First of all the good news: 2 of our 3 transports reached Kadesh and delivered crucial supplies.
That would be it for good news already. Yesterday on the 13.06.835, a supply convoy from Athens was intercepted by various vessels belonging to Nomad infected. While I was not personally attending to escort duty I firmly believe our employed escorts did their best to fend off the assailants. The Nomad Infected utilized a Rheinland Gunboat and a design of their own making along 3 small crafts all equipped with their dreadful technology. Initial skirmish began near the Omicron Zeta jumphole in Omicron Delta and moved forward into Omicron Zeta proper. At first both hostile gunboats were swiftly focussed down from what I gathered from our vessels visual feed and blackboxes from small crafts. During this one of our transports fell. Thankfully the crew that managed to escape the wreckage got their escape pods recovered due to close proximity to another transport.
From there it turned lopsided with them getting reinforcements in form of a Nomad VHF form and additional infected pilots. Our escorts were dismantled one by one. Enough time was however bought so our transports can make it.
At that point the infected vessels attempted to tractor in escape pods from escorts. One of our Bulwarks once again managed to thankfully intercept such attempt and rescued our pilots.
It seems that the Nomads and their 'pets' considerably increased their activity and patrols in Omicron Zeta. This was a close call. I also highly recommend we employ autonomously assisted means to our tractor beams (By that I mean yes. Rudimentary AI to assist with such task) so we can reel in our escape pods more consistently. It just makes me highly uncomfortable to think what would happen if we didn't manage to rescue our pilots.
The road ahead is twisted and winding and judging from this close call it will only get worse from here on. We have to brace for a storm.
