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

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

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This is a report about the action that took place yesterday in the Dublin System.

Cries for help from the newly built BMM outpost in the Graves Field, the Graves Storage Complex, reached us only yesterday. A siege by the Mollies was brewing. It caught us unready. Little did it help that the enemy had invited allies, the SCRA.

The Sovereign, under my command, happened to be on patrol in Manchester at the time. I could not find any available capital ships of ours at all, and I was joined only by Lieutenant Commander Thomas Murphy. The situation demanded me to plead the Liberty Expeditionary Force for assistance. They behaved like true allies and were even glad to accept it.

We met in the orbit of Planet New London and I firstly sent Murphy to scout out the enemy positions. He proved more than capable for that, as he also eliminated the enemy light wing, despite their overwhelming presence of capital ships. If I was still an admiral, I would recommend Murphy for a promotion. But of course, I left my previous position, entirely, wholly, surely and most certainly by my own will, to officers who I definitely deemed decisively more capable.

With the clear intelligence reports of one Tempest-class, one Osiris-class, one Scylla-class, one Typhoon-class and one Hellhound-class, and with the enemy light wing eliminated, our fleet, which consisted of one Dunkirk-class, one Overlord-class and one Archer-class, headed for Dublin. The plan, bravely suggested by the Libertonians, was to use the Archer-class and her impressive maneuverability to lure the enemy to attack her, with our main forces, hidden until then, suddenly appearing at the enemy's flank.

For some reason it took the El Paso, the Archer-class, some time to provoke the enemy, during which we were joined by the New Hampshire, a Crecy-class. They might have been aware that the El Paso was not our entire fleet. But they did succeed, and then our plan was quickly put into action. Unfortunately the El Paso was put out of action much faster than planned and, at the same time, the Tempest-class, which had been cloaked, materialized about 2K from the Overlord's flank. The Glendale was slow to react and had already absorbed a few heavy mortars before returning fire. This prompted me to actually consider ordering a tactical retreat. At this point the fire of the enemy destroyers was focused on the New Hampshire, which the rest of the fleet was too busy to cover due to focusing fire at the Tempest. Suffering damage of 50% hull integrity, it was the Tempest that decided to break off first. They managed to cruise away, which relieved us from a lot of pressure. At this moment I decided that we should stay and fight. At this moment we were also reinforced by a BPA fighter and a BMM one. We, the Sovereign, managed to catch the Saoirse, a Moly Scylla-class, off guard while they were pursuing the New Hampshire, and fired two heavy mortars at her hull. They overloaded its integrity and the Saoirse was put out of action. The Trotsky, the SCRA Typhoon-class, then redirected its fire at the crumbling Glendale. Reconciling with the Glendale's certain demise, I headed the Sovereign forward after having been insured that the Trotsky was under fire by the New Hampshire, and ordered cruise disruptors on the Havana, the SCRA Osiris-class. I caught their ship at close range and unleashed, after salvos of pulses, one of heavy mortars. They did not even return fire, but directed it at the Glendale instead, which managed to score a pair of heavy mortar hits on the Havana before being put out of action. I finished off the Havana with a hit into the engine by our new Nightmare Torpedo.

It was more difficult for us to overcome the remaining agile Typhoon-class and the nimble Hellhound-class. A number of cruise attacks by the Sovereign, although the enemy gunboat repeatedly failed to disrupt us, ended with only minor successes. That was until the gunboat approached close enough, but also too close: after defeating their shield with a salvo from four Pulse Cannons, we utterly destroyed them with a direct hit from our heavy mortar on the slot number two.

This left the Trotsky alone against our whole fleet. Or so I hoped. But the Lenin suddenly re-appeared, completely repaired, right behind the Sovereign. We had not yet received any damage, but four primary cannons and two Cerberus Turrets of the enemy, combined with the focused fire of the Trotsky, started quickly grinding their way through our armour plating. It is true that the ship is equipped with a cloaking device disruptor, but our radar had spotted no strange signals and we were not alerted to use it. At this time I thought that the battle was lost for the second time, so I ordered a desperate movement. I ordered the ship to fire a Nightmare Torpedo at the Lenin, hoping it would disable their heavy turrets. This proved gave me an advantage, but an unexpected one. The enemy, apparently uninformed about our new weapon, but informed of what it had done to the Havana, moved away in an attempt to avoid it. The torpedo hit, but it hit the enemy's shield. Nevertheless, they were already far away for the Sovereign to gain a good advantage. By that time the New Hampshire had also managed to cause the Trotsky to break off, and they defeated the SCRA destroyer in a ship-to-ship duel. The Lenin, left alone, suffered two more Nightmare Torpedo hits, several heavy mortar hits and, near the end, a few hits from the New Hampshire's primary cannons. They could not maintain hull integrity and were put out of action. The whole enemy fleet was destroyed. No enemy ships managed to escape.

Although Bretonia suffered no ship losses, the Graves Storage Complex was completely devastated and no longer operational. All hands aboard managed to evacuate, but the material damage was total. Was it not destroyed, I would commend the performance of the Nightmare Torpedo at the end of this report, but instead I am calling for Admiral Wildcat to order the Golden Coin for urgent deconstruction in retaliation. I propose that Captain Brennan should be installed as her legate in case the operation is put into action, and micromanage the fleet from the front.


Allied Units:

1) BAF|HMS-Sovereign (Dunkirk)
2) [LN]-LNS-Glendale (Overlord; Destroyed)
3) HMS-New.Hampshire (Crecy)
4) [LN]-LNS-El.Paso (Archer; Destroyed)
5) BAF|LtCdr.Thomas.Murphy (Eagle)
6) BPA)Thomas.Waters (Fighter)
7) BMM-Alpha.Four (Fighter)

Enemy Units:

1) SCRA|CPW-Lenin (Tempest; Destroyed)
2) SCRA|CPW-Havana (Osiris; Destroyed)
3) [M]-Saoirse (Scylla; Destroyed)
4) SCRA|CPW-Trotsky (Typhoon; Destroyed)
5) [M]-Miguel.Lass (Hellhound; Destroyed)
6) [M]-Greyhound (Fighter; Destroyed)

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Sir George R. Hall
Captain
Bretonian Armed Forces

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