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

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Greetings officers,

as some may already know, we faced yesterday a sizeable alien incursion in the Newcastle system. The following events first looked like a military offensive from the nomad forces, but further elements suggest that it could have been a mere decoy while a more important business, related to this, occured elsewhere in the system.


Saturday, the 16th of january 818 a.s.

9.45 pm UST : the BMM facilities in tau 23 spotted the first scouts of the alien fleet. Several more contacts quickly followed. The station manager reports no damage, as the ennemy simply hacked through the gate and proceeded to Tau 31. The nomad presence was confirmed several minutes later by the battleship MacDuff, though the ennemies remained out of short range scanners. The defense grid status was set to yellow.
10.12 pm UST : battleship Grimsby report incoming contacts aproximately located in the northen asteroid field and closing in. Defense grid status set to red.
10.15 pm UST : commander Goodmen ordered the shutdown of Newcastle and Stokes lane, then sent Ensign Tensdale and myself scouting the area, soon joined by one of the Able Ace mercenaries. Hinted by a passing by freelancer with proceeded to Scarborough Station.
10.25 pm UST : contact within short range scanner at Scarborough station, fastly zeroing on our scouting unit. I loosely reported 7 to 9 target including a larger specimen to the com channel, before ordering to retreat as the sudden proximity and size of the threat, and that... head thing made me loose my nerves.
10.27 pm UST : the BAF regrouped at Gateshead station under the command of captain Owen. We quickly set an ambush to interdict further ennemy progression along the lane. A minute later, second proximity contact is made. The nomad fleet was cruising open space, approximately heading to battleship Ark Royal. Order was issued to intercept.
10.31 pm UST : we cruised in range of part of the nomad fleet and captain Carter ordered to open fire. The location of the rest of the ennemy forces remained unknown.
10.42 pm UST : the larger of the nomad ships was destroyed. Still no news from the rest of the fleet, although some additional targets soon joined the fight . The odd part is that the aforementioned large nomad ship never fired back, and focused only on thrusting away until termination. My personal feeling is that it tried to lure us away from something.
11.04 pm UST : the battle, now in its later part, was still raging, our side suffering some casualties mainly in the reserve forces, but we kept the upper hand until the end. However, the ennemies forces held us stuck in the melee long enough to allow their mastermind to achieve a deal with the terrorist known as Salazar Kithe. The nature of this deal remain obfuscated due to its partly immaterial protocol, happening half in systemwide channel and half in some...telepathic emmission whose location and source were still unknown.
11.22 pm UST : the last alien organism was terminated. After a quick regroup move, we proceeded to Derby for report.
11.30 pm UST : decontamination and debriefing. Defense grid status back to green.

Although the motivations of the talks between the terrorist and the alien form are still unknown, they might be related to the attack of Cambridge research stations by Kithe, whose report is missing in the official BAF report entries, and probably put to secrecy by the MI5. I am now, along with most of the engaged bretonian forces, requested by the psychomedicengineering department for further inquiries. The proceedings will be forwared in this channel as soon as available.

Regards,
Lieutenant Martin Bridge.

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