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

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Message Class: Textual
Encryption: Pranava Mantra
To: BAF DIS
From: Captain John Khatri

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This report is about a battle that took place three days ago in the New London System. It is being reported of so late because gathering the data took time.

I was in command of the Sovereign and protecting the New London orbit when an alien fleet appeared in front of us. It was made up of a Marduk, this one of the previous generation of the species, as well as a new generation Marduk, a Siris and some Nomad snubcraft, including a Commune one. There was also an Outcast Sarissa lingering around, called the Santa Maria. Originally I did not know whose side they would take.

I assembled a fleet consisting of the Sovereign, a BIS Crecy called the Repulse, a Crayter Hydra the Kadabra and some snubcraft, including a number of bombers and a few mercenaries, of Forlorn and independent.

As soon as we moved in to engage the Nomad fleet, the Outcast warship opened fire upon the Sovereign. When I reminded them we were allies, the captain confirmed that we were, truly, his target.

My strategy was to support our bombers from long range and use the Sovereign as bait so that the enemy would divert less attention to the bombers. Unfortunately the Crecy and the Hydra were caught in the middle of them and were put out of action. Despite this, the strategy worked in the end, and all of the Nomad ships were disabled as well, thanks to our fighter and bomber superiority. The Sovereign was heavily damaged, but space-worthy. All mercenaries, both those shot down and still flying, were paid two million credits each after the battle.

Allied Ships:
1) BAF|HMS-Sovereign (Dunkirk; heavily damaged)
2) Repulse (Crecy; disabled)
3) CR-"Kadabra" (Hydra; disabled)
4) Snubcraft, census not done, presumed numerically superior (Light casualties)

Enemy Ships:
1) K'Hara|Nu-Mus'Da (Marduk Mk I; disabled)
2) K'Hara|Islin (Marduk Mk II; disabled)
3) K'Hara|Esar'haddon (Siris; disabled)
4) Snubcraft, census not done (All disabled)

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जॉन खत्री
Captain
Bretonian Armed Forces

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Message Class: Textual
Encryption: Pranava Mantra
To: BAF DIS
From: Captain John Khatri

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

The Sovereign, with me at the helm, was protecting the orbit of our capital planet when I received the TLAGs net report of Nomad ships, again, in Manchester. I assembled a fleet consisting of the Sovereign, a Dunkirk the Hubble, an Overlord the Alaska, a Crecy the Coventry, a Thanatos the Eris, three of our snubs, one Council snub, three mercenary snubs and two Auxesian snubs.

The alien fleet eventually came to us and it was comprised of one Ishtar, one Siris, one gunboat of the infected forces and some snubs. I did not count those, but I can say that they were outnumbered. There was also a GRN Cougar nearby, which sided with the Nomads, a Gaian Claymore which sided with us and a Corsair Murmillo which originally stood by side.

I attempted to communicate with the Nomad fleet and turn them on the Corsair and the Gaul, but that bore no result. Then I ordered the fighters, all except the BAF ones, to clean up their snubcraft. As the Murmillo was still staying by side, I moved the Sovereign towards the enemy and took the Coventry with us to assist. The Eris I left nearby to monitor the Murmillo and open fire at them should they side with the Nomads. The Hubble and the Alaska I left in the New London orbit to protect the planet should any Nomad ship break through our first layer of defense. Then I also sent our own snubcraft at the enemy. The Corsair decided to open fire at the Nomads, so I ordered our capital ships out, hoping that the Nomads and the Corsair would neutralize each other. Our light wing destroyed the infected gunboat and the Nomad cruiser, and the Murmillo managed to disable the Ishtar without receiving damage.

While that was happening, and while the Gaian gunboat was helping us clean up the Nomad snubcraft, an incident occurred. The Auxesian ships, now probably more of them than there were at the start, stopped pursuing the Nomads and diverted fire to the Gaian gunboat. The captain informed me of that, so I gave a system wide order (since they were now far from the Sovereign) to all Auxesian ships to stop firing at any Gaian ships. The Auxesians directly refused my order and stated that the Gaians shot first. I repeated my order to both and demanded that the feud is resolved later, diplomatically, but my words fell on deaf ears. After that I received the standard escape pod SOS message after ship destruction, this one coming from what used to be the Gaian gunboat.

There was no time to resolve the incident on the spot, as we were in pursuit of the Murmillo. They stopped near Southampton and made a stand against the Sovereign there. It was a valiant one, but unsuccessful. The Sovereign received medium damage. Then the fleet returned to Planet New London.

Allied Ships:
1) BAF|HMS-Sovereign (Dunkirk; damaged)
2) Hubble (Dunkirk; did not take part)
3) LNS-Alaska (Overlord; did not take part)
4) BAF|HMS-Coventry (Crecy; effectively took no part)
5) =CR=FV-Eris|283 (Thanatos; effectively took no part)
6) GG-W-Raven (Claymore; disabled by Auxesia and a mercenary)
7) Various snubcraft: BAF, Council, mercenary, Auxesian (Very light or no casualties)

Enemy Ships:
1) Vagrant.Daeira (Ishtar; disabled)
2) CNS-San.Salvador (Murmillo; disabled)
3) [Callsign not recorded] (Siris; disabled)
4) Black.Lotus|Aoi (Gunboat; disabled)
5) Snubcraft; number and names not recorded, but clearly outnumbered; includes Punisher|FL.BlackSword, a Cougar (All disabled)

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Conversation with Gaians/Auxesia:

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Captain
Bretonian Armed Forces

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