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To: Her Majesty's Most Diligent Interdiction Wing
ID: Gareth Silves
Subject: Potential Operational Concept
Origin: Tau-31

Hello lads, Captain Campbell,

I finally hauled my forsaken wreck of a Templar back from the edge of the Hokkaido cloud, only to find the mess we're now in. One report here is pretty hasty, all I know is it says not to head back to Bretonnia. Bah, I'll figure the details later. I also managed to log the operational notes from your communique with the Council Captain.

Final administrative point, congratulations Captain on coming to the head. You need any help with the paper work let me know. They groom us well for that in the army....

Alright, to business. My boat finally repaired I set off from Ainu, and got into a discussion with Lady Red of the GC, callsign [GC+]Lady.Red. She had just been shot up by the damned Gallic Navy. I won't bore you with the complete log, but suffice it to say she expressed interest in continued cooperation with us. This might take the form of supply exchanges. We do need drop points for the stuff Gallia no longer needs no? If the GRN continues to attack the GC, this could also lead to joint combat operations against the Gallics. Lady Red stressed she was not an elder, but a formal overture to the GC leadership might be due.

As much as I love that boat of a Templar, I put in all the way back to the Derby, where my Paladin had been sitting. I used my old BAF uniform and......a liberal use of language to get back to my faithful fighter without anyone raising a fuss. Only to find they went and scrapped the thing for some new model anyway. Anyway, I got a Paladin back, if not the one I went for in the first place.

I set into a patrol through Tau-31, 23, Orkney and into Languedoc. The quick lesson here was that the Languedoc jump hole is heavily guarded and turned into a choke point by minefields on both sides. This is not a good route in and out of Gallia. Their tradelanes are also heavily defended at all points, interdiction work will likely require at least pairs for success.

On my own for today, I headed back to Tau-23 to come across the friendly neighbourhood GRN, along with a couple of unidentified craft. On approach to identify I captured the following: 1 2

The Aliens, as the GRN officer called them, took off and I was left fight the Frog. System-wide chatter started coming in of an exchange somewhere else in the system, and eventually my combat with the GRN rolled over into a much larger fracas with the MNS Satan and two Outcast snubcraft engaged with two GRN Valor class battleships. We were hard pressed to start, so I continued to pressure the Lynx in order to let the Outcast Falcata go to work on the Valors. Lucky for us, two Maquis vessels joined in, one bomber class and one gunboat class. This tipped the battle and after that we made short work of the Valors. However, the battle had pushed us hard against the Battleship Guilestre and everyone had taken damage, so the Maquis and the Outcasts backed off for repair and resupply. I thought it best to do the same.

Captures: 1 2 3

I was able to get back to Harris before any more GRN showed up. Splash two Valors for damage to the MNS Satan, but no losses.

Long live the Queen.

Gareth out

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