To Make Things Right

[Thyrzul]

Command Bridge
CLN De Grasse, Orkney

19:32 SMT
23 Octobre, 824 AS / 740 AGS

[General on the bridge!]
[At ease.] - Pierre stormed into the bridge, quickly heading for the starmap holotable. - [Hail and query the Chardonnay, I want to know what assets the Flottille Flamme Rouge has in or near Leeds. Now.] - he demanded sternly while bringing up the holomap of the system.

Contact and information exchange was done within a minute: a group of two gunboats, a fighter wing and a pair of interceptors are returning from a scout operation and a missed skirmish opportunity, back to the CLN Candide. The battlecruiser is hidden in the Stokes field, close to the disabled Newcastle jumpgate, too far away to get to the RNS Dutertre within reasonable time. The returning group is close enough to turn back, but the amount of boarding parties on the gunboats is just insufficient.

For a few seconds Pierre struggled with brainstorming a good enough resolution for the situation from only these options at hand, then ordered the returning group to stop and decided to find out whether he has more to work with, or not: - Alors, [hail Fleet Admiral Richard.]

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