(FO) The Order Central Communications (inRP)

[Slimalou]

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⧫ Ship: OCV Montana
⧫ System: Omicron Theta
⧫ From: Captain Marrok Cross
⧫ To: Overwatch

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Status report of operation in Theta

Greetings Overwatch command,

The joint operation with our allies in DTR is still ongoing. While we have suffered losses and damages to the Montana itself we have also had successes. already patrolling snub craft and cruisers have been able to intercept and destroy wild transports. Meanwhile our joint fleets have been busy fighting off the larger Nomad War Forms and Combat Forms. As stated before each engagement has not gone our way. Most notable our first major engagement went very poorly for our side. Many our ships suffered heavy damage from the onslaught of five Nomad Ishtar War Forms, and their supporting combat forms.

Provided our allies in both the Zoners and DTR have provided the resources and dockyards to make repairs. This has allowed us to stay close to Theta to keep up with the mass waves of transports and War Forms.

We had another engagement with the comparatively smaller fleet of Nomad War Forms, mostly cruisers. However they were later joined by a Marduk battleship class War Form. I am happy to report that with the combined effort of the fleet, Montana's guns claimed its first Nomad War Form kill. A few more Nomad ships fell in the continuing fighting but more then a few were able to escape when they saw the battle turn against them.

Another smaller engagement that began when Montana was coordinate fleet moment outside Freeport 9. Two wild ships, one being a Rheinland cruiser, attached us and the Freeport. During the fighting more friendly ships and Nomad War Forms joined the battle. Having suffered the brunt of the fire, Montana was forced to huddle close to the Freeport so that the station could extend its shielding around the ship. This took us out of the fighting but kept the ship from suffering major damage that would need dock yard time to fix. Reports suggest both sides took damage and losses but no clear net winner for the engagement.

Our second major engagement did not go so well. The Montana and The DTR's Flagship Trinadad suffer major damage and had to toad out of the fighting. However, the Nomads where not without losses, as Montana's guns managed to fell an Nomad Ishtar War Form. While spirits on the crew we low after the fighting had ended in the Nomads favor, the thought of the Montana felling one of the deadliest War Forms was a quick moral booster.

As of now, the Montana has returned to the Battlefield and continues to patrol Omicron Theta with allied fleets. Montana continues to coordinate the Order forces in the system as fleets rotate in. I would also like to note that other hostile human factions have seemed to agree to a non-spoken ceasefire while major Nomad actively persists. Mostly notably Rhienland forces. As it stances he have not been able to effetely stopped these nomad and wild convoys. Their strategy thus far has boiled down to sending in War Forms to take our or cripple our capital ships, then send waves of transports with lighter gunboat support to make the run passed our fleets while our ships are being repaired or replaced.

If this keeps up I fear the Nomads will succeed in their efforts to supply whatever plot they have planed. Despite all of this,

the crew of the Montana fights on.

Marrok Cross First Fleet 17.11.834

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⧫ Attachments: Montana Conformed Kill Reports

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