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Source: Battleship Derby
ID: Lt. Alex Clarke

High Priority
Topic: Operation Attrition

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I have began to partake in operation Attrition around 0900 hours, and proceeded to cause as many deaths to the forces of kusari as possible, along the commander Ian Driscoll, [color=#EFEF55]destroying mainly snubcraft, but we managed to [color=#EFEF55]destroy one battleship called Mononoki with the help of HMS Scarborough Scar and HMS Longbow. We kept up the fight until around 1200, scoring around 30 kills personally.

I had to land for mainteinance, which took longer than expected, and I re-launched at 1530, joining the task force under leadership of Captain Evyn, I helped with destruction of the Ministry member, which we had to chase from Stokes up to battleship Yamaguchi (Yes, we've had to break through the Tau 31 gate, was hell of a ride), but ended up in destroying his ship and retrieving the pilots he denied to return. I proceeded to return to Leeds and suggested that I withdraw from the main force, and hunt alone, it's a lot easier to ambush fighter pilots in asteroid field without destroyers and battleships around, no offense.

To be honest I can't really tell how many have I killed before Admiral Frasier made an entrance, but by the time he did, all of our battleships and destroyers have returned to Leeds for crew relief. We were down to one gunboat and several templars, besides the Admiral's Destroyer, which no-one would dare to send into the field. We noticed kusari officer engaged with a blood dragon between the LD14 and Stokes, and decided to leave them be, as the Derby long range sensors did not pick up any serious threats at the moment. Admiral ordered battleship York as the base of operations within Leeds. I suggested that we'll be more effective if we split up our forces and cover more ground *cough* I mean space, yes space, anyway: Admiral aprooved, and soon every pilot went hunting on his own.

Unfortunately there was an ambush we did not see coming: Within minutes KNF launched mass attack on our scattered forces, supplementing their forces with two reavers. Commander Clay got under fire and I was first to reach him and proceed to assist against a KNF officer and Reaver. Our pilots in other regions of system have been engaged by KNF forces as well, enough to say that this skirmish was system-wide and almost out-of control.

During our fight we received information about two elite KNF pilots killed despite taking our pilots by suprise, and that victorious forces will regroup with us to provide backup, in the meantime, an outcast by name Samantha has suddenly engaged both sides, and managed to score a mine hit on the already damaged Michael Clay's templar, and proceeded to tractor his pod afterwards, she engaged despite the neutrality between outcasts and bretonia. She refused to cease fire despite my warnings, and after receiving a few shots as a "no", I quickly requested comm transmission with an outcast Drednought MNS-Razorspine commander by the name of Sidious, who has the privilege of wandering around bretonia as he pleases, as long as he does not break any laws or work against the crown. He received transmission and assured to do his best resolve the situation. The Sidious has appeared as quickly as he promised to, and had a little "talk" with our dear Samantha, while i headed back into the battle.

During the prolonged skirmish more blood dragons and some of the privateers has made their presence in Leeds system, and despite blood dragons assistance with the KNF forces, privateers forces appeared to have some kind of grudge against the dragons. I tried to stop the bloodshed by asking the Admiral for intervention, but even his words were not enough to discourage privateers from the lust for revenge (I believe this matter should be investigated despite the fact that QCP are no longer part of the BAF). One QCP vessel has been destroyed, and no further losses were noted on both sides, in the mean time, remaining blood dragons have repelled the remaining KNF forces i was engaged with, and I along the other pilot, Cpt Woodrow I believe, chased the reaver and managed to destroy his vessel.

There was no visible hostile forces, although a mix of blood dragons, privateers, BPA, BAF and outcasts at the same time is an unusual sight to say the least. A BPA freighter has retrieved all pilots we captured, and all our forces have regrouped at York, Admiral Fraser resumed the operation, and just before I engaged the trade lane into LD-14 Field, we received a transmission from the outcasts. Samantha was reprimanded by her superiors and she released the cdr Clay pod to me, I personally transported him to York immediately, and received humble apologies from the outcasts, I proceeded to continue with the operation, while the outcast have departed.

No more serious incidents took place aside from a small raid into Tau 31, and warning from liberty navy vessel "Shero" about a smuggler that was propably headed for bretonia, which turned out to be a false alert. I signed off on Derby on 2025 hours

Personally I scored 223 snubcraft kills, around 200 of which took place in Leeds, rest of them in Tau-31, and one shared battleship kill.

More are to follow tommorow, if my ship will be still in shape to fly.

Post Scriptum: I'd like to have my patrol reports number updated to 10 on our fleet roster. Thank you.


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