Subject: Report - 18/08/830 | SITREP: Criminal Activity, First Armada
Fleet,
I bring interesting and high priority news to all personnel regarding a few events that took place today. First of all, I would to inform the Fleet - primarily the Admiralty - that as per my own decision, backed up by Vice Admiral Maria Uhmen, retired commodore Christopher Edwards has returned to the Navy and the Akhetaten to take the role of the commanding officer, due to my inability to do so. With the Vice Admiral having duties beyond commanding the vessel that do not allow her to find the time for it, the warship was in need of an individual who can fill in that role.
Edwards is slowly re-integrating into the Navy and the crew. For the time being, he holds the role of an advisor aboard the Akhetaten, expected to fill-in for the role of commanding officer while I oversee his actions and conduct. Once the Vice Admiral is certain that the Commodore is up to the task, he will be formally reinstated into the Fleet and crew. Until then, as far as papers are concerned, you are to treat him as the ship's commanding officer; what he says, goes. His commanding skills were already put to the test today and he prove - on his first day back in the Navy - that he is still more than capable and has everything a commanding officer needs to be effective.
Second of all, I wish to report on some of the happenings of today. Most importantly, we came across an individual, evelynn.lee, a Freelancer flying a Defender with no license to be seen. The individual was confronted for a considerably long amount of time at Norfolk where she was stopped. She claimed to be a veteran of the Navy and that some Adam Lee is coming to explain. She refused to elaborate further on who this Adam Lee was when questioned multiple times. Eventually, my patience ran out. I demanded she heads to Manhattan immediately to turn the ship over, to which she replied with that this is where she was going until we stopped her.
Annoyed by her ego at this point, I allowed her to proceed towards Manhattan and followed her. She docked on the planet, and to my surprise - not thirty seconds later - Adam Lee showed up. An "officer" of the First Armada, obviously. Miss Lee quickly undocked upon him showing up, still sporting the same Defender-class fighter. Having had enough of her bullshit, I ordered that her vessel be dismantled, which it promptly was. Then, immediately after her destruction, Adam Lee - the Officer of the First Armada - engaged the Akhetaten. With our crew not being ready to react to such a situation, the bomber managed to do a significant amount of damage to the warship - none of it permanent of course.
It should be noted that by that point the Akhetaten had faced off against an Outcast Ranseur followed by a Zoner Aquilon, back-to-back. The crew was allegedly tired and probably unable to properly react to such a situation at the time. Whichever the case, the bomber was promptly dealt with.
Fleet Admiral Kemp-Smith, Admiral Tanner, I trust the above incident to warrant your contact with the Government of Liberty. It is about time for action to be taken against Van Leer's minions.
Last but not least, I took command of the Defiance later within the day in order to bring down an Outcast cruiser belonging to the Imperial Coalition and help in taking down another Outcast cruiser accompanied by an Outcast bomber and a Freelancer fighter, both of which escaped. The freelancer, Mariam.Fischer, is someone to keep an eye on. Watch out for her and make her pay for what she did.