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

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Source Identified: Ensign Jay Clark
Subject: Patrol Debrief

Sirs,
Patrol in Leeds today had some interesting parts.

I came on duty outside the Derby and began patrol in the company of Ensign Jay Smith, Lieutenant Commander Jare Kalo, and Captain James Hobart. We kept track of the trade lanes surrounding Leeds, and found a liberty affiliated train trying to take Gold to the Kusari. This could not pass, so we redirected the ship to Fort Bush and Ensign Smith and myself graciously escorted him as far as Planet Curacao.

Upon returning there was little of importance for a while until a Bowex transport lifted off from Leeds with the normal cargo, but including a single Nomad. My ship recorders were temporarily out un-cooperative and I have no official record of the cargo scan, but LtCdr Kalo handled the communications and may have a log. I believe the ship in question was Bowex)Bowex|02, but I may be mistaken on the number. Again, Kalo may have a full record. The transport informed us that his corporation has the appropriate license, so we bade him good travels. Upon further investigation by myself on the publicly available BPA neural net, I was unable to find an up to date listing of ships and corporations with the license. The only list found was out of date by a few months, and also did not include Bowex. Knowing that they are Bretonia's major transportation firm, hopefully any of my commanding officers reading this will know who to contact to get that sorted out.

Not 10 minutes after that, we picked up an Order IFF vessel attempting to bypass the first ring in the lane to Edinburgh, so I gave chase after they ignored Smith's request to halt. The ship, with comm signature 'snoozer1000', was cruising to dock with the lane at the second ring. I was unable to get to the ring before him to disable it, but did manage to get a scan off before he docked. To my astonishment, he was carrying another Nomad! This time my ship's recorders were working and can provide footage from the camera:
Ship carrying Nomad Brain
Alas, something was still up on the scanners so the timestamp they provided is behind by 5 hours, I have sent it to get checked out once I came off duty. Bloody unreliable thing.

After this we received notice that a MR pirate transport was pirating some traders in the system, but it was not along any of the BPA tradelanes, so we had to assume it was bothering Kusari ships near Stokes and decided to ignore it for the time being.

Near the end of my rounds I received a distress call from Ensign Smith who was along the lane to Edinburgh. Kalo and Hobart had already finished their shifts, so I headed to help. I was very surprised to find a Corsair Pirate Transport with the com signature 'Argonauta' circling Smith, while Smith was letting loose a few shots in his direction. Upon asking the Argonauta what was going on, he replied that my colleague was attacking him unprovoked. Very much doubtful of this, I then heard from Smith that the Corsair had apparently tried to pirate him. Either way, with two BAF Templars staring him in the face, the Argonauta wisely decided to turn tail and run after I reminded him that he was very much unwelcome in this area.

That is all for today's report, now there are a few pints with my name on them in the pub.

Oy, almost forgot, yesterday I was summoned to escort Lady Tarrant home to Leeds from diplomatic matters on Manhattan, she was very polite the whole way back and luckily we didn't run into any trouble on the journey.
Aside from the usual reports of corsair attacks in the southern systems, that was the only item of note yesterday.

Signed,
Jay Clark, Ensign

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