Author: Balian Remi Subject: The Crucible of Lorraine
Today, a surprising non-Gallic individual alerted local Lorraine Maquisards of 2 Gallic warships making their rounds of the system and we scrambled a small force to tackle them. Upon seeing just one of our battlecruisers, the desperate Royalist Navy summoned an entire fleet to counter our meager force and soon the scene expanded exponentially into a titanic struggle.
With just a few battlecruisers in the area and a small snubfighter entourage to complement, we sent out an alert to neighbouring Maquis forces to lend a hand into the growing number of Gallic heavy battleships that started filling Lorraine.
The fight was going to near suicidal as we lined up our war vessels, when a strike force of Outcast Ranseur-class dreadnoughts bearing transponders of the Hyperspace Starfleet plowed into the Royalists much to our surprise and good fortune.
Seeking to take what advantage presented to us, Boucher ordered our forces forward in bloody revelry to annihilate the Naval war fleet. But then, we had more surprises yet:
A catastrophic ion storm flared through the system engulfing all the engaged parties and lasted several minutes as warships of all sides began drifting lazily, their systems incapacitated. It took several minutes before power and navigation/weapons came back online and allowed time for yet more Gallic Union vessels to jump into the fight. The Outcasts, once recovered, to their merit, plowed into the wall of battleships before us and were soon taken apart with withering gales of fire while our more nimble craft tried to pull apart the cluster and isolate the Royalist s***s.
Through the ensuing conflict, many heroes of the Maquis gave their last pommeling the battleships of our enemies and before the end, we managed to heavily damage several vessels, forcing them to fall back and completely crippled the Second Fleet dreadnought Honneur.
We bloodied the nose of our war criminal overlords today and many shouts of "Remember Leeds!" were heard through the comms as our forces battered our enemies.
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