General:
During the period, the CPW-Social.Credit, elements of the Fighter Corps, and the Marine Corps participated in Operation CLUTCH.
Mission:
Secure research Data from Sunderland Research station, and retrieve GZ-Artifact YELLOW. Proceed on to obtain data on following targets: GRIMSBY, CAPE WRATH, CARLAYLE, and SKYE. RETURN with data and Artifact to O-52.
Execution:
1-1: After Penetration of Newcastle System, CPW-Social.Credit headed for Sunderland to begin Operation Phase One, moving to Phase Two once completed. FOW-1 held off superior numbers of BAF forces while Alpha team secured the artifact.
2-1: FOW-1 commenced Scanning Run of HMS Grimsby
3-1: Strike Team moved on to Cape Wrath Base and secured Data Scans
4-1: Strike Team moved on to Planet Carlaye and secured Data Scans
4-2: Strike Team encounters HMS Ark Royal and secured Data Scans
(N.B. not an objective, but a target of opportunity)
5-1: CPW-Social.Credit moved on to Skye Base and secured Data Scans
Mission completed a strategic withdrawal commenced with FOW-1 covering the CPW-Social.Credit’s EVAC with data and artifact through the Manchester Jump Hole.
Task Organization:
CPW-Social.Credit Mission Command/primary scout/marine breaching
FOW-1 Escort Duty/Secondary Scout/Interference
ALPHA TEAM Infiltration and recovery
MUPPET Computer Infiltration and Data Retrieval.
Call Signs:
SOCIAL, FOW-1, ALPHA TEAM, MUPPET
STRIKE TEAM Commanders and Principle Staff:
CPW-SOCIAL.CREDIT Lt. Alvin Katz – Acting Commander
FOW-1 ESCORT Sub. Lt. Senka Razin
MARINE CO 1st Lt. Robert N Bloomstrand
TECHNICAL SPEC. Spec. Radoslav Malakai
Weather:
There were no sector-wide Dark Matter Waves encountered.
Terrain:
Large open system with numerous asteroid fields, several nebulas, and a mine field.
Logistics:
288 Nanobots were consumed, as were 390 Shield Batteries.
Friday, 02 October.
8:16 pm. 2016 hours.
CPW-Social.Credit DUSTOFF from ZG in OMEGA-52. Rendezvous with FOW-1(Stenka Razin) in space.
Proceeded O-52 to O-5 to Cambridge to Leeds to Manchester to Newcastle.
Only encounter was in Leeds against a BAF Commander, NOT ENGAGED
9:44 pm 2144 hours
BHG|Hellcat and BAF|Cmdre intercept and try to interdict the CPW-Social.Credit.
CPW-Social.Credit, carrying vital tactical data as well as GZ-Artifact YELLOW initiates evasive maneuvers and makes a run for the jumphole.
BHG|Hellcat and BAF|James.Hobart commence pursuit, but are 6.5k distant and unable to get a CD lock.
10:05 pm 2205 hours
CPW-Social.Credit initiates jump to Manchester, BAF and BHG pursue, FOW-1 follows shortly after.
10:06 pm 2206 hours
Due to Jumphole instability, all four ships arrive simultaneously. Combat begins, as CPW-Social.Credit continues to withdraw. FOW-1 commences interference run tying up both BHG and BAF long enough to allow CPW-Social.Credit to engage cruise engines.
10:07 pm 2207 hours
BAF|James.Hobart orders BHG to stop the CPW-Social.Credit at all costs.
FOW-1 shot down by BAF mine. However, BAF abandons pod in an effort to stop the CPW-Social.Credit from reaching the jumphole.
10:09 pm. 2209 hours.
CPW-Social.Credit reaches the Leeds jumphole, evading the BHG pursuers.
10:10 pm 2210 hours.
CPW-Social.Credit arrives in the Leeds system, executing a steep climb on maximum thrust to evade the BHG scanners before he can finish his jump. Maneuver successful.
10:11 pm 2211 hours.
BAF|James.Hobart calls off search, returning to base, as BHG vessel withdraws. CPW-Social.Credit clear to jump to Cambridge.
10:15 pm. 2215 hours.
CPW-Social.Credit departs CAMBRIDGE via O-5 jumphole
10:24 pm. 2224 hours.
QUESTIONS From Commanding Officer COMMANDER-COMMISSAR:
1) Why was a BHG vessel employed by BAF?
Unknown… perhaps desperation
2) Why was there a lack of aggressiveness?
Our mission was to secure data, and ensure that it was returned along with a vital artifact to Omega-52, not to wage war in Newcastle.
3) Why was FOW-1(Comrade Razin) covering the escape of a gunboat?
There was a tactical need to buy time, and Comrade Razin understood his duty and volunteered to buy time. An act of heroism that bought valuable time and allowed the mission to succeed.
10:30 pm. 2230 hours.
>DOCKED at Zvezdny Gorodok.
ALL JOURNALS, OPERATIONAL REPORTS, DUTY OFFICERS LOGS CLOSED
LIST OF KILLED IN ACTION:
MALAKAI, RADOSLAV
4th MARINE DIVISION
SERVICE NUMBER: 56934363
RANK: SPECIALIST 4 GRADE: E4
MARINE
AGE: 21
HOME: JaingXi
DIED: SUNDERLAND STATION NEWCASTLE SYSTEM ON 02 OCTOBER 819AS
BIRTH DATE: 798 07 12
CAUCASIAN
RELIGION: Protestant
NOT MARRIED
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NOTE: this means we now have two of the Artifacts in our possession.
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