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La Marine Royale Gauloise
La Marine Impériale de Sa Majesté Royale

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Blason de la Famille Bordeleaux

Envoyé de: Cabine du commandant, à bord de la corvette "RNS L'Espérance"
Envoyé à: Commandement Central de la Marine Royale Gauloise; tous les officiers enrôlés, l'équipage et le personnel militaire
Sujet: Évaluation des dommages de combat et debriefing
Niveau de Sécurité: Maximum
Catégorie: Rapport officiel de l'officier

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Mesdames et Messieurs, Officiers Distingués de la Marine Royale Gauloise,

I, Madeline Sabine IV of the Bordeleaux Household of Lyonnnais, Coureur of the Marine Royale Gauloise and Commander of the RNS L'Esperance (Perilous-Class GRN Corvette), have done service in the name of His Majesty, the Kingdom and the Royal Navy.

During our routine patrol for the day, we chanced upon a Roc Bomber flying a Bretonnian SIS ID. After negotions quickly broke down (I must say, I am rather unimpressed by the crude savagery of these Bretonnians. They fail to even humor me or my NCO's, which irritates me even more), we immediately powered up weapons and engaged. It was a rather uneventful skirmish, as throughout the ordeal the L'Esperance's shields held as we kept lancing the poor thing with silencer missiles and blanketing fire from our turrets. The brief encounter lasted approximately 5 minutes according to my bridge officers' reports, and abruptly ended after the SIS agent broke off.

Mission Data Recoder

[14.06.2018 02:20:09] MRG|TL-'L'Esperance: Bordeleaux: Unidentified Bretonnian vessel. Please give your ID and intentions. This is Lt. Commandant Sabine de Bordeleaux.
[14.06.2018 02:20:55] Death: Friend was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[14.06.2018 02:21:02] [SIS]-Telic: My ID is Telic. My intention is burn New Paris to the ground and and fly the Bretonian flag over the royal palace.
[14.06.2018 02:21:10] [SIS]-Telic: See, I'm being very cooperative with your demands.
[14.06.2018 02:21:36] MRG|TL-'L'Esperance: Bordeleaux: <Sigh> I know you're smarter than that, Bretonnian. What is the real reason you're here?
[14.06.2018 02:22:54] [SIS]-Telic: Have you ever played a game of tic tac toe?
[14.06.2018 02:23:11] [SIS]-Telic: I bet I could win you in a game of tic tac toe.
[14.06.2018 02:23:17] MRG|TL-'L'Esperance: Bordeleaux: I'm not here for games, Bretonnian.
[14.06.2018 02:23:20] [SIS]-Telic: You do look like a loser after all.
[14.06.2018 02:23:36] [SIS]-Telic: Oh. Well what are you here for then?
[14.06.2018 02:24:47] MRG|TL-'L'Esperance: Bordeleaux: This is our routine patrol route.
[14.06.2018 02:25:39] [SIS]-Telic: Oh, and what do you reckon I'm here for?
[14.06.2018 02:25:48] [SIS]-Telic: Give me your best shot
[14.06.2018 02:25:53] [SIS]-Telic: Hint, it's not a patrol!
[14.06.2018 02:26:24] MRG|TL-'L'Esperance: Bordeleaux: A number of things come to mind, Bretonnian. None of them particularly honorable.
[14.06.2018 02:26:39] MRG|TL-'L'Esperance: Bordeleaux: Your manner of speaking tells me that well enough.
[14.06.2018 02:27:18] MRG|TL-'L'Esperance: Bordeleaux: Well, My crew and I are not in a fighting mood today. Do you wish to humor us a bit longer, or shall we be going?
[14.06.2018 02:27:32] [SIS]-Telic: That's what I call asking for it!
[14.06.2018 02:27:46] [SIS]-Telic: Here at the agency, we call this a targetting killing, mesdames!
[14.06.2018 02:27:55] [SIS]-Telic: LASERS POWERED UP!
[14.06.2018 02:28:05] MRG|TL-'L'Esperance: Bordeleaux: All crew, battlestations.
[14.06.2018 02:32:01] [SIS]-Telic: I suppose that's what we call a failed operations, until again mesdames commandant!
[14.06.2018 02:32:24] MRG|TL-'L'Esperance: Bordeleaux: Hmm.

Patrols in the system continue.

Cordialement,

Madeline Sabine de Bordeleaux IV, MRG
Marquess of Lyon, Margrave of Lyonnais,
Lt.-Commandant de la Corvette MRG R.N.S. L'Espérance
Official Coureur of the Marine Royale Gauloise