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

[Keera]

[Source ID: Lt. A. Keevan]
[Source Location: Battleship Derby]
[Target ID: BAF DIS]
[Subject: Defending of Planet Leeds]

As of around 22:30, we got reports of an incoming Kusari force. It took cover at the Stokes station, seeing the Kusari battleship [KNF]IKN-Edo was surely outnumbered. We had several fighters, the battleship 13th|-The.Jerusalem and myself and Commodore Jack Frost each flying a bomber at hands.
Apparently they called for assistance, and soon after further Kusari forces arrived, as well as quite a bunch of Sails Corsairs. It seems they're allying. After friendly talks, the engagement errupted at around 23:00. Sadly, Commodore Frost was hit by a lucky shot of the [KNF]IKN-Edo and he had to eject; to my knowledge, he passed the incident uninjured. 13th|-The.Jerusalem was hit by the Edo in the energy core or something, it blew up quite nasty. I have no idea whether any of the crew or the captain itself survived it. It looked bad.
However, the Edo came not out of this fight undamaged, and began to retreat. Even though taking down a battleship with a lone bomber is quite a challenge, I was doing my best, and it retreated farer from the fight. Espi|Sails came repeatedly to its assistance, which made it impossible for me to keep down the shields of the battleship, so I had to retreat.
Somewhen during the previous mentioned events, the BAF|HMS-Invictus, under the command of Vice-Admiral Roger Hans, launched, as well as a repair ship called [RS-A03]-Halo's.Shine. Especially the repair ship proved very useful later on.
Leonardo.Ramirez brought further support, and with that we could hold the line at least.
Somehow, The Joker got noticed of this battle. He showed up, and that finally tipped the balance into our favour. He took out several Sails, but due to some communication trouble, probably the result from the huge amount of plasma and other things zapping around as well as the occupied attention of both, the repair ship and the Joker, it was not possible to assist the Joker with further nanobots, and he had to eject. Still, we were now getting the upper hand, especially with the help of the Derby, and the enemy retreated at around 0:00 after some further attempts to breach our lines.

The aftermath of the fight showed, that the usage of the repair ship proved to be essential to our success. The Invictus, as I was told, would've been destroyed four or five times, if it weren't for the support of the repair ship. Our other fighters experienced the same benefit. Essentially: The repair ship is a major success!
It seems, though, that it could use some capital armor upgrades. It was not possible for the repair ship to enter the fighting scene very much, because it probably would've been ripped apart by the enemy forces while giving support to ours. It seems, too, that this was one of the reasons which prevented it from helping the Joker, who got, as I then found out, only shot by the way too lucky enemy battleship.
This leads me to my next point: We had definitely too few bombers. It could've been that we took Edo out of action if Commodore Frost wouldn't have had that kind of bad-luck (or the Edo not that kind of luck), and if the captain of the 13th|-The.Jerusalem would've received more training in massive fight situations like this. But having more bombers at hands would've been definitely the better way to go.

I also got noticed that we are short on capable bomber pilots. I'm offering my experience in attacking capital ships with a bomber for possible training sessions. We need, though, a capital ship to train on.

In general, I have to say, we need more training, but not only that, we need especially more training equipment, like more agile fighters than ours, more agile bombers than ours, and capital ships, all in the role of our targets. I suggest, for improved effectiveness, regular training sessions.

This is Lieutenant A. Keevan, signing off.

[Transmission complete.]

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(Heck, I was watching some people pirating last night, and their victim ended up sending ME the money, thinking I was part of the pirating crew because I was red to him as well. I had to chime up real quick so they didn't blast him...)