make up for the tea break that the mannerless Coalition had interrupted earlier.

Allied Units:

1) BAF|HMS-Dover (Invincible)
2) LNS-Michael (Archer; did not take part)
3) BPA)Con.John.Steiner (snub; shot down)
4) BPA)Paul.Hastings (snub; shot down)
5) Sir.Ernest.Shackleton (fighter; shot down)
6) BHG|Quicksilver (fighter)
7) Death.By.Glamour (Moray)

Enemy Units:

1) SCRA|CPW-Lenin (Tempest; destroyed)
2) SCRA|Red-4 (bomber)
3) SCRA|Pyotr.Ledovskoy (fighter; shot down)
4) SCRA|Lukas.Riemann (fighter)

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Battle 1.1

Sir George R. Hall
Admiral
Bretonian Armed Forces

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