Transmission to: SCRA Command
Comm ID: Lieutenant Commander Thorvaldsson
Good day comrades. I was unable to deliver report earlier due to malfunctions on my ship. Had to fix it myslef, since engineering teams seem to screw up more than they repair.
Andway, yesterday gold wing was conducting series of basic and advanced training protocols. I must say, current recruits are showing great leap in skill, but they need much more work before joining ranks or red wing. Included in drill were lt. Luis Gellantra in Ravens Talon, lt. Victor Sotskov In Ravens talon, lt. Lars Schmidt in Tiger Shark and junior lt. Ivan Voi in Viper mkII. I supervised trainings in Viper mkII.
Before we managed to start drills, we recieved distress signal from Gellantra in O5 (seems ion storms put him there). We all gathered and jumped in to help. He was under fire from Corsair gunbox Dante and his several rookie wingmen in titans and centurions. After Dante sustained some damage, he ran to O52 hole and jumped trough. We all followed and destroyed him in 52 in few seconds. Junior Lieutenant Voi had bad luck tho. As we all jumped trough, seems that hole went unstable and closed right before his eyes, leaving him to mercy of several corsair fighter wings. His ship blew up before we managed to jump back. His escape pod was collected by Lt. Gellantra and delivered on Verde, where he was given new ship.
After end of corsair menace, we were about to start with drills when Commander Yuri Straitov in Taiidan bomber appeared. Due to bad intel, he realized we are mounting raid. He swaped to Raven Talon after that and offered hand in training.
Now, we decided to practice mass encounters, and split up in two groups. Commander Yuri lead Sotskov and Schmidt, while Voi and Gellantra acted as my wingmen. Encounter at first looked good for my wing with good damage dished out to both Talons, and some mines that hit Shark, but this turned fast. Talons proved to be hard nuts to crack, and war of attrition began. My ship was main target, and after loosing one gun, CMD systems and all recharges, I decided to pull out, and managed to execute it with fire cathing on one of my engines. After that, Voi became prime target, but his escape was soon halted by commander Yuri. After that Luis withrew on my orders even if he had no damage what so ever, and managed to do so.
After we repaired, we went on duel practices.
Soon after, I had to land due to commander Yuri's razor taking off my port wing, and have been making new one since.
On side note, I heard that commander Yuri lead raid on Dresden later, but since I was no part of it, we will need to wait for report on it.
