Bretonian Armed Forces Defense Intelligence Staff (DIS) (iRP) (AO)

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Attention to all BAF officers:

The Captain of the recently commissioned Battleship HMS-Red.Dwarf has was today apprehended in the skies above New London by a fleet consisting of the Pendragon, 3 Destroyers and 4 fighters. He received an official reprimand from the Fleet, endorsed by the Admiralty Board, for violating Rheinland and Liberty sovreign space without permission. He sounded resentful, but then claimed to agree to act responsibly and with restraint in future, despite appearing somwhat derisory towards our authority.



However, once our fleet began to disperse, the HMS-Red.Dwarf suddenly and without warning opened fire upon the HMS-Redoubt who's systems had been paralysed. The HMS-Redoubt was disabled and the HMS-Sovreign was forced to withdraw under heavy fire, whilst one of the Ensigns' stationary fighters was simply blown to pieces instantly, again with no warning. As the Pendragon reappeared along with a second battleship, the HMS-Rodney, and began to engage the Red.Dwarf, he fled through our weakened blockade, with our fleet in hot pursuit, demanding that the Captain surrender his vessel and be court-marshalled. The Red.Dwarf fled into Cambridge, but as we arrived at the Jump Gate a large fleet of corsairs arrived, allowing him to escape but engaging us. By the time the corsairs had been neutralised the Red.Dwarf had reached Omega and disappeared.

The Bretonian Embassy in Liberty notified the LN of this rogue vessel shortly afterwards, and measures are being put in place to inform Rheinland. We wish to request that the Defence Minister declare this Battleship to have left the service of the BAF and to be considered Rogue and Kill on Sight in Bretonia, as well as having measures put in place to hunt him down abroad. This unhappy episode echoes the story of the HMS Churchill, and once again has brought shame upon a BAF warship.

Signed and endorsed,
Admiral Whittlington, New London Planetary Fleet, HMS-Pendragon
Commodore McKenna, HMS-Redoubt
Commander Harper, HMS-Steadfast
Commander Doyle, HMS-Sovreign
Commander Redmond, HMS-Repulse

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Sir Stanley Nelson




<span style="color:#000066">Charles Canning </span><span style="color:#000066"> Foreign Secretary</span>