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Source: Battleship Derby
ID: Lt. Alex Clarke

High Priority

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The atmosphere at deck of Derby was extremely heavy just before my launch, and nobody could tell why. I jumped into my templar and launched, to see what i hoped to be the biggest troubles i've seen this day. Ensign Folge was engaged with KNF pilot, but he had everything under control, so I didn't interfered, after Folge's victory, he headed for a long range scan, while I headed to dublin for standard recon. The jump hole reading were a bit off, but still within safe margin, so I decided to jump. The second I arrived into the dublin, I knew what was the source of the strange readings... A ship I never saw before flowed slowly through void, meters from my ship, and it's lenght was at least of two Dunkirks. I barely managed to call Folge to order him not to use the Jump Hole under any circumstances. He jumped anyway despite my orders, and we were both neck-deep in some serious troubles.

I commenced immediate retreat to essex, and announced on public system-wide channel, that area surrounding Leeds jump hole is off-limits until further notice. I did not revealed any more details, panic is the worst enemy in such situations. I immediately called for backup of any form, but the only backup I found was a Bretonian Civillian Army pilot, Thomas Grayson. In the meantime I fined two traders that breached Essex NFZ, reminding that they can enter only if under attacl. After a short while I ordered everyone to see if Hood is still secured, unknown vessels remained in the vicinity of the jump hole. On our way to Hood we saw pilot from secondary fleet engaging a corsair, just 10 clicks from the unknown vessels, I ordered him to break off and form on us, his comms must have been jammed since he did not respond to my signals, the unknown vessels have noticed this skirmish, and moved towards the combatants, effectively terminating the duel, our force of 4 fighters then once again retreated to Essex. And essex control has given us intel that vessel matching Rheinland Wraith profile has just entered the system. Since our firepower did not allow for any offensive action against the unknown vessel, I've sent all forces to spread out and find the intruder. I was the one to find him, and Folge managed to rejoin me. The rheinlander started babbling about Bretonia-Rheinland conflict, and enough to say, was going to leak intel regarding the incident to Rheinland Military. As I believe this kind of matter is too delicate to allow for such leaks, I ordered the folge to engage.

At the same time, I received a distress signal from rest of my wing indicating that Essex is under siege from unknown vessel, I rashed back, ordering Folge to destroy the vessel at all costs. I myself made it back to essex, and the distress signal was true: Essex was under heavy fire from enemy ships. At the same time I received a comm transmission from HMS-Daishi, stating that they are ready to assist, I ordered them to move on full speed to Dublin, and await further orders when they get there. Both of remaining pilots have went AWOL, and ignored my further orders, they did not ran away though. Still, my lone templar had no means to assist essex in any way, so I headed back to Folge, only to see that an unknown gunboat-sized and one fighter-sized vessels were also at intercept course, and soon we both came under heavy fire from both fighters and gunboat [color=#C0C0C0]*Yes, the rheinlander seemed allied with those vessels, they did not attacked him and he sent no comms regarding their help, as if it was what he expected*. Thankfully, within few seconds Daishi showed up on my scanners, and I've sent him a distress signal. I ordered everyone to focus fire on gunboat, and after a few salvos from Daishi main cannons, the enemy vessel was destroyed, or should I say, it looked like shredded jelly. Then I ordered the same about the unknown fighter, but it proved too agile to take it down, and I commenced another retreat to Essex, the gunboat was no match for their cruisers-size ship and what seemed to be equivalent of dreadnought.

Suprisingly, the reinforcements came from direction I did not expect them from: The Order cruiser Excelsior have jumped into the system, and proceeded to engage the unknown vessels destroying one fighter almost instantly. As i saw no real choice but to accept it's help, i tapped him into our comms on temporary access protocol, also IMG forces have joined the fray, assisting us with a gunboat, focusing on fighters. I began target designation, beginning with cruiser-size ship, which slowly succumbed to the fire of our combined forces. During the assault on the cruiser, Commander Woodrow and Lieutenant Commanders Sinclair and Ree have joined our forces and I tried to relieve myself from command, but as they were not yet engaged, they managed to notice that enemy Battleship has began to retreat, along with one remaining unknown fighter; and created a second squad to pursue them. Unfortunately the unknown vesses have entered unknown space and Woodrow's squadron was forced to withdraw, focusing their attention on the corsairs in the area that took advantage of chaos in the system, hoping for easy loot and credits.

Order vessel confirmed that all large-craft has left, and dissapeared itself. The only thing remaining now was the rheinlander's vessel, which started to run for omega systems, the pursue consisted of me, Folge and Daishi, with me still in command. The Commander Woodrow and Lt Commanders Sinclair and Ree were already busy and too far to be able to assist, so we were on our own during the chase. During lenghty pursuit across three omega systems we managed to heavily damage his vessel, unfortunately during the pursuit the Folge's ship went on bingo fuel and had to withdraw, and without his eagle, the rheinland craft gained agility and speed advantage over our templars, and eventually managed to get away, although the intel he carried has lost it's value: We may have allowed for intrusion of those strange forces, but we have repelled them without any losses on our side, proving bretonia superiority in every angle.

During our return to Dublin, we received intel about small corsair raiding party in the Leeds orbit, cosisting of two fighters and a cruiser. Commander Woodrow and Lt.Cdr Ree have managed to catch one of fighters at New London and destroyed him, although Lt.Cdr. Ree had to eject during the skirmish. Daishi was already worn due to low H-Fuel reserves and multiple hull breaches, and had to withdraw from action, he's attending repairs next to essex as we speak. I myself quickly docked on essex and grabbed a challenger, and headed for Leeds. Along with Sinclair we proceeded to bomb the cruiser into oblivion after a quick chase to Newcastle gate, while our templars took care of the remaining titan on leeds orbit,



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