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

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[Sender ID: Ensign Sarah Vermillion]
[Location: Planet New London]
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Ensign Vermillion, reporting in.

While on a solo patrol, I recieved an SOS call from a trader in the Leeds system. Upon arrival, there was no sign of a pirate, but there was a mercenary who the trader said had assisted the pirate. I wasn't sure of what to do at this point, but the merc (called Assasin) then offered to hunt the pirate that had hired him for a minor fee. After consulting Lt. Evyn (who was currently busy in the Dublin system), I agreed to hire him. Shortly later I recieved word and proof that he'd succeeded, and so I gave him his payment along with a warning not to take contracts from pirates again. After this, I went to assist the lieutenant in the Dublin system.

I suppose I'll continue my report from later on, when Lt. Evyn asked me to lead Ens. Harding on a patrol around our territory. First thing to report from this is that we recieved a call from a Junker convoy, it seemed they were being tailed by a Hogosha fighter by the name of -Bandit-. Once we arrived on the scene, the ship appeared to get spooked and jumped through the Manchester gate (from New London), where Harding quickly managed to destroy him. After being thanked by the Junkers and seeing them jump into Manchester, we were about to continue our patrol when what appeared to be the same Hogosha fighter appeared out of no-where and went after them. Harding was about to engage him again, in almost exactly the same spot as last time, when one of the junker's escort ships asked to be allowed the honours (not in those words, mind). The Hogosha stood no chance against the Salvager.

Not long after, we recieved an SOS from Dublin - there was an Indian causing trouble. When we arrived, I saw him surrounded by something like 4 Hegemons and a shire. The latter was unfortunatley destroyed as we approached, and I ordered the remaining mining ships to pull back, which they did. The following fight seemed to be heavily in our favour at first, with a number of fighters jumping into the fight (I decided to keep my distance, both to observe the situation and to avoid getting caught in the large amount of friendly fire). It then became somewhat more confusing, as one or two freelancers in the fight began attacking a molly who quickly recieved reinforcements from other mollies... and at this point, I was having great difficulty trying to work out what exactly was going on.

Adding to the confusion was a pair of Her Majesty's gunboats, The Aurore and The Odysey, who jumped into the fray. I ordered them to disengage, as they were wasting fuel and supplies against some already outnumbered opponents. The Odysey pulled back somewhat quicker than her sister vessel, who didn't withdraw until my third and final warning. It was at roughly this point that the Indian was destroyed (one Cherokee), at which point myself and Harding left the scene in order to respond to another SOS from within the system. A BMM shire was under attack from a pirate... transport, I think. Waste-Trader was the name, or something like that. Anyway, it didn't last long under the combined fire of the three of us.

There isn't much more to report after that. We chased off the hacker Largo near the Leeds-Magellan jumphole, before I returned here to write my report of the day's activities.

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