Crayter Military Reporting Facility

[Panzer]

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A rather interesting report reached my desk, authored by the current commander of the Iblis, I am disseminating its excerpt among other commands, as it offers a new and potentially important tactical option in the region.

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(...) Listening posts picked up Royal traffic in Orkney, seeing as after Provence there's even fewer navy/police patrols around T23 and Orkney and that the contact was solitary, I have concluded, that the contact in question has some very good odds of being a GMS mining ship busying itself with the oh-so-despicable act of mining the local ore deposits. We entered Orkney from T23, encountering no opposition or surveillance in range, immediately setting course for the north-western asteroid field, known to host the recently-discovered mineral deposits. Some 10k from the field's boundrary, we engaged our cloak and entered the field. Just in time, as almost immediately, we picked up the contact, which indeed turned out to be flagged GMS. We scanned it and much to our surprise, it was a GMS equivalent of a Dataminer we have been briefed about and which the Colonial fleet itself is employing lately.

As per instructions on to how to handle Royal non-combatants, since the ship in question lacked any cargo or data, upon uncloaking, I demanded, that since they had sufficient means to comply - their ship is to provide 5 volumes of anomaly scanning data. They complied.(...)

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Suffice to say, gentlemen - I expect the above method followed where applicable. Make gathering data a priority in such circumstances, especially given how the Council prefers, that we don't blow every civilian ship we find.
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Kurt Belzen, Admiral, CinC-Colonial Fleet

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