Yesterday while I was in a training simulator with Adm. Aden Tanner and Cmdr. Sebastian Muller, the long range scanners of West Point detected an outcast capital ship in the trade lane of West Point to the Pennsylvania Jump Gate. Upon receiving the report, I quickly rushed to my Waran along with two other members of Delta Wing. With three bombers against a single capital ship, the odds seemed tilted in our favour. We pursued the vessel as it fled through the badlands in an attempt to evade our strike wing, even going so far as to chase it through the Texas jump hole. We caught up owing to our faster craft around Galveston outpost, near the California jump hole. Upon moving in to engage the vessel, we quickly discovered the destroyer was fully outfitted as a flyswatter, heavily specialised in to anti-snub weaponry. We engaged for several minutes, however this proved fruitless as we lost two bombers while the third retreated. The Destroyer was shortly thereafter chased by the LNS Cleveland, and was last spotted diving in to the atmosphere of Planet Houston, perhaps in a bid to eliminate the chance of any prisoners being taken and interrogated.
Nonetheless, the loss of two fully equipped bombers to such a destroyer to me seems due to the fact that we did not know our enemy. My suggestion would be to form a database consisting of known capital vessels of the Gunboat class and above, along with their outfit and armament so that we may deploy appropriate countermeasures against appropriate opponents. It is my belief that in the long run this may save the 46th several otherwise costly losses, as well as improve the efficiency of our own capital ship deployment as they can be deployed with more foresight and knowledge of the opponent they will face, or be saved from having to deploy to defeat a vessel that could easily be deal with by Delta wing.