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

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Incoming Transmission

Comm Id : Fortunatus Wright
Target : Bretonian Armed Forces

A slightly delayed report on some action in Leeds the day before yesterday. I launched in my Challenger, from Leeds, right into a transmission flurry from the privateer gunboat Liverpool Packet. He was in trouble with a Molly in a Barghest, but before I could locate him, his ship was disabled. Fortunately, the gunboat mostly held together and he was returned to Leeds safely, though the damage to the ship was considerable. It seems the changes made to the gunboats by the manufacturers have rendered them extremely vulnerable to attack by smaller craft. I would urge you to advise all pilots NOT to engage lone bombers, and instead to use the craft as support in fleet engagements only, where its superior firepower can be brought to bear on enemy capital ships.

As this was occurring I heard reports of a small Kusari task force assembling around Stokes, so I immediately moved to investigate. As I got within visual range of Stokes, I ran into the Molly that had done such damage to the Liverpool Packet. As soon as he saw me, he opened a comms channel to me. Faced with the threat of the Kusari - there was a battleship, destroyer, bomber and fighter - we decided to set aside our immediate differences to deal with the threat that faced us both. We dived in, hoping to catch the capitals off guard and disable at least one of them quickly. As I launched my first SNAC salvo at the battleship though, my
electronics totally fritzed. Everything went offline. As my ship span past the Kusari ships, I blacked out.

I came to just as my ship came back online. Why I was still alive, I had no idea. They could have easily taken me out, and with the systems failure I know the life pod would have failed. A quick check of the scanners showed all the Kusari ships some 6.3k off. There was no sign of the Molly, I can only assume he fell to the Kusari guns rather quickly. Checking the logs showed I had been out for almost exactly a minute. I called in for reinforcements from the Derby, and continued to shadow the Kusari as they moved towards Leeds. Finally reinforcements arrived when I was some 15k from the planet, and we quickly set about destroying the threat.

The battleship, the Mayonaka Taiyou, was targetted first, and despite the attentions of the destroyer, the Hamamatsu, we were able to lay waste to the Taiyou. He finally fell to a SNAC volley from my ship.



The Hamamatsu didn't last long after the Taiyou had fallen, quickly succumbing to the withering fire of our Challengers.



The bomber pilot was quickly forced to eject after that, but we were unable to locate his pod. I assume he was later recovered by Kusari patrols.

I believe losses on our side were minimal, but this will need to be confirmed with Admiral McKenna.

Fortunatus out

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