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

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... Incoming transmission ...
Source: Lieutenant Commander Jay Clark
Subject: Patrol Report

Sirs, in explanation of Haynes's report, I will add details of what happened while he first found the Gaians. I was in Omega-3 along with HMS-Vesper and Ens. Keevan, waiting at Freeport 1 for any word on the Wilde movement. Long range scanners reported that they were still in the system, so we were waiting for any distress calls from traders or anything to give us their positions.

While we waited at FP1, we were very surprised to find Mr. Goodmen and Deneth Aleski exit the trade lane in front of us. Seeing as we were all in front of the freeport, and the two seemed to be on peaceful terms, I did some quick thinking and decided that the Gaians might be of use to us. By this time Haynes was providing intel about the Gaians, and we heard that they had two VHFs and two Claymores, which compared to our two ensigns in Templars, myself in a Templar, and the Vesper (gunboat), was not quite good enough odds to make me feel completely comfortable about not losing one of our pilots. I told Keevan and the Vesper the situation over local comms, and Mr. Goodmen volunteered to help out against the Gaians. I assured him that I had never questioned his loyalty to the Crown, and that assistance against Her enemies was always appreciated. This plan seemed like a great idea to me - We could get him back into core space without any suspicions being raised, send him out in front to the gaians, and kill two birds with one stone - he's more than able to take on a gunship, and the Gaians would weaken him enough for us to take him into custody without risking our ensigns' lives.

Unfortunately he still has quite the reputation, and upon our arrival the 4 Gaians rabbited even before the gunboat and one of the ensigns arrived, clearly scared of us. As I thought about springing the trap anyway, we noticed the massive energy signature nearby as Haynes reported. The following actions have already been told, so I don't need to say any more about it.

The only troubling thing is that I don't know what happened to Goodmen's escape pod, I wasn't able to pick it up on scanners after he disappeared. It's possible that the powerful being that removed him actually transported his full ship to some other location, and did not in fact destroy it, but I'm not a scientist. It's also possible, being in the Graves field, that he was able to hide on an asteroid, but I thought our standard issue scanners would be able to see through that. My only other guess was that it was retrieved by Aleski, but I couldn't get a positive ID from any of the pods in his hold (there were others which came up as Corsair and general Pirate, maybe Goodmen learned how to cloak the ID), I didn't think it likely enough to demand all of his cargo.

That is all for today's report.
Lieutenant Commander Jay Clark

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