There were three separate actions that need reporting.
The first was an independent operation of the CPW-Social Credit to Crete to test the defensive countermeasures of the corsairs. They were found severely lacking, a well coordinated strike could render their entire operation into chaos.
I encountered a lost Golden Chrysanthemum Light Fighter engaged in a fight with a Corsair fighter both pilots panicked when they realized a Coalition warship was dropping down on them at full speed.
As commander of the operation, I decided that this was an opportunity that couldnt be missed, so I sent a threatening message over the Comms to the GC pilot.
Run now child, or I will catch you
Predictably she ran, screaming, the whole way to the nearest jump hole allowing us to chart it, and proceed through into the next system, where the operation was continued all the way to Omicron Minor. She has no idea how foolish she was in giving away all the jumphole routes she knew, and allowing us, with ease, to map them all.
Contact was made at this point with the Order Battleship Anubis. Considering the sensitive and highly encrypted data we recovered from Sunderland, plus our tentative alliance with the Order. We shared the data with the Order in the hopes that their decryption data could decode the data for us.
We proceeded under escort, to Toledo where the CPW-Social Credit was surrounded by a sizable armada of ships.
4 Battleships, 2 Battlecruisers, a Carrier and a pair of heavy fighters.
:: stands with hands on hips :: I had me trusty little gunboat, and you know what... I didn't feel like I had to compensate at all!
A decryption specialist from the 748 decrypted the data, files are downloadable for all senior officers. And more information was discovered about the GZ-Artifacts, including the possible location of one of them in a Nomad Lair.
The Order vessels Anubis, 748, and an Order heavy fighter the Seraphis, escorted the Social Credit to the Lair, which was apparently abandoned, save for some very active turrets. Commenting that, although they can secure the place, they have no equipment capable of breeching the outer airlock.
A task, sirs, that as you know, our Gunboats are preeminently designed for.
With the battleships weakening the hatch with heavy mortar fire, the Social Credit was able to punch through and into the lair. Our onboard marine team departing, bravely, into heavy radiation, to recover the GZ-Artifact. The base was not as deserted as the Order claimed, and our Marines met heavy resistance, out of the entire platoon, only one Marine was able to make it back to the Social Credit, but he had the Artifact in his possession.
Returning to Omicron Minor, after an error with our navigational and communication systems rendered us lost in the clouds of Omicron-92 for some time. We discovered that there had been some kind of power shift in the Order
There were now almost a half dozen new Battleships, a Zoner capital class ship of immense size, a Junkers vessel. All of which seemed aligned to a secondary Order faction that were hostile to my presence. The Order Battleship 748 covered our tactical withdrawal to Omicron Delta.
We linked up with a Junker vessel Harvox who had, in the duration of our raid on the Nomad lair, made it to an auction on Beaumont base and purchased the four GZ-artifact on our behalf.
Currently FOUR GZ-Artifacts are now with our researchers undergoing testing to ascertain their function. We have the codenames : RED, YELLOW, BLUE, and GREEN.
As yet there are no further leads as to the location of any others, I will keep High Command apprised of developments.
After completion of this mission, Comrade Heinz, Comrade Medvedov and myself took to our fighters for a reconnaissance mission into Rheinland to scout out the battleships and provide guncam images of as many as we could.
These are provided. Of particular note is Comrade Heinzs sizable knowledge of RL territory, routes and military tactics.
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