Aki Kimura

[Tenacity]

<Retroactive Ship Report - Destroyer Pakhet>
Compiled by Commander Aki Kimura, Order Guard

-Begin Report-

After several months on medical leave recovering from severe injuries, I return to duty to find that High Command never filed a report on the destruction of the Zoner-Order Destroyer "Pakhet". To lay the spirits of my crew to rest, I feel it necessary to compile this report myself, and explain the occurances that lead up to the destruction of the vessel.

<Patrol Report: Omicron Gamma System, 816 AS>

A bounty hunter task force was encountered in the vicinity of the Omicron Kappa Jump hole, within the Omicron Gamma system. The task force consisted of one guild battleship, two guild destroyers, an orca-class gunboat, and a single wing of fighter support. The Pakhet remained at maximum sensor range while awaiting backup from the Corsair defense fleet on the far side of Crete.

Once Corsair support arrived, the Pakhet lead the engagement against the enemy. Seventeen minutes after the initial collision of our forces, the bounty hunter task force retreated through to omicron kappa. Commander Eisen ordered a pursuit through the jump hole.

<Patrol Report: Omicron Kappa System, 816 AS>

Upon arrival in Omicron kappa, our combined Order/Corsair fleet was ambushed by awaiting bounty hunter forces. The task group we had engaged in kappa was merely the bait for their trap. On the other side of the jump hole laid an entire fleet, three more groups of the same composition as the task force we had originally engaged.

Our fleet was quickly scattered by the ambush, but we were unable to get away. Eisen ordered a retreat back through the jump hole to Gamma for all order and corsair ships. Just as we hit the event horizon of the jump hole, a mortar blast knocked out the Pakhet's intertial stability generator. We tumbled through the jump tunnel, while the Pakhet disintegrated around us. Only a handful of the crew made it to an escape pod before the Pakhet was spewed into gamma in a million peices.

Sometimes I think I should have stayed behind with the captain, died with the crew and ship. The Isis' psychotherapists keep telling me that's the wrong line of thinking, but it feels right...

<Evac Report: Omicron Gamma System, 816 AS>

Only two of the Pakhet's ten escape pods were successfully launched. We lost forty-three of the ship's fifty crew members, including Captain Eisen. Myself and the others in my escape pod - security officer williams and crewmen michaels and jonathan - had all suffered severe plasma burns from a flash fire in the pakhet's hallways, before being able to close the pod's hatch and launch.

Our pod was recovered twenty minutes later by a zoner transport that had been alerted by surviving corsair vessels retreating back to gamma. For whatever reason, the bounty hunters never followed us back - sensors had detected a distant nomad battlegroup in Kappa, perhaps they had engaged.

-End of Official Logs-

I've been in medical recovery on leave for three months now, recovering from plasma burns and inhalation. Thankfully I have recovered fully with no lasting injuries.

Upon return to active duty, High command promoted me to Commander Rank for bravery and service in battle. I dont think I deserve the recognition, everyone else aboard the pakhet that died - they were the real heroes. Command has given me access to one of the Apophis' nephthys-class fighters, claiming that there are no ships available for my command at the moment.

According to reports from Evora shipyards, the newest generation of Order warships should be completed within the next several months. The sixth fleet admiral has assured me that I will be given command of one of those vessels when they are completed.

For now, I'm returning to guard duty in Omicron Minor and 100.

-End Report-

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