Message Class: Textual
Encryption: Oolong-1
To: BAF|, including BAF|MN, BIS, BPA
From: Deckman Lilly Leicestershire
This report is about the incident in the Poole system in the evening of January 4th, 825.
We received a distress signal from traders in the Poole system. I happened to arrive first there, followed by Senior Flight Officer Boone. I was met by four Molly/Rogue Gunboats with strange weaponry, as well as two Werewolves and a Corsair of the Custodi, Argus Nikitas. One of the Rogue Gunboats used some extremely powerful equipment. It went with the callsign Redridge and seemed to lead the group. It send some sort of Cultist drones after us, which lead to Custodi and us working together against those drones. The Custodi also deployed a Murmillo-class Battleship, the C::CNS-Andromeda. The little shooting grew up to an outright battle when a Molly Destroyer, designation Mehanik, sided with Redridge. Thankfully, our friends from Crayter arrived and helped us, just in time. Senior Flight Officer Boone is currently in the possession of data about the unknown targets, including debris for the analytics.
The Corsairs claimed they didn't know anything about this group and left Poole when they were facing the Crayterian fleet. Our allies actually have deployed three cruisers and snub escorts including bombers while our own assets seem to have been caught off-guard. Tracing back the flight route of this Redridge individual, we stumbled across an installation in the Ulster Nebula in the Poole system, a Vented Smuggling Facility. While the station looked to me like it would break apart in any moment, the Crayterians boarded it for investigations, also mentioning they would like to make use of the base for future operations. I informed them of approaching the Admiralty about this endeavour.
No losses on our side.
I will attach footage to this report. The upload of the visual footage should be done within the next two hours.