From: Lt. Colonel Aloysius Rhade
To: SCRA Assets
Priority: HIGH
Subject: The Phantom Agreement
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I must admit, I wasn't particularly fond of making an agreement with the Phantoms, but this encounter certainly changed my mind.
Myself and Milan Jovanovic set out to patrol Omega-49. We encountered the Phantom "Iscariot" there locked in an argument with a Virulian Enclave pilot. Myself and Jovanovic managed to convince both sides not to fight, which would of been awkward since the Virulian would of expected us to shoot the Phantoms and the Phantoms to shoot the Virulian.
We left, thinking we'd seen the last of the Phantom, but that proved incorrect. We had encountered a group of hostiles sheltered by the Essex, they insulted us, but wouldn't budge. We left, when we heard Comm Chatter. It was Iscariot. It seemed that the hostiles were after him. I contacted him, and we set a trap. Myself and Jovanovic positioned ourselves due north of the Leeds Jumphole. When Iscariot arrived, he had no less then four hostiles on him.
We engaged the Bottlenose first, it jumped between Dublin and Leeds no less then four times before we terminated it. This is when things began getting interesting. Another Gunboat arrived, and was dispatched. Then, a sizeable group of [Convoy] arrived. We told them to clear out or they would be considered hostile, but they began shooting.
We terminated two Shires before the third finally left the area. That left the Gunboat, which we dispatched, and a Bomber, which we also dispatched. More hostiles arrived, finally, for a change, reinforcements for our side came in the form of Orca-6 and a Phantom named "Grief".
I got split up from the main group and ended up dueling with a BAF Lt. He tried running away, seeing how I had the advantage B/B wise. I offered a compromise. We would duel, and neither would use regenerations. He agreed, and the duel was on. Thankfully, my gamble worked, I was able to take him down. It wouldn't of been pretty to of been taken down with near full regenerations.
The last kill we managed to make was of a Bretonian IAB Agent. We had chased him for a while before he was terminated. Unfortunately, the enemy gained even more reinforcements, at this point we were completely overwhelmed. We fought them off for a long period of time, but eventually we had to retreat. Unfortunately, Grief was downed in Leeds, while Iscariot was downed in Dublin. Orca-6 managed to escape to safety, as did Jovanovic. I myself was chased quite a ways before I managed to cruise. I waited for several minutes, when the area became safe, I docked on Arranmore to lay low.
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