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Good evening,
Firstly, I wish to thank everyone who has already volunteered for this operation. We are all very much grateful for all of your support in this matter.

As I have recently been elected as Head of the Department of Research, it falls to me to co-ordinate the rescue mission, in conjunction with my colleague Christian Burton, Head of Security. Rest assured that planning is continuing apace, we are busy gathering further intelligence and vital information about the target systems.

We have determined that while we would like a sizable force, we would prefer to deploy ships of lighter class for the mission. We will require mostly fighter-class vessels, with a smaller number of bomber-class ships as support. We will only require only very few gunboats, and no ships of greater class, with the exception of the Leonardo itself. Since this will be a search and rescue operation into unfamiliar territory, larger vessels would just be a liability to the success of the mission.

At this point in time we plan to escort the Leonardo into the designated system and then split up into groups, each searching a different sector before returning to the Leonardo, which will act as our base of operations for the duration of the mission. This should allow us to cover as great an area as possible in as quick a time as possible, thus reducing the chances of us being detected by hostile forces.

If anyone else is interested in participating, please forward to us your ship class and identification, in addition to your current time cycle (+- GMT).

Thank you all,
Rachael Ericson

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