From: Commandante Aloysius Rhade
To: The Fighter Corps
Priority: HIGH
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Members of the Fighter Corps,
It has been far too long since we've scored a significant victory, even longer still since we invaded and defeated forces from multiple houses. It all started out innocently enough, we were conducting Cruiser Combat Trials to test out the new "Hurricane" designs created by Xaiobei when we received a distress call from Comrade Xu. It seems that a group of Corsairs thought it was a good idea to engage a lone Insurgent near Omega-52 with three Imperators. Considering the Trotsky and Lithuania were deployed, and both are renown for their deadly efficiency, the Corsairs made a grave error. Proving that the Hurricane's are both as deadly as they are beautiful they eliminated all three Imperators as well as a Praetorian in a matter of minutes. As the final Imperator was burning, it bragged that a Legate was inbound to exact revenge and we laughed, knowing we could take it down with minimal effort. With perfect timing, the Legate was found near the Omega-5 Jumphole in Omega-41. The Hurricanes open fire and our concentrated efforts practically melted the ships armor before it was finally destroyed.
With this small victory, Comrade Coronel joined our task force with the Sickle and we set our sights for Bretonia next. Comrade Xu scouted ahead and eventually found two Bretonian Capital vessels near New London, imagine their surprise when they saw three mighty Coalition Destroyers had penetrated their defenses and were now in their capital. The Bretonians did not stand a chance, with the Cruisers raining down salvo after salvo destroying both the Bretonian Gunboat and the Bretonian Battleship.
We headed back home but our day was not quite done yet, we encountered a Zoner Warship in Omega-50. After repeated attempts to inform it that foreign warships are not allowed in Omega-50, it opened fire on the Sickle prompting the rest of us to return fire and ultimately destroy this new "Nephilim" Battleship. Not even through their thick slabs of armor were they safe from the Coalition's fury.
Our glorious battle did not end there however, Comrade Coronel informed us that a Rheinland battle group that had severely damaged the Sickle a few days earlier had been sighted in Omega-11 by a passing Hessian scout group. We launched our Revolution Bombers, with Comrade Warner in an Insurgent to provide suppression support. We encountered one of the Cruisers in Omega-41 where it taunted us and jumped. Expecting a trap, we regrouped and prepared to dodge. As predicted, the hostile force engaged and we began to evade fire. After a short fight, the Rheinlanders began to skirmish with us, using the Suns Corona as a shield. This would ultimately prove to be their undoing however, when they attempted to retreat in separate ways, we managed to isolate the largest capital ship and engage it in Stuttgart. The other two capital ships attempted to move in to provide assistance, but they were all heavily damaged by the corona and did not last long under our sustained fire. Unfortunately, as we were about to call this a flawless victory, Comrade Coronel was clipped by a lucky razor and forced to eject, luckily his escape pod was tractored in and we returned to base.
This was without a doubt one of the most successful combat operations we have had in a long time, with a vast number of capital ships destroyed, their origins ranging from Corsair to Zoner, Rheinland to Bretonia. All of this we accomplished while losing only one Bomber. Not bad at all.
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