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

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Message Class: Textual
Encryption: Assam
To: BAF DIS
From: Ensign Elizabeth Hall

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This report is about a battle that took place today in the New London System.

I must apologize in advance for any excess text or lack of it, as this is my first report about a real occurrence.

I had just finished my simulator training aboard Winchester and I went to New London so I could be given a briefing by Admiral Edmund Steiner before I continue to my designated post in New Holland. Near Dover I met a ship that flashed an unknown IFF, callsign Boogeyman. I asked the pilot to stop, but he (he later said he was fine with me referring to him as a male) did not heed my orders. A Zoner Osprey that happened to be nearby thought the order was for them, and they stopped instead. As I know that it is possible that terrorists from Sydney enter Bretonia under still neutral Zoner IDs, I tended to him instead. He carried two Lane Hacker pilots and, after he had surrendered them to me, I let him go.

Boogeyman had returned in the meantime, as if curiously sniffing around my business. I scanned him and it turned out he had a Guardian with a Nomad thruster (as well as two adapted Nomad cannons, but we produce such ourselves). Reinforced by a pilot from the 5th LN Fleet, Enzo Gagnon, I gave Boogeyman two options: dismount the thruster, or pay the fine and leave Bretonia. He refused them both and fired at Gagnon. I rallied to his defense, but Gagnon's ship was shot down in seconds. That demonstrated the criminal's skill in comparison to that of me, a recruit still in training, but I remembered what I was taught and stayed calm. I was able to put up some resistance and drained the criminal to 22 nanobots and 0 shield batteries, but he won the day. I was not shot down, instead they decided to retreat -- they because Boogeyman was joined by another ship, callsign "Oscar-6". Kensington and Canterbury were not allowing me to dock because their automatic IFF recognition software turned me hostile because of a stray CD, so I went to New London to repair. There I met with Commander Eva Flameheart, who advised me to write this report. I landed so I could repair my ship and do that, but I was called again too soon. I hopped into a different Templar while mine was being fixed and took off, to see two TBH Corsair fighters and Oscar-2 at the second nearest ring of the trade lane to Southampton. The commander and I were joined by a reservist called Kane Wesson, and by the commander's orders, attacked Oscar-2 first. The enemy then received support in the form of a Corsair gunboat, Imperator-class, also TBH. By my advice, the commander invited a mercenary called Nathalie Crouse to reinforce us, which the mercenary accepted. She was flying a super heavy fighter. Oscar-2 then happened to fly into someone's mine, many of which were floating around, at the same moment as they dropped their own, which shot their ship down. By Commander Flameheart's orders, our wing then focused fire at the gunboat, which was taking damage surprisingly fast. I had heard that gunboats were supposed to fend off fighters, but I had no issue dealing with this one. Eventually they engaged a cloaking device and escaped. I admit my mistake for not scanning them first to determine if they had one, but I was in the heat of battle, and it was my second battle ever, both on my first flight. The Corsair fighters were then left to our mercy and Commander Flameheart had none. One was shot down as quickly as Gagnon was earlier and the other remained engaged in a duel with Wesson. But instead of firing at Wesson, he kept steady fire at Crouse, whose ship was disarmed by mines and at the time helpless. Wesson shot him down before he could shoot down Crouse. Then our mercenary left to repair and Wesson and I stayed at the spot. Commander Flameheart was not shot, but she disappeared in the meantime. I was too busy and I do not know where. She might have simply left to repair her ship after she had assured us victory.

Wesson and I then stumbled upon a Cougar, piloted by a certain Lucien Marchant, and no other than Boogeyman. Marchant said that he was there to surrender, but upon being explained that our bases would not receive his ship due to the IFF recognition software which we could not change, and that the only way to properly surrender would be to eject, he went silent and then changed the subject. I suspected that he was instead buying time for reinforcements to arrive, so Wesson and I shot his ship down. I picked up a pod and surrendered it to the police when I had landed. Wesson had shown amazing skill during the scuffle, so I left him to deal with Boogeyman, while I was delivering the pod.

I thought I was impossibly unlucky to stumble upon enemies on my first flight, but now I realize I was instead incredibly lucky to have such competent wingmen and, as soon as my first flight, claim my first victory.

Allied Ships:
1) BAF|Cdr.Eva.Flameheart (Templar, operable, unknown damage)
2) BAF|Ens.Elizabeth Hall (first Templar heavily damaged, under repairs; second lightly)
3) Kane.Wesson (Templar, operable, unknown damage)
4) 5th|Enzo.Gagnon (Guardian; shot down)
5) Nathalie.Crouse (SHF, disarmed, flyable)

Enemy Ships:
1) Saguaro[TBH] (Imperator, fled, heavily damaged)
2) Boogeyman|Aoi (Guardian, operable, damaged)
3) Oscar-6|Aoi (Lynx?, shot down)
4) Cesar.Gutierrez[TBH] (Titan, shot down)
5) El.Machete[TBH] (Titan, shot down)
6) Lucien.Marchant (Cougar, pilot surrendered, ship shot down)

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Elizabeth Hall
Ensign
Bretonian Armed Forces

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