⧫ Battlecruiser OCV-Toledo
⧫ Omicron Zeta
⧫ From: "Pest"
⧫ To: The Order Overwatch, all Order personell in Omicron Zeta
Battle report: The siege of Cairo
Good day to everyone lucky enough to see it.
This is captain "Pest". I am in command of the vessels OCV-Guard and OCV-Toledo, who were the first line of defense in the battle of Cairo. The battle was hard to say the least. Reports from Zoner humanitarian aid vessels say that the Core has completely abandoned their strongholds in Zeta. It is not unlikely, that this enabled the Nomads to attack our positions with twice the numbers as they had previously planned for their attack on Cairo.
With orders from the Order high command to prioritize the evacuation of human perssonel from Cairo, I laid out a battleplan in which the evacuation efforts would be as secure as possible. But the cost was high. During the first attempt, the OCV-Toledo was guarding the Cairo-defensive perimeter. The high firepower of our large capital ships ensured that the larger Nomad warforms were unable to harm the civilian transports evacuating the Cairo crew. However, with unbelieveable numerical superiourity, the Nomad and Infectee fighters cost us the lives of dozens of our own fighter pilots. Partially, the enemy fighters were even able to attack some of the transports in the evacuation process. Therefore, in the second attempt, the newly commisioned OCV-Guard was ordered by me to bolster the Cairo defense grid and hopefully use its superiour light weaponry to turn the tide in the fighter engagements. This was quite successful, the OCV-Guard was able to take out dozens of small fighter and bombercrafts and provided valueable support against the few heavier warforms the Nomads were able to bring. Within the chaos this intervention provided a valueable opportunity: With the enemy fighters being actively hunted by the Guard, and the heavy Nomad warforms being unable to move fast within the dense rock formations of the Pohnpei Nebula, our transport fleet composed of various Order Frigates, with the much needed support from Phoenix, the New Covenant Church aswell as independent Zoners, were able to to do run after run undisturbed. We quickly finished the evacuation of crew members and other civilians of Cairo. We however, also had Orders to retrieve all the important data that Cairo, as a spy outpost, had gathered. This was successful, but costly. The Edge Nebula could only hold off the enemy capital ships for so long. When finally, a "Bismarck"- class battleship, escorted by a "Valor"- class battleship entered the battle near Cairo, our capital forces could not hold out. Several ships of the Eclipse Vanguard, who fought valiantly, were destroyed. The OCV-Tolde retreated to Taba Starbase, where it faced little to no opposition. The OCV-Guard lured several heavy and light Nomad forces away from Pohnpei, to give time for the final data extraction runs. When it was surrounded by Nomad forces however, it was badly damaged, several of the ships accompanying it were destroyed. The current status of the Guard is unknown, we do however have received weak radio signal even hours after the fighting, so it is unlikely to be destroyed.
In the aftermath of this bloody fight, we must gather all remaining forces and search for those still missing. We will not give up until the Order comes back to its old strength. In the service of mankind.
