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Comm ID: Admiral Erinyes
Recipients: AW High Command
Re: Assault on California

This is Admiral Erinyes of the Caedo. We made an assault on Planet Los Angeles with an allied HellFire gunboat. This was because the LNS-Redbear had entered Megellan obviously to attempt farther attacks on Vespucci. Upon entering the Freeport 4 area, the Redbear immediately attacked Captain Denelo's gunboat. The Caedo arrived only seconds after the shooting began and proceeded to annihilate the frigate. Though the frigate attempted to run, our countermeasures prohibited it from doing so until the ship was near destruction. (1)

We chased it back to the California side of the Megellan - California jump gate. It had been repaired, or replaced by the time we got there, and once again opened fire on us, targeting the Caedo first this time.
After only a brief battle, we drove the ship off once again, it flaming from dozens of places across the hull. (2)

After repairing our small damage, we assaulted Planet Los Angeles, and once again found the Redbear. However this time it did not escape, and the half-destroyed ship was later towed to a shipyard, its crew having jettisoned into space to avoid its death. (3) This last time, the Redbear was assisted by an LSF cruiser, a corsair Huntress. Why the Liberty Navy is using such a vessel is unknown to me. After we laid the death blow to the Redbear, we engaged the cruiser, which had been fighting Denelo's ship. We ran it off, twice. (1, 2) Then finally destroyed the vessel above the planet. (3)

We began the bombing of military targets across the planet, succeeding in reducing two factories, and a training complex to rubble, as well as damaging three other complexes. This was done by Captain Denelo's ship, as the Caedo neutralized the Battleship Yukon. Soon we were reinforced by an Hf fighter, Cesare. Not too long afterward, we saw an SF fighter and a FEAR gunboat on our scanners. After being ordered to leave or die, the fighter took off and docked the planet, while the gunboat moved around the Caedo and stopped two kilometers away. The Caedo went after it, lowering its shield in one volley, and accomplishing some hull damage before the gunboat took off again. (Read: shield ran)

It went after the HF gunboat, as the fighter came from the planet and also attacked the gunboat. We fought the gunboat off approximately 4 times from shooting the HF gunboat. (Read: he shield ran 4 times more)

We got occasional hull hits on the cowardly ship, but it used its repairing bots to heal it. During the fight, the enemy was reinforced by another SF fighter, an SA fighter, and a FEAR fighter. We were reinforced by only an HF fighter. We damaged an SF fighter piloted by Admiral Firebird, who took off to Planet Los Angeles for repairs. (1) The gunboat had been severely damaged however and had to flee back to Mactan for repairs. (1) The 4 fighters and the gunboat turned their guns on the Caedo which in return, damaged the fighters. The number of ships, however, proved to be too much for the shield to handle. The shield was nearly depleted when the HF fighter arrived, piloted by Cesare Lorry. With his assistance, our shield slowly regenerated as he fought off the gunboat twice more (read: shield ran.. twice more) and fought the fighters off their strafing runs. Cesare Lorry was able to damage a fighter, piloted by Koolmo, who quickly took off. (1) However, the FEAR gunboat had returned once again after recharging its shield, and delivered massive damage to the fighter, which was forced to retreat to Mactan for repairs. (1) The Caedo dropped the enemy gunboat's shield quickly and hit it with all four battlerazors, damaging its hull. The gunboat took off towards Planet Los Angeles with barely any hull left. Denelo then returned and we began to once again fight the fighters off. Cesare returned soon after Denelo, and we damaged Koolmo's light fighter again. (2) Then the FEAR gunboat showed again (had docked and gotten nano bots from Planet Los Angeles) and the Caedo focused its fire on it, damaging it, but not before it severely damaged Cesare's fighter, forcing him to retreat. (2) Again we drove off the gunboat and fought the fighters. During this engagement, we had also driven off the FEAR's Wrath, Sonnel, who followed the other's lead of running. Approximately 4 times. (Read: shield ran 4 times)

The FEAR gunboat had returned yet again (yet another shield run) and took out Denelo's gunboat with help from two fighters. (2) The gunboat and fighters began to make runs on the Caedo, so we retreated towards the Megellan Jump Gate, met halfway by Cesare again. We fought, and Cesare took out Koolmo's fighter, forcing him to eject into space. But soon after that point, the SF battleship York exited the trade lane right next to us. The Caedo and York started a slugging match, causing alot of damage to both sides. However, Cesare's fighter was destroyed, forcing him to eject. The odds had changed from 5 to 2, to 6 to 1. There was no way to match the firepower of six different ships, so the Caedo retreated to the Megellan Jump Gate. Soon after retreated, Firebird somehow damaged his own fighter, forcing him to land and repair again. (2, suicided somehow.. Planet maybe..) Again Denelo aided in fighting off the fighters, at the jump gate, along with Cesare who was forced to eject during the retreat. (3) Though we did not destroye or severely damage any of the fighters, we also kept our own damage to a minimum. The York then arrived, and again attempted to attack the Caedo, this time from behind. We took off in the direction of Willard Station. We were met by Lieutenant F_Wolf, and we proceeded to defeat the ships that had followed us. Reinforced again by a fighter, we started to damage the enemy, who was missing their battleship due to the asteroid field. Unfortunately the FEAR gunboat was moving about strangely, making it unable to target him. (Read: was lagging horribly bad and unable to shoot, but didn't leave battle, just stayed) The HF GB was destroyed, its crew jettisoning. (3) The York then reappeared and opened fire on the Caedo. Again facing 5 to 2 odds, I retreated and lead the York and the SA fighter flown by Osorojo away, as Lt. F_Wolf faced three fighters on his own, destroying one. The Caedo eluded pursuit, and left the battle. Luciaden arrived in his fighter at that point. He gave us a debriefing of the incident;

He started out near Planet Majove, then heading to Planet Los Angeles, where he spotted a FEAR gunboat, SF fighter piloted by Firebird, and the SFBS-York. He lured Firebird into follow him to San Diego and the Megellan jump gate, where they fought, soon to be joined by Lt. F_Wolf. They did severe hill damage to his fighter before the York showed and launched consistent missiles at them. They retreated to Megellan and took off to Freeport 4.


We request that Commander Alarien head to California earlier than planned, as we are in need of a ship that can cripple a capital ship without damaging the Caedo in the process.

Admiral Erinyes, Captain of the Caedo

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