To: Order Overwatch

[Omicron]

O.C.V. Atum

Miss Flora, please calm down. You are communicating with us and therefore still believe we can issue a formal explanation of our actions. I hope you will find our explanation adequate as we are still committed to transparency with our collaborators. Any missing links will be explained as further questions will undoubtedly be asked. To get to the point…

According to last time we had contact with O.C.V. Atum (until it had made rendezvous with Atacama Cohort), it was four jumps away from Vespucci and in hot pursuit of LNS Wyoming: Once an LSF battlecruiser, now converted into the largest capital asset in possession of the Infected within House of Liberty. The Captain has made a tactical decision to chase it though a jump drift. The same principle that Kishiro made devices work upon. For all intents and purposes we could’ve ended up in the heartland of Kusari, as much as Vespucci. Given the circumstances, I think it is safe to assume we did not inform you because the scale of the issue had not extended as far as Gaia's gaze. We do not inform our allies in Rheinland about what happens in Omicrons or Bretonia unless specifically queried, nor we would burden Gaians with every fleet movement of ours on the Kusari-Liberty border. Jump drive was a paradigm shift in this equation and reason for our misplaced warship. Whatever reason Wyoming has made to come to this place is yet to be determined.

The force that brought O.C.V. Atum to this state has been destroyed in entirety, save for Wyoming which has escaped. According to our information it had received severe damage but remains both space and jump worthy asset. I do not want to make any assumption on the significance of rift leading specifically here. Telling you whether Vespucci had been Wild covert hideout all along or merely another waypoint along the way would be a matter of baseless and unfounded speculations at this point of time. I hope you understand that more intelligence gathering and reconnaissance is required. Also, we are completely unaware of what we have ‘done’ on Vera Cruz. As far as we know it is a graveyard and reminder that Insurgency once existed, as well as Legion that preceded them. You will have to fill us in on the situation. Perhaps it is related to LNS Wyoming and its oversized calamari overlords.

I do however want to extend my thanks that cool heads have prevailed in the end. We would be equally uneasy if Caliburn-class ‘washed up’ at our own doorstep bypassing both our sensors and patrols alike and it would be understandable that said warship’s captain would be at high alert and judging each of his or her actions carefully. Hundreds of lives depend on both sides either way.

Grand Admiral Michal Golanski
Black Fleet OHC

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