After action report:- 21/09/834 A.S.
Subj: Omicron Theta action.
Good evening,
Brief recount of an action today involving myself and TFP vessel Prestige, I believe this is worth a brief summary of my overall action report as this may prove useful later. I had discussed with the C.O of Prestige previously with them requesting my assistance in locating and recovering a certain cache of scientific data in Omicron Theta. I decided at the time I would rather we have it than either the Order or whomever else.
For this particular objective to be possible it required Titania and her jump capability to get us in and out of Theta fast enough before the local residents noticed. In this we were successful and encountered no hostile contacts with exception of our target, an Order vessel with the call sign Arsinoe.
At approximately 18:51 we departed for Omicron Theta, plan was to proceed to Tau-29 and then into Tau-23. Titania opened a rift at 19:00 and we exited into Omicron Theta. Zero contacts to report. This worked out rather well as the rift exit point was within a radiation field which likely assisted us avoid detection, however my concern was someone noticing the size of the wake of the carrier during our entry. That surely could not have gone unnoticed. We rapidly changed course and headed for sector Beta-Eight, intelligence had this ship pinned to that sector so we began the search there.
We held course for about ten minutes until we picked up a feint signature at the extreme range of our sensors, after executing a turn we identified the vessel as Arsinoe. On closing to around 1K, basically point blank range for us we rapidly came to the conclusion the vessel was combat ineffective due to sustained damage. The captain of the Arsinoe hailed us and I responded with a clear warning against any hostile intention. The cruiser itself appeared to be a fairly typical Resheph class recon cruiser, albeit with more holes and one functional turret. Prestige confirmed this is the vessel we were looking for. I was unclear in exactly what we were expecting, from the way it was described our intended target ranged from a snub craft all the way to a Battleship class.
Drone footage of Titania along side Arsinoe
Prestige notified me prior to our departure from Inverness they had a device capital of breaching the necessary channels aboard the vessel and harvesting the data within. The unfortunate element of this was the unreliability of the device likely down to the fact it was acquired on the black market for a cheap price. This ultimately meant the encounter dragged on for longer than I would have liked. At one stage I was quite concerned about whether we could actually complete what went there to do before being discovered - Thankfully this did not cause us issue in the end, be it by judgement or sheer luck. Probably the latter.
I meanwhile exchanged dialogue with the captain of the Order vessel until the transfer was complete, the ship sounded like it was in really dire circumstance going by the background chatter on comms. Sounded like the crew and captain didn't particularly see eye to eye at this point, I concluded it was likely down to their desperate circumstance. - Such things cause humans to do irrational things after all.
Once the transfer was complete there was the matter of our exit strategy, Prestige ordered the C.O of the Order vessel to dump its black box recorder into space. We recovered this instead of destroying it, although in the back of my mind I was playing with the idea of ordering Titania's heavy guns to obliterate the remainder of the ship. In the end I couldn't, the ship was pathetic. No doubt the local wildlife of Theta would see to that clean-up task soon enough I concluded. We left the site at approximately 20:05.
From there we regrouped outside Corfu where Titania opened another rift back to Tau 23 where we proceeded back to Inverness without incident. I suspect we might have tripped the Order sensor net on the way out but we were long gone before they could have raised a response.
Should further developments occur in relation to what we recovered I shall note it here.
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